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October 26, 2002 show review |
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We find ourselves in Anaheim, California at "The Pond" with our media partner Louie from Sk8Shop.com for the latest issue of the Tony Hawk Huck Jam. Across the street was the Anaheim Angels locked in a battle for the World Series, heck we did not care since we were on the other side of the street where are the real action was. |
| Tonight's line up featured some of the best vert skaters around with Steve Caballero being added to the roster with Tony Hawk, Bucky Lasek, Brian Howard, Andy MacDonald and Lincoln Ueda. High fly'in BMX guys that included "The Condor", Matt Hoffman, Dave Mira, Kevin Robinson and John Parker. On the FMX side included Carrie Hart heading up a group of aerial artist with Mike Cingmars, Ronnie Faisst and Dustin Miller. |
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To top it all off, live music for the event was performed by DEVO ..... YES! we said DEVO. What really added to this show was Rick Thorne as the MC, the guy knows how to call and event and keep the action going through the PA. |
| Before the show were all the athletes in the media room being interviewed by various media outlets, we actually used it as an opportunity to get caught up with these guys that we see all year round and chill with them. |
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The place was grom central with cool as heck 30 something dads mixed in. We found people all over that were there because they wanted to see DEVO while others wanted to see skating and as a bonus they got DEVO, so everyone got what they wanted with the line up. What really sets this show apart from a say VANS Warped Tour is that is is not an all day deal and the environment is pretty low key with a place to sit. |
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Inside where they told the media people to find and open seat we found father and son, Chris and Sean Gibbons from Long Beach hanging out. Not a bad place to go hang with your dad where a killer band is playing and world class action sports is going down. It just seems the dads are getting cooler since they grew up in the 80's Punk era. |
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| The action got started a half hour after the original 7:00pm start time so that they could give everyone a little more time to get in since there was World Series traffic outside to contend with. The light went out and a robotic voice began the introductions of the athletes. The all out skate and bike mayhem broke out on the ramp as the crowd got a taste of what they were in for. |
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| Now that the show was going off, the introduction goes out to introduce tonight's music. Let's give it up for DEEEVOOOO. The pounding of the drums started with an opening song of "Freedom of Choice". Your editor has not seen DEVO in 20 years and it was like 1982 all over. |
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| Devo played for a solid 35-40 minutes with songs like, "Girl you Want", "Whip It!", "Uncontrollable Urge", "Gut Feeling", and "Gates of Steel". The set was just as strong as it was back on the day. While all that was going on, Hawk and company were killing the ramp. |
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Bucky was showing his DEVO spirit with a yellow rain jacket and a DEVO dome on as he skated. During the show we would see some great doubles runs with Andy Mac and Hawk that was reminiscent of their X-Games run. After that a train of all 5 skaters were on the ramp doing back to back airs and coming close to hitting each other, it was some great stuff. Toward the end of the DEVO performance, Tony Hawk pulled off a 900 and the crowd went nuts. |
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The BMX guys got back on the ramp mixing it up with the skaters. Matt Hoffman took a pretty good slam on the ramp and after a few minutes he got up on his own. The show finished out with a finale of all 3 disciplines hanging it all out for the crowd |
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The show from here keeps traveling around the country with Social Distortion playing at a few of them too. Check it out when it rolls into your town. |
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