Now I know these could be very inaccurate, but a decade ago he was estimated to be worth 40 million. Now it's 5. I've always specifically remembered that since I looked it up after Jackass 3 and when Dunn cooked himself and Bam started really spiraling.
I agree, Bam is somewhere between Jason Lee and Devendra Banhart. What made Bam special was he would drop in on insanely high ledges and stuff.
Huh? Sober or not, Steveo is still 100% a fame whore. He admits it himself too.
How bout you go skate in traffic instead.
This is a good example actually, guys like Muska and Bam or even Jim Greco are guys who were great skaters in their own right but they were also paid mascots for a different sub genre of skater and served as a giant walking billboard for a plethora of companies. They ended up doing just as well as the boundary pushers like Tony Hawk, Eric Koston, and Rodney Mullen by selling a personality to insecure teenagers through overpriced sneakers, backpacks that are also boomboxes, leather bracelets with the logo of his boyfriends band, and self released punk albums.
But did they win Olympics like Tony hauk? No? They fuck off then!!!
I know it wasn’t “fair,” but there was a point.
Like the music industry it's all about marketability. I understand Tony Hawk was able to be marketed so well for the first few generations of THPS because he had exposure from x-games and doing the 900 on t.v but with Bam I think at the time it resonated with being a young abusrd free kid more than anything. I heard around that Bam is a competent ( not nessecarily best ) skater so he had enough to back up his claims/image.
Did that retard tag the wrong Alex in the podcast. Jesus christ.
I thought the USA had the death penalty - can't they execute Andy Roy in between some of the severely retarded men or whoever gets fried for no reason these days?
Tony Hawk was an absolute nobody outside of skateboarding until the X-games realized skateboarding’s marketability and landing the 900 changed his life overnight. Prior to that he was your average ‘cool Gen-X dad with a weird job‘ but after the 900 the market clamored for more skateboarding and that probably had a lot to do with Jackass being greenlit. He landed the 900 in the summer of ‘99 and Jackass premiered in September 2000.
Tony is the exception. Other jock skaters get clowned on, when’s the last time anyone praised Andy Macdonald for his contribution? In the beginning Tony Hawk was very uncool even within skateboarding because his dad worked for the association that ran the local contests he entered and for being a snot nosed kid who showed up and made every burnout pool skater from the ‘70s look like a chump. They said he was a skateboarding robot with no style ( true though). He was bullied in school, bullied by older skaters, and his ex-wives friends all used to talk behind his back about how he was a broke, pathetic, manchild for clinging on to skateboarding during its downturn rather than getting a real job.
For all those guys, what option do they have other than to be a fame whore? Their entire CV is just sticking stuff up their butt and breaking bones.
Dam dude, when he landed the 900 with all that in mind, he really did have his life change overnight.
I think the reviews of THPS held more weight than the 900.
It was a second wind more than anything. Tony was already the biggest name of the late 80's. Skating went through a huge slump in the mid-90's. Rollerblading filled the gap, came and went, and then THPS ushered in a new era.
