They just muted “shit,” “dick,” all that stuff. Kind of similar to Ian MacKaye giving the OK to use Minor Threat songs, Jello Biafra isn’t one to say OK to censorship. They censored it, but I just never imagined it could be censored. And when they came back and said, “Oh, yeah, we can use ‘Police Truck.’” I was like, “Did you guys listen to ‘Police Truck?’ Do you know what they’re singing about?” It’s funny, because I threw out Dead Kennedys thinking there’s no way we could ever use a Dead Kennedys song because of the lyrics. Like, Dead Kennedys and Primus, those were top of the heap. Whatever was connected to skating and my history of skating was my first go-to.
When you were approached to make this game, what was the first discussion about the music that you were involved in? It was like, we got free reign to do something like this, and we’re not being told by some big marketing agency, like, “No, this is the hot new band,” or “No, this is what the kids are listening to.” No, we’re representing skateboarding, so we can grab skateboarding culture and history, and include it in this.įinally, we have the first soundtrack. Did that feel daunting?Īctually, it didn’t feel daunting, because to me it was exciting. To capture the community accurately and appropriately, music was obviously a big part of that. Obviously skateboarding was big for the people who did it, but you had to introduce it to the masses and market it to people who otherwise might not care or know about it. We didn’t have to explain any nuances or basics to them. We had already done so much and had so much success that it was like, I knew they knew what they were doing, the same way that I knew Neversoft understood skateboarding, finally. Yeah, but it worked! At this point, I trusted the music department explicitly. So, in a way, he went behind your back and snuck his stuff on there?
That would’ve been straight with the music department. How did Chad Muska convince you to put three of his Muskabeatz songs on that one?
“TNT” was the breakout track from that one. I think what stepped this one up for me, in terms of the list, was Toy Dolls, Sex Pistols, De La Soul, and “TNT”.
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