Jess Margera is the drummer for the band CKY, and he’s also skateboarder Bam Margera’s older brother. He’s also the source behind what may be a leak for a future Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game.
Margera was on the Behind Closed Doors podcast in April. In a part of the conversation about making money as a musician, Margera mentioned licensing music to things like video games as a source of income. “Now touring is your main income, and you really have to try and get licensing deals, try and get in where you can on video games or whatever, because that?s another way to make some money,? Margera said.
“I’m assuming you guys are on at least one of the Tony Hawk games, weren’t you"” Lopez, the interviewer asks. “Yeah, and I believe we’re doing the new one coming out too,” Margera replies. CKY’s song “96 Quite Bitter Beings” appeared on the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 soundtrack back in 2001. You can catch the conversation at around 39:00 in the video below.
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It would be easy to write off the comment as referring to last year’s release of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2?after all, not everyone keeps up closely with the games space?though Margera goes on to specifically reference the remake of the first two games. “I bet that was huge news when you found that out,” Lopez says. Margera replies “Yeah, my son just got a PS5 and he got the remaster of 1 and 2R...