preserving some of my favorite live music or anything else lost to the void of VHS or other dying formats.
capture setup: jvc hr-s5000u vcr, s-video to sony psx desr-7700 for time base correction, component to blackmagic intensity shuttle usb3, to blackmagic desktop video for raw capture, to avisynth + nnedi3 + various other plugins for deinterlace/upscale, enc via ffmpeg, libx264, low crf.
Probably one of his best contest runs. In The beginning of the 90's he did similar runs with ollie 540's, though. But he even got a flip in here. Hawk was cosistent with everything except flips. Hopefully someone will upload that run from 1998, was it in Germany?, also with a monster run ...
I loved that nowdays tricks like that and the 900...will barly get you the the final round in competitions lol. soo much progress since then with the help of the tony hawk games populariy.
Nothing can match the hype back in the day at the X-Games...so many moments watching live, Tony with the 900, Mirra with the Double-Back flip, Pastrana just saying "fuck it" and breaking everybody's idea of what was possible on a dirt-bike....all of that on top of the multitude of athletes that would pull out stuff that nobody expected, and to hear the crowd go crazy and the announcers lose their minds...man, those were the best days of sports in my opinion...every X-games for like a decade felt like something insane was going to happen that would elevate their particular sport, and you know what? Every year it did...
From that blast of light at 1:54, I got ALL the feels. I was too young to see the original Joshua Tree tour, but I got to see them close out their 2019 tour in Mumbai. What a time to be alive!
this is truly a legendary radiohead concert. last show of the in rainbows tour, opening with creep, and the final performances of jigsaw falling into place and just. this concert definitely feels like the closing of the 2000s chapter for the band
I remember watching this live and the same thing still bugs me. Bob's run is so technically far above everyone else's, the judges didn't really know what to do with it. An 88 is insulting for a run that caliber. Switch tricks over the channel, switch lip tricks, ollie to tail tap, and his switch one footer are tricks that literally no one else can do and could podium in the best trick contest in that era. I have always felt his genius and skill has been historically and criminally underrated. It wasn't until Big air debuted that his talent got really recognized.
