Gig 20030228 Journal

Source: Shihad.com (circa 03)

Date Published: Unsure

Who: Shihad.

Where: Venice Beach, CA

When: 28 February 2003.

Reviewed by: Shihad.

Wake up for a lobby call at 11:30, where we meet Jesus who happens to be the concierge, WOW, who would of thunk it? Head down to Venice Beach with our gear, i think my stomach is still dealing with the Super Tacos feast we had last night. For those people who don't know what Monster Garage is, it's a Discovery Channel show hosted by Jessie James, renown for big-ass chopper bikes he makes for Celebs, after all they start around US$350,000 a piece! What they do on the show is turn ordinary vehicles into crazy contraptions, like a VW Beetle into a amphibious swamp boat with a big propeller on the back. For our episode they turn an RV [motor home] into a mobile skate ramp, then skater Tony Hawk and BMXer Rick Thorn ride it! I cant believe we are gonna play songs while Tony Hawk is ripping it up! There's already been a noise complaint and we have even played a note yet, the director assures us everything will be ok. So, we get to ROCK!, Rick Thorn even introduced us saying our 'sounds' are 'DOPE!'.Can't ask for much more than that. Also get to meet Tony Hawk. Then we eventually made our way to LAX for the red-eye flight to Detroit. The flights overbooked and they aren't serving a meal on a 4 or 5 hour flight, plus paying for excess baggage... Still we had a great day....back to the cold weather.