In The Gnar has been posting BMX stuff again and today they got a Jimmy Levan interview where he speaks for the first time on Sean Burns leaving Metal:
“I know your going to get asked this for probably the next year but was Sean Burns leaving personal or was there some miscommunication, and are you guys still cool?
Communication for the most part I think. I wish he would have told me when I was sucking to wake the fuck up and slap me in the face. As for the site, he told me he was down to do it and he and Jeff blasted it great! I was so stoked on it that I didn’t want to jump in and fuck it up. apparently this is when I was doing nothing sitting on my ass. Think for a second about when you get an injury that just takes you out for maybe 1 or 2 months, It sucks. You sit around and watch videos or whatever and get stoked to ride. After awhile, they start to bum you out because you can’t ride. Now put yourself in my shoes. A head injury that takes you out for 7 1/2 months, then back to riding for 3 months. After 3 months you get plowed over by a car and loose your left Femur bone and blow your knee out. This takes you out for another year and 3 months. I gets hard to pay attention to our sport because it just pisses you off. I had my favorite rider in the world next to Mat Hoffman running the show, so why get in front of him. Let him steer the boat right?…. However, I didn’t realize the new captain was bummed because he was not only steering the boat, he was busy filming these amazing sections breaking himself off as well. We are still friends and I will hang with him in a week, but our only communication since the split has been over friendly texting. He says he doesn’t really feel like talking about it to me yet. Bummer, but he’s a friend before a work partner so what eves. Thanks a million for the decade Sean, you’re like a brother.”
Class. The rest of the interview is pretty good too. Go watch the Metal Northwest roadtrip if you wanna remember simpler times with Jimmy and Burns killing it side by side.
Previously: Jimmy Levan On Playboy TV.| DuFFS BMX Team Trip in Houston Edit| Jimmy Levan: “I choked surgeons and woke up in handcuffs.”