{"id":12,"date":"2006-09-11T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/11\/play-video-game-love-the-music-move-to-japan-join-the-band\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:00","slug":"play-video-game-love-the-music-move-to-japan-join-the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/11\/play-video-game-love-the-music-move-to-japan-join-the-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Play video game. Love the music. Move to Japan. Join the band."},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s more or less what happened to Steve Laity. And look how happy he looks as a result:<\/p>\n

\"Guitar<\/p>\n

The unadulaterated photo accompanies an interview<\/a> with Guitar Vader<\/a> (the band in question) on the pixelsurgeon website<\/a>. Here is a quote from Steve taken from the interview:<\/p>\n

First of all I can’t believe that I am actually playing with Guitar Vader… My brother and I have been Guitar Vader fans since the first Jet Set Radio. I came to Tokyo after College to work on building japanfiles.com with my good friend George. Guitar Vader has been a huge part of that effort. I am so happy to be in the band.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And in response to the question “Do you have any really obsessive fans?”, Miki (one of the original members of the band) says:<\/p>\n

Steve, because he joined us he is crazy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can really relate to this story. I too fell hard for Guitar Vader after hearing their songs while skating around in Sega’s original cel-shaded video game masterpiece Jet Set Radio<\/a>. (It’s one of my all-time favourite games.)<\/p>\n

Guitar Vader’s music really set the feel for the game and I soon imported a few of their CDs (“Wild at Honey” and “From Dusk”). It was after searching for Guitar Vader videos on YouTube<\/a> that I noticed an unfamiliar new face in the band and that started the investigation that lead to this post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s more or less what happened to Steve Laity. And look how happy he looks as a result: The unadulaterated photo accompanies an interview with Guitar Vader (the band in question) on the pixelsurgeon website. Here is a quote from Steve taken from the interview: First of all I can’t believe that I am actually … Continue reading “Play video game. Love the music. Move to Japan. Join the band.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}