This show is put on out of pure love for the games that built an industry and we proudly support it. We’ll both be there this year and it’s well worth the money. If you are in the Bay Area this July, we both urge you to go to California Extreme, which is our favorite arcade show. Jude and I want to seriously thank all the great people behind the great games that are name-checked in this song. You can download this MP3 at http://paletteswapninja. I lost my voice in March and had to put off the recording of the vocals for three long weeks, but believe me - I did some tests a week prior to the final recording session and it just wasn’t there. 'Learn to Spell' by Palette-Swap Ninja (a geeky parody of 'Gives You Hell' by The All-American Rejects). All told this was 21 tracks, most of which were guitars and vocal layers. This is the first song we’ve done without any keyboard parts at all, so I really worked hard on the guitars. Jude did the drums and cymbals and helped isolate some of the sound effects from the games I did guitars, bass, and vocals. His basement is apparently very cool but I have not had the chance to see it yet. I still have two arcade machines in my garage Jude may have ten times that by now. What could possibly beat a 400-pound box dedicated to playing ONE GAME PERFECTLY and decorated to match? I cut my gaming teeth in arcades and the coin-op games of yore will always have a special place in my heart as a result. People often ask me “what’s your favorite game system of all time” and I honestly, truly believe the answer is the arcade machine. Pac-Man back to life and has helped me out on several other coin-op adventures. In his spare time, Jude collects and restores old arcade machines and has since long before I met him. If I recall correctly, this track was one that Jude came up with, and it only makes sense since he is essentially the title character in the song. It took Jude and his wife less time to have a baby than it took me to finish up my half of this song. Right after that song was released, I switched jobs, then switched jobs again. I just updated the Songs page and saw that it has been almost a year since our last release. For details on this track, click the link below.
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