Holy Crap, It's The Captains Of The Chess Team!
We mentioned them tangentially when referencing a write-up of Richard Garriott's IGDA party the other week, but I've just spotted that the video game-staffed band for the day, Captains Of The Chess Team, have a fresh new website.
A Kotaku write-up of the event references the band further, noting (and I'm adding some game biz references here): "The band is a spontaneous game-industry ensemble consisting of famous audio guru George [EDIT: 'The Fat Man' - forgot to mention!] Sanger, [industry newbie Troupe Gammage] on keyboard, [Midway Austin] game designer Josh Hamrick on drums, [Sanger associate] Linda Law on bass, guitar by [former Accolade sound guy] W. Scott Snyder, and fronted by Midway Austin's audio director, Marc Schaefgen."
What's more, according to Kotaku: "The set list included Safety Dance, a rousing performance of Video Killed the Radio Star, the ever popular Numa Numa (originally "Dragostea din tei"), and the Star Wars-centric parody Yoda."" There's even some song clips available on the Chess Team website.
In addition, there's good news for those going to CMP's very own Austin GDC: "Our next gigs will be in Austin during the Austin GDC... On Tuesday, September 4, 2007, the Captains will be playing a fund raiser for the UT Center for American History Games Archive. And some time during the conference we will be playing a conference-related party." Awesome - more game industry bands, plz.
Comments
George Sanger (aka The Fat Man) rocks.
Posted by: Sparky | July 15, 2007 11:41 PM
This is so wrong
Posted by: Luke Martinez | July 21, 2007 3:33 PM
_Tell_ me about it.
Posted by: George Sanger | July 23, 2007 4:43 PM
Hello Simon! I knew there was a reason someone used the Accolade reference. :)
About it being wrong? It's wrong on soooo many levels. That's what makes it good!
Posted by: Scott Snyder | July 25, 2007 1:05 PM