“So… if I wanted to have a game based entirely on Journey, I could do that?”

“Yes Rob, you take your music, throw it in the game, and you can have it Any Way You Want It.”

What I didn’t realize until just yesterday is that someone had already beaten me to the punch!

I don’t know what amuses me most about this video: the random footage of a towheaded, shirtless youth playing a Pac-Man clone in an arcade (can anyone place that game?), the back-alley posturing clip of the band members, or the conspicuous absence of frontman Steve Perry.

Perhaps most notable is keyboardist Jonathan Cain’s longshot attempt to tie the subtext of the game to the creative process of an artist—not his own or his group’s, but Perry’s, vicariously—while Nick Schon smirks smugly in the background. Such is the tragic nature of the rock keyboardist, always required to justify their stature, however futile. Or maybe he just never gets stuck himself.