Poke Press Digest Podcast: Episode 3-Eric Summerer/Neil Jason

For this episode, we have two segments. The first (0:55-26:00) is an interview with Eric Summerer, co-host of a board gaming podcast called “The Dice Tower”, regarding his experience with the Pokémon Trading Card Game. We discuss how he played the game in its early days, and how he got back into it.

Our second segment (26:06-37:53) is an archival interview with Neil Jason, who wrote and arranged a number of songs from the early seasons of the Pokémon dub. These include “Viridian City” and the movie versions of the first two season themes. We also talk about some of his work as a bass player, and some of his wife’s music as well.


Links:

Dice Tower Web Site
Dice Tower Season 13 Indiegogo
Board Game Geek Web Site
Flip the Table Podcast
Ludology Podcast

Pokemon Musician Interview: Neil Jason

I recently conducted an interview with Neil Jason, who wrote several songs for the Pokemon TV show, including:

-Viridian City
-Pikachu (I Choose You)
-Never Too Far From Home

Additionally, Neil rearranged the first two season themes for the first two movies. We discuss this, as well as his other work in the interview: