Shade with Sonic music composer Jun Senoue
first came across the Sonic Scene by stumbling upon SWS2B when
Pelord was running things in 2001, and began lurking regularly around Simon's return. Shade finally joined
SWS2B on November 2nd 2005 after he felt he was up to community par. Shade became a regular at SWS2B, and made a few noteworthy contributions to the scene; the most prominent of them being what was essentially the blow that reopened the Michael Jackson/
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 connection by bringing to the attention of the scene the uncanny resemblance of Michael Jackson's "Stranger in Moscow" and the
Sonic 3 Credits, as well as noting similarities between MJ's 1987 song "Smooth Criminal" and Ice Cap Zone's music. It was later confirmed that MJ's various collaborators were behind the majority of Sonic 3's music. Shade also made some interesting observations having to do with some odd music tracks in
Sonic Rush, which later turned out to be the original music tracks from the now unearthed prototype.
Shade has met Sonic music composers Richard Jaques, Spencer Nilsen, and Jun Senoue. On that same day, Shade and Heran Bago showed Jun the infamous Sonic Crackers emulated on Shade's PSP, the result of which was an ecstatic Jun taking a picture with his digital camera. The meeting also turned up some interesting tidbits about Jun's involvement with Sonic 3, and some of his personal favorite works.
In early 2007, Shade self imposed a ban from the Sonic 2 Beta message boards as a result of his disagreement with the way things were being run, and became active at The Glowing Bridge community.
However, he has since rejoined S2beta, apologizing for his previous theatrics, and remains an active participant of the Sonic Scene.
Random Shade Trivia:
- Shade can moonwalk.
- Shade and Heran Bago met in 2005, and are now friends in zomg real lifes.
- Many people say that Shade bears a resemblance to Tom Cruise
