Silent Hill composer's guitar auctioned for Japan relief

by David Hinkle on Mar 30th 2011 9:05AM

What's scarier, being absolutely broke or regretting never taking a chance to have a piece of video game history? An auction for Akira Yamaoka's guitar and FX amps, which were used to create the audio atmosphere for a little franchise called Silent Hill, is currently underway on eBay (and will last for five days).

The auction is part of Play for Japan, a coordinated effort to present consumers and gamers with means to help the relief effort in Japan. If you partake, you'll not only feel good about donating money to Japan, but you'll possibly give this guitar a new home and outlook on life, one filled with joy, sunshine and family -- not giant death bunnies and other unspeakable horrors.

Via: Play for Japan
Source: eBay

Tags: akira-yamaoka, auction, charity, japan, microsoft, nintendo, play-for-japan, playstation, ps3, psp, silent-hill, Silent-Hill-Shattered-Memories, sony, wii, xbox

Reader Comments (13)

I don't know about you, but my house is also filled with death bunnies.

He used it to compose the music for all the silent hill games?
Hopefully some SH nut is going to pay a fortune for this.

@Godmil
Yeah pretty much.
*takes out checkbook*
how much is it, again?

It's ok to fall into horrendous, crippling debt if it's for a good cause, right?

This eerie soundtrack played guitar will go nicely with my cursed frogurt. I should bid for the heck of it.

That's a badass guitar

Theme of Laura up in this, awww yeahhhh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-WCkJSMRVA

@Aeshir

Quite possibly my favorite game theme of all time.

Akira IMO is one of my favorite musicians to contribute to a video game IP. I absolutely adore the work he's done for all of the soundtracks to the Silent Hill games.

Yamaha puts out good instruments, including guitars which I've seen Akira play in some behind the scenes recording of his soundtracks. If I had the money I'd almost instantly try to get that guitar!