I hate to be the bearer of this news

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The Beatles To Launch Branded 'Rock Band' Game In September

[DontLetMeDrown]

Can you say EASY MONEY?

[Nolet]

I think that's a great way to introduce them youngsters to the Beatles.

[d1rtynyc]

Originally Posted by DontLetMeDrown

Can you say EASY MONEY?

I read that the Aerosmith Guitar Hero game made the band more money than ANY of their records yet.
Pretty impressive amount of loot considering how many copies Pump sold back in the 90's.

[JustinAiken]

Unless they have some kind of new magic technology to separate 2/4 track tapes into separated drum/guitar/bass/vocal tracks, all the songs are going to be covers :(

[Gone]

I think that's a great way to introduce them youngsters to the Beatles.

This is a great point. Look at how many kids are getting into Rock because of this silly game.

I bet in 20 years we are talking about how this game saved Rock and Roll.
No joke.


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[gearaddict]

WHy is this bad news?

[JustinAiken]

Originally Posted by gearaddict

WHy is this bad news?

Originally Posted by JustinAiken

... all the songs are going to be covers :(

...

[jimcroisdale]

Sooner or later I'm going to have to have a play on Rock Band or Guitar Hero or whatever.

And if I can't do it, I WILL throw a hissy fit.

[Nolet]

Originally Posted by jimcroisdale

Sooner or later I'm going to have to have a play on Rock Band or Guitar Hero or whatever.

And if I can't do it, I WILL throw a hissy fit.

I tried, and I totally suck. Kids half my age are better.

I also read some funny anecdote about Slash. Apparently, Slash was over at some friend's house where his friend's son said to him "Hey, you look like that guy from Guitar Hero." He then dared Slash to session, and Slash lost; playing himself; on an xbox. If that's not hyperreality!?

[NorseHorse]

I play drums and I totally failed at Rock Band drums...

[organsymphony]

However cool these games are, as previously mentioned they are the real musicians bane and the cause of immense embarrassment. Without sticking my head too far up my arse, I class my self as a good guitarist. I know there are those my age and better, younger and better, but I still know I have some talent. And its just utterly embarrassing when other people regard you as a great guitarist, ask you to play them on Guitar Hero, and you just fail and fall on your arse so quick its as if you were trying to avoid a catholic priest.

[avanturb]

I was walking down the street once and saw this teenager with a guitar slung over his shoulder. I always try to show support for the young musicians. So I say to him, "you gonna play that thing or are you just wearing it for show." He says, "oh, its not a real guitar, its for a game, you know guitar hero."

As much as I'd like to believe the games would be an entrance into music etc. and I'm sure that's how they sold the guys on doing it (not to mention the hefty $$$$), at the end of the day I think the game will be enough cool factor for the youth. Actually learning to play would be a waste of time.

[DontLetMeDrown]

Originally Posted by NorseHorse

I play drums and I totally failed at Rock Band drums...

LOL! Me too!

Why does the hi-hat keep moving?!?!? WTF!

[Infernal Device]

Who is surprised by that? The Beatles doing anything to make money. Not news.

Every time someone finds a recording of them tuning guitars in the studio it is released for $18.99 (and usually just in time for Christmas).

The Beatles are just a themed gift for people. My aunt always gets "cat-related" gifts for holidays, by uncle gets "Beatles" themed gifts.

It is the same with NASCAR and whatever Disney movie is released (for them just to abandon it and promote the next).

I am only surprised it took them this long.

[logicll]

Wow let's all dumb ourselves down to the lazy Xbox generation. I think Rock Band is pathetic...

[tribeofenki]

...a great way to introduce them youngsters to the Beatles?



that plastic thing is... p a t h e t i c

No real musician can appreciate that weirdness... except on Xmas .

[voicegenius]

How bout making a game where you actually have to LEARN how to play the guitar like Paul McCartney instead of pushing some green and blue buttons?? That's why kids don't know shit these days...

[DontLetMeDrown]

Well, instead they could be playing a game where they fire shots into people's heads. I'd rather have my kids playing Guitar Hero...

[narcoman]

Originally Posted by d1rtynyc

I read that the Aerosmith Guitar Hero game made the band more money than ANY of their records yet.
Pretty impressive amount of loot considering how many copies Pump sold back in the 90's.

they certainly did - the buy-in was huge. The sales were not, at least not as huge as they were supposed to be!!


As for the "guitar hero"/"singstar" tracks - very often they ARE accurate sound-a-likes. I've been involved in quite a couple of them at SCEE. Sometimes they are replays by the original artists (Sex Pistols) and yet other times they are master-track (these days PT clones) read in (Elvis was one I remember !! NDAs all around THAT week!)

[kafka]

I blame Yoko.

[iluvatar]

Originally Posted by Nolet

I tried, and I totally suck. Kids half my age are better.

I also read some funny anecdote about Slash. Apparently, Slash was over at some friend's house where his friend's son said to him "Hey, you look like that guy from Guitar Hero." He then dared Slash to session, and Slash lost; playing himself; on an xbox. If that's not hyperreality!?

In an interview I read a while ago, the guitar player from Weezer had the same experience.

-Dan.

[kafka]

Originally Posted by Nolet

I also read some funny anecdote about Slash. Apparently, Slash was over at some friend's house where his friend's son said to him "Hey, you look like that guy from Guitar Hero." He then dared Slash to session, and Slash lost; playing himself; on an xbox. If that's not hyperreality!?

Here's a clip of Rush sucking at playing Tom Sawyer in Rock Band, and not looking very amused by it.

[ersheff]

Most of my drum students were inspired to start taking lessons by Rock Band.
All of them have stuck it out for at least several months and are improving at a normal to advanced pace.
There is nothing inherently bad about these music games. Nothing any worse than the potential abuse of video games in general. Quit belly aching, you old farts.
Evolve or die. If you feel threatened by a damned video game...

[narcoman]

Originally Posted by kafka

Here's a clip of Rush sucking at playing Tom Sawyer in Rock Band, and not looking very amused by it.

yeah - that'd be about what I hear everytime a Rush record comes on



okay - i'm running...i'm running...

[voicegenius]

Originally Posted by kafka

Here's a clip of Rush sucking at playing Tom Sawyer in Rock Band, and not looking very amused by it.

That is the greatest...

[Kyle S]

look at it this way...

were gonna be like super cool old dudes that drive real muscle cars instead of rice burners. All the youngins will always look up us!

[Nolet]

Originally Posted by voicegenius

How bout making a game where you actually have to LEARN how to play the guitar like Paul McCartney instead of pushing some green and blue buttons?? That's why kids don't know shit these days...

...on a side note: Kids have never known shit. Read some Roman and Greek scriptures from 500 BC. Same old people complaining about the laziness of young people...

[AND]

Got the kids a Wii for christmas...I can play the drums good...still working my way up on the fiddle though..It's fun..I dont see what the problem is

[deejaytrixx]

Originally Posted by voicegenius

How bout making a game where you actually have to LEARN how to play the guitar like Paul McCartney instead of pushing some green and blue buttons?? That's why kids don't know shit these days...

I agree..the technology of these games nowdays is to a point where you can give a kid a real guitar, or some sort of midi controller and teach him how to play...

BUT...I have the game...and I love it...it rocks..nice distraction when you need to step away from the studio...

I think some of you are taking it waaaaaaay too personal..its just a game dudes lol, it's not meant to be real...and if you suck at this game...it has nothing to do with playing ability or realism..it has to do with u being old with very bad reflexes from years of pot smoking