Aside from the regular slate of DLC offerings, it doesn’t seem like there’s a whole lot of big news happening in the world of music games at the moment. So I’m going to go ahead and take this opportunity to clear out my backlog of tagged stories a bit, and offer a hefty dose of miscellanea for your weekend reading and/or watching pleasure.
Overheard
“It’s really weird to see younger kids who are like 16 at our shows, and then they say their dad was a huge fan or their mom used to play us all the time. They either heard it from their families or they heard it on Guitar Hero.” — Jeff Bland of Slaughter, in the Las Vegas Sun. (Trouble is, there’s no Slaughter in Guitar Hero as far as I can tell.)
“To have to one of my songs appear on the list next to Aerosmith and Radiohead and whatever it’s this mind-blowing thing because I don’t feel like I belong on that list at all.” — Jonathan Coulton, in the Rock Band Zine
“I really think my musical/piano background is the main reason I improved quite fast in Guitar Hero. I’ve played the piano for all my life, and I got to a level where I could play pretty much anything I wanted. … In fact I think that piano players even have a bigger advantage than guitar players at this game.” — overhand Guitar Hero player “Lilirock,” at 5Frets.com
“I’ve been playing the guitar for 20 years now, and it’s pretty funny to watch me flail and falter trying to play Guitar Hero. I got up to medium. … A lot of people wouldn’t be listening to bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd or Foghat right now if it wasn’t for Guitar Hero. I don’t think there’s really any other way to listen.” — Brendon Small of Dethklok, at Kotaku
This is so meta it hurts my head. Apparently a company is making a real, entry-level Stratocaster modeled after the Rock Band guitar controllers…which are, in turn, modeled after real Fender Strats.
There’s plastic instruments, and then there’s plastic musicians. This foursome took the stage at Ümloud! a couple weeks back and rocked the house with their…ah…spirited rendition of “My Hero.”
To help raise awareness for Ben Stiller’s “
I…I have nothing to add to this.
This TV ad in the U.K. is apparently promoting a Doritos promotion to win a copy of Guitar Hero. And it’s over four minutes long. But it’s an entertaining four minutes, if only for the wonderfully deadpan looks on the faces of pretty much everyone around poor Alan.
This may be the greatest thing ever invented: a display of Christmas lights that also happens to be a playable version of Guitar Hero. And better yet: The rest of the lights on the house are synced up to the music.
