Hi,
I'm a big fan of computer games and played alot of Guitar Hero II when it came out.
There's nothing like nailing a hard rock track on a plastic guitar with large, colourful, plastic buttons.
It is frighteningly close to doing it for real - minus the huge anxiety at the beginning and the huge exhaustion at the end of a live gig.
Now you've got guitar hero on tour and rock band. Both of which provide multiple instruments (guitars, drums and vocals).
You can rock out with your friends and get a serious pleasure high from nailing hard tracks.
The genre is hit such critical mass that you can even get versions of the game specific to your religious tastes.
The humour involved in christian rock goes up a notch when you watch the video of mid western familys enjoying a hedonism based music scene from their own home.
The more advanced games allow you to start composing your own tracks. Making it possible for people to collborate and create music in a simple and easy way.
But is rock n roll really supposed to be this easy to take part in? Have they finally crossed a line and forced the sound of youth rebellion into a plastic package?
More importantly do you want to play on the plastic guitar, drums or sing into the microphone?
Just one more track man!
NP Out
2 comments:
One word. Groupies.
I would hope it would inspire the players to pick up real instruments.
Says the 36 year old non-musician.
But I'd have to agree with Violet, groupies are reason enough.
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