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Rock Band Licenses The Beatles
eldavojohn writes "The Wall Street Journal is reporting that MTV's Rock Band has gained the licenses to an undetermined number of songs. Details are scant, but it would be nice to see a whole game based on just the evolution of The Beatles' music. According to Reuters, this has been in the works for months. Hopefully I can finally hide my strained vocals to so many beautiful songs within the privacy of my home instead of drunk off my ass at a bar."
You get bonus points for playing bass left-handed.
Plastic Ono bonus points if you chew gum while you sing.
My work here is dung.
i dont care about my ./ karma or pts. i have to say the beatles are the worst and most overrated band EVER... they were one of the first modern 'boy bands' they never cared about music, obviously because it all sucks, until they got into drugs. BUT that dosent make them O.K. i mean really put in one of their early albums, listen to it, and see if it dosent wanna make you have 'relations' with the same sex or some other sub-human form which they belong to. so yeah fuck the beatles.
In the mean time, I went the Randy Marsh way and went went for the real thing. I bought a 50 nylon string guitar, borrowed an el cheapo strat clone from a friend and an used amp from my brother.
I'm probably practicing less every day than the Guitar Hero player plays it's stupid toy, and in six months I'll be able to play a few songs in public. It's really rewarding, fun (it's called PLAYING an instrument for a reason) and teaches actual skills while maintaining other ones like mathematics, physics, dexterity, multitasking and such.
A guitar hero player only learns to repeat sequences with a useless joystick that they cannot reuse in real life (otherwise a musician geek would have done it already)