Tuesday, September 22, 2009We Were Braaaaagging.... The irony is that I think Within You Without You is the worst song on Sgt. Pepper.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009Everybody Let Their Hair Down My vocal cords have been taking beating, but the The Beatles: Rock Band is so fun! I may have to put my expert vocal campaign on hold and switch to drums. Time Magazine recently had an article saying that constant light exercise is better than weekly butt-kicking exercise. I'm not in a position to evaluate the scientific merit of that conclusion, but I agree with it because it sounds more fun.
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Sunday, August 9, 2009I'm Looking Through You My final completed SD vacation art project was further work with the Wacom. This time I was exploring digital inking; the only thing not done on my computer for this drawing was the pencils. The subject is Tinya Wazzo, Phantom Girl from the Legion of Super-Heroes. See the full drawing at DeviantART!
 Also, 1 month until The Beatles: Rock Band comes out! See I tied it all together with the title. link : 2:28 PM
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Monday, June 1, 2009We Would Sing and Dance Around From Kotaku.com In other news: entire Abbey Road will be in the game! Update: *Point point* link : 1:09 PM
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Thursday, March 5, 2009Say You Want a Revolution September 9, 2009 is kind of an odd date to release The Beatles: Rock Band...
... ... ... ... Oh I get it lol. link : 11:26 AM
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Friday, January 9, 2009What's an Ooby Dooby? Six Roy Orbison songs hit Rock Band last week and I got three of them, Oh Pretty Woman, You Got It, and Ooby Dooby. Fun fact: Ooby Dooby was featured prominently in Star Trek: First Contact, and was the first human song the Vulcans heard.
Some associated news have been found on the net too. GameDaily has a cool interview with Orbison's widow about the games and music. She has a very positive attitude towards the merging. Digital Game Developer has some really interesting information on the technical process of taking master tracks and making the song playable. The Orbison Estate actually took the opportunity to remix the song just for Rock Band, making the guitar sound more modern. link : 6:52 PM
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008While My Plastic Guitar Gently Weeps (with Joy) Beatles License Songs to Viacom Videogame Unit
The Beatles have licensed songs to MTV Networks' Rock Band videogame series, according to several people familiar with the matter, a coup for the Viacom Inc. unit in its battle with rival Activision Inc. for supremacy in the world of rock and roll video games. Update: Today the Beatles and MTV Games officially announced plans to make a Beatles music game. Woohoo! There's articles all over the net, but check out this one, the press release at Beatles.com. It's eerie reading quotes from representatives of all four Beatles about how cool a videogame would be. Kind of a weird Bizarro world situation. For example: "It's cool. I love it and hope it will keep inspiring and encouraging the young generation for many decades," said Yoko Ono Lennon.That quote would be inconceivable one week ago. link : 8:25 PM
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Monday, October 13, 2008Chicks Don't Even Know the Name of My Band Rockband.com (warning: music) updated with some ridiculous new features. Read bits of info about the songs (well, some of them anyway). Have a really expensive action figure made of your character. Best of all, make free digital pictures of your bands and bandmates. As you can imagine, this last feature is getting hosed by thousands of users making thousands of free pictures. But after a few days I've amassed enough to make this post, which I wrote a little bit ago but didn't have the images to really spice it up.
Band names are unique because they get posted on online leaderboards. There is also a very strict censoring system so anything that any loaded word could be rejected (like for example, Bruce Dickinson). Originally I wanted something for hardcore gamers. I was inspired when I heard a game magazine's review band was called "Dogs of the AMS," which I recognized from a random line of dialog from House of the Dead 2. For some reason I wanted something related to the cult series Shenmue. I toyed around with naming my band the Chiyoumen (the secret organization of bad guys), or the Mad Angels (a gang of foreigners terrorizing the docks). I decided it was too obscure though, so I instead tried to think of something humorous and understandable by a majority of the rock band-playing population. So, behold my band: Band with the Runs!  {Click for giant version.} Our motto is "Live and let fly." And this is our logo.  RB2 has a new feature where I can choose who fills in the positions I'm not playing in my band with my stock of characters . So for the first time, all of my RB1 characters appear together on stage while I play as one or two of them. Introducing:  Osteon: My first RB1 character, though back then he was named Guitaroo-Chan (a riff on the old rhythm game Guitaroo-Man (what's with me and obscure game references?!)). He is my guitarist. He has a bone theme going for him, of course.  ZOMGoth (pronounced Zoh My Goth): My other guitarist, made for online playing. She now plays bass for the band.  K: A temporary name until I can think of something better. In RB1 he was originally named Keith-on-da-Mic, then K-on-da-Mic, then his name changed to match whatever costume he was wearing. Last time he was seen in RB1, he was "Ringmaster 9000," so imagine that get-up. For a while in RB2 he is wearing the expert vocalist costume (far below, looks like a deer), which I hear is inspired by black metal (believe it or not, not my scene). For now he's dressed plain like me... an athletic, chiseled me (above).  Keeley Walker: A college student by day, vigilante by night, and drummer... in between. For those who care, no her RB2 appearance is not canon. Neither are her stints in the Smackdown! vs. Raw, City of Heroes, and Tony Hawk games.  {Everyone wearing their respective impossible costumes. Click for giant version.} I have another band to show off, but I'll do that another time. They're uncannily astonishing though. Labels: rock band link : 11:47 AM
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Saturday, September 13, 2008It's a Nice Day for... Rock Banding Rock Band 2 comes out on Sunday at midnight. Three hours before the hunt begins!
Update 5:47AM Buying Rock Band 2 at midnight was no problem. Picked it up at the original Super Walmart in town. Got lost on the way back due to heavy rain and crummy road lines. Been playing on and off since around 12:30AM (!). First impressions: there are a lot more songs that are really fun to sing, like Hungry Like the Wolf, That's What You Get, Eye of the Tiger, and Kids in America. My throat started complaining at around 3:00AM so I switched to guitar but by then I was also drowsy so I kind of half-heartedly played. Old interface problems fixed, but new ones were made. More details when I'm less likely to pass out at the keyboard. link : 9:17 PM
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