Nov 12 2009
White Stripes Come To Rock Band
Tuesday saw the release of some long awaited White Stripes material for Rock Band. I know I’ve been waiting for this forever, because Jack White isn’t the greatest guitarist, and Meg certainly isn’t the best drummer, but the White Stripes’ music is fun. Getting a group of friends together to rock out and pretend play “Icky Thump”, “Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground”, and “Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine”.
My favorite of the three being Icky Thump, mostly because I’m a guitarist myself and it’s really fun to play the chorus breakdown solos. Trying out the Rock Band versions was especially fun. I’m still not the biggest fan of the music game genre, but Rock Band and Guitar Hero are still fun distractions.
Guitar Hero needs to take some lessons from Rock Band though, as Rock Band seems to make more tracks available. I’m all for as much music available as possible to play.
But I couldn’t ever see being a hardcore player. Mostly because I still don’t see why you’d spend so much time playing plastic instruments when you could learn the real thing. Actually playing guitar and drums is cooler, and tends to attract more ladies…or dudes, if that’s your thing.
