Assuming you’ve found your calling, let’s move forward with the next step in the process: how to find bandmates. At this juncture, I should explain a bit about what it will be like to have bandmates. Bandmates are not like friends – do not live under the delusion that by having a band, you will now have new best buddies with whom you can hang out casually and watch season 2 of Golden Girls. Your bandmates will be more like family members... family members that you will sometimes need to kick in the shins when they won’t stop futzing with their pedal boards while you’re trying to coordinate tour plans...

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A Quick Guide to a Landmark DLC Release

Over the past weekend a roomful of rock luminaries paid tribute to the Who, in a “Rock Honors” show that VH1 will air this coming weekend. Not to be outdone, we at Rock Band have our own Who package this week—the most DLC we’ve ever offered at once by a single band. There’s no other way to deal with one of the greatest bands in rock history—and according to a Guinness record set in the 70’s, the loudest in history as well.

Guitarist Pete Townshend and singer Roger Daltrey themselves helped select our 12-song Who pack, which spans the band’s 40-year history and includes some of the essential hits…along with some equally great tracks that may be less familiar. For those who aren’t up on the full story, we present this brief course in Who 101:

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