Rock Band On The Spot Today?

[ThePaska]

I remember reading a few seperate posts that said that Rock Band would be on Gamespot's On the Spot Today, or something like that at 5pm (EST?).

After checking gamespot.com it doesn't say anywhere that there is an On the Spot today. Besides that it also says that On The Spot is every thursday at 7pm EST. There is E3 coverage from Gamespot starting at 6pm EST.

I am just confused as to whether or not there is actual coverage of Rock Band today by gamespot. As well as what time the coverage will be and whether it will just be their day 3 coverage or it will be on On The Spot. I'm just curious if anyone can shed some light on this because I cannot get enough Rock Band information, and I'm hoping for some new videos!


Edit: here is the link to the video, from Gamespot! : http://www.gamespot.com/video/0/6175122/videoplayerpop?rgroup=e32007_live

[sushi111]

Its on Gamespots LIVE E3 coverage.

http://e3.gamespot.com/live.html?tag=event_nav;live

Its on at 8 EST

[ThePaska]

Aha, perfect, thanks Sushi. I knew someone knew, I'll be looking forward to it, I hope we get to hear a new song today!

[sushi111]

Aha, perfect, thanks Sushi. I knew someone knew, I'll be looking forward to it, I hope we get to hear a new song today!

Hahaha, we are going to be playing Main Offender and Suffragette City!

[ThePaska]

Hahaha, we are going to be playing Main Offender and Suffragette City!

You're playing? :P

If it's Suffragette City again, I'll be disappointed.

[SmPriNi]

What will you be playing, Sushi?

[sushi111]

What will you be playing, Sushi?

Hahaha nothing, I was just saying what I thought The Gamespot people will say. I wish I could play any song!

[Eman311]

A different song to see would be sweet

[skyehill]

Look around the Intergoogle and you'll see more songs being played at the various parties. There's a really funny one of Wanted: Dead or Alive where the entire party is singing the vocal.

[Eman311]

where are there any others? i've seen that one

[travmeatwad]

GHIII is supposed to be on this hour..

Just in case you're still interested in the GH games.. haha.

[spagetti]

GHIII is supposed to be on this hour..

Just in case you're still interested in the GH games.. haha.

Even GH website has kicked the bucket.

[Eman311]

GHIII is supposed to be on this hour..

Just in case you're still interested in the GH games.. haha.

i will buy it for the achievements and some of the cool tunes

[TheRocker]

GHIII is supposed to be on this hour..

Just in case you're still interested in the GH games.. haha.

Whats GH ?

[Eman311]

Rock Band will be on at 5:05 PT (8 here on the east coast)

[hheemm]

Even GH website has kicked the bucket.

Haha. Service Unavailable. That's what's good about the Rock Band website. It keeps me logged in, and there are no errors.

[RacerX]

God I hope they play Tom Sawyer

[Eman311]

I doubt it.......... i wouldnt be surprised to see Dead or Alive. it's either that or the stuff we've already scene. i would like a good Main Offender video besides the E3 one

[xCHRISx]

I doubt it.......... i wouldnt be surprised to see Dead or Alive. it's either that or the stuff we've already scene. i would like a good Main Offender video besides the E3 one

I wanna see something on expert difficulty!

[Eman311]

I wanna see something on expert difficulty!

we have already havent we? for both suffragete city and main offender?
and wow lol at how i spelt "seen"

[ThePaska]

I'm not positive what difficulties we have seen in the videos. I assume some are expert, but I know some were not, it is hard to distinguish without seeing the gameplay and knowing what each difficulty looks like.

I hope we see some new videos, maybe In Bloom or something we haven't heard at least. Please no Suffragette City. heh. Only 2 hours until it is on, hopefully it is something good!

[Eman311]

could someone please record the rock band stuff?

i won't be around

[Electric_Zen]

Gamespot will encode and upload the video. You will be able to get it here when its available:

http://e3.gamespot.com/live.html

[ThePaska]

Gamespot will encode and upload the video. You will be able to get it here when its available:

http://e3.gamespot.com/live.html

Oh man it starts in a few minutes, I'm really excited to see how this "surprise performance" turns out!

[KingofQUEEN48]

is it going to be in the finale?

[ThePaska]

is it going to be in the finale?

Yea it says RockBand 5:05 pm PT. It should be on soon, I hope, I'm watching it now!

[travmeatwad]

Ugh! They would have been done with this game they're talking about now.. and then he goes "You know what, give me more questions!"

FKJASFLJKFS

[ThePaska]

Ugh! They would have been done with this game they're talking about now.. and then he goes "You know what, give me more questions!"

FKJASFLJKFS

Yea it looks like they have gone a little long, hopefully there isn't much more until they show rockband, I'm so impatient!

[travmeatwad]

Yea it looks like they have gone a little long, hopefully there isn't much more until they show rockband, I'm so impatient!

Yeah, me too..

EDIT: Sounds like they're going to play Main Offender.. =| The background music was that. Maybe they'll play more.

[sa_nick]

Did I just hear like half a second of Enter Sandman? It sounded like the audio guy accdently brang up sound from the Rock Band feed while that other guy was showing off stuff at the Sony Lounge.

C'mon Sandman gameplay!!

[sushi111]

Noooooooooooooooooooo Not ****ing Again!

[ThePaska]

I didn't hear enter sandman, I believe it was The Hives, which they are now playing in full. At least it isn't Sufragette City, but it isn't much better. She does a great "WHY ME" though haha.

I'm hoping for a 2nd song, but probably not...


EDIT: OOh "they'll play again"!

[sushi111]

Yay more songs!

[hmxdfan]

Even I'm getting sick of Suffragette City.

[ThePaska]

Wow character creation looks great, a fairly good amount of detail too! Unlockable clothes to shop for. character creation looks very fun.

[travmeatwad]

Wow character creation looks great, a fairly good amount of detail too! Unlockable clothes to shop for. character creation looks very fun.

Agreed.. hopefully I can make my character look like me.. Or at least really close.

[sushi111]

I love all the character stuff

[sushi111]

Yay more sufferagette city!

[ThePaska]

"What do you want to play"
"maybe some Bowie?"

"NOOOOOOO!" - me

I can't believe we have to deal with Suffragette City again, at least they plan to play like 3 more songs. I love this song, but it's like the 10th time they've played it!

[travmeatwad]

The menu looks nice, too.. Haha.

I want them to play something else.. but they have to if they're going to play and then have the editors play and then have them play again.. We have to hear new stuff..

[hmxdfan]

Cool, they're actually showing the character customization stuff? It totally rules, and no one's been noticing it at all yet.

[sushi111]

How about some more bowie and hives!

[ThePaska]

How about some more bowie and hives!

Hah, if they do that, I lose all respect for Rock Band.


It looks like most have them have been playing Hard, so I'm interested to see what expert looks like.

[Magnet]

Oh, god. Not more Main Offender and Suffragette City again! There's at least ten other songs to choose from! You're killing me!

[sushi111]

Yay! Gamespot is playing!

[ThePaska]

Yay! Gamespot is playing!

Best part of it is, they will be playing something we haven't seen yet! Unless they pick Mississippi Queen or Wanted Dead or Alive...

Hopefully they don't pick them!


Well Looks like they are doing Bon Jovi....oh well.

[travmeatwad]

Say It Ain't So!!

Awesome!

EDIT: NOOOOOOOOO.. He wants "Dead or Alive." :(

[sushi111]

NOOOOOO! Go back to Weezer!

[ThePaska]

Say It Ain't So!!

Awesome!

Hah they want Bon Jovi! Thats such a shame!

[Magnet]

They're booing Weezer! I wanted to hear that! =(

[ThePaska]

Well I guess we can look forward to hopefully Harmonix playing one last time, and picking something really good that we haven't heard!

Gamespot's singer is amazing haha!

[travmeatwad]

I really want to see someone play Metallica or Weezer.

[sushi111]

I really want to see someone play Metallica or Weezer.

There is no Metallica in that demo

[Magnet]

Guess we don't get to hear much bass. lol

[travmeatwad]

There is no Metallica in that demo

Damn.. that's a shame..




And, whoever player 4 is.. well, they suck.. They've failed like 5 times. Haha.



EDIT: Looks like they're going to play Paranoid.

[ThePaska]

Oh sweet paranoid! this should be nice! I hope someone is recording this.

[sushi111]

Cover sounds good!

[Magnet]

That was great at the bass finally being saved again just as the song ended.

Sweet! Paranoid!

[Joigga]

The Editors Were Amazing I Wish I Was There!!

[ThePaska]

Cover sounds good!

Yea their Ozzy Covers always sound good. I'm so happy it is something new! Looks like tons of fun.

[Magnet]

This cover sounds amazing. I can't believe how good it is. What a great way to end this.

[sushi111]

Wait did they play that or jam?

[sa_nick]

Dammit, I wish I wasn't shaped. The huge amount of E3 videos (about 3GB download plus 6 hours of streaming video) has caused me to go over my monthly download limit, now im down to like 4Kb/s...

Watching the Gamespot show sucked, i got most of the audio but it was running about about 1 frame per 20 seconds. I managed to see some or the character creation and menu stuff though.... looking nice, real nice.

Lol, and I missed the playing Main Offender coz I had to pause it so I could load this site to post about how I thought I hear Sandman.

It's 10:30am, I haven't been to sleep, I'm extremely hung over, I couldn't watch the video I've been looking forward to for several days and to make everything that little less enjoyable my heater broke thismorning and I'm freezing my ass off.

I'm gonna quit winging and go pass out. Here's hoping this Gamespot video will be available for download by the time I wake up, lol.

[ThePaska]

That was sweet, they had an ending jam thing, sounds and looks awesome. I need rock band. The more I see it the more I know it is worth every penny to buy 2 guitars a mic and drums so I can play with all my friends and just party!

Don't worry Sa_nick, hopefully someone downloaded/ will post it on youtube or something, or hopefully gamespot will post it shortly, it looks like they posted a lot of their other videos from today.

[thatmusicguy]

greatest ending to gamespots on the spot ever! also if you missed it later on today or early tommorow they will put up the video file here http://e3.gamespot.com/live.html?tag=event_nav;live
scroll down to the last hour 5pm.

[sushi111]

I cant believe how pathetic that made every GH game look.

[Joigga]

Dammit, I wish I wasn't shaped. The huge amount of E3 videos (about 3GB download plus 6 hours of streaming video) has caused me to go over my monthly download limit, now im down to like 4Kb/s...

Watching the Gamespot show sucked, i got most of the audio but it was running about about 1 frame per 20 seconds. I managed to see some or the character creation and menu stuff though.... looking nice, real nice.

Lol, and I missed the playing Main Offender coz I had to pause it so I could load this site to post about how I thought I hear Sandman.

It's 10:30am, I haven't been to sleep, I'm extremely hung over, I couldn't watch the video I've been looking forward to for several days and to make everything that little less enjoyable my heater broke thismorning and I'm freezing my ass off.

I'm gonna quit winging and go pass out. Here's hoping this Gamespot video will be available for download by the time I wake up, lol.

seems your affected by Friday The 13th

[ThePaska]

I cant believe how pathetic that made every GH game look.

Seriously, Rock Band has made me forget about GH III, and I can't even get excited about it anymore, I'm way too busy thinking about how amazing RB is going to be.

[AmethystRush]

That was the best Gamespot demo of E3, and I think it really got the point across. It really showed what this game is about, and I don't think Guitar Hero can really hold a candle anymore. I think Harmonix has proven they really get it, and they're just going to continue to innovate and take this whole music game phenomenon to the next level.

[Eman311]

ahhhhhh what did i miss?

[the_spike]

Are they ever going to put the vid up?

[Eman311]

Theyre putting stuff up right now

[the_spike]

Theyre putting stuff up right now

Really? I just checked..

Awesome.:D

[Eman311]

Really? I just checked..

Awesome.:D
yea but theyre taking their sweet time.............

[ThePaska]

yea but theyre taking their sweet time.............

Yea they are, hopefully the Rock Band video will be up within the hour or maybe two...or at least I know it will be up by tomorrow morning.

[Eman311]

Yea im just gonna wait until tommorow when i get out of work at 3........... its almost midnight and ive gotta be at work at 7.

Rock Band is good but not lack of sleep good

edit: who am i kidding of course it is

[Nitz13]

I really Enjoyed the live coverage of Rock Band and thought it was amazing and It's a must get on my list.
wish they hadn't changed Say It Ain't So to Wanted Dead or Alive... I wanted to hear some Weezer!

[travmeatwad]

I really Enjoyed the live coverage of Rock Band and thought it was amazing and It's a must get on my list.
wish they hadn't changed Say It Ain't So to Wanted Dead or Alive... I wanted to hear some Weezer!

Yeah, seriously.. I'd take Weezer over Bon Jovi any day. Haha.

[Tendoza]

here's a vid of some songs we havn't heard, but it only shows a small chunk of each song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMPh59AEpdM

[Nitz13]

here's a vid of some songs we havn't heard, but it only shows a small chunk of each song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMPh59AEpdM

Nice Find! Kinda short but ill take all I can get!

[admanimal]

The guy singing Vasoline is a total stiff haha.

[ThePaska]

here's a vid of some songs we havn't heard, but it only shows a small chunk of each song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMPh59AEpdM

oH nice find, those are three songs I really wanted to hear, especially Go with the flow. Thanks for posting it, they looks great/ sound great! I wish this was out already!

[xCHRISx]

Anyone find this on Youtube or anything yet? Or know of full-length clips of that other video posted? Would be sweet to see those songs in full!

[Desensitized]

Those 3 sound great, I'm sooo glad they made the game.

[the_spike]

here's a vid of some songs we havn't heard, but it only shows a small chunk of each song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMPh59AEpdM

Hopefully the full vids are added up at IGN because it has Tal from IGN playing it in that.

[masterx1918]

this sucks. Gamespot and IGN are closed on the weekends so we'll have to wait till monday to see this video.

[mobhit101]

daaaaaaaaamn, Queens of the Stone Age sound awesome. Drums are pretty sweet for that song :D

Can't wait!

[lithiumkc]

daaaaaaaaamn, Queens of the Stone Age sound awesome. Drums are pretty sweet for that song :D

Can't wait!

One old song I seriously hope they transfer to RB is no one knows.. seriously some of my favorite drumming in that song, especially the chorus. Go with the Flow is pretty sweet too.

[the_spike]

omg, I don't think they'll ever add it.

[Nitz13]

seems to take them a while to get the videos out give em a day or two.

[ThePaska]

seems to take them a while to get the videos out give em a day or two.

Well they put most of them from yesterday up a few hours after they were done, the thing is they didn't get around to the Rock Band one and now it is the weekend, and I don't think they do much updating over the weekend. Might have to wait until monday to watch paranoid again, sadly.

[sushi111]

http://www.gamespot.com/video/0/6175122/videoplayerpop?rgroup=e32007_live

The video is up

[ThePaska]

http://www.gamespot.com/video/0/6175122/videoplayerpop?rgroup=e32007_live

The video is up

Oh nice, thanks Sushi! Now I get to try and play drums along with paranoid!

[sushi111]

Wow I wonder how hard the drums will be on expert. They looked hard as it is. Oh well, the harder the better. Wont get fooled again should be impossible on drums on expert

[ThePaska]

Wow I wonder how hard the drums will be on expert. They looked hard as it is. Oh well, the harder the better

They do look hard, and challenging, I know the first hard part is getting my leg to do seperate parts from what my hands are doing.

This is the best rock band video to date. 40 minutes of Rock Band, including 4 songs and talk/showing of the create a character stuff. amazing.

[xCHRISx]

They do look hard, and challenging, I know the first hard part is getting my leg to do seperate parts from what my hands are doing.

This is the best rock band video to date. 40 minutes of Rock Band, including 4 songs and talk/showing of the create a character stuff. amazing.

*Impatiently waits for the video to buffer!*

Looking forward to seeing this. :)

[AJamal]

They do look hard, and challenging, I know the first hard part is getting my leg to do seperate parts from what my hands are doing.

This is the best rock band video to date. 40 minutes of Rock Band, including 4 songs and talk/showing of the create a character stuff. amazing.

Agreed the video isn't some bs like G4 did, I'm gald that gamespot asked questions, and actually asked about the cap. I just wish I got to see more of the editors play, thats easily the funniest part.

[RacerX]

Wow I wonder how hard the drums will be on expert. They looked hard as it is. Oh well, the harder the better. Wont get fooled again should be impossible on drums on expert

Meh, I think all the drums looked pretty damn easy. Maybe it's because im an actuall drummer. Actually, the Bowie song looked pretty challenging on drums.

[Eman311]

yes it did..........i hope this video gets put up for download.

[Electric_Zen]

Awesome video. We all know Alex and Helen. I can't remember, but I think Grace is Assistant Producer? And I didn't recognize that particular Matt, who's he?

[idiotec]

Where is this video? I haven't found it :(

[Eman311]

http://www.gamespot.com/video/0/6175122/videoplayerpop?rgroup=e32007_live

[JesusSilencio]

Wow I wonder how hard the drums will be on expert. They looked hard as it is. Oh well, the harder the better. Wont get fooled again should be impossible on drums on expert

Yeah I'm really looking forward to won't get fooled again and tom sawyer on expert. The bon jovi song sounded like it would be kinda hard on expert too.

I do hope they have flams on expert (like in Paranoid and In Bloom)... though I guess flams are a little weird for someone who doesn't play drum.

[skyehill]

It's not Helen. When she's singing, she's Hellion of Vagiant. roq roq roq

much love to Hellion

[masterx1918]

that video made my week...

[Eman311]

It was pretty damn sweet.........

it sucks its four months away.all this info and vids are killing me. i think a drought of info for a few weeks would be good

[idiotec]

http://www.gamespot.com/video/0/6175122/videoplayerpop?rgroup=e32007_live

Right on, thanks. That was good one :D

[Nitz13]

http://www.gamespot.com/video/0/6175122/videoplayerpop?rgroup=e32007_live

Awesome! now I can watch it again.
yea, its getting to be a real drag that all this info is coming out and soon well just have to wait patiently 4 months is a quite a while ( and I'm a very impatient guy:D )

[Rock_Starman]

Wonder if he called her? :confused: At least we know Vagiant will be back for a bonus song. FTK was my fav bonus song in GH 2 so I think that's a good thing.

[Eman311]

Wonder if he called her? :confused: At least we know Vagiant will be back for a bonus song. FTK was my fav bonus song in GH 2 so I think that's a good thing.

damn i didnt even realize that............ same chick singing right?

[skyehill]

damn i didnt even realize that............ same chick singing right?


Yes. It's the very same.

[ThePaska]

Wonder if he called her? :confused: At least we know Vagiant will be back for a bonus song. FTK was my fav bonus song in GH 2 so I think that's a good thing.

I didn't even realize that she did FTK, thats cool, although I didn't like that song much, I guess she will be back for bonus songs. Hopefully along with a lot of my favorite bonus bands from GH I and II

[TheTogfather]

Wow. I just finally got to watch the video and just...wow. I cannot think of anything I am looking forward to more than just rocking out to this. Is it sad that this is slated to release right around my 30th birthday and so I'm seriously considering asking my wife for a Rock Band birthday party where we can just play the game all damn night? Yes? No?

I don't really care, I'm gonna do it anyway, just asking...


damn...I could not think of a better demo of this game. Experienced people rocking out, newbie people rocking out, all having a freaking blast...just so awesome...beyond words.

[Brock_Landers]

Just to be a total mysoginist, Harmonix has some pretty wee lasses in their company (sorry Sean, you and your moustache shall always come first though)

and gamespot booing Weezer off for Bon Jovi is rather questionable.. Anyway, "Blaze Of Glory" pwns that JBJ track anyway :P

Paranoid sounds great.. and while I'm still not 100% sold on the player intros (I'd prefer something a little more concert like from the audience perspective, at least for encore songs anyway) they are growing on me.. and I'm glad that they're not the same every time.. that'd wear thin

[sa_nick]

here's a vid of some songs we havn't heard, but it only shows a small chunk of each song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMPh59AEpdM

Awesome vid. Nice to see someone playing the guitar peripheral properly, rather then just lightly taping the button with their thumb. Ya gotta put your whole arm into it ppl!!

*heads over to gamespot*

[masterx1918]

Paranoid sounds great.. and while I'm still not 100% sold on the player intros (I'd prefer something a little more concert like from the audience perspective, at least for encore songs anyway) they are growing on me.. and I'm glad that they're not the same every time.. that'd wear thin
well, for starters the player intro's won't be saying "player 1, player 2 etc.." I think (hope) they'll say your characters name or gamertag.

[TheTogfather]

It'll also go nicely w/ the character customization, giving everyone a good look at your custom character before rocking out, since almost no one actually looks at the characters while rocking, what with scrolling notes and all...

[Brock_Landers]

Yeah, I can understand all that.. I'm not saying it's not cool and all, but I guess I just find it kinda weird to me, like it feels more in place in a 70s TV show or Guy Ritchie film..

I still really want to see each of the members get an intro, but personally, I'd prefer them to be less styalistic (without the freeze frame and colors).

And I realize you can't do this with every track, but with songs that start off one instrument and slowly bring in the band imagine how cool it'd be if it happened just like that onscreen? (whether it be bring people in from off screen, or doing stuff with the stage lights like in a real concert, etc)

I'm in the minority I expect anyway, so hey

[FunkaTrunk]

And I realize you can't do this with every track, but with songs that start off one instrument and slowly bring in the band imagine how cool it'd be if it happened just like that onscreen? (whether it be bring people in from off screen, or doing stuff with the stage lights like in a real concert, etc)


Have the stage all black, and when the drums start, a light on the drummer, and a little cheer ftom the crowd. Bass, or whoever is next hits there first notes, more cheering. When the last person does there thing, the stage erupts in a burst of light and sparks, and the crownd goes bat-s**t-crazy. Then the song starts.

That could be the intro for each setlist, but not for each and every song, that would be a bit much.

[Brock_Landers]

or just for encores.. but yeah.. that's kinda what I'm talking about in regards to tone and feel. Agreed it'd need to be something much shorter for every song though.