Hey Kev,
Congrats on the new baby, you're going to be in my boat with having to bail at a moments notice but everyone here's been understanding of that. I usually can't play until at least 10 est so I'm jealous too. I did get an opportunity to play yesterday during daylight hours, slight improvement to the skill set when I'm not half asleep. Don't know about the inbox thing, haven't had any issues with mine other than messages that are a few days old still come up "new".

hey guys looks like todays dlc is a bust 4 of the 6 songs are curropt and they are working on them . I downloaded "gimmie three steps" just to find out that it will not play locks up the wii etc.. and I am on my way to tampa so no rockband for me untill I get back thursday. Kev i also am 32 just turned yesterday looking forward to playing some sessions with all of you when I get back. I played for a couple hours today man it's fun!! I know I mentioned I work shift work earlier. I am a locomotive engieer , "I drive trains" but if anybody is home from work or whatever look me up, my hours vary drasticly.

Ennis, I usually get off of work around 3pm CST, although I usually check email and such and don't often hop on RB2 until later (when more folks tend to be on) but I can try to make an effort to get on early some days. Indeed on some of those days I said I won't be on, I may be able to get on for a little bit at around 3:30-4:00pm-ish CST.

5ivewire, you looking to get in on the action with the rest of us old (well, ok, mainly just over 30s) folk? If so just post a friend code (you won't get inundated with friend request on your Wii because you and the other person have to already have each others' codes in your system to see each other, so it's not a big deal to post it since you can still be very selective on your own with who to add.) It's not like we've got a committed band or anything, just folks who'd like to jam together whenever they happen to be on and try not to disconnect in the middle of songs and such, like you often get in the pickup bands. Other then that I think we're pretty casual and have no problems with folks playing on whatever difficulty settings they like! If that's a fit for you, just let us know. My FC is right down below if you want to add me.

Kev, I hear you on the when you can play thing. Part of being in that old folks crowd tends to mean limited time to get on, so lots of us will often miss each other, unfortunately. Still I should be on tonight, I hope, so look for me. They are supposed to have added 6 songs, see: http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=117163

"Here's a list of the DLC coming to the Wii on Tuesday Jan 27th.

Smashing Pumpkins - Siva
The Cars - Just What I Needed
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
Oasis - Live Forever
30 Seconds to Mars - Attack

Each track will be 200 Wii Points."

I think I will need to get a few of those. Definitely "Gimme Three Steps" and "Just What I Needed" if nothing else.

As for the blank page thing, I sometimes get that, but I find all I have to do is hit the back button on my browser and it will all pop up just fine. Optionally you could try another browser, if you are on Internet Explorer, for example, you could try Firefox or Opera instead. (I mostly use Opera, just for the lower resource footprint, but I like Firefox quite a bit for functionality and the add-ins.)

Zarlor, it was fun playing with you and Pubknight

The wife kicked me off after a couple hours, sorry I sucked so bad on You Can Go Your Own Way. I like that song, but can't seem to get the hang of it on hard.

I downloaded Just what I needed, it worked fine for me. I like the Cars a lot so I was happy to see it on there. I'm looking forward to No Doubt stuff next.

Yeah, I was upset on You Can Go Your Own Way because if it let us go for just another beat I could have hit overdrive to save you. I wish PubKnight would have let us go one more time on it. No biggie. Next time we need to hop into your band instead. (EDIT: THat's not a knock on PubKnight, BTW, I just meant that in your band you could pick some of the songs you like playing and/or are comfortable with and such.)

I also got Live Forever on the DLC, so I've got a pretty good song list so far. I like doing the DLC stuff when someone makes up set lists. At least we know that, olther than the freebie stuff, it's all songs we probably like well enough.

That was frustrating on Go Your Own Way... I could literally see the fill section coming, and I think after that we would have been fine... sorry I pulled the plug on it, I thought twice was enough.
That's one of the downsides though to having someone drive a band over quickplay... at least with quickplay everyone can take turns picking songs.
(Although, in my defense, that was a Mystery Set List... I didn't pick those songs)

That was fun though, I'm glad I had a chance to play with Kev again.
(And of course Z, it's always a pleasure to play with you)
Earlier, I had just logged on, and Kev had sent me an invite... no warm ups, went in cold... and the last time I played 2 days ago, I played on Breakneck Speed.
So, I proceeded to fail out on Chop Suey twice in about the first 40 seconds of the song. (had never failed it before)
I was glad of the chance to play with him again and redeem myself a bit.

I would have no problem in playing with others bands... it doesn't have to be mine.
In fact, I would prefer to play in others bands at different times, so I don't feel like I"m hogging everything.

I added Larvitar and ennis tonight by the way.

I didn't know on quickplay people can take turns and play different songs. That is pretty cool. I kind of like that. Either way, I wouldn't mind you guys coming and playing in my band. Zarlor, you're already a member of it. :D

I meant to add PubKnight when we were playing together last night but I had t leave, some friends came over. I think I need to try playing just the bass on hard, and stay with medium for the guitar for awhile until I get my rhythm back. I am super rusty. You guys really helped me when i was playing on hard, by getting the overdrives. On one song I totally did a bonehead move, pub had a solo and I was watching him then didn't realized some notes started coming on my side, I had to go into overdrive and hit some notes so I wouldn't fail out.

As for DLC I have
Just what I needed
Snow
Call Me
The 20 free ones
Thinking about getting Margaritaville, that will be a good one for when we have really old people over. :p I guess I'm just trying to hide I like that song too. :cool:

It was fun playing with you guys, I look forward to playing again. I hope they release the AC/DC songs as DLC as well. I want to play Thunderstruck BAD...

I thought of another thing, instead of us just guessing what everyone wants to play, let's lis the songs we really like, then we'll have an idea of what to play when we're all online. I like them all really but I do have my personal favorites.

Beck "E-Pro
Beastie Boys "So Whatcha Want
Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know
Alice in Chains "Man in the Box
Billy Idol "White Wedding Pt. I
Bon Jovi "Livin' on a Prayer"
Disturbed "Down with the Sickness
Duran Duran "Hungry Like the Wolf
Fleetwood Mac "Go Your Own Way-even though I can't play it on hard.
Jimmy Eat World "The Middle-kind of played out
Journey "Anyway You Want It"
Kansas "Carry On Wayward Son
Megadeth "Peace Sells
Modest Mouse "Float On
Norman Greenbaum "Spirit in the Sky
Pearl Jam-Alive
Rise Against "Give it All
Silversun Pickups "Lazy Eye
Smashing Pumpkins "Today
Social Distortion "I Was Wrong
Soundgarden "Spoonman
Steve Miller Band "Rock'n Me
System of a Down "Chop Suey
Survivor "Eye of the Tiger
Let there be rock is cool, but I don't like that break in the song, when he's like let there be light, sound, drums, I get impatient.

I like the ones I've downloaded as well,
Cars-Just what I needed, I'm really tempted to get Boston's More Than a Feeling,
Blonde-Call me is good.
Red Hot Chili Peppers-Snow
I need to look at what else is on DLC

That's a good idea Kev, about the song preferences.
I actually like almost every song in the game, but there are a handful I don't.
The free dlc songs I don't like, I deleted... but there were only about 5 of them... I *really* like the rest of the free dlc songs that I kept.
Other songs I don't like are:
- A Jagged Gorgeous Winter
- Spirit in the Sky
- Rob the Prez-O-Dent
- Ace of Spades
- Visions
- Painkiller
- Battery

And maybe I'm slow and everybody else already knew this:
- if you're in quickplay, or even the 'make a setlist' thing, when you are looking at the full list of songs... I'm sure everyone knows you can sort it different ways. One of the sorting ways is "by location", so it splits up your dlc and your on-disc songs. (the dlc is at the top)
- now, as for what I just realized last night (again, I'm a little slow) is songs that everyone in your current band has as listed in white lettering... where songs that not everyone has are listed in grey. So you don't have to do what I usually do which is continuing to pick songs and getting the message that "You can't play that song until everyone in your band has purchased it". It's easy to tell what dlc matches between everybody.

I found that too, when I first downloaded the DLC, I wanted to play Snow with someone, but no one had it. I hear you about Ace of Spades, I did like that song but the radio station played it way too much.

I didn't now about the sorting thing until you did that last night while we were playing. I'm going to sort mine like that too.