The Old Man Band (Players Over 30)

[Pubknight]

ok... I can definitely play drums again... as long as my wife isn't around to see it =)
I need to take a quick 5 min break about every 30-45 minutes, just to get up and stretch... but it's going surprisingly well.
Fortunately my significant other is going away on Wednesday for work and not coming back until Saturday... so I will be looking to make up for lost time.

And yes, I will be getting all the Rush songs.
All I need now is a bit more of The Who, and the Foo Fighters... and I will be perfectly content until Pearl Jam's "Ten" comes out.
I hope to hells highway that by that time (March) they have the Wii on the same new release schedule as the other consoles.

[zarlor]

Rush! Sweeeeeetttness!!!!!

As for Elvis... it seems they went for more Rock associated with the '70s (more than a few are from the '60s, but get associated more with the '70s, like Pinball Wizard or any of Black Sabbath) moreso than the earlier rock of the '50s or '60s (although GH:WT definitely runs more forays into the '60s, but aiming for the harder rock of The Doors and Jimmi Hendrix, it seems. In that context I think that Elvis doesn't really fit in as much. But it sounded like once HMX goes through more of the modern rock collection that they wanted to branch out eventually, possibly even including Country and such, so early Rock may well fit into that as well. Another possibility might be what is available in seperated tracks. It was pretty standard to record seperate tracks for each instrument starting in the late '60, I think, but I though the practice in the '50 was still more to record as an ensemble. So maybe getting isolated tracks for earlier stuff is just harder to get whcih means more work or even "covering" at least parts of the tunes. I know one of the big complaints with GH especially has been some of their use of covers instead of getting the real artists.

[megatron]

I know one of the big complaints with GH especially has been some of their use of covers instead of getting the real artists.

I didn't even consider "Gimmie All Your Lovin" becasue of that last week.

I think everyone does some form of an Elvis impersonation, me I prefer old/fat Elvis, so I just was thinking it's strange I've never heard his name come up. I'd love to see more Doors or Zeppelin (but with Plant getting over at the Grammy's last night that timeframe probably just got pushed back again) but Elvis still has a huge fan base, I would think his fans would make a push.

Speaking of band-centric titles, I recently looked up the set list for GH: Metallica and I guess I need an explination...Ace of Spades, again? Is there a law that it has to be in every rhythm game ever made? What is this, its 4th appearance? Can we get something else from the Motorhead catalog?

[ennis1437]

YEEEES!!! RUSH!!! I am getting without a doubt YYZ and of coarse Tom Sawyer. Looking forward to rocking some new dlc with you guys!! Sorry about the quick set disconnect the other day PK, Zarlor got booted off and We could not get back on. I had Family just pop in.

[jepjr13]

What's happening? I play solid med Guitar/bass I'm usually on after 8pm EST.
just message me if you add me

[Pubknight]

jepjr13 - what's your 'in-game' name?
I find I've got so many people in my friends list now that I've lost track of who is who.
I'm trying to figure out if I've added you or not already.

[Pubknight]

Hrm.
well... this is kind of a good news/bad news/good news situation.

Good news #1: I've overcome my last two hard song obstacles: Battery and Panic Attack.
I kept trying Panic Attack and was getting frustrated, so I took a shot at Battery and just about 5 starred it.
Went back to Panic Attack and passed it.
So that makes Panic Attack and Ace of Spades 3 star passes.
Everything else is 4 star + on hard.

Bad news: broke my bass pedal in the process.
So for the time being I have it reinforced on top and bottom with hard plastic putty knives... and lots of duct tape.
Not sure how it will work, but hopefully it will make do as a temporary solution until good news #2 comes through

Good news #2: Used this as an excuse to order a Rock Pedal. Hopefully should get here within the next few days.

So I'm going to test out ghetto pedal and see how it performs.
Maybe tackle ESL2 on hard drums tomorrow.

If anyone is around Wed/Thurs/Fri night, I would love to play... especially with a full band.
Would be great to put up a big number on the That's Life band challenge.

[megatron]

PK, I'll be around. I have to stop playing Tiger Woods for a while, I'm 99% sure I've developed tendonitus in my elbow from playing too much over the last few days, true story. You can't do that with an xbox/ps3!

[Pubknight]

ok, just finished ESL2 on hard drums.
going to take a bit of a break, but then I'll be back at it.

wow... that is a freakin endurance test.
Would have like to have done a bit better stars wise... but my concentration just went to crap around the 60 song mark.
Failed Shoulder to the Plow three times, and I had never failed it before.
I failed Panic Attack twice in a row, at 98% complete... and really thought I was going to cry.
Failed Pump it Up when I lost a drumstick across the room during the outro.

Ironically, passed Visions the first time.
And I was tracking my scores using that database thing I've linked in this thread before... and set 31 personal best individual scores.

ok... enough of me using this thread as a blog.

I'm going to have a beer, relax for a minute, and dive back in.

[zarlor]

I just got the BiteArts strum fix today (http://www.bytearts.com/strummer/index.html) thanks to advice from PubKnight. It's making a WORLD of difference for me. I'm much happier doing guitar/bass now. I may even be able to start working on the move to hard! (Or maybe not...) But at least when playing with Friends of the Family I can pick up guitar so you guys can get everyone over there up and running when I free up the vocals.

As for Tiger Woods, I just haven't been playing it lately, but yeah that's the nicest thing about the Wii are games like that. It sucks for such small memory, not-so-hot graphics, smaller processor, etc., but nobody else is working out motion controls, so they are the only game in town on that front, and when games utilize it right it hugely improves the whole gameplay experience. Plus it makes for a great party gaming machine when all is said and done.

If anyone was missing me, I've been a bit busy, but I should be on some tonight, but then I probably won't be on again until Sunday. The closer we get to Mardi Gras the less you'll likely see of me, too.