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It is amazing that air-guitar has become accepted these last few years. You can even find Guitar Hero "gear" in regular catalogs like Guitar Center. I am awful at this game yet I play and teach guitar. My fingers just cannot relearn songs I already know how to play. However, I am grateful for Guitar Hero in keeping heavy metal alive for the newer generations. Thanks guys...

Where have you been???? Good to see you back!

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I hate Guitar Hero just because I hate video games.

I don't know if guitar hero makes kids interested in playing guitar...It may keep kids interested in Metallica/Ozzy music, but what about LEARNING AN INSTRUMENT? I don't know about that.

NicDots wrote:I hate Guitar Hero just because I hate video games.

I don't know if guitar hero makes kids interested in playing guitar...It may keep kids interested in Metallica/Ozzy music, but what about LEARNING AN INSTRUMENT? I don't know about that.

I was against Guitar hero. Afterall for the same price you can buy cheap strat copy or nylon acoustic.

However the amount of kids that have begun bringing in tabs by Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Ozzy etc etc has staggered me.... Kids that were only interested in Sum 41, Blink 182 before too.

Matt

As I said in another thread, I think it's silly to have a video game about playing guitar rather than actually learning to play. A video game about jumping a motorcycle upside down is one thing (if I actually tried to do that I'd be dead rather soon) but playing a game about playing an instrument is silly. Why not play a game about watching TV rather than actually watching TV? It'd accomplish the same thing.

As for kids 'finding' the classics such as Zeppelin or Aerosmith, each generation should have there own music. I'm tired of 14-year-old kids being obsessed with what I listened to when I was 14. Live in the moment, kids, not in the past. While I like Glenn Miller's Orchestra (ala my dad), I listened to my own stuff when I was a teen. Today's teens should do the same - trust me on this 'cause I'm always right

Paul Wolfe wrote:Why not play a game about watching TV rather than actually watching TV? It'd accomplish the same thing.

LMAO, very true

im not too keen on guitar hero myself for most of the reasons stated above, but if im playing it with good friends its ok for a laugh.

i recently had an all day guitar jam at a friends house, but not everyone there could play guitar, so having guitar hero let everyone get involved in a way.

P.S. if you want to piss off guitar hero players, get a real axe and play a sick solo over the top of the song they're playing, then tell them in a badass zakk wylde voice, "stick that up your ass!" and strut out the room like you own it.

Rob

Paul Wolfe wrote:As I said in another thread, I think it's silly to have a video game about playing guitar rather than actually learning to play. A video game about jumping a motorcycle upside down is one thing (if I actually tried to do that I'd be dead rather soon) but playing a game about playing an instrument is silly. Why not play a game about watching TV rather than actually watching TV? It'd accomplish the same thing.

As for kids 'finding' the classics such as Zeppelin or Aerosmith, each generation should have there own music. I'm tired of 14-year-old kids being obsessed with what I listened to when I was 14. Live in the moment, kids, not in the past. While I like Glenn Miller's Orchestra (ala my dad), I listened to my own stuff when I was a teen. Today's teens should do the same - trust me on this 'cause I'm always right

Hmmm my tongue is sore from biting it

Matt

ps on a serious note I think each generation should listen to all generations of music as well as their own.

When people have said to me "The Doors??? that is a bit before your time" I have always replied "so is John Dowland (16th century) but that doesn't stop me loving it!

Matt

Paul Wolfe wrote:playing a game about playing an instrument is silly. Why not play a game about watching TV rather than actually watching TV? It'd accomplish the same thing.

that's one of the funniest/best things I've heard you say

Paul Wolfe wrote: While I like Glenn Miller's Orchestra (ala my dad), I listened to my own stuff when I was a teen. Today's teens should do the same - trust me on this 'cause I'm always right

But history is important and we should all look back now and then in the hope that we don’t make the same mistakes.

Many of the great inventers did not wholly come up with entire ideas on their own but built on past achievements to give us something new and interesting.

Actually, there was this one guy i knew who was the smuggest of smug when it came to guitar hero, 100% note streaks he boasted etc.

Then i gave him a real guitar and said "play this" and he gave a puzzled look.

Simon

shanic wrote:

Paul Wolfe wrote: While I like Glenn Miller's Orchestra (ala my dad), I listened to my own stuff when I was a teen. Today's teens should do the same - trust me on this 'cause I'm always right

But history is important and we should all look back now and then in the hope that we don’t make the same mistakes.

Many of the great inventers did not wholly come up with entire ideas on their own but built on past achievements to give us something new and interesting.

Oh I agree, history is VERY important. I think it's important for today's music fans exploring music of previous eras, BUT they should also be interested in their own era. Guitar Hero is a phenomenon and and that's fine, I just think kids today should be focused on today and not yesterday.

My daughter likes the Dresden Dolls and their song War Pigs, I prefer the Black Sabbath version of that song, but I think it's great that she likes a band from her generation who happens to be covering a song by a band from my generation... I played the original and she hated it, by the way.

Paul Wolfe wrote:

shanic wrote:

Paul Wolfe wrote: While I like Glenn Miller's Orchestra (ala my dad), I listened to my own stuff when I was a teen. Today's teens should do the same - trust me on this 'cause I'm always right

But history is important and we should all look back now and then in the hope that we don’t make the same mistakes.

Many of the great inventers did not wholly come up with entire ideas on their own but built on past achievements to give us something new and interesting.

Oh I agree, history is VERY important. I think it's important for today's music fans exploring music of previous eras, BUT they should also be interested in their own era. Guitar Hero is a phenomenon and and that's fine, I just think kids today should be focused on today and not yesterday.

My daughter likes the Dresden Dolls and their song War Pigs, I prefer the Black Sabbath version of that song, but I think it's great that she likes a band from her generation who happens to be covering a song by a band from my generation... I played the original and she hated it, by the way.

The many kids I have spoken to about Guitar Hero are already into the music of today. Guitar Hero has added another dimension so they appreciate music of yesterday.

Matt

Paul Wolfe wrote:

shanic wrote:

Paul Wolfe wrote: While I like Glenn Miller's Orchestra (ala my dad), I listened to my own stuff when I was a teen. Today's teens should do the same - trust me on this 'cause I'm always right

But history is important and we should all look back now and then in the hope that we don’t make the same mistakes.

Many of the great inventers did not wholly come up with entire ideas on their own but built on past achievements to give us something new and interesting.

Oh I agree, history is VERY important. I think it's important for today's music fans exploring music of previous eras, BUT they should also be interested in their own era. Guitar Hero is a phenomenon and and that's fine, I just think kids today should be focused on today and not yesterday.

My daughter likes the Dresden Dolls and their song War Pigs, I prefer the Black Sabbath version of that song, but I think it's great that she likes a band from her generation who happens to be covering a song by a band from my generation... I played the original and she hated it, by the way.

The Dresden Dolls?? ick...