But seriously, anyone who lived in the dorms had to deal with that dude who was in a hurry to let the whole university know he played guitar.  He'd take up a position in a leafy medium-traffic area outside the dorm in September (but within sight of a high traffic pathway), play there two or three times, then retreat to his room after he realized nobody cared. 

 

I usually cranked up my amp's distortion in my room and practiced Iron Maiden and Helloween songs four hours a day. Does that count?

Not with the ladies, no.

Bah, they're all sick of those sensitive acoustic guys, the ones that learn all the same Sublime, Dave Matthews and O.A.R. songs. The girls caught on a few years back and realized those guys are only playing to get laid.

I just saw the South Park episode about Guitar Hero last night...good stuff.  Can't wait until Heroin Hero comes out...it should be all the rage endlessly chasing that dragon.  :laugh:

 

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/409518  Click "Play This Game."

 

It's kind of funny that not a whole lot of bands/musicians wanted to be on Guitar Hero I, but once they realized what a success the game was, everyone's trying to get a track on it.

 

I agree that maybe GH will encourage more people to learn guitar.  But I really think that guitars (and pretty much all musical equipment) are becoming even more available in mainstream places and are very affordable.  When I started playing in the mid-90's, stores like Wal-Mart and K-mart didn't have Gibson acoustic starter kits for $69.99.

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Rather than introduce a new thread, I thought I'd put this here. If I didn't know Klosterman wrote this, I'd have sworn it was jmeck.

 

http://www.esquire.com/features/chuck-klostermans-america/klosterman1207

 

I read through it not realizing you could click on the clips.  Steely Dan?  He loses all credibility.  Actually I've read about this guy previously but haven't read anything he's written until now.  I've written a few music reviews for my various school newspapers.  Key to attracting letters to the editor is to attack The Beatles and/or Pink Floyd, which I did in my infamous Beach Boys "Smile" review, from which I learned an important lesson.  That is don't write about drugs you haven't personally done.

 

Speaking of which, from the greatest record of the rock era:

 

Seriously, imagine being a parent in the 1960's and you start hearing this coming from your kid's record player!

 

 

I'm not going to attempt a Steely Dan defense, but it should be noted that he is identifying particular elements he likes, in this case the backing vocals of Michael McDonald. And I think he's right. Of course, I've got "I Keep Forgetting" as my ring tone right now.

Ahem, Steely Dan effin' rules, and I felt that way when I was 20.

 

Don't make me tell my Kid Rock/"Peg" story...

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Oh yeah sorry well you know I meant Steely Dan is really cool guys.  Oh wait -- I'm not 14 anymore and so don't just agree with the group.  Oh wait, I was never like that anyway. 

 

Because everybody knows 14 year-olds are ALL about Steely Dan.

 

Seriously, just about every serious (and not so serious) musician I know has great respect for Steely Dan. Donald Fagan and Walter Becker were bringing levels of musicianship to the table the likes pop music had never seen, but more important--and unlike most studio jazz dorks--they were bringing top notch pop sensibilities, too.

 

Even their most commercially successful album--Aja--is a triumph of chops and taste. Tell me the Wayne Shorter sax solo and Steve Gadd drums on the title track aren't pure sex. One take, sex, I might add.

 

My Kid Rock/Peg story? Okay. In 1995 one of my roomates was friends with Kid Rock (Bob Richie), and at one of our many infamous house parties, Bob and his "crew" turned up with turntables. He plugged into the PA (we had a house band) and proceeded to spin records all night. NOT a bad DJ, this Kid Rock. At one point, he cued up (Steely Dan's) "Peg," and instead of cross mixing it with something--or god forbid RAP--he just let it play all the way through, the dancefloor furiously digging it. I asked him later why he didn't mix it up. He just said, "It was already perfect."

 

About the worst thing I've ever heard a musician say about Steely Dan was that they inadvertantly left the door open for smooth jazz, and for that, perhaps, you are justified in your hatred.

Smooth jazz is a pox on our nation and culture. It's the single most insidious form of music ever introduced.

 

If people ask me what sort of music I listen to, I used to say, pretty much anything but country. Now, I say, pretty much anything except death metal and smooth jazz.

 

It's interesting to me that, jmeck, you call in to question the Steely Dan reference, but say nothing of Kelly Clarkson. Am I to infer then that you are a fan?

 

For the record, I like Steely Dan, Michael McDonald, and I think "Since U Been Gone" is a fine pop song. Remember when that came out and it was every indie band's ironic favorite? Ted Leo does a fine cover.

Kelly Clarkson?  Not a fan.  My Kid Rock story?  I've been to the same strip club in Nashville where he allegedly went up and punched the DJ.  I heard the DJ was making fun of Rock by continuously playing his songs but I might have the story wrong.  The DJ got something like $100,000 in the settlement. 

 

I used to think Carrie Underwood was halfway tolerable, but not until seeing this video:

 

About a minute into it I noticed something was wrong (aside from the wussiness of her band).  It took me another to figure it out -- she's strutting around stage with the mic stand, but not the base!  Maybe if it was okay and the band decided spontaneously to play this song and she at some point spontaneously decided to strut around like Axl Rose but we are talking popular music in 2007 so nothing happens by chance.  Probably her people feared she'd slip a disc if she tried to carry that 6lb. base around. 

 

Smooth jazz is a pox on our nation and culture. It's the single most insidious form of music ever introduced.

 

If people ask me what sort of music I listen to, I used to say, pretty much anything but country. Now, I say, pretty much anything except death metal and smooth jazz.

 

Sooo...not a big fan of Miles Davis then huh?

About a minute into it I noticed something was wrong (aside from the wussiness of her band).  It took me another to figure it out -- she's strutting around stage with the mic stand, but not the base!

 

It's the little things in life...

The entire gesture is an impotent one with out the mic stand base.  Like an exclamation point without the point. 

 

I hope you were making some kind of joke about Miles Davis and smooth jazz.  The Easy Mo Bee era was a difficult one, but otherwise Miles Davis is the very definition of what smooth jazz isn't. 

Smooth jazz is a pox on our nation and culture. It's the single most insidious form of music ever introduced.

 

If people ask me what sort of music I listen to, I used to say, pretty much anything but country. Now, I say, pretty much anything except death metal and smooth jazz.

 

Sooo...not a big fan of Miles Davis then huh?

 

Miles Davis?  Smooth jazz?

^Well cool jazz technically, but I lump the two together.  Miles' early days of bebop would be the antithesis, but wouldn't you consider "cool jazz" and "smooth jazz" to be of the same variety?

Smooth jazz is a pox on our nation and culture. It's the single most insidious form of music ever introduced.

 

If people ask me what sort of music I listen to, I used to say, pretty much anything but country. Now, I say, pretty much anything except death metal and smooth jazz.

 

Sooo...not a big fan of Miles Davis then huh?

 

Uh, Davis was a purveyor of bebop, then cool jazz, then modal, then fusion. Never smooth.

 

But as it happens, I'm not much of a Miles Davis fan. I think it probably has to do with his attitude and with the enormous status afforded Kind of Blue, which is the favorite jazz record of people who own one jazz record. The other reason I dislike him is that he gets credit as being a tremendous trumpeter when really his main talent was putting together a great band and self-promotion.  He flubs notes all the time.

 

One of my favorite stories about Davis is when he was first starting out, he was in on a session with Diz and Bird. Diz was playing piano and Davis was on trumpet. Can't recall the song at the moment, but Miles couldn't get his part down, so finally Gillespie had to get up from the piano, fill in on trumpet when necessary, and sit back down at the piano. Sure, Davis was like 18 years old at the time, but I still get a kick out of it.

 

Cool jazz was partly reaction against the feverish tempo of bebop, which was purposely made difficult to play to separate skilled from the unskilled. It came about in the late 40s.

 

Smooth jazz was made in the depths of hell in the 1970s for reasons known only to Lucifer.

Smooth jazz was made in the depths of hell in the 1970s for reasons known only to Lucifer.

 

I see now...and that is an interesting story about Miles, Dizzy, and THE Bird.

so, guitar hero?

^Well, all this talk about Miles Davis might be enough to bring back the "Heroin Hero" joke from the previous page.

^I believe if we got into John Coltrane then it would do the trick.  No junk, no soul.

^Pretty much every musician of the age and beyond:

 

http://www.nndb.com/lists/354/000083105/

FWIW, Coltrane was clean during the last decade of his short life, his most creatively productive period—putting lie to that ridiculous no junk, no soul nonsense.

Smooth jazz was made in the depths of hell in the 1970s for reasons known only to Lucifer.

 

Interesting fact:  After the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was taken over by radical students in 1979 they pumped that place full of smooth jazz sounds for the entire 444 days of confinement.  And they call us the Great Satan!

FWIW, Coltrane was clean during the last decade of his short life, his most creatively productive period—putting lie to that ridiculous no junk, no soul nonsense.

 

NO JUNK...NO SOUL!!!

 

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Wow, apparently this is old news, but it bears repeating:

 

 

DATE: April 1, 2007

SOURCE: Sunday Times Gloss Magazine

 

An article, entitled "Talking Tommy," appeared in the April 1 edition of the Sunday Times' Gloss Magazine, where it profiles fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger. In the article, the reporter asked Hilfiger about his fistfight with Axl Rose at a NYC nightclub last year, and he responded with a new version of what happened that night. Here's an excerpt from the article:

 

.....So does he ever worry what a "very chic client" might think about him beating up certain red haired rock stars? Hilfiger smiles.

 

"You wanna know what really happened?" He leans forward. "I'll tell you. I was sitting in a club with my brother Andy and Lenny Kravitz and a very beautiful woman. Axl came in and became belligerent."

 

Rose, he says, tried to squeeze in and push past him in order to get the woman's attention. Hilfiger claims that when he became "protective", Rose took the woman's drink and slammed it on the table. "I said Excuse me, that was really rude ," says Hilfiger. "And he said F**k you." Hilfiger grins. "And I said Well, f**k you ." Then Axl said, "I'm gonna show you who I am". "He pulled his fist back, and he had this big ring on," says Hilfiger. "And I thought If this guy hits me, I'm gonna lose my teeth. So I lunged out of my seat and I went BOOM!"

 

Hilfiger jumps out of his seat and punches the air. "And I hit him in the eye, and then," Hilfiger laughs, "he got crazy! He totally lost control, and my bodyguard stepped in and his bodyguard stepped in, and the bodyguards got into a fight. Finally, my bodyguard said We're getting out of here, and he picked me up and carried me out of the club."

 

Rose's version is that Hilfiger hit him after he moved the woman's drink so as not to spill it as he sat down. Either way, Rose became another in a series of people who've made the grave mistake of underestimating him. "I think he thought This faggy designer is not gonna give me any trouble ," says Hilfiger. "So, you know," he smiles and shrugs. "Now he knows otherwise."

 

 

His bodyguard picked him up and carried him out of the club?  What is he, Whitney Houston?

 

 

 

ha good one. let's just say he's more whitney than not.

 

i live right across the street from that club. it's called the plumm. for many years it used to be nell's of rocky horror picture show fame. people were snickering about that little incident for awhile.

 

funny the discussion here has been about steely dan and miles because they have a lot in common. those guys were the biggest blowhounds. music to play when you are hanging out with tony montana.

 

Sandy Claws brought the kids. Been watching them play it non-stop for a week now. In fact, i am watching crash and burn on a song by some power metal band called Dragonforce.

 

Here's something I truly believe is a statement that has never been made in the history of man. There is a part on the game where you can challenge the various computer guitar players, including Slash. My son challenged him. He came into the kitchen where I was cooking and said, "Dad, Dad! I just challenged Sals hand bet him... So I bought him."

 

Never. Been. Said.

 

Speaking of Slash....

 

pd:

 

Velvet Revolver's Slash: On gigs, GNR and Guitar Hero III

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Brent Johnson

Newhouse News Service

 

Slash has made a fine living off playing a real guitar. But how does he fare with a fake one?

 

Like millions of others, he got hooked on Guitar Hero.

 

"I got addicted enough to the point where I actually beat the game," the Velvet Revolver and ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist says of the six-string computer-game simulation. "But I beat the game on Medium -- I didn't make it to Expert."

 

more at www.plaindealer.com

I was at my cousin's 4th birthday party last night and in the basement the kids were all entranced by Guitar Hero.  But here's the twist -- in that very same basement were my uncle's 3 electric guitars. The kids were unsettled by my ability to actually play the songs on a real guitar but quickly shrugged it off and zoned back in.  And they didn't believe me when I said I just figured them out by listening to them, they were sure I was lying.   

 

 

 

 

 

what 4yr old has the patience for a foghat song, other than maybe a riff here and a beat there? can you hear me knocking? it'd be cookies & nappy time long before that endless boomer rawk dinosaur was over.   :laugh: 

I'm telling you, for some reason they liked "Slow Ride" the most, followed by "School's Out" and "Cherub Rock".   Ages ranged from 2 up to about 14.  And there were some young ladies in the house. 

 

Pizza. Mountain Dew. Guitar Hero. This experience served to confirm my suspicions that future generations will be culturally impotent.  There, I just channeled Andy Warhol, and he added that the future will increasingly prefer immitations to the real thing.

 

Even Blow didn't have the patience for the entire jam section, cutting off two or three minutes:

 

Look at how slogging the Guitar Hero version is, the Mick Jagger imitator is pathetic, the censored lyrics, the timid snare drum ghosting; this version lacks all the sleaze and sexiness and edge of the original, and that's where Rock & Roll draws its power:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty3eR_b3mPg

 

Become A Real Guitar Hero

Addicted to music video games? Maybe it's time to put down the toys and pick up the real thing.

By Ben Silverman

ADVERTISEMENT

 

  Between Activision's powerhouse Guitar Hero franchise and MTV's upstart Rock Band, millions of couch potatoes have been turned on to the power of rock n' roll gaming. Unfortunately, the button-mashing skills that serve them so well at home don't translate to success with a real instrument at a club.

 

But as more and more gamers are playing to the beat, the demand for software that will actually teach them how to play for real is on the rise -- literally.

 

On display in a packed booth at the recent Game Developer's Conference, Guitar Rising takes the basic concept of Guitar Hero -- players strum along to popular songs for points -- and turns it into a legitimate teaching tool by exchanging plastic game peripherals for bona fide wood and steel guitars.

 

 

Watch Guitar Hero III Videos

Best of all, there's no need to make room for yet another piece of bulky hardware: Using a small USB converter similar to the kind employed by everyday living room musicians, Guitar Rising can be played with any electric guitar. Simply plug a standard electric guitar cable into one end and plug the USB out into any USB port on your PC to be up and rocking.

 

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How to become a real Guitar Hero:

Develop your inner critic. Unlike Guitar Hero, when you're practicing in real life nobody's going to boo you when you make a mistake.

Practice, practice, practice. Every day. Put the plastic guitar out of reach, and every time you have the Guitar Hero itch, reach for your real axe instead.

It's gonna hurt. Sorry, but it is. You're going to need to develop callouses on your fingers and train a whole lot of left-hand strength. Steel strings are a lot harder to push down than plastic buttons.

Consider lessons. It sounds like a cop-out, but a good teacher will stop inexperience turning into bad habits that'll dog you for ever.

Check out the Guitar Hero Songbook, from Hal Leonard. It contains notes and tab for all your favorite Guitar Hero 1 and 2 songs, and you'll find it in any good music store.

 

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[cont. from above]

 

 

Obviously, using a real instrument introduces some new problems. Real guitars have six strings and over 20 frets, making things much more complicated than just pressing 'Red' and flicking a strum bar. Since it's primarily a teaching tool, Guitar Rising uses a color-coded version of classic guitar tablature that should look instantly familiar to both guitarists and gamers alike. If you're playing through a song correctly, you're effectively sight-reading.

 

Exactly which songs will you be able to play? That's still up in the air, but according to Guitar Rising developer Gametank, licensing hasn't been particularly problematic. (Considering how well artists included in Rock Band and Guitar Hero have fared, that's hardly surprising.) And since the game converts your guitar signal into USB form, there's reason to believe it might actually make its way to USB-equipped home consoles like the Xbox 360 and PS3, although currently it's due only on the PC later this year.

 

More information can be found at guitarrising.com

 

^I watched a bunch of my co-workers play that Rock Band game and I have to say it was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen a group of adult men in the mid to late twenties do.

Let's bring this beat back:

 

CNN:

Jimi Hendrix featured in 'Guitar Hero' video game

 

Story Highlights

It's the first time Hendrix's likeness will be showcased in the video game

An avatar of Hendrix as well as the song "The Wind Cries Mary" will be on the game

Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose in 1970

 

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jimi Hendrix is coming to "Guitar Hero."

 

The Seattle-based company Experience Hendrix, which controls the rock icon's musical legacy, is providing Hendrix's music and likeness for the latest "Guitar Hero" video game, Aaron Grant, a spokesman for publisher and developer Activision and Red Octane, told The Associated Press on Thursday.

 

 

 

Find this article at:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/18/hendrix.video.game.ap/index.html

 

 

Oh yeah sorry well you know I meant Steely Dan is really cool guys.  Oh wait -- I'm not 14 anymore and so don't just agree with the group.  Oh wait, I was never like that anyway. 

 

Because everybody knows 14 year-olds are ALL about Steely Dan.

 

Seriously, just about every serious (and not so serious) musician I know has great respect for Steely Dan. Donald Fagan and Walter Becker were bringing levels of musicianship to the table the likes pop music had never seen, but more important--and unlike most studio jazz dorks--they were bringing top notch pop sensibilities, too.

 

Even their most commercially successful album--Aja--is a triumph of chops and taste. Tell me the Wayne Shorter sax solo and Steve Gadd drums on the title track aren't pure sex. One take, sex, I might add.

 

My Kid Rock/Peg story? Okay. In 1995 one of my roomates was friends with Kid Rock (Bob Richie), and at one of our many infamous house parties, Bob and his "crew" turned up with turntables. He plugged into the PA (we had a house band) and proceeded to spin records all night. NOT a bad DJ, this Kid Rock. At one point, he cued up (Steely Dan's) "Peg," and instead of cross mixing it with something--or god forbid RAP--he just let it play all the way through, the dancefloor furiously digging it. I asked him later why he didn't mix it up. He just said, "It was already perfect."

 

About the worst thing I've ever heard a musician say about Steely Dan was that they inadvertantly left the door open for smooth jazz, and for that, perhaps, you are justified in your hatred.

 

Greatest post ever.

 

The making of "Peg".

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Sweet SG, and SG style bass!  But I see some digital multieffects pedals there.  I thought that was a strick no-no!

wow. i cannot believe you have a hammond b3!

 

i gotta know....does it have that cool whirling tonewheel or whatever its called? that's very distinctive.

 

i love the sound, but i just cannot imagine ever having to haul that monster to a gig.

 

i was lucky enough to see the legendary hank marr play it in columbus. i love those hammond b3 guys like marr, jimmy smith & jimmy mcgriff. all gods of the hammond. i used to grab all their music, i still have some. more recently i saw scott healy of conan o'brien's max weinberg 7 band play the b3 at bb kings and he aint no slouch either.

 

 

I don't own it, the bass player owns it.  The thing that is really surprising about it, if you've never played one, is first that the keys feel really cheap, and second that there is no reverb control whatsoever.  So any reverb you're hearing on records is added later or it's a symptom of mic placement.  In a live setting there will always be some natural reverb, no matter how bad the room. It's strange because all of the Hammond clone organs out there (like the Roland VK's) all have built-in reverb.  Since the practice space is in the basement of a doctor's office, I can't just go over and practice any time I want aside from it being pretty far away from where I live. 

 

 

>does it have that cool whirling tonewheel or whatever its called?

 

Yeah, you can see it in the pictures.  It's funny because it has one of those really thin electrical chords running to the wall socket that are illegal now and the actual connection with the organ is pretty primitive as well.  There's just a little motor and a thin belt that rotate the speaker, but when it's on the faster setting it pushes enough air to blow your hair a little. 

 

>But I see some digital multieffects pedals there.

 

They're not mine.  I used to have one effects pedal but I now have nothing except the foot switch to my amp.  I have a really ferocious 60W Marshall tube amp but I can get a lot of different sounds out of it on the clean channel just from the different pickups and tone knobs on the guitar.  Also, as is the case with high quality amps, you get totally different and useful sounds from different volume and gain settings on the amp.  My amp also has really useful EQ and reverb, as well as the mysterious and totally useless Presence knob. 

 

Conan's band is way better than Letterman's or Leno's band.  They always sound good but I don't think those other bands almost ever sound good.  If Conan moves to LA I wonder if his band will too?  I remember going on the NBC studios tour in 1995 and we went to Conan's studio and nobody on the tour including me knew who he was.  The girl leading the tour pointed at Max Weinberg's drums under a tarp and nobody knew who he was either. 

back on topic......

Guitar Hero: World Tour, Full Setlist Released

As stoked as I am, I'm hoping there's still a slew of unlockable songs not to mention some other things. Lesser known across the web is the fact that early copies shipped to partners with a bunch of songs premade in the song editor. Namely a lot of classical tunes converted into parts for guitar and such. I have absolutely no problem jamming to "Fur Elise" and I don't suppose you do either. Here's to hoping an entire host of such material makes it to the final disc. Also, needs more Dragonforce. Maybe another Endless Sporadic song as well.

 

Oh, right. I almost forgot. Those of you hating on La Bamba, I highly suggest you listen to the outro and suck it up. Because it's going to be awesome.

 

    * 311 - “Beautiful Disaster”

    * 30 Seconds To Mars - “The Kill”

    * Airbourne - “Too Much Too Young”

    * The Allman Brothers Band - “Ramblin' Man”

    * Anouk - “Good God”

    * The Answer - “Never Too Late”

    * At The Drive-In - “One Armed Scissor”

    * Beastie Boys - “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”

    * Beatsteaks - “Hail to the Freaks”

    * Billy Idol - “Rebel Yell”

    * Black Label Society - “Stillborn”

    * Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - “Weapon of Choice”

    * blink-182 - “Dammit”

    * Blondie - “One Way or Another”

    * Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - “Hollywood Nights”

    * Bon Jovi - “Livin’ On A Prayer”

    * Bullet For My Valentine - “Scream Aim Fire”

    * Coldplay - “Shiver”

    * Creedence Clearwater Revival - “Up Around The Bend”

    * The Cult - “Love Removal Machine”

    * Dinosaur Jr. - “Feel The Pain”

    * The Doors - “Love Me Two Times”

    * Dream Theater - “Pull Me Under”

    * The Eagles - “Hotel California”

    * The Enemy - “Aggro”

    * Filter - “Hey Man, Nice Shot”

    * Fleetwood Mac - “Go Your Own Way”

    * Foo Fighters - “Everlong”

    * The Guess Who - “American Woman”

    * Hush Puppies - “You're Gonna Say Yeah!”

    * Interpol - “Obstacle 1”

    * Jane's Addiction - “Mountain Song”

    * Jimi Hendrix - “Purple Haze (Live)”

    * Jimi Hendrix - “The Wind Cries Mary”

    * Jimmy Eat World - “The Middle”

    * Joe Satriani - “Satch Boogie”

    * Kent - “Vinternoll2”

    * Korn - “Freak On A Leash”

    * Lacuna Coil - “Our Truth”

    * Lenny Kravitz - “Are You Gonna Go My Way”

    * Linkin Park - “What I've Done”

    * The Living End - “Prisoner of Society”

    * Los Lobos - “La Bamba”

    * Lost Prophets - “Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)”

    * Lynyrd Skynyrd - “Sweet Home Alabama (Live)”

    * Mars Volta - “L'Via L'Viaquez”

    * MC5’s Wayne Kramer - “Kick Out The Jams”

    * Metallica - “Trapped Under Ice”

    * Michael Jackson - “Beat It”

    * Modest Mouse - “Float On”

    * Motörhead - “Overkill”

    * Muse - “Assassin”

    * Negramaro - “Nuvole e Lenzuola”

    * Nirvana - “About a Girl (Unplugged)”

    * No Doubt - “Spiderwebs”

    * NOFX - “Soul Doubt”

    * Oasis - “Some Might Say”

    * Ozzy Osbourne - “Crazy Train”

    * Ozzy Osbourne - “Mr. Crowley”

    * Paramore - “Misery Business”

    * Pat Benatar - “Heartbreaker”

    * R.E.M. - “The One I Love”

    * Radio Futura - “Escuela De Calor”

    * Rise Against - “Re-Education Through Labor”

    * Sex Pistols - “Pretty Vacant”

    * Silversun Pickups - “Lazy Eye”

    * Smashing Pumpkins - “Today”

    * Steely Dan - “Do It Again”

    * Steve Miller Band - “The Joker”

    * Sting - “Demolition Man (Live)”

    * The Stone Roses - “Love Spreads”

    * Stuck In The Sound - “Toy Boy”

    * Sublime - “Santeria”

    * Survivor - “Eye of the Tiger”

    * System of a Down - “B.Y.O.B.”

    * Ted Nugent - “Stranglehold”

    * Ted Nugent’s Original Guitar Duel Recording

    * Tokio Hotel - “Monsoon”

    * Tool - “Parabola”

    * Tool - “Schism”

    * Tool - “Vicarious”

    * Trust - “Antisocial”

    * Van Halen - “Hot For Teacher”

    * Willie Nelson - “On The Road Again”

    * Wings - “Band on the Run”

    * Zakk Wylde’s Original Guitar Duel Recording

 

From a press release.

 

 

 

 

http://www.giantrealm.com/gaming/guitar-hero-world-tour-full-setlist-released-

Wow, MC5.  But I'm sure it'll be a rerecorded version that sucks. 

 

That Jane's Addiction song is another great one that's fairly obscure but would have loved Ocean instead, which I'm fairly sure was the first song I learned on guitar. 

ooo... "Love Removal Machine"... one of my favourite The Cult songs...

 

 

nice Hammond, jmeck

Ultimate Donny of Gil Mantera's Party Dream is selling his old guitar on Ebay:

 

Hey y'​alls,​ I'm selli​ng my beaut​iful 1992 Les Paul Class​ic MIII that yins have seen me play on tour sever​al times​.​ It's one bad MF of a guita​r and very prett​y to boot.​ Here'​s the catch​.​

 

There​'​s an effin​g bulle​t lodge​d in the back of it from when my car got shot up in Young​stown​,​ OH. This is not a load of bulls​hit.​ This is absol​utely​ true and can be confi​rmed by many here in town.​

 

Anywa​y,​ how many guita​rs does one need?​ After​ the recen​t acqui​sitio​n of my new Ampeg​ Dan Armst​rong,​ I decid​ed that it was time to give back.​.​.​ and make a littl​e dough​ in the proce​ss.​

 

If you want to own this piece​ of histo​rical​ beaut​y and have one hell of a sweet​ guita​r,​ go to the eBay listi​ng:​

 

Les Paul listi​ng on eBay

 

Have a good time.​

 

Donny​

 

 

 

 

Let's see one of those plastic Guitar Hero controllers stop a bullet!