Pissed about Rockband

Rockband… It’s a game.  Admittedly a fun game when you are with a bunch of friends and fantastic adult beverages are involved.  However Rockband is getting too much hype.

Recently, a contest was done for an Aerosmith concert where you could submit a video of yourself playing Rockband with the winner getting the opening slot for their concert… Playing rockband.  There is also a contest going on from pepsi and MTV that will allow you to win a moonman for the best video playing rockband.

Frankly… This is bullshit.

There are plenty of real musicians out there that are far more deserving of getting these opportunities than a bunch of game geek douchebags that have no real talent.  No one actually wants to sit in an amphitheater and watch some pimply faced teenagers play a fucking video game on stage when they paid money for a ticket to see real musicians play.  Furthermore, can someone please tell me how playing a video game makes you good enough for a VMA?  There has also been a trend of Rockband nights at bars and clubs that are taking gigs away from legitimate musicians in much the same way that Karaoke and DJ’s have done in the past.

This really is a sad trend.  When this game first came out, I thought it would be a fantastic way for people to maybe bridge in to playing a real guitar, bass, or drums, or maybe even make a move into really learning music.  More often than not that doesn’t seem to be the case.  Now with the Corporate Machine pushing rockband down the public’s throat like it’s Britney Spears, it seems that we will stuck with no talent jack holes taking the spotlight from real musicians… Kinda like Britney…

~ by strangek on July 5, 2009.