Why no video of a Lam Jam on Rock Band? C'mon, lets see how it is done!

Siouxperman

@dangerousNS:
My post was less in response to you, and more in reply to the entire idea that these musical games are "gay". I play guitar (in real life, even) and a bunch of my guitar playing friends give me crap about GH and the like. I saw that on here there were people saying similar things like "Learn real guitar".

Funny thing is, I bet a lot of kids will want to learn real guitar after playing these games. I think these games will be a real gateway into music for a bunch of people, which is the company's ultimate goal (aside from getting really rich).

I also play baseball and football, and also enjoy those video games.

erichg14

It's really pathetic to hate Rock Band instruments because you can play the real thing. This game rocks; drums are awesome; guitar could have been a bit more challenging.

ProsumeThis

Best thing about the drums in the 30 seconds I've played with them is that the actual pads feel like a practice pad called 'real feel' and makes it very comfortable to drum on.

The best sticks I've ever used for pads like that have been vic firth Terry Bozzio series sticks.

[www.vicfirth.com]

They should be available at your local music store. But try looking for jazz drummer sticks as well, they have smaller 'heads' on them and make for very easy drumming when trying to get around those things.

Biscuitcleaver

@daimyo nintendo: Lighten up, Francis.

EricRoberts

@ SCHRUTEBUCK I agree with you 100% this shit is going to collect dust and a few years, its a fucking fad that I am not going to be a part of.

I have a Wii and I have over 50 games for it now, fun games, not a game where I am looking at lines and dots waiting to get the timing right. You think I am going to play rock band when I can play manhunt 2 or mario galaxy, HA.

Again, I will keep arguing that all this stuff is crap. A guitar is fine, but guitars, microphone, drums, why not a fucking blowup doll (inflatable groupie included!) If you like music so much buy real fucking instruments, at least you proclaim that you play REAL music with REAL instrument. "Yea I play drums, but only on rock band." People will laugh. "Oh instruments are expensive" boo hoo you penniless shit turd, if you can spend the money on this you can save up for the real shit. If I am going to play a video game its going to be a great game, not a fucking sim of real life, that goes for these shit ass music games and sports games (excluding race cars.) I know A guy who is buying PS3 only for FIFA, I am sure he will buy other games but to purchase a PS3 for a sports game..fuck sports they suck, wake me up when you're done. Same goes for rock band, of course this will sell because everyone is addicted to music, it dictates our lives. And you know what I am going to say I am better then you becuase I can play drums, guitar, bass, saxophone, piano, and violin, and guess what, all using real instruments. Guitar hero fine, dueling guitars is fun, but this game is too much. People are hyped up on hype, people want it becuase they will look cool, its the thing to buy and own, that is all that rock band has going for it. Yes I really want to play a video game constantly showing lines and dots on the screen and I have to time it right, yes that is exactly what I want to watch while playing a video game. Mind numbingly dull (regardless of how many beers you have cracked bud.) I say fuck this game.

Daimyo Nintendo

@poisonfist: That might be the single best thing about the GH series. Before GHII there wasn't a game I could sit down and play with my girlfriend, now she's started actually beating me head to head. Maybe I'm alone on this, but there are few things hotter than when a girl genuinely beats you at a videogame. Now if I could just get her to start playing halo...

Gann

So I picked up rock band last night...and I have to say, the reviews posted here were DEAD on. The single player on guitar is nowhere near as much fun as the GH2 version...the lack of encores and making the crowd noise really go insane etc really holds it back.

That having been said, the drum kit, even on single player, is absolutely amazing. I love it - great time...and the game really does shine when you hook up the hub, get 3 other people together, crack open a case of beer, and go to town. Nothing like hearing my wife screech out "dead or alive" after a few.

And to the flamers...what's worse: people who enjoy a good game that happens to involve instruments, or people who spend time posting about how lame they think it is? Seriously, you're taking the time to post that? Can we say loser?

mbren28568

@Brian Lam:

SMASHIE BYE BYE *musical note*

decerbo

@erichg14: & @huygir:

I'm reading gizmodo on a Wednesday at 10am. I obviously don't think of myself as having a "killer social life." I never insulted the "rhythm" games for not being enough like real life either. I merely said I don't like these games - I just don't enjoy playing them. They are too slow paced and I prefer faster paced games. For example, I like playing sports games, racing games, and shooting games. These games also imitate real life, but I find them to be faster paced and less repetitive. Some might find the rhythm games to be really fast paced and not at all repetitive, but I don't.

So you can say I'm flaming, but I never insulted anyone or anything just to annoy anyone. I am here as part of the voice of people who just don't like these games. We find them to be lame, and we find the people who like these games to be lame. + South Park is sick.

dangerousNS

I've never understood this argument. You never hear football players saying "Madden 08? Go play real football, FAGS!"

erichg14

@dangerousNS: That's just flaming for the purpose of flaming... IDIOT. Why bother? Since you obviously feel you have more of a "life" than those of us who still enjoy playtime - go live it.

huygir

I'm not an angry person, but I honestly don't like any of these "rhythm" games - DDR, Guitar Hero, Rock Band...

South Park said it best - "Fags"

dangerousNS

Uhhh ... you know what's really pathetic ? I'm getting this for Christmas and my old band from when I was in high school are coming over to play it (and watch some football) on New Year's Weekend. We're all 35 - 36.

Now THAT is pathetic. But it does go to show how appealing these games are.

elvindeath

That's a lot of frelling cables...

Also, what the hell is on that plate on the table? Cookies?

...

I like cookeis!

Jeff the Riffer

@Brian Lam: We need video of this session. One word of advice: _codpiece_.

nat lyon

for the record, you can play two guitars AND drums without using the usb hub. just plug one of the devices in the back near the ethernet port. worked great for me.

arsenal4

Playing guitar and bass is one of my hobbies. When I was a youngster used to play in a jazz band (which name was The Ataris.. nothing to say about the members 'geekness').

As someone said, playing this videogame is just a different thing. There are professional tennis players who play with Virtua Tennis. The same applies to soccer games or driving games. Why on earth wouldn't a musician get fun with this toy?

MACPollo

I love Rock Band. All the instruments are fun to play including the mic.

Krutch

@Brian Lam: Well you do a damn good job. It makes me laugh.

Trowble

I don't know about you guys, but 3 out of the 4 friends of mine with Rock Band have had their guitar strummers fail on them. It seems like a pretty common problem online too.

SonicFury

I've been playing the guitar (classical and steel string) for 18 yrs, the flute (yes an f'in flute) for 26yrs and the Japanese traditional Taiko drums for 17yrs and I must say that playing these games are fun in a totally different dimension. I enjoy playing the Guitar Hero with my wife who is usually pretty conservative. Being very classically trained in music (Piano) and the love of Opera, I first had doubts that she would enjoy GH but she immediately got hooked to the game. If it weren't for GH, she would never ever play a Playstation game with me. I also have played Taiko drums professionally and yet, the Taiko drum games in arcades in Japan are truly fun to play. It doesn't replicate the actual playing of the instruments but has its own challenge (which I sometimes feel that playing the actual instrument is easier). This is why I think it's a moot point to tell people to go pick up an actual instrument.

poisonfist

@Trowble: Dry humor.

Brian Lam

Brian why do you look so uninspired in all of your pictures? You're a rockstar baby! And you have all of the toy instruments to prove it!

Trowble

Hey the rest of you, if you see a post that says I'm MIA tomorrow, don't believe it, and start dragging the East River.

BENNY THE INTERN

"I'd like a headset so that I can be like Cher" ... Wow Blam, that explains ... well, everything.

BENNY THE INTERN

Note - Kotaku just posted that the GHIII guitar doesn't work with Rock Band for the PS3. Which sucks.

Pegleg Joe

@JohnnyTee:

Not only is that totally awesome, it also solved a completely different and unrelated problem I was facing! Thanks!

espire

@gadgetchic: can't help but agree, video games are for fun and leisure... at long as someone doesn't have an unhealthy obsession with a game then it's fine......

and the game is fun, i felt like a kid during xmas morning.... ripped the box apart and turned up the volume to the max

again game = fun

Solidsky

why does everyone keep saying "oh y dont u juss play reel instrumentz lulz?" omg its a fucking game, i like to play GTA should i get a gun and rob cars? video games are supposed to be fun, an escape from the real world. get over yourselves.

gadgetchic

@Brian Lam: Brian, do you know "A Whiter Shade of Pale"? I mean, as a musical number? Looks like you skipped the light fandango, and the light UVA/B, too.
Awww, crap. I'm now banned and you're still sexier than me.

scarbrtj

@espire: Cool that you should mention that because I found a Piano Hero game (of course it's been renamed since then thanks to a C&D from Activision). It's still a work in progress, but looks promising. As for Rock Band, I totally can't wait to play.

JohnnyTee

@Brian Lam: Thank you, everybody stop being so serious. I've made an ass of myself playing guitar hero, rock band should provide an excellent vehicle for further embarrassment.

SchruteBuck

Heh. I'm a guitar player and I don't think it's "uncool" or "looser" to play some Guitar Hero.

Logic fails. Guitar Hero is about having fun with friends... much like DDR, or other rhythm games.

Would be the same as going to a Battlefield game article and shouting something like "GO JOIN THE ARMY AND SHOOT SOME PEOPLE YOU GIANT LOSER".

Also: most people who have grudges against music games are failed musicians... right or not?

Anyways, I need Brian's job! Give it to me Brian? Pretty please?
How else will I justify buying those? Or look cool to non-gamers while having those on my living room?

I bet Brian always says stuff like "It's a living..." or "I only buy this stuff because I have to write them articles" to his non-gamer friends. XD

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

As a drummer of 23 years, I give this game 2 BIG mutha truckin thumbs up! It is way cooler than I previously thought it would be, and justifies to friends and family why an adult playing video games doesn't = loser. The drum pads could use a bit more bounce to them, but that's just splitting hairs.
@ DAVEZATZ You can plug the drumset directly in to the 360. No need for the hub if there's only 1 or 2 peoples.

GratefulSpleen

Does it come with both those guitars? From what I've been reading it only comes with one guitar, the drums, and a microphone.

ElChupaCabra

@SchruteBuck: i agree! i have played bass for around 10 years and finally played guitar hero thinking " i play bass this should be fun ", then i realized that i was just playing Parapa the Rappa with a real funky controller. now that rock band is out i just know we are goin to have to deal with people that think that their gaming Rock Band is a real "Rock Band" which is worse than pathetic. all that being said though i plan on buying it for pure entertainment value when i convince my wife to let me buy that one blu-ray player that lets you play games on it also.

rainsfather

@SchruteBuck: I was kidding! It was funny. Video of idiots coming tomorrow.

Brian Lam

Lam-
Time to water them plants...

remmingtonshowdown

I think that first photo is from Brian Lam's second album, "Out On A Lam" released just after "Lamslide".

Hard to find on vinyl.

strider_mt2k

@SchruteBuck: It's just a game......don't make such a big deal out of it. Not everyone wants to spend months or years trying to learn how to play real instruments.

I do happen to play real guitar and real bass, and a little bit of drum, and I think the drum set on rock band really comes mighty close to the real electric drum if you ignore the fact that there's no cymbals and hi-hat. Might even be good practice for hands and feet (for bass drum) coordination, but if you're really serious about it, you'll want a real one anyways.

solgae1784

@espire: OMG IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!!ALL I KNO HOW TO PLAY IS AURA LEE(srry to much candy)

Simpsons-Movie-ruled

@Brian Lam: This joke was better when I thought you weren't kidding.

@SchruteBuck: For fuck's sake, you think it's pitiful that a bunch of people would get together and play the same video game at the same time? Take a long walk off a short pier.

Sqube

I play keys, and though Rock Band's instruments are not nearly as sophisticated as their real-life counterparts, I'm sure I'd have great fun playing this.

I'm still waiting for Piano Hero, though :P

espire

@Brian Lam: No, I'm sorry. That wasn't directed at you but the quartet of GIANT LOSER MORONS THAT WOULD LOOK SO FREAKING STUPID PLAYING FAKE INSTRUMENTS IN A ROOM TOGETHER. Man, sorry again. I'm just tired from all the Guitar hero.

SchruteBuck

If I have no friends, can I hook the drum kit right into the Xbox without messing with the USB hub? By the way, Rambo wants his camo back. ;)

davezatz

yesterday I realized tha I suck trying to play any instrument, and all thanks to rock band.

The FYE on Jersey Gardens Mall had a huge stock of this game both for ps3 and 360.

Jeremias

@SchruteBuck: See [www.ctrlaltdel-online.com]

Spyrojoe

Kidding!

Brian Lam

@SchruteBuck: You're right. I know how to play the banhammer, that's about it. She makes a sweet and melancholy smashing noise.

Brian Lam

Um... You can use the 360 headset mic to sing through, I believe.

chinesedentist

Again...that halo 3 mask is just looking on silently in the background... watching...waiting...

Rob C

Uhem. Ladies and gentlemen, SchruteBuck:

LEARN HOW TO PLAY A REAL INSTRUMENT YOU GIANT LOSER.

Thank you and good night.

SchruteBuck

This reminds me of the days when my gf would make me play Drummania (japanese original with just the drums) under threat of death.

Ypoknons

@Simpsons-Movie-ruled: Hey! me too!! XD

miguelon918

@Daimyo Nintendo: Uh can't wait for this kind of controller frenzy for specific games like SEXY BEACH. :D

Palestina

@Daimyo Nintendo: Ahh... you ain't playing Manhunt on a Wii my friend. And if you have 50 Wii games you must be a 5 year old girl, bacause about 40 of them have to be High School Musical / Petz / Disney Princess type games.

As for me, I play real games (like Mass Effect, Jericho, Elder Scrolls, Call of Duty 4, etc.) and I got Rock Band Wednesday and had my neighbors over last night, and we had one hell of a time. Yes, drinking was involved, because we are all over 21.

But it's about the most fun I have had with a party game ever. I played the drums, and they are extremely cool, and one hell of a work out (6 hours straight and you get some leg cramps from the kick). I kind of doubt we would have had the same good time with Mario Party 8.

Now go get some juice for your sippy cup and go back to playing your Mario Galaxy.

OldSchoolGadgetLover

I can play instruments better than on GH3 but GH3 lets me have a whole band complete with an electric guitar for me.

Emmm wait. This is Rock Band.

ninjatales

@strider_mt2k: I was thinking the same thing! It totally looks like an album cover c1995 post grunge Seattle. Brian, can you please email me a higher res photo of you on the couch so I can frame it above my couch? I will then take a picture of me on my couch, in that same pose with all my Rock Band gear, as you look on disapprovingly in the photo. Please make this wish come true.

Totally serious,
Ata

ata

@Solidsky: Totally agreed. I sped home and tore through what seemed like hundreds of boxes, cranked the volume and proceeded to drum, sing and strum my day away. Then I went to a buddy's house and did the same to my night. This game rocks.

drewsef

Brian, if this is your apartment, I am so glad to see that you are both a TiVo and Mac user (judging from the Series3, AirPort Extreme, and BlackMac) Kudos.

csjk789