Loading ...Stuff You Should Own: Guitar Hero World Tour
I’m not sure I can remember a time when my overall productivity has been so low. I’m still working off my Christmas hangover and in less than 18 hours I’ll be half in the bag, watching a ball drop, trying to get laid at 12:05am, and then waking up to a day of bowl games while overeating. Until then I’m only putting in a 3 day work week, and even so it’s with general malaise. This was the perfect storm for the mid-week get together I had in The Mantuary last night!
A few of my buddies came over and we tested out the Christmas present I got from the hen, Guitar Hero World Tour. I’m not proud of this statement, but the 5 hours I spent rocking out to songs like ”No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn” by The Beastie Boys and ”Stranglehold” by Ted Nugent might just be the most productive thing that comes out of me all week.
I’ve never played the drums, and minus the 6 weeks of piano lessons I was forced to take as a kid, I never even touched a musical instrument growing up. I have to admit that I spent most of my life judging rock stars and questioning their edgy lifestyle consisting of a general disregard for social norms. That all changed last night when I picked up a pair of drum sticks for the first time and within 15 minutes was banging away thinking I was the next John Bonham. For the first time in my life I got a taste of what being a rock star is all about (sans the raging crowds and horny groupies).
Guitar Hero World Tour can give the Average Joe a pretty good taste of what being a Rock Star is like. It may just be the coolest game ever created. It provides a music playing experience that is extremely addicting and an absolute full-throttle blast, all without a single piano lesson from an overbearing teacher that smells like peppermint and moth balls.
And while I’m a long way away from playing the greatest drum solo EVER…
…I was pretty damn close to Rock Star status when I was priming the group for “The Middle” by Jimmy Eat World. Like Bonham often does before a Zeppelin song, I gave it the ol’ 1-2-3 by smacking the drum sticks above my head. I must have had some beer muscles working for me because one of my drumsticks snapped in two and ricocheted off the TV. I finished the song with a wooden spoon I nabbed from the kitchen, but it just wasn’t the same.
Today I’m working off an AS Ratio of about 3, but I can’t wait to stop by a music store on my way home from work because I’m ringing in the Gregorian calendar new year (stay tuned for the official Mantuarian New Year) with a brand new pair of Zildjians.
Long Live Rock And Roll!
Be A Man.
- The Founding Father
(a.k.a “Thick”, skins-banger extraordinaire in the band “Fumunda”, Wii gaming system)
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Did anyone else notice that chick in the yellow in the back……GOOD GOD, I wanna bang on her drums..Actually, its off to the Mantuary to strum my own guitar!!!