Posts Tagged ‘The Who’

Destructoid put up a post earlier this morning about a survey sent out from NPD, a global provider of market research data, about people’s feelings towards an artist-specific music game.  As you can see above, they actually called out a number artists for Rock Band that we’ve already heard rumors about: Pink Floyd, Queen, The Who, and U2. There have also been rumors lately of Guitar Hero titles featuring the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but what I find interesting is that the survey specifically mentions “This game will only contain music created from the specified artist.” While Harmonix has been taking this approach with both the Beatles and Green Day, Guitar Hero’s Aerosmith, Metallica, and Van Halen titles have had a healthy smattering of other artists. If the Red Hot Chili Peppers rumor turns out to be true, is Guitar Hero again reading from Harmonix’s play book and only having a single on-disc artist?

While I know a lot of people are against the idea of single-artist discs, I think a few of them are still good ideas. I think a Led Zeppelin game would sell very well. I also think a U2 game well sell equally well, although I may be biased because I’m a big U2 fan.

I could be way off, though. What do you guys think? Add some artists in the comments from above and any others that you can think of that you would purchase if they made an artist-specific game.

The fine folks at Fender have got an auction that I highly recommend some of you should get in on.  Fender is auctioning off two different Mad Catz Fender Stratocaster Replica Rock Band Guitars (Xbox 360) for charity… and BOTH are signed by Roger Daltrey of The Who!  Bidding starts at the retail price for each of these bad boys at $300, so this is one for the die hard Rock Band and The Who fans.

There are two separate auctions, so go here for the first one, and here for the second one.  Bidding ends on Febuary 10th.  Both items appear to be identical models with the sunburst finish signed by Mr. Daltrey.  The auctions support Teenage Cancer Trust, a leading UK charity which funds and develops specialist teenage cancer units within hospitals which enable young people to be treated together, by an expert team, in the best possible environment for their age group. Teenage Cancer Trust focuses on quality of life and aims to improve the chances of survival for young people with cancer.

In addition, Mad Catz has pledged to donate 15% of all proceeds from the sale of its Rock Band Wireless Wooden Fender Stratocaster Guitar Controllers for Xbox 360® through its online UK and US retail destinations: store.gameshark.net (UK) & store.gameshark.com (US) between now and Feb. 10.

Take it from me.  I just bought one of these (unsigned, obviously), and it is a DREAM to play on.  It’s basically a real Fender guitar made of wood and metal finishings (actually made at the Fender factory), except it’s a Rock Band controller.  I liked it so much, I bought two… except I don’t know what to do with the spare one… (tease, tease)

[via Fender]

Looks like the rumors were true. Official word coming out of Harmonix today is that The Who’s “Super Bowl S-Mashup” will come to Rock Band as DLC immediately following the Super Bowl XLIV Halftime Show performance.

Sounds like the track will be ready for the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii, but you PS3 players will have to wait a little bit before it’s available (assuming next Thursday).

The track will be priced at $1.99 (160 MS Points).

Ever since I heard the announcement that The Who were playing the half time show at the Super Bowl, I was wondering if Rock Band would be trying to leverage the appearance, based on their history with the band, as well as some on-again, off-again rumors of a The Who: Rock Band.

Well it looks like eagle eyed RockBand.com forum goer b70x7n was able to not only find a commercial teaser on VH1 Classic today of some post Super Bowl DLC, but was also cool enough to grab a few screen grabs from the commercial and post them.

No details yet on what the songs may be (could be the medley that Pete Townshend was talking about for all we know), but as soon as I find out additional details, you’ll know where to find them!

[Thanks to @toymachinesh for the heads up!]

Just caught wind of this posting over at HMV.com, the large UK music/video/game retailer, for a listing of The Who: Rock Band (look quick, I’m sure it’ll be pulled down quickly down already, but you can still see it in the search bar if you type in any combo of who, rock, and band).  No release date, but it’s listed as Coming Soon.  Not sure what they know that many of us do not, but to be this brazen to put an item listing up for an as yet unconfirmed item is pretty shocking.  I mean, we already know that Roger Daltrey has been talking about it, but are we going to see this soon?  My gut is telling me that this will be similar to the AC/DC Live pack, especially considering The Who tracks that have already been released, as opposed to a more Beatles: Rock Band approach.

UPDATE: Received quick word back from John Drake in PR at Harmonix to the question “Was this just inadvertently confirmed.”  His response: “Nope.”

What say you? Are we going to be seeing The Who: Rock Band… and possibly fairly soon?

According to The Who’s lead singer Roger Daltrey, this is in the works:

Q:The Beatles are the latest band to be featured in a video game, “The Beatles: Rock Band.”

A:The game, yeah, yeah, they’re going to be doing a Who one next year. There is one planned. (The idea) is fabulous. Anything that gets non-musical people interested in music is wonderful. In my opinion, music is our last true great freedom. They can burn our books, they can burn our paintings, but they can’t stop us singing and making music.

I think The Beatles: Rock Band was a great idea. I believe they were one of the only bands with both an engaging, storied, and near legendary background, as well as have a robust enough catalog to fill an entire game with memorable, quality songs.  There have been rumors of Queen, U2, and Green Day-specific Rock Band games, and I don’t want to see Rock Band echo what has happened with the Guitar Hero franchise (see IGN’s brutal review of GH:Van Halen here).

Thoughts?

[Masslive.com]