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Guitar Hero teaches kids about rock history

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Guitar_Hero_III.jpgAfter almost a week of having DNS problems (my new broadband service provider sucks as much as the last one), I’ve finally been able to access the internet again.

While I was on my forced exile from cyberspace, I busied myself doing other things — I catched up on some reading, attended to some important matters for a couple of business ventures I recently started and cleaned up the house. But temptation has a way of sneaking up on you when you least expect it. And temptation came in the way of Guitar Hero III.

Guitar Hero III is the newest sequel to the massively popular rhythm game that brings your rock star dreams to life. I won’t elaborate on the game mechanics anymore because I’m pretty sure most of you guys know it anyway.  What I will say though is that the Guitar Hero series is providing a great service for budding rock fans and music fanatics. I find it both sad and infuriating to see so called “rock” kids only reference bands that are no more than five years old. Any band that can be traced for more than ten years are unfamiliar to these people anymore. For a music fan that is an unforgiveable oversight. One can only really appreciate music in all its forms if there is an openness to listen to different genres in different time periods and a desire to really find out the history of rock. It makes for a more satisfying music experience. That’s why I really like the fact that the Guitar Hero games feature bands that the average music listener won’t even know about. Besides, any game that can reference Foghat is cool as cool can be in my book.

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4 Responses to “Guitar Hero teaches kids about rock history”

  1. Shinji Says:

    I still think that Guitar Hero II is hands down the best among the four in the series. Rock the 80’s was god awful. At least they made it right with Guitar Hero III!

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  4. Emily Says:

    Craig MacGregor from FOGHAT’s son has a band called Comic Book Heroes - they’re awesome and on Radio Disney’s Next Big Thing! They play guitar hero! lol..

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