Good for those guys playing Soothsayer so well but, Jesus, shorts and sneakers are just not rock wear.
As for Guitar Hero. I had never played before and I took a trip down to New Orleans to meet my girl's family, one of whom was her 8-year-old nephew. The kid begged me to play the game and I finally acquiesced. It was doubly hard for me, though, being lefty, because I had the thing upside and backwards and had to remember the buttons were in reverse order from the colors appearing on the screen. That kid whipped my butt over and over again until I finally figured it out. I can't remember which song we did where I finally beat him, it may have been "One" by Metallica or "School's Out", but after him rubbing it in relentlessly how bad I was, I turned to him and said "Yeah! How you like me now?" :icon_biggrin:
I think these musical games, even that don't represent real instruments in a way they're actually played, are valuable. Here was a young black kid from New Orleans who really didn't know or care about "white people" music like Kiss, Metallica, etc. before Guitar Hero, but there he was rocking out to it and loving it. It broadened his appreciation for music by exposing him to genres that weren't readily available to him. He's also an incredibly gifted "real" musician, in addition to playing Guitar Hero; he's great on drums and is learning the guitar like a prodigy.
