Post by eric_1963 on Sept 8, 2009 17:52:41 GMT -5
See if you can spot the differences between these two articles.. these are the objections we need to overcome to get these and other bands into Rock band.
Source From Metro.co.Uk site
www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/music/article.html?Beatlemania_to_strike_again&in_article_id=733265&in_page_id=25
Beatlemania to strike again
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Millions of fans across the world will tomorrow be hearing those old familiar songs like never before, as remastered versions go on sale.
A special boxset containing 14 albums remastered in stereo is tipped to top the charts, promising both everything you need and satisfaction guaranteed – albeit with a £170 price tag.
The work lasted a long and winding four years at the Abbey Road studios.
And after conquering all-comers on record, on stage and even on the silver screen, the act we've known and loved for all these years are now muscling in on 21st-century computer gaming.
Record company Apple Corps, founded by The Beatles, is counting on a whole new generation of fans to enjoy the show, as the computer game The Beatles: Rock Band reunites the foursome, restoring Lennon and Harrison to animated life.
Sir Paul McCartney, three years after finally turning 64, has admitted not playing the game – preferring to pick up his Höfner bass instead.
Yet both he and Ringo Starr, also 67, helped animators with details such as Harrison's frown and Lennon's eyelids.
The music video game genre came in for criticism from ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman and Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, though.
Wyman, 72, said that music simulation games 'make fewer people dedicated to really get down and learn an instrument'.
Mason, 65, said: 'It irritates me having watched my kids do it.
'If they spent as much time practising the guitar as learning how to press the buttons, they'd be damn good by now.'
Source:
Article from Digital Spy:
www.digitalspy.com/gaming/a176450/wyman-mason-unsure-about-rock-band.html
Wyman, Mason 'unsure about Rock Band'
Tuesday, September 8 2009, 1:38pm EDT
By Andrew Laughlin, Technology Reporter
Wyman, Mason 'unsure about Rock Band'
Rock stars Bill Wyman and Nick Mason have expressed concern that games such as Rock Band could stop young people from learning to play musical instruments, reports BBC News.
The Beatles: Rock Band will be released tomorrow on Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3, with Sir Paul McCartney recently saying that John Lennon and George Harrison would "have seen the point" of the game.
However, former Rolling Stones bassist Wyman claimed that the "trouble" with playing music simulation titles is that it "encourages kids not to learn".
"It makes less and less people dedicated to really get down and learn an instrument," he said. "I think it is a pity so I'm not really keen on that kind of stuff."
Despite describing the games as "interesting new developments", Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason agreed that they take up valuable time which could be spent learning an actual instrument.
"It irritates me having watched my kids do it - if they spent as much time practising the guitar as learning how to press the buttons they'd be damn good by now," he explained.
However, Mason also said that Pink Floyd would not rule out making their music available on either Rock Band or Guitar Hero in the future.
He added: "I think we'd consider it. I think everyone's looking at new ways of selling the music because the business of selling records has almost disappeared.
"I'm of the old guard who are really sad about that, because I always liked the concept of the album - rather than just cherry-picking tracks - and also the business of the artwork that went with it."
Alex Rigopulos, co-founder of Rock Band developer Harmonix, denied that the series has had a negative effect on the number of people learning musical instruments.
"Most people try to learn an instrument at some point in their lives, and almost all of them quit after a few months or a year or two. This, I think, is because the earliest years of learning an instrument are the least gratifying," he said.
"When people play Rock Band, however, they very quickly get a glimpse of the rewards that lie on the other side of the wall. We're constantly hearing from fans who were inspired by Rock Band to start studying a real instrument."
Source From Metro.co.Uk site
www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/music/article.html?Beatlemania_to_strike_again&in_article_id=733265&in_page_id=25
Beatlemania to strike again
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Millions of fans across the world will tomorrow be hearing those old familiar songs like never before, as remastered versions go on sale.
A special boxset containing 14 albums remastered in stereo is tipped to top the charts, promising both everything you need and satisfaction guaranteed – albeit with a £170 price tag.
The work lasted a long and winding four years at the Abbey Road studios.
And after conquering all-comers on record, on stage and even on the silver screen, the act we've known and loved for all these years are now muscling in on 21st-century computer gaming.
Record company Apple Corps, founded by The Beatles, is counting on a whole new generation of fans to enjoy the show, as the computer game The Beatles: Rock Band reunites the foursome, restoring Lennon and Harrison to animated life.
Sir Paul McCartney, three years after finally turning 64, has admitted not playing the game – preferring to pick up his Höfner bass instead.
Yet both he and Ringo Starr, also 67, helped animators with details such as Harrison's frown and Lennon's eyelids.
The music video game genre came in for criticism from ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman and Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, though.
Wyman, 72, said that music simulation games 'make fewer people dedicated to really get down and learn an instrument'.
Mason, 65, said: 'It irritates me having watched my kids do it.
'If they spent as much time practising the guitar as learning how to press the buttons, they'd be damn good by now.'
Source:
Article from Digital Spy:
www.digitalspy.com/gaming/a176450/wyman-mason-unsure-about-rock-band.html
Wyman, Mason 'unsure about Rock Band'
Tuesday, September 8 2009, 1:38pm EDT
By Andrew Laughlin, Technology Reporter
Wyman, Mason 'unsure about Rock Band'
Rock stars Bill Wyman and Nick Mason have expressed concern that games such as Rock Band could stop young people from learning to play musical instruments, reports BBC News.
The Beatles: Rock Band will be released tomorrow on Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3, with Sir Paul McCartney recently saying that John Lennon and George Harrison would "have seen the point" of the game.
However, former Rolling Stones bassist Wyman claimed that the "trouble" with playing music simulation titles is that it "encourages kids not to learn".
"It makes less and less people dedicated to really get down and learn an instrument," he said. "I think it is a pity so I'm not really keen on that kind of stuff."
Despite describing the games as "interesting new developments", Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason agreed that they take up valuable time which could be spent learning an actual instrument.
"It irritates me having watched my kids do it - if they spent as much time practising the guitar as learning how to press the buttons they'd be damn good by now," he explained.
However, Mason also said that Pink Floyd would not rule out making their music available on either Rock Band or Guitar Hero in the future.
He added: "I think we'd consider it. I think everyone's looking at new ways of selling the music because the business of selling records has almost disappeared.
"I'm of the old guard who are really sad about that, because I always liked the concept of the album - rather than just cherry-picking tracks - and also the business of the artwork that went with it."
Alex Rigopulos, co-founder of Rock Band developer Harmonix, denied that the series has had a negative effect on the number of people learning musical instruments.
"Most people try to learn an instrument at some point in their lives, and almost all of them quit after a few months or a year or two. This, I think, is because the earliest years of learning an instrument are the least gratifying," he said.
"When people play Rock Band, however, they very quickly get a glimpse of the rewards that lie on the other side of the wall. We're constantly hearing from fans who were inspired by Rock Band to start studying a real instrument."
