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That bitch doesn't need to buy compressed air (what with all her pshing) by Fussbett 11/28/2007, 1:33pm PST
I like that Rock Band is coming out just as Guitar Hero has gained mainstream acceptance and the digs of "why don't you learn a real guitar?" are dying out (except from South Park). Let's keep the fretting alive! Here's another article concerned about today's youth:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/27/DDGNTHTE7.DTL

But something still seems fundamentally wrong when you pick up the video games, which both require that you press an ever-changing sequence of colored buttons to simulate playing the guitar and bass. (Rock Band also has a microphone for karaoke and a small drum kit.) What kid will ever want to pick up a real guitar, when learning to play a fake one is so easy? If Rock Band had been available in the late 1980s, would we even have a Green Day - or just three more no-name slackers killing a lot of time in their parents' basement?

This explains our current dearth of soldiers, race car drivers and athletes. Will rock and roll suffer the same fate?!
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Sleater-Kinney's guitarist reviews Rock Band on Slate by Fortinbras 11/28/2007, 1:44am PST NEW
    Sleater-Kinney on Slate!? Kinney resist telling you to form a real band? by Ray of Light 11/28/2007, 3:22am PST NEW
        That bitch doesn't need to buy compressed air (what with all her pshing) by Fussbett 11/28/2007, 1:33pm PST NEW
            Re: That bitch doesn't need to buy compressed air (what with all her pshing) by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 11/28/2007, 2:23pm PST NEW
            Re: That bitch doesn't need to buy compressed air (what with all her pshing) by motherfuckerfoodeater 11/28/2007, 4:11pm PST NEW
                I wonder if Rock Band will make it more or less glorious. by Fullofkittens 11/28/2007, 4:17pm PST NEW
                    Re: I wonder if Rock Band will make it more or less glorious. by motherfuckerfoodeater 11/28/2007, 9:05pm PST NEW
                        Re: I wonder if Rock Band will make it more or less glorious. by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 11/29/2007, 1:43am PST NEW
                            We were waiting for another name drop here :( NT by Pearl Jam 11/29/2007, 9:49am PST NEW
                                Never heard of them next. NT by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 11/30/2007, 1:28am PST NEW
                You don't have to learn an instrument to play Rock Band either, though NT by Fortinbras 11/28/2007, 4:22pm PST NEW
    That's not a link. >:O by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 11/28/2007, 1:07pm PST NEW
        now THIS is a link by Ray of Light 11/28/2007, 2:16pm PST NEW
            YOU BROKE THIS FORUM NT by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 11/28/2007, 2:18pm PST NEW
    Sleater-Kinney song available as DLC next week by Fussbett 09/19/2008, 7:41pm PDT NEW
    Sleater-Kinney's guitarist pretends that she loved Rock Band all along by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 09/07/2009, 12:16pm PDT NEW
        typical female behavior when confronting the existence of video games by Weyoun Voidbringer 09/07/2009, 5:48pm PDT NEW
        Re: Sleater-Kinney's guitarist pretends that she loved Rock Band all along by H1N1 09/12/2009, 12:18pm PDT NEW
    Sleater-Kinney etc etc by Arbit 09/07/2009, 2:53pm PDT NEW
        What if they picked up a keyboard and tried to post on an internet forum? NT by Jerry Whorebach 09/07/2009, 3:06pm PDT NEW
    never heard of this band but they sound gay and have a terrible name NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 09/07/2009, 5:35pm PDT NEW
 
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