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Owel, typical Christmas eve, lots of food, went to the Choir Christmas performance/Christmas mass at 1030pm, got home by midnight to open presents, then turned in. Actual Christmas day, went to the usual NJ thing. Alas, A was not there, so that was kinda disappointing. Interesting though, R, well I guess its B now. I still think of him as R, but a lot of people call him B. I think he goes by B now. But I digress. I didn't know he was one of the programmers for Frontlines: Fuel of War. That's cool. Anyways, he brought Rock Band and his 360. Actually,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sparkyboy got it for the ps2 (I didn't know it was available on the ps2). But he only got the game, as he couldn't find the bundle this close to X-mas. He had a mike already, he figured he'd get the instruments later.
Anyhoo, I digress yet again. Getting back to Rock Band on the 360, tried that out instead of the usual karaoking. Though I think the old folks felt it was too loud. After all, it was "Rock Band" so all the songs were prolly too rocking for them. It was cool to be able to play it with a group, though one of the guitars wasn't working so the songs were sans bass. Obviously, the vocals were the easiest for me to do, and I did both Boston's "Foreplay/Long Time" and "Wanted: Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi. The former is a little ridiculous since the Foreplay part is a couple of minutes for the drums and guitar before the voices even kick in. Played the drums when doing "Don't Fear the Reaper" with B on the guitar and his wife on vocals. I still kinda suck at it, but not enough to fail a song.
Heh, and I realize why I thought I totally sucked at Guitar Hero. Now, I've never formally played it at anyone's house, only the demos at stores. So I had no idea how to play it, I figured it was just pressing the right colored button at the right time. I didn't realize you had to press both the right button and the strum bar. I was wondering why I'd think I was hitting it at the right time and it not registering. Well now I know. (And knowing is half the battle!) Did the guitar for Hole's "Celebrity Skin" with B on drums andsparkyboy singing vocals. I'm still subpar, but like with the drums, not enough to fail. All in all, it was fun to play. I guess once me brudder gets some instruments, can play it a little more before vacation ends.
Owel, typical Christmas eve, lots of food, went to the Choir Christmas performance/Christmas mass at 1030pm, got home by midnight to open presents, then turned in. Actual Christmas day, went to the usual NJ thing. Alas, A was not there, so that was kinda disappointing. Interesting though, R, well I guess its B now. I still think of him as R, but a lot of people call him B. I think he goes by B now. But I digress. I didn't know he was one of the programmers for Frontlines: Fuel of War. That's cool. Anyways, he brought Rock Band and his 360. Actually,
sparkyboy got it for the ps2 (I didn't know it was available on the ps2). But he only got the game, as he couldn't find the bundle this close to X-mas. He had a mike already, he figured he'd get the instruments later.Anyhoo, I digress yet again. Getting back to Rock Band on the 360, tried that out instead of the usual karaoking. Though I think the old folks felt it was too loud. After all, it was "Rock Band" so all the songs were prolly too rocking for them. It was cool to be able to play it with a group, though one of the guitars wasn't working so the songs were sans bass. Obviously, the vocals were the easiest for me to do, and I did both Boston's "Foreplay/Long Time" and "Wanted: Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi. The former is a little ridiculous since the Foreplay part is a couple of minutes for the drums and guitar before the voices even kick in. Played the drums when doing "Don't Fear the Reaper" with B on the guitar and his wife on vocals. I still kinda suck at it, but not enough to fail a song.
Heh, and I realize why I thought I totally sucked at Guitar Hero. Now, I've never formally played it at anyone's house, only the demos at stores. So I had no idea how to play it, I figured it was just pressing the right colored button at the right time. I didn't realize you had to press both the right button and the strum bar. I was wondering why I'd think I was hitting it at the right time and it not registering. Well now I know. (And knowing is half the battle!) Did the guitar for Hole's "Celebrity Skin" with B on drums and
sparkyboy singing vocals. I'm still subpar, but like with the drums, not enough to fail. All in all, it was fun to play. I guess once me brudder gets some instruments, can play it a little more before vacation ends.
