Fake Plastic Rock

When I was a teenager I played drums in a band we put together with my school friends. It was a beautiful time. We spent whole days practicing in my room, which was conveniently far from the rest of the house :wink:

Regular readers of this blog must find it odd that several days have gone by without a post. The reason is quite simple: vacation. But I’m back, although I plan to spend the last days of my vacation with my kids forming a new band, though this time it’s a plastic band, with fake instruments and canned music in the form of a video game, because I’ve caught the Rock Band 2 bug and I’m playing like a man possessed.

To those of you who are parents, and who have the chance, I suggest you buy this video game and share a good stretch of family fun, enjoying good rock, of course.

Some comments:

If you’ve played drums you can start on medium or expert level quickly, but of course it’s not the same as playing the drums; the layout isn’t the same, and you only have one pedal. I suggest looking for a drum kit with cymbals; with that you can set it up more like a real kit.

It’s cheaper to buy the instruments separately and the game on its own than to buy the complete rock band game. In our case, we saved about 40% of the cost.

And yes, it’s very addictive and fun.

Of course I found out why my blog mentor Jeff Attwood is also a fan of Rock Band, and the title of this post comes from his blog dedicated to this game.