Rock Band 3 Is… Wow, Just Wow
Seriously, I have nothing to say. Just watch this featurette on Rock Band 3‘s pro guitar mode — as well as the new pro guitar — and realize that everything is about to change, because Harmonix is about to make the easiest, most popular guitar-playing manual ever. Things are going to get crazy.
More importantly, the fact that you can plug it into an amp and just play it like a regular guitar is absolutely bewildering. There are going to be real bands — probably not big ones, admittedly — that will actually use this thing in concerts. They may be high school kids at first, and it might take 20 years, but they will get used in live performances. And eventually the music industry that factory produces pop stars will use these, because they’re easier to manipulate, they don’t have to be tuned, and neither the executives nor their audience care about sound fidelity. This is the entire future of music, right here. For good or ill, it is amazing.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.