Word: rocks
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Mitchell was leery of being labeled a rock star. While he didn't resent it, he wanted audiences to focus on the group. Still, he accepted his place in music history. Being a part of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, as he said in 1968, had "given me freedom...
...history. But given the cruelty with which pop culture devours its celebrity eccentrics, he's had a pretty easy ride. A surprising number of people actually want to hear this record, and for that, you can credit curiosity - What does $14 million sound like? - and the power of rock stardom. In his prime, Rose may have been an angry, misogynistic homophobe - the proto-Eminem - but he was also a riveting physical and vocal presence. And real rock stars remain scarce enough that they tend to get the benefit of even extreme doubt. (See the 100 best albums of all time...
...beginning--that is, November 2005--there was a video game called Guitar Hero, in which players jammed on a fake plastic guitar along with real rock songs. And it was good. But not good enough. A year ago, the rival Rock Band added drums, bass and vocals. Now there are two improved versions that feature the full instrumental lineup: Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour...
That's the name--ripped from the headlines!--of the virtual band I formed with three other TIME staffers, whom I will not name because, unlike me, some of them are still hoping for a career in management. We spent a hard day's night pitting Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour against each other in a titanic battle of the fake-band video games. We came to play, and we brought a lot of beer and some tequila, if it came to that. Fortunately, it didn't come to that. (See the video...
...need musical talent to play these games. What you need is a weird combination of vanity and lack thereof: vanity in that you have to really believe, somewhere in your lizard brain, that you are a rock star; lack of vanity in that your human brain still knows you look like an idiot. But when it works, you experience music in a completely new way. Never before have I actually enjoyed Megadeth. Conversely, never before have I hated Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue." But it's really long, and the drum part is really boring...