Xbox 360 Fanboy

Deff. need some more heavy metal. I think Crazy Train would be pretty good. Maybe something a bit more modern too, similar to how GH2 had "Six" from All That Remains.

I agree, except for the fact that I actually really liked the David Bowie pack.

At first I was really excited that all of this great DLC is coming out for Rock Band... now I'm just scared because I want to buy them all.

Okay, first off, Hard to Handle is an Otis Redding song (a youtube clip is not actually doing research- there is much about the world of rock you have yet to learn)- yes the Dead covered it first but the Black Crows did make it into a big hit in the 90s (let's be honest here, outside of "Touch of Grey", the Dead never had a song enter the Billboard top 40 so to say they made any song (other than that one) a big hit is pushing it).

And for the love of all that is holy, if I have to hear you mention the phrase "funky drums" one more time, I'm gonna fly out to where you live and scoop your eyes out of your skull with a rusty spoon. Go buy yourself a George Clinton CD and a drum kit and shut the hell up already.

I'm protesting. I know it's repetitive, but it's civil disobedience. Nobody's gonna shut me up. Get your spoon and c'mon over. I don't listen to CD's but I've got tons of P-funk and Otis Redding vinyl over at the pad. You can try digging into my skull but it's pretty thick up there. We got ice cream in the freezer though.

gimme Hendrix!

Well, you'd better boycott Guitar Hero, too, as they said Higher Ground was made famous by Red Hot Chili Peppers and not Stevie Wonder.

You're missing the point. The phrase is meant to reference who made that particular version of the song famous. Guitar Hero wasn't emulating the Stevie Wonder version, and Rock Band isn't emulating the Grateful Dead or Otis Redding versions. The song is a cover of the version done by the artist referenced. Do we really need a full genealogy of the history of each song in the menu tag? Shall we include full writing credits, as well?

I get your point, and I understand your concern, but this is absolutely NO worse than people hearing these songs on the radio with no awareness of the fact that they're covers of songs by older bands. My wife's sister heard Alabama covering an N'Sync song and complained about how she hates when a new band has to cover someone else's song just to get popular. My wife couldn't stop laughing for several minutes before having to explain N'Sync was listening to Alabama in their cribs.

Do we really need a full genealogy of the history of each song in the menu tag? Shall we include full writing credits, as well?

To which I say, sure, why not? A video game can do that, much better than the radio. Just have a little text box somewhere. It wouldn't hurt anybody's gameplay experience. Sounds like a great opportunity to use a goofy game to teach the kids something about American culture. I don't need a VH1 Behind the Music cutscene for every song or anything like that.

And I'm totally boycotting Guitar Hero too.

You should feel sorry for anyone who tries to learn solely from video games. Putting misleading information about the song they chose to use isn't going to teach people music history, and it'll probably anger people who hear the cover and expect the original.

People with Internet access and a little knowledge can find all they need to know about a particular song. People lacking one or both probably don't care anyway. (Having a 360 and no Internet connection ... unlikely, I'd guess.)

I managed to live through seeing "Radar Love: As Made Famous By White Lion" in Rocks the 80s. I'm sure you'll survive reading about the covers they used for Rock Band. (I could see an argument for using "as covered by" instead of "as made famous by", except then they'd have to draw two distinctions, cover/original and master/non-master, and that might get a little confusing for the average gamer.)