Re: Jack White and Jimmy Page diss 'Guitar Hero' video game

[Tim Fricke <oldstyle5150@xxxxxxxxx>]

Count me among the group that would love to see a Zeppelin Rock Band
or Guitar Hero game. At least that is about the music. Where the fuck
was this musical integrity when Cadillac got permission to use Rock &
Roll in a fucking car commercial?

On 9/11/09, Jon Hull <jonohull@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm sure Courtney Love was just drunk or high when she signed away the
> rights to this and doesn't remember. Or, she actually only cares about
> money and wants people to give her 'cred' for being angry about it.
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Meg Ireland <heavybluesrock@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Nirvana members dismayed by 'Guitar Hero 5':
>>
>> "Kurt Cobain's appearance in the latest "Guitar Hero" video game is
>> not hitting the right notes with the surviving members of Nirvana.
>>
>> Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl said in a joint statement Thursday that
>> they were "dismayed and very disappointed" that an avatar of the late
>> Nirvana frontman could be used to play songs by other artists.
>>
>> "While we were aware of Kurt's image being used with two Nirvana
>> songs, we didn't know players have the ability to unlock the
>> character," they said. "This feature allows the character to be used
>> with any kind of song the player wants. We urge Activision to do the
>> right thing in 're-locking' Kurt's character so that this won't
>> continue in the future."
>>
>> Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, had been lashing out on Twitter this
>> week about her late husband's inclusion in the game, calling it vile
>> and claiming she would sue Activision, the game's publisher. Love
>> claimed she never approved Cobain's digital likeness, and that she
>> thought the grunge rocker would despise the rhythm game "let alone
>> this avatar."
>>
>> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ipFhOuBuSMv3z7cr0LgPJT4dWALAD9AKR3600
>>
>>
>> I'm glad Jimmy turned down using LZ in these video games. The thought
>> of a reanimated John Bonham, pretending to drum along to other songs,
>> would be disrespectful to the man.
>>
>>
>> 2009/6/22 Nech <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Page added that he can't imagine that people are really learning anything
>>> significant about playing instruments by playing video games.
>>>
>>> "You think of the drum part that John Bonahm did on Led Zeppelin's first
>>> track on the first album, 'Good Times Bad Times'," he said. "How many
>>> drummers in the world can play that part, let alone on Christmas
>>> morning?"
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.nme.com/news/the-white-stripes/45521
>>
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> Jon Hull
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