10 Songs from Returning Bands I Want To See In Rock Band 4

YEAH! I have non-me stuff to post about again! With Rock Band returning as the best way to enjoy music with your friends, let's celebrate with 10 returning bands I'd like to see in the next Rock Band installment. NOTE: I tried to stay away from songs that weren't ALREADY in either Guitar Hero or Rocksmith.

1. THE WHO- Anything Off Quadrophenia

The Who have been on every Rock Band disc release, and the fourth installment should be no different. While there's no denying the greatness of "Who's Next", earlier albums still have a lot to offer. While not THE earliest, their second rock opera Quadrophenia has a few good selections, namely the lead track, "The Real Me", previously featured in Fantasia: Music evolved, one of Harmonix's prior releases. Guitar's a little simple, but bassists and drummers will have a hell of a challenge, while vocalists can belt this one out.

2. MUSE- "Panic Station"

The OTHER obvious band, it's hard to pick just ONE Muse song, because we're losing keys, and I'm trying to be original, so Knights of Cydonia is out. As this is one of their newer songs of the 2nd Law, it's less likely to be claimed any time soon. Slow, simple, but with a lot of force, I say MOAR MUSE.

3. BLACK SABBATH- "Neon Knights"

The people need to know the glory of Dio Sabbath. It's like the difference between Bon Scott and Brian Johnson AC/DC: The band's entire sound changed. The wicked guitar solo and fast riffs are going to be legendarily difficult, with the raw speed of the song keeping the bass and drum sections lively. Hopwever, it's Dio's operatic vocals that elevate this into a MUST LISTEN.

4. ROLLING STONES- "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

"Sympathy for the Devil" ALMOST won out this one, but again, it was in Guitar Hero 5, so the best Not On Rocksmith. Also, we lose a LOT on that song by getting rid of keys. Anything else was already used in another game, but Jumpin' Jack Flash was conspicuously absent. That doesn't mean it's a bad song by any stretch, it's just that it seems Elite Beat Agents was the only rhythm game to give it the level it deserved. The Rolling Stones will always be known by Mick and Keef, but the bass on this song harmonizes well, and certainly won't be dull.

5. HARVEY DANGER- "Flagpole Sitta"
Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo.

A.K.A. The Harvery Danger Song We Wanted In The First Place. Now imagine this on harmonies and drums.

6. THE FRATELLIS- "Chelsea Dagger" 


 A.K.A. The Fratellis Song We Wanted In The First Place. It'll fill that "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?" sized hole that's called "Yeah, I think I heard this in a beer commercial a few times". Technically it was on the Guitar Hero for the DS, but that doesn't count cause that game sucked.


7. SQUEEZE- "Pulling Mussels From a Shell"

We actually got a couple decent Squeeze songs already, "Tempted" as DLC, and "Cool For Cats" In RB2 are both fine selections, but when I would listen to nothing but their Singles album while playing Deadly Premonition, I really got turned on to them. They're a really good band, and there's plenty that would make great DLC, but this is there best known of the songs we haven't done yet. Other reccomendations: "Annie Get Your Gun" and "Goodbye Girl"

8. ELECTRIC SIX- "Formula 409"

Because "Danger! High Voltage!" was too obvious.

9. MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE- "House Of Wolves"

Name ONE instrument this wouldn't rule on! I was going to pick "Dead!", but that was in GH2, and "Party Poison" just isn't as intense as this song. Both would be good mind you, but I'm limiting myself to this one song. Though "Vampire Money" off of Danger Days does have a Big Rock Ending... Screw it, I just want some more MCR.


10. BRAD PAISLEY- "Mr Policeman"

Country always gets a bad rap and the Country Packs are always looked down with scorn, but their instrumentation has the potential to WRECK YOUR FUCKING SHIT.  The guitar is relentless, the bass has that southern trait of "constantly fucking moving" and and the drums are always rolling. I don't think this song has one break in it. Yeah, there's a keyboard part at the end, but it's not TOO huge a loss. "Panic Attack"? "Freebird"? "Green Grass and High Tides"? "Through The Fire And Flames" FUCK THOSE ASSHOLES! Brad Paisley demolishes your ass in under 6 and a half minutes.

PAX East 2015- Oregon Trail Doctor% Speedrun- 2:46

Dumb video I made at PAX East:

Stat- ROCK BAND 4 PAX EAST YEAH!!!

This week's Jam:


I got MAYBE 10 hours of sleep in the past 4 days

Yeah, I was at PAX East for one hell of a weekend.

Most of the times when I come back from playing a con, I'm happy, if a little stressed. I hung out, played a gig, everything's good.

When I got back from PAX East, I was inspired. Between all the indie games, bands, Telltale's Keynote, Penny Arcade's Q and A, the cosplays, and the sheer volume of people with their own tastes and meeting people who's lives are tangential to mine, I'm psyched for tomorrow to begin so I can come home an continue work on the album/DTK song/other shit.

So before I get to that- SHIT YEAH!!! ROCK BAND 4!!!!

I've got enough for a pretty sweet con recap video that might be a short film, but here's some quick recaps:

Easier to start with the Bad:
-Only there two days.
-Boston is COLD. 
-GETTING THERE. Arcanon was snowed in his house on Thursday, and we weren't sure if he would be able to make it. Without him, I wouldn't have any tickets. Fortuenately, he was able to get there later on Friday, and I was able to get a ticket beforehand.
 -Missing Markiplier's autograph signing for my brother and Paolo's.
-Not being able to go to the Harmonix Party.

It was the exact opposite of bad, mind you. This is stuff I didn't GET to do, but overall I'm satisfied with what I did.

Now the good:
-Not only did Paolo manage to beat Tennesse in its stupid snowy face, he arrived at the con JUST as me and Jeff were about to go on the Rock Band stage.
-Many selfies
-Seeing Freezepop and Paul and Storm in concert.
-Jeff will be shipping me an autogrpahed copy of Deadly Premontion
-Playing some Magic Drafts, pulling 6 rares in one.
-Getting some AWESOME swag, namely the exclusive MTG and Rock Band 4 pins.
-Confirmation that the new Amplitude game will be dope as fuck.
-Indie game "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" is a worthwhile experience that can oly be done in this environment and was totally worth it.
-Finally subscribing to an IndieBox.
-Seeing Birdman on the plane ride over
-Epic Speed-runs of Oregon Trail.
-Coming in the Top 4 in a THPS 2 competition.
-Magic The Gathering Panel AND THE RETURN TO ZENDIKAR!
-Handing out business cards
-DC Deck Building Game is worth all the hype. 
-Seeing Podcast homies.

-Being at PAX East in general :D

Rest of that album shit coming soon.

Echo Chamber Episode 116 Post Game

DOWNLOAD THE S.S. ECHO CHAMBER HERE


Now, I'm on Tumblr, and enjoy playing some TF2. In my travels in getting inspiration for SQR, I run into some of the names for the pairings for characters.

So, then what would be the arrangements for the Echo Crew (not shipping, ew. Have you seen us?)
-RB and Mystakin- The Eric and Erich Show
-RB and Jeff- Skeleton Crew
-RB and Arcanon- ???
-Mystakin and Jeff- ???
-Mystakin and Arcanon- ???
-Jeff and Arcanon- ???
-Without Jeff- ???
-Without RB- ???
-Without Arcanon- ???
-Without Mystakin- ???

-Vsauce video about Yellow:


-THANKS, OLLAMA


-Rosalina Story is True:

"A collector of vintage Nintendo items who goes by both "Daily Dose" and "Mariotehplumber" revealed that he's pre-ordered more than a hundred Rosalina & Luma amiibo -- all because he really, really dislikes the character. "I do not appreciate Rosalina appearing in almost every recent Mario game to date. The fact Nintendo promotes her so much and people praise her is just disgusting," he said.

Daily Dose continued "I hate her fans, too. I know for a fact her amiibo will be among one of the most popular, which is why I took the time to wait and pre-order over 100 of her. I do not want her fans to be happy... It just crushes me Nintendo from the good days went to this shit for character designs.""

These are things a sane person would say. Yup.

-For the record, here's my friend 's GPT Tournament Report.

 -THE BAZ!!! CAN YOU FEEL THE STORM?!?!?!?

Jeff actually has Baz's Beard.

-"You're super muy bueno at Japanese-o"

-Jeff... Jeff... THIS IS THE POTATO CHIP SCENE


-"Lying and violence is how we get the deal"

Status Quo Sick Days

This week's jam:


ALBUM NEWS:
While I wanted to get album work done, my voice was shot and nasally for the past few days, so singing was out of the question. Also, time is limited as I have to pack for PAX East this weekend, but writing is still taking place, and not just for this, but for other songs as well. Dragons of Tarkir spoilers are starting soon....

In essence, I have 5 things left to send over, and they'll all be done at pretty much the same time. Granted, I do plan on meeting with Rob in person to finalize stuff and buy him a beer and congratulate him on his marriage, so while the album won't be 100% done, I'm working hard on trying to get the hard stuff over with.

BRIEF ASIDE:
My producer, DJ Roborob, has an EP coming out soon. You can preview it here:


KICKSTARTER NEWS:
A lot I'm holding off on, because I'm working on the album proper. Granted it's an e-mail to a voice actor here, a Blender tutorial there, but yeah, I would like to check to see if I make a TF2 Workshop item as a backer reward, I can GUARANTEE that I can deliver. T-shirts, stickers, CDs, that stuff I have on lock and all figured out, it's the unique things I'm trying to work on.

PAX EAST STUFF:
Yeah!!!
It just keeps getting better every new thing I find out about it:
-SWERY65 of (lord i miss) Deadly Premonition and D4.
-Goldenye 007 Tournament
-Magic The Gathering, Mega 64 AND GIANT BOMB Panels?!?!?
-Markiplier, Matt and Woolie of Two Best Friends Play and the guy behind that facade video I like so much.
Lots of gaming, lots of Magic, and handing out a shitton of business cards.



So if any of you are planning on going, you'll know where to find me
My copy of Deadly Premonition is going to be signed by soooo many people.

I'll also send out the MP3 of my Fate Reforged song to all the mailing list peeps before I leave.

NEW CANNIBAL TROLL FILM FILM!