Play In A Rock Band And Be A Guitar Hero
The second installment to the Guitar Hero series was no doubt the one that propelled the franchise into the mainstream, thus paving way for the rhythm action genre to enjoy huge commercial success. Everyone and their hamster were strapping plastic X-plorers around their neck, being seduced by the challenging tones of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird. But with the surge in popularity of glorified fisher price guitars came criticism directly aimed towards rhythm action.
Perhaps most notably, Nickelback’s frontman, Chad ‘do-you-like-my-perm’ Kroegar, blamed Guitar Hero for the lack of new talent in the US. In his interview with MTV, he urged kids to “Set down the ‘Guitar Hero…’”, and to “…learn how to play an actual guitar”. This particular news item actually appeared in my feed reader at the end of last year, but a couple of days ago I heard a similar quip from a friend through Facebook.
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