Rock bands in talks to do music games Comments by Robert Purchese

Meh. None of those bands would really persuade me to part with my cash for an Aerosmith-style disk.

Come on, where's Hendrix?

Here's hoping GnR pledge allegience to GH so my beloved Rock Band will not be dirtied by their presence.

£5 quid GNR get a release date for their game and then it gets delayed... and then delayed... and then delayed... and then delayed.. and then it's crap.

Aerosmith can make more from Guitar Hero than from releasing 12 albums? Surely that can't be true.

They have only released 14 albums in their career (so says Wikipedia), so are they saying GH: Aerosmith will make them as much/more than they've made in total in their career to date?

Probably not, but bear in mind the vast, vast majority of their income will come from radio play royalties, tour earnings and the like. Money from percentage of record sales is most likely a tiny amount of their income to date.

Why all the GnR hate? They are still one of the best bands of our time. Not many rock albums hold up to Appetite to this day!

It would be Christmas come early if there was GH: GnR!!!

Personally I'm still waiting for less RAWK! and more rock.

I hope there are no more stinky band cash-ins like the GH:Aerosmith edition. Just release the song packs as DLC so then can pick and chose which tracks you want. There were two songs on the GH:A that even vaguely held any interest for me. Or at least have that option.

The Eagles in Rock Band? Please stop taunting me, Harmonix :(

gh:aerosmith just isn't very good, I'm a fan of the band and have seen them live but i traded the game in after a couple of days cause it was just no fun to play and at 45 quid far too expensive

"Aerosmith can make more from Guitar Hero than from releasing 12 albums? Surely that can't be true."

That's what I thought. Unless they mean they net more cash from 1 unit of GH:A than from 12 album sales?

So are these exclusivity deals that mean a band will be tied into a specific brand i.e. RB or GH?

All these bands are pretty meh, IMHO.
Roll on with U2 and we'll talk!

Oh, and Depeche Mode, except they don't do a lot of the traditional 4-man-band instrument setup, so I guess that will never happen. I'd pay for pretty much any game featuring their music in some form, tho.

i want to play achiles last stand NOW!!!!

Why all the GnR hate? They are still one of the best bands of our time. Not many rock albums hold up to Appetite to this day!

Plenty hold up to it. The greatest hits of McFly and Busted compare favourably.

"Why all the GnR hate?"

3 words:

Whiney. Ginger. Cockstain.

If Axl does that stupid side-to-side dance one more time I swear I will think very seriously about murdering the entire world, starting with myself.


In other news: Hendrix, the legend, the master, needs videogame representation. NOW!!

@skillian

"Aerosmith can make more from Guitar Hero than from releasing 12 albums? Surely that can't be true. "

The article specifically mentioned CD album sales. Things ain't what they used to be, and CD sales are crashing these days. I think it means that if Aerosmith released a CD album today, its sales could generate only a fraction of the cash they got paid for their GH release.

Its a bit of a loaded statement I think. Its not referring to the cash they HAVE made in the past from all format album sales, neither does it consider mp3 sales through iTunes and so on. Still a valid point though. Many music companies are looking for new ways to keep the cash coming in, as album sales just aren't what they used to me. Bands are much keener on touring these days, and that makes more money for them than album sales (which didn't used to be the case in general, though there have always been exceptions).

"Plenty hold up to it. The greatest hits of McFly and Busted compare favourably."

If that isn't a joke, I am going to dig out my window jump inducing hypnotic powers in a minute.

/polishes shiny pendulum

@ farticus,

Mate, I'm going to have to have strong words with you now!

How many rock singers aren't dickheads, its part of the rock band code! I'll admit Axl is a nob but the music is fantastic and you cant say that he doesnt have a great voice.

But whereas Hendrix was great for time his music is now dated, so there! ;)

Ironic that the bands probably make more money from these games than the devs

@johnnybrn

To be fair I quite liked Lies and Appetite when I were a lad, although I'd never admit it. Especially not on an interweb forum.

I have a big problem with slushy faux-sentimental tracks like November Rain though, but I have reasonably eclectic taste in music (examples: WuTang, Fugazi, Hendrix, Mastodon, Primus, early 70's Genesis, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Death) and I do tend to be somewhat of a musical snob, although I think a lot of guitarists tend to get that way.

Each to his own though, eh? Except I do carry an RPG launcher with me at all times just in case I see Axl on my local highstreet doing his freakish wobbledance. He got away once but never again..... *shakes fist*

I think it means that if Aerosmith released a CD album today, its sales could generate only a fraction of the cash they got paid for their GH release.

OK, maybe if they released 12 truly terrible albums in a row that flopped hopelessly.

I know that it was them who said it, but I still don't believe that over a decade's worth of album sales would earn them the same money as this installment of Guitar Hero.

@Led Zeppelin Please get over yourselves.

IIRC Led Zep went through Hell to get their masters, so I can understand the reticence.

Good bands with singers renowned for being nobs:

Guns n Roses
Motley Crue
Iron Maiden
Skid Row
Stone Temple Pilots
Jane's Addiction

I could go on.

MAKE A SYSTEM OF A DOWN ONE!!!

Ahem.

MAKE A SYSTEM OF A DOWN ONE!!!

I heartily endorse this event or product.

And a Radiohead one, too.

lol a 'GnR' game...
good luck getting axl rose and slash etc in the same room to record anything...
- and if they do one without slash / duff and the rest... then thats just not cricket etc.
and deserves to rest in the same landfill as ET :P