We got Rock Band and the associated drum kit, guitar, and (a borrowed) microphone, and pretty much everyone is addicted. The extended family spent a significant amount of time last weekend playing at Dillon’s birthday party (thank goodness I made a sign up sheet), and I haven’t had that much fun watching people play a video game since like, ever. The kids are getting pretty decent at it, too. Our immediate family played for a while tonight before Charles left to go to a party at a friend’s house.
"Twenty twenty twenty four hours to go - oh - oh..."
Then I put the kids to bed, created my own band, “The Nerdettes,” populated by Buffy “the Vampire Slayer” Summers, Temperance “Bones” Brennan, Veronica Mars, and Professor Sheldon Cooper. I know, it isn’t super original to use TV characters, but it is late, and I just wanted to play video games. So then I quietly played through two setlists and actually am getting pretty good at beginner easy guitar. Charles has moved up to medium, and while I am pretty much never in life going to beat him at a video game (unless, I guess, we play chess on an iPad or something), I would really like to be able to hold my own a little bit. I decided not to practice the drums though since I was pretty sure that might wake up the kids. Anyway, I imagine I’ll be wasting a bit more time on this in the future…
Tags: rockband
I have to say, I was really amazed at Charles’ family band rendition – even before he said anything, it was pretty obvious who the onscreen characters were!
Yeah, I helped him a bit in the implementation but it was totally his idea. I should post a picture of that!