Grateful Dead Rock Band songs

Non-Phish General
#1

I don’t know if you all know about the follow up to Guitar Hero called Rock band, where you’ll get to play guitar, bass, drums and sing. Anyway, it’s a pretty big deal and they just made this announcement today.

Download Grateful Dead for Rock Band
Jam with the iconic jam band.
by Daemon Hatfield
September 5, 2007 - Today Harmonix and record label Rhino Entertainment announced a deal to bring 18 master recordings of celebrated jam band Grateful Dead to Rock Band. To be made available as downloadable content, the Dead track list will include “Truckin’,” “Uncle John’s Band,” “Touch of Grey,” “Sugar Magnolia,” and “Casey Jones.”

“Grateful Dead’s unique fusion of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, and jazz challenged traditional musical boundaries and pushed the limits of creativity to produce a signature sound that is undeniably their own,” stated Paul DeGooyer, MTV’s (owner of Harmonix) Senior VP of Audio, Home Video, and Electronic Games.

“I’m confident that Rock Band will be instrumental in introducing kids to the magical music of Grateful Dead,” said Mark Pinkus, Rhino’s Senior VP of Strategic Marketing, Custom Product & Sync Licensing.

The Grateful Dead received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy earlier this year.

#2

do you get a joint and a hit of L when you buy the game?

#3

if so i will pre-order 8.

#4

Phish can’t be too far behind. My younger brother loves Guitar hero, so the thought of him hitting up a 20 minute YEM complete with vocal jam is somewhat hilarious.

I hope they get the graphics right with these though. Some of the backdrops they use are for really hard-looking festivals, not the dead vibe at all.

#5

There’s the studio version of “Divided Sky” for GH…on YouTube somewhere. I saw it and it was wild, particularly part 2.

#6

craziest guitar hero mod ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV0qM6-HLuk

Just watch this guy try to play Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce. Impossible!

#7

Rock Band is even crazier since it’s gonna have a guitar, a bass guitar a microphone AND drums. You could get four of your friends together, put on Scarlet Begonias, have the lead guitarist do loads of pills and coke and you’ll basically BE the Dead!!

Stevo

#8

Even more fucked is that it’s going to be online compatible. Meaning you could be singing Truckin, while Chan over in China is playing Drums and Vladmir in Russia is on the guitar and you’ve got to have Ian from the UK on the bass. That shit could be some mad fun, not enough for me to buy a PS3 or XBOX 360, but enough that I might be tempted to steal one.

#9

^
Now that does sound like fun. Damn!

Rip it up, Chan!

#10

Damn new-fangled video game consols.

::shakes fist::

Seriously, I have not spent more than 5 minutes playing any system made after N64. I’m sure they’re fun…it just seems too complicated to be fun…or maybe they have become TOO real for me. Or maybe I’m just not 12 years old anymore.

#11

Why not just…

Ummm…

Start a band.

#12

That would be too easy, Billiam.

#13

Bands are a dime a dozen

Epic video game players are invaluable

#14

Find me a drummer.

It’s a game, it’s for fun and you don’t actually have to know how to play an instrument or anything. That’s like someone singing Kareoke and you going, why not just join a choir? I know you’re not being serious, but still…why play any video games really? Why not just join an intergalactic war or warp down a tube to a mushroom kingdom? I’ve tried the latter, you end up very sore the next day.

#15

Don’t worry…they’re not all that way. I still play the new games but I avoid playing anything online or doing any of the downloadable crap. Just give me a console and a cartridge and a controller and you can have all that online crap. Most of the kids playing those online games are idiots anyway…

Stevo