RockPedal Teaser

Rock Pedal is THE official pedal of 500 Songs to Freedom. I bought it and it is amazing. It is very smooth to play with. I have nothing but praise for this pedal. I'll do a much more in depth analyzation of it at a later date.

13 Hour Rock Band 2 Review

After playing Rock Band 2 for around 13 hours, RedDevilD and I have some thoughts about it. RedDevilD's main thought is: "Everlong occurs way too much in the later Mystery Setlists." My main thought: "Rob the Prez-o-Dent is BS."

Overall, the setlist is pretty good. Some songs I could care to do without. The rerecorded Ace of Spades '08 was a pretty big letdown. It seems like it was trying to be too "heavy" if you will. Some songs to note were Eye of the Tiger, Battery, and Painkiller. Eye of the Tiger was the first song we played and was actually pretty fun. Battery wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be on drums (sightread expert with a 90%). Painkiller, there's not much to say except for this is REALLY hard on drums. Everything is fast in the expert chart.

I was surprised at the types of charts. The drum charts seem to be taking a very different path than Rock Band did. There's much more varied charts earlier on, and the latter tier chart are much more difficult. There were multiple songs that were FC'd by myself and RedDevilD. I thought that the timing window was smaller and so did RedDevilD.

The World Tour isn't much different from Rock Band. There are now daily challenges. There are new venues and the venues that are there are much better looking. Anytime you get the option do to a music video with lasers, do it.

Week of 9/15 DLC: Peace Sells . . . but Who's Buying? and Rock Band Tour 1 pack

So, this coming weeks DLC is going to be the Megadeth album Peace Sells . . . but Who's Buying? and the Rock Band Tour 1 pack. The Megadeth album looks very promising in my eyes, and RedDevilD and I feel the same about the RBT1 pack. We aren't fans of it. The songs are:

Peace Sells . . . but Who's Buying?

Megadeth - Wake Up Dead

Megadeth - The Conjuring

Megadeth - Devil's Island

Megadeth - Good Mourning / Black Friday

Megadeth - Bad Omen

Megadeth - I Ain't Superstitious

Megadeth - My Last Words

Rock Band Tour 1

The Cab - One of those Nights

Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down

Panic! At The Disco - She's a Handsome Woman

Plain White T's - Natural Disaster

The Megadeth album should be available for $10.99 (880 MS Points) and the RBT1 pack should be $3.99 (320 MS Points).

On a side note: RedDevilD and I have been playing Rock Band all day. Tomorrow, we'll be playing most of the day, and on Sunday, we'll be going through the career mode on RB2 with a few other people (probably 5-6 total).

More DLC

Just bought more DLC, bringing my total DLC count to 159 songs. My total song count is 217. RedDevilD and I are planning on finishing up the remaining DLC on Saturday, and playing Rock Band 2 all day Sunday. Hopefully, we can get some reviews of the songs up for Rock Band 2.

All That Remains + Stephen and the Colberts DLC

The All That Remains pack was released today for PS3 ($2.99) and earlier this week on Tuesday for the 360 (240 MS points). The ATR pack is definitely a pain in the butt for drums and from what I understand, and from RedDevilD's point of view, really fun to play on guitar. Haven't looked at the other charts really, but will definitely have to.

Also, Stephen and the Colberts have a song for free up on the XBox marketplace and soon to be on the PS3 Store for free.

This DLC is definitely welcome. I've been waiting for some joke songs (Colbert) and songs to make me cry (ATR). The New Songs are:

All That Remains: Chiron

All That Remains: This Calling

All That Remains: Two Weeks

Stephen and the Colberts: Charlene (I'm right behind you)

EDIT: PS3 Store just allowed me to download the ATR pack, but SaTCs still wasn't available. It's 5 before 5pm on the east coast.

In the Meantime . . .

So in the past 2 weeks, there hasn't been much updating on my part. RedDevilD went out of town and took a break on the 3-day weekend from Rock Band. I've downloaded a bunch more DLC (all of the packs/albums minus the Cars). I'm now up to 130 songs of DLC, which brings my total song count up to 188. RedDevilD and I have been rocking on the new DLC I bought (under the team name Bob Marley and the Joan Jetts) and we can be found on this page:

Team Page

We haven't played any of the main setlist stuff yet. Maybe I can con RedDevilD into it sometime.