By: DHu

DHu — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:09:30 +0000

There’re many reasons why I’m probably not qualified to comment (not sure what the rules say about winning more than once – radio industry has a term for it though… “Prize Pig”).
Probably not *really* qualified to comment, being not more than a casual gamer at best and having never *actually* played one of these (as I affectionately refer to them) ‘pretend music’ games. But I *have* been a rock star. Of sorts. Come to think of it, my rock star past likely has more Rock Star than I would care to admit. I earned a fairly respectable living, for over half a decade, playing… in a covers band. And not just any covers band – a *two-piece* covers band. That is, anything that the pair of us couldn’t physically play live, was pre-programmed (“sequenced”) and played out of a machine. Oh, *I* did the programming (drums, bass, strings, Clav, B3, EP, M-O-U-S-E), but at the end of the day (or drunken punter’s night) we were more like Rock Stars than rock stars.
But we were paid (in those days, handsomely) for it. *We* were the stars, not the machine playing the vast majority of what was emanating from the hired P.A. system. It’s about the people, people! If you can believe it – you can become it. Like all good covers bands (and originals for that matter) – start in the comfort of your own living room. Then take it beyond your residential confines into the public arena. If you’re sufficiently entertaining, eventually you’ll be able to convince someone to pay you for it. I did.
As for Tetris and the incongruity of player locale… I’m not *really* qualified to comment. ;-)

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By: DHu