Pearl Jam NEW Rock Band Project - Vote Now

gibbits

I thought it was a good sign that Pearl Jam was the only artist with DLC that supported harmonies (besides Greenday who has their own game). I wonder if they were set up this way for Rockband 3, or if they were set up like thatwith the PJ Rockband project in mind

LukinFan

jamburger wrote:

LukinFan wrote:

The Doors have a game out?

DLC...

Rock Band Forums wrote:

Hey gang,

We announced the epic Rock Band 3 launch DLC from The Doors last week, but here's the rest of the juicy details! The full track list, pack info, pricing and the rundown on how to get 3 FREE SONGS (with Pro upgrades!) from one of the most legendary rock bands of all time. The free songs will only be available for the first week, and only through the in game store, so don't forget to pick up RB3 on launch day... that's next Tuesday, 10/26! We're almost there!

Available on Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 3 system (Oct. 26):

“Light My Fire” X (Free from Oct. 26 – Nov. 1 in game, features Pro Guitar and Pro Bass)
“Riders on the Storm” X (Free from Oct. 26 – Nov. 1 in game, features Pro Guitar and Pro Bass)
“Touch Me” X (Free from Oct. 26 – Nov. 1 in game, features Pro Guitar and Pro Bass)
“Hello, I Love You”
“L.A. Woman”
“Love Her Madly”
“Love Me Two Times”
“Peace Frog”
“People Are Strange”
“Roadhouse Blues”
“Soul Kitchen”
“The Crystal Ship”

(All tracks are original master recordings)

(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation 3 system Oct. 27)

These tracks will be available as “The Doors RB3 FREE Launch Pack” and “The Doors Greatest Hits: Special Edition” on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system and as “The Doors Greatest Hits: Special Edition,” which will include the three free tracks, or as individual, free singles (“Light My Fire,” “Riders on the Storm” and “Touch Me” only) on Wii. Tracks marked with “X” will include Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions. Beginning Nov. 2, these tracks will be available as “The Doors Greatest Hits: Special Edition” on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 system and Wii, or as individual downloads.

Price:
FREE! – The Doors RB3 FREE Launch 3 Pack – PS3/Xbox

1200 MSP, $14.99 USD, £7.49 UK, €10.99 EU for The Doors Greatest Hits: Special Edition 9 Pack – PS3/XBox

FREE! – The Doors 3 separate singles - Wii

FREE! – The Doors 3 Pro Guitar and Pro Bass upgrades – Wii

1,500 Wii Points™ for 12-song pack, which includes the free Doors tracks

** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **

stupid question, but can Rock Band 3 games (like The Doors) work on Rock Band 2?

uglybabo

The Doors is the first Rockband 3 DLC and it is not compatable with Rockband 2.

But if you get Rockband 3 all the old downloads work fine.

So old stuff works with new stuff, but new stuff doesn't work with the old game.

LukinFan

uglybabo wrote:

The Doors is the first Rockband 3 DLC and it is not compatable with Rockband 2.

But if you get Rockband 3 all the old downloads work fine.

So old stuff works with new stuff, but new stuff doesn't work with the old game.

cool- thanks

TheRealDanPatch

KEEP HOPE ALIVE!!

luketheuke

Based on the Sirius show...looks like this project has been shelved indefintely due to poor reception for recent Rockband releases. I am pretty bummed. I would love to have some Versus, Vitalogy, No Code and Yield era stuff to play.

OGT92

luketheuke wrote:

Based on the Sirius show...looks like this project has been shelved indefintely due to poor reception for recent Rockband releases. I am pretty bummed. I would love to have some Versus, Vitalogy, No Code and Yield era stuff to play.

Not what I wanted to read, but what are you going to do? Thanks for the update.

TheRealDanPatch

luketheuke wrote:

Based on the Sirius show...looks like this project has been shelved indefintely due to poor reception for recent Rockband releases. I am pretty bummed. I would love to have some Versus, Vitalogy, No Code and Yield era stuff to play.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

uglybabo

With the end of weekly downloadable content, Harmonix had a panel at PAX to discuss Rockband. They mentioned that a Pearl Jam game was worked on but cancelled. Apparently there was concept art shown.

http://www.gamespot.com/events/pax-east ... id=6405830

"The Cambridge, Mass. developer also today showed off a proof-of-concept video for Rock Band: Led Zeppelin, along with images and video for installments based on bands Pink Floyd and Pearl Jam. Harmonix previously denied doing any official work on a Led Zeppelin Rock Band game.

The Pearl Jam Rock Band project was announced in 2009, before it was later canceled for unknown reasons. The developer explained that this game was going to place its focus on the Seattle-based group's live performances. A still image depicting singer/guitarist Eddie Vedder and other members of the group was shown."

Spiritual_Chaos

So close...

demetrios

Harmonix's tour of Pearl Jam and Japan games, music licensing and more Rock Band history

By Samit Sarkar on Mar 25, 2013


"We are here not to bury Rock Band, but to praise it," began Aaron Trites, community manager for Harmonix Music Systems, at the Rock Band panel during PAX East 2013. But in eulogizing the Rock Band franchise — last month, Harmonix announced its regular schedule of downloadable song releases would end on April 2 — the studio also put to rest some longtime questions about incidents in its five-and-a-half-year history, and gave its fans some closure.

After noting they would try to tread carefully, lest they draw the ire of the studio's legal team or burn bridges with the music industry, the four Harmonix panelists launched into a fascinating hour of discussion about everything that went into the bulk of making Rock Band happen: licensing songs for use in the game. The studio also shed some light on what John Drake, the company's director of brand management and public relations, called "moments of turbulence and confusion" — a few hiccups along the way.

Drake and Trites first turned the panel over to Chris Rigopulos, vice president of music operations (and brother of CEO Alex Rigopulos). Rigopulos gave a comprehensive overview of the vicissitudes of licensing music for Rock Band, and as he went on, the crowd's level of wonder grew.

""We are here not to bury Rock Band, but to praise it""

Rigopulos began by noting that in order to get a full master recording in Rock Band, Harmonix had to license both the composition (the written song — notes and words) and the recording (a particular version of the song we might know, like the original album cut or a live version or a later re-recording). The writing credit goes to the individual people responsible for creating the song; other parties involved in the process include managers, publishers and record labels, while important considerations include compensation and international rights.

Four major roadblocks to music licensing existed for Harmonix: The artist could've simply declined; relationships between rights holders could've been strained from bad breakups; the money the studio offered might not have been enough; or the multi-track masters might not have been available.

Rigopulos illustrated with a flowchart the complex web of parties and relationships that had to be contacted and negotiated with before a song could appear in the game:

Next, the panelists shifted to mishaps on the part of Harmonix, former Rock Band publisher MTV Games and the artists themselves.

"In Rock Band's infancy, we were a precocious, scrappy gang," said Trites. "We would sometimes get overexcited and maybe say, 'Hey, this thing's coming,'" except it may never actually have arrived.

Aside from DLC announcements that didn't pan out, like The Who's Who's Next and Nirvana's Nevermind, Rock Band's history is dotted with two major premature announcements: Rock Band: Japan and a Pearl Jam game.

Drake said Harmonix was tremendously excited for Rock Band: Japan — "so excited that we announced it, which was a mistake." (The studio's press release, dated June 2, 2008, is still up on the Rock Band forums.) Rock Band: Japan was a Rock Band title for all intents and purposes, although it contained Japanese music and was fully localized for the country. According to Harmonix, it fell through because "international licensing is very hard," and because the game's bulky plastic instruments were poorly suited to the small living rooms that homes in Japan tend to have.

"We actually made this game for a while," said Drake, while showing footage of the main menu and gameplay (without audio, since Harmonix didn't have the rights to the songs).

""we would sometimes get overexcited""

The next time something similar happened, it was the band that jumped the gun. Pearl Jam announced on May 11, 2009, that it was working on a "forthcoming Rock Band project" with Harmonix and MTV Games, and asked fans to vote on "the best versions of Pearl Jam live songs" for inclusion in the game. (See the press release here.)

"Are you sure that band's ready to announce that we're working on a game with them?" said Drake, giving the audience an idea of Harmonix's reaction.

Pearl Jam: Rock Band was in development for some time as a title focused on bringing the experience of a Pearl Jam live show to life in Rock Band. Harmonix was planning to use many live recordings in the game, and the studio put footage from live performances as well as art from the band's 2009 album, Backspacer, behind the traditional Rock Band note highways. The panelists showed mock-ups of the interface, since Harmonix's lawyers prevented them from playing even silent footage. As for why Pearl Jam: Rock Band never materialized, the panelists implied that lackluster sales of another band-centric game, 2010's Green Day: Rock Band, led the studio to cancel it.

Harmonix closed the panel by going through three of the franchise's most-requested bands: Muse, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.

Muse became something of a cause célèbre for Rock Band fans: Harmonix has counted 616,738 individual requests for the band since the October 2010 launch of Rock Band 3. As for Pink Floyd, which is one of Rigopulos' favorite bands, Drake said Harmonix "had good conversations [with the band]; it just never came together."

""Are you sure that band's ready to announce that we're working on a game with them?""

The studio wanted to reiterate to its fans that it hadn't been ignoring their requests — they tried over and over again, even producing proof-of-concept pieces to demonstrate to the artists how cool a Floyd or Zeppelin game could be. Drake showed a mock-up of a Pink Floyd Rock Band title with appropriately psychedelic art, and an animatic for a Led Zeppelin game featuring digital versions of lead singer Robert Plant and the other band members.

Drake quickly followed up with a clarification, saying, "We were never actually at a point where [Led Zeppelin: Rock Band] was a game that we were working on."

When Rock Band's weekly DLC schedule ends on April 2 with Don McLean's "American Pie," Harmonix will have released new songs for 281 consecutive weeks; the series' music library will contain a total of 4,254 songs from 1,657 artists. And Rock Band songs have been downloaded more than 130 million times to date.

When the panel ended, the audience gave Harmonix a standing ovation.

PJStatTracker

very interesting. Thanks for posting! Too bad it didn't come together, but the craze came and went pretty quickly. Would've been fun though!

MayDay10

Please get in cahoots with Ubisoft and release (more) songs for Rocksmith 2014!

Jed

Where is that list of the best versions of the songs? I know I voted for a bunch of them and would love to have the list of what was voted as the best versions.

gibbits

MayDay10 wrote:

Please get in cahoots with Ubisoft and release (more) songs for Rocksmith 2014!

You should google smithy anvil

sparky_fry

harmonixmusic.com/blog/rock-band-4-announced/

With rock band starting up again is there any chance of this ever being done ?

demetrios

Rock Band 4 - Pearl Jam "Even Flow" Gameplay - Gamescom 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoVdN2-7kPw

Cheo Ramirez

rock band still exist?