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Nickleback wants you to stop playing Guitar Hero

Vedderlution_BabyVedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,545
edited November 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/32420/Nickelback-slam-Guitar-Hero

‘Rock Star’ combo blame rhythm action titles for lack of new US bands

Cheesy Canadian rockers Nickelback have blamed games such as Guitar Hero for reducing the number of new bands emerging in America.

The band’s frontman Chad Kroeger says young people are more interested in playing music simulation games than learning real instruments.

He told MTV: "I feel like there's not enough rock bands out there, especially when we go on the road. "It's tough to find other bands out there, because either they're making a record, or they just got done touring. So kids, start rock bands. Set down the 'Guitar Hero,' learn how to play an actual guitar and start a band, because it's hard to find more bands to put a solid rock and roll package together, to get out there."


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Did he ever think that all the other bands were just hiding from and/or avoiding them? He's almost as daft as John Mayer.
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    mnicole22mnicole22 Posts: 417
    Wow...what a dildo.
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    SomethingCreativeSomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,346
    I hate to say it but I agree with him
    "Well, I think this band is incapable of sucking."
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    NewDamageNewDamage Posts: 1,913
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    because it's hard to find more bands to put a solid rock and roll package together, to get out there."
    Coming from Chad Kroeger, that literally made me laugh out loud.
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    Hitch-HikerHitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    Aside from the fact that it's that nickelback guy talking, that is the single dumbest thing I've ever heard. I suppose playingProject Gotham Racing stops people learning to drive for real. And those dance mats probably really ate into night club profits too, because people didn't have to go any more.
    That guy is retarded.
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    Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Chad Kroeger needs to put down the actual guitar, and do the entire world a favour.
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    Vedderlution_BabyVedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,545
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Chad Kroeger needs to put down the actual guitar, and do the entire world a favour.


    No shit.
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    mnicole22mnicole22 Posts: 417
    Guitar Hero is nothing like playing guitar. I can see blaming video games in general, also TV, and every other activity that interests teenagers.

    Learning to play guitar is self-fulfilling. I'm all for more kids learning to play, but I don't think guitar hero is to blame.
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    Vedderlution_BabyVedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,545
    mnicole22 wrote:
    Guitar Hero is nothing like playing guitar. I can see blaming video games in general, also TV, and every other activity that interests teenagers.

    Learning to play guitar is self-fulfilling. I'm all for more kids learning to play, but I don't think guitar hero is to blame.


    Definitely not. It was five colored buttons and a strum bar. How can anyone honestly believe that it replaces an actual instrument. It seems that some of the people who say this are the ones who don't actually play the game and are going off assumptions. It's a game. A fun one at that. But it's still just a game.
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    aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,118
    SomethingCreative wrote:
    I hate to say it but I agree with him
    I completely agree with him.
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    Vedderlution_BabyVedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,545
    aNiMaL wrote:
    I completely agree with him.


    How so?
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    aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,118
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    How so?
    I believe the more kids play this or these games, the less likely they ever will be to pick up the real instrument.

    I have talked to a few different musicians and they all agree. They are so vastly different from the real thing, that complacent kids (which there are more and more of every generation) will give up in favor of the easier video game instead of learning the real deal.
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    TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    aNiMaL wrote:
    I believe the more kids play this or these games, the less likely they ever will be to pick up the real instrument.

    I have talked to a few different musicians and they all agree. They are so vastly different from the real thing, that complacent kids (which there are more and more of every generation) will give up in favor of the easier video game instead of learning the real deal.
    I would think that Chad should be blaming the complacency of kids these days and not a video game.
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    Vedderlution_BabyVedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,545
    aNiMaL wrote:
    I believe the more kids play this or these games, the less likely they ever will be to pick up the real instrument.

    I have talked to a few different musicians and they all agree. They are so vastly different from the real thing, that complacent kids (which there are more and more of every generation) will give up in favor of the easier video game instead of learning the real deal.


    Personally, I believe that if a kid chooses to play a fake instrument rather than a real one, they were never going to play the real one anyway. Hell, even if they didn't play guitar hero, if they're unwilling to constantly improve and practice something, then that real instrument isn't going to get any play anyway. It's not the video game. It's the type of personality that decides sticking with something isn't worth it and that it's a waste of time.
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    PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    meh, my kid started drums on Rockband and is now taking lessons and he plays my real drums more than I do and is picking it up real quick


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    WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
    This pretty much sums it up.

    http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/127947

    EDIT: The 1st five minutes should do the trick.
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    aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,118
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    meh, my kid started drums on Rockband and is now taking lessons and he plays my real drums more than I do and is picking it up real quick


    Kroegs needs to stfu and gtfo
    Yeah, first off I would love to just focus on what he said, not who said it. I can;t stand Nickleback either, but his opinion is valid.

    And on the subject of the drums in rock band, I have heard that they were made a lot better or more realistic than the guitar and that it does lend to the way real drums are played.
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    muiren77muiren77 Posts: 3,511
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Chad Kroeger needs to put down the actual guitar, and do the entire world a favour.

    totally agree...best Christmas gift he can give to the world...
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    normnorm I'm always home. I'm uncool. Posts: 31,147
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    He told MTV: learn how to play an actual guitar

    should probably take his own advice ;)
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    SomethingCreativeSomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,346
    aNiMaL wrote:
    And on the subject of the drums in rock band, I have heard that they were made a lot better or more realistic than the guitar and that it does lend to the way real drums are played.


    yes, the drums are a different story...I can actually hold my own on drums now. sometimes my drummer and I switch instruments when we're jamming.
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    mickeyratmickeyrat up my ass, like Chadwick was up his Posts: 35,688
    You would think he'd be GLAD they play GH, so as not to supplant their musical supremacy!!
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    Strangest TribeStrangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    If you are good at Guitar Hero, that's really saying a lot isn't it???

    Learn to play.

    This is the smartest stuff I've ever heard from Nickleback
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    rriversrrivers Posts: 3,687
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    I suppose playingProject Gotham Racing stops people learning to drive for real. .

    Exactly.
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    suns rivalsuns rival Posts: 15,926
    this thread should be in Phantom's All Joke Thread.
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    rriversrrivers Posts: 3,687
    aNiMaL wrote:
    I believe the more kids play this or these games, the less likely they ever will be to pick up the real instrument.

    I have talked to a few different musicians and they all agree. They are so vastly different from the real thing, that complacent kids (which there are more and more of every generation) will give up in favor of the easier video game instead of learning the real deal.

    Wrong. If anything, it could get kids interested. Trust me, the same people who would pick up a guitar to learn it are still going to, Guitar Hero or no Guitar Hero.
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    rriversrrivers Posts: 3,687
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    Personally, I believe that if a kid chooses to play a fake instrument rather than a real one, they were never going to play the real one anyway. Hell, even if they didn't play guitar hero, if they're unwilling to constantly improve and practice something, then that real instrument isn't going to get any play anyway. It's not the video game. It's the type of personality that decides sticking with something isn't worth it and that it's a waste of time.

    Exactly right.
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    aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,118
    rrivers wrote:
    Wrong. If anything, it could get kids interested. Trust me, the same people who would pick up a guitar to learn it are still going to, Guitar Hero or no Guitar Hero.
    I think you have more faith in today's youth that I do.
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    brainofPJbrainofPJ Posts: 2,361
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    Personally, I believe that if a kid chooses to play a fake instrument rather than a real one, they were never going to play the real one anyway. Hell, even if they didn't play guitar hero, if they're unwilling to constantly improve and practice something, then that real instrument isn't going to get any play anyway. It's not the video game. It's the type of personality that decides sticking with something isn't worth it and that it's a waste of time.


    i agree.

    i have a guitar...i play occasionally...

    but i really want GH or Rockband.


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    PJamGrunge10PJamGrunge10 California Posts: 594
    Strangest Tribe wrote:
    If you are good at Guitar Hero, that's really saying a lot isn't it???

    Learn to play.

    This is the smartest stuff I've ever heard from Nickleback

    It's not exactly hard or time consuming to get good at guitar hero.
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    AusticmanAusticman Posts: 1,323
    Video games are ruining music, video games are the reason for all the crime and violence in the world, OOOHHH Lordy!!!"

    Chad's full of crud.

    A kid who wants to make music will learn the limitations of Gh or RB quick smart and pick up a real guitar.
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    TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    Guitar Hero frustrates the hell out of me! I can play all those songs on a regular guitar... but I suck at Guitar Hero!!:o

    While I agree with Chad that there is a lack of good rock bands out there right now... I'm not entirely convinced that it's because of Guitar Hero.
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