Rock Band

On Friday night, I had a bunch of people over for a party like no other. A ‘Rock Band’ party.

You’ve never heard of a Rock Band Party, that’s fine I made it up. Well, probably not, I’m sure there are plenty of nerds out there that do this sort of thing all the time.

Rock Band is a video game where you play guitar, bass, drums and sing along to your favorite songs. Of course, you don’t play real instruments, but at least they’re not completely fake either. Playing the guitar and bass are like tapping buttons on a large long guitar shaped controller, but the drums are surprising real and require drum playing timing and you have to really sing, hit notes and have the same cadence as the original song.

When I set out to have some people over to play this game, I didn’t think anyone would show up. But more and more people came over, ready to belt out ‘Creep’ and other songs. Everyone seemed to really enjoy the total nerdiness of pretending to be in a band together, giving high fives, coming up with fictional band names, pumping up the crowd with impromptu vocal performances.

Nothing brings together a group of people like pretending to be a band. We rocked until the wee hours of the night.

Let me tell you, it’s a freaking addictive game. I wanted to play the shit out of it after the party, but soon I had to return the game to Sarah (I don’t own Rock Band but I want to… BAD).

Next time you are looking for a good reason to have a bunch of people at your house getting drunk, signing off key, and pretending that they know how to play instruments; check out Rock Band.