"We'd like to play for you our hit..."

[spatch]

I just came back from lediva's.

Where I played Rock Band.

Bass.

For like six or seven hours straight.

Our band's name was Pony Poni Poné. There's a story behind it, but lediva never got around to telling it to us.
My guy looked like David Tennant in Tom Baker's trenchcoat.
His name was Abbie Ramone but that was only because I named him before I discovered the trenchcoat.
Everywhere we went, the crowd kept demanding we play Are You Gonna Be My Girl and Paranoid. Apparently they really dug Jet and Sabbath, even after we stopped digging them. (Bands get really sick of playing the same songs over and over again for different crowds. I guess that was our single or something.)
But then we got to London and played Suffragette City and Don't Fear The Reaper.

Friends, this game is made of concentrated awesome.
I think I'm gonna pass out from all the rock star excess.




\m/ And to top off the rock, we watched This Is Spinal Tap afterwards. \m/

Comments

[grumqa.livejournal.com]

Having perused the track list of every Sabbath bootleg I've ever been in the same room with, I don't know if there was ever a show after that second album came out that they *didn't* do Paranoid...they really didn't change their set list much.

[spatch]

Paranoid's bass line has a lot of sixteenth notes. Or maybe they were thirty-second notes at that point. At any rate it involved a lot of strumming. A lot. A lot a lot a lot. Jet was easy enough. Paranoid was bowbowbowbowbowbowbowbowbowbowbowbowetc.

[cheezdanish.livejournal.com]

Oh you bastard. ._.

I don't get it until Christmas. :(

[spatch]

I WILL COME OVER AND HELP YOU PLAY
STRUM STRUM STRUM STRUM
HEY
HO
LET'S GO
HEY
HO
LET'S GO

[cursethedark.livejournal.com]

I know, dude. I already have blisters.

The song we're tired of is Say It Ain't So. Those bastards ask for it everywhere.

Our band is the Wizards of Wizzardz.

[spatch]

My GH band started out as THRILLHO and then became Dentyl Wryckyrd, and then Deathtongue, and then I think I finally settled on Loud And Obnoxious.

[cursethedark.livejournal.com]

Dentyl Wryckyrd is awesome.

If I get my own copy, my band will be Overnight Failure.

What are Chris G. and the gang up to these days?

[puddnhead.livejournal.com]

I hope you watched _This_Is_Spinal_Tap_ with the commentary track. The commentary is a masterpiece in its own right. It in many ways, it rivals the original movie for entertainment value.

Re: What are Chris G. and the gang up to these days?

[spatch]

We really couldn't hear the audio much of the time due to the rest of the goings-on, so the commentary track would've just added a third layer of dialogue to the room, but I've heard it before and it's a thing of beauty. All very meta, really.

[janric.livejournal.com]

DL brought his copy over for Thanksgiving, and holy sweet merciful crapshite is it awesome. Babs and I are tempted to get it if we can prove we have people over often enough.

[prog.livejournal.com]

The thing about Rock Band, if I understand the concept correctly, is that it's by definition the sort of game one is happy to let one's friend buy, and still get to play it a lot. That's my strategy, anyway.

[spatch]

Yeah, it really isn't a game which lends itself to everybody on the block having. If you can log into your XBox Live account and get your dood's stuff, you can take 'em anywhere, right?

ROAD TRIP

[karyn.livejournal.com]

i was playing that game all last night too! woot

[amandaruth2001.livejournal.com]

Our band's name was Pony Poni Poné.

That has cracked me up several times today.

[ubiquity75.livejournal.com]

ME, TOO!

[valancy17.livejournal.com]

would the story be related to the band Tony! Toni! Toné! perhaps?

[spatch]

One would assume so, yes, but that's about as far as I got in the tale.

And now you know... the Rest of the Story.

[lediva.livejournal.com]

So, I knew this kid in college who told a story of a girl he went to high school with. She had Tourette's, like the full-on stereotypical randomly-shouting-profanity type. She was understandably embarrassed by this and worked really hard to replace the profanity with something more acceptable to the ears of the general public, except she couldn't usually catch herself ahead of time.

So apparently the high school hallways would occasionally echo with "Fuckshitbitchcunt...PONYPONYPONYPONYPONY!"

So... yeah. That story plus Tony Toni Tone = "Pony Poni Pone".

I am totally a horrible person for finding that hilarious, but hilarious I find it yet.

Re: And now you know... the Rest of the Story.

[kamberlane.livejournal.com]

This wins for me. PONY-PONI-PONE'-PAUEXNAE-POE-NAY!

Re: And now you know... the Rest of the Story.

[spatch]

That is brilliant and fits so well. We are all horrible people for finding it hilarious, but we're all horrible people for other reasons too (like loudly dropping the F-Bomb on It's A Small World in front of two little kids.)

Reminds me a bit of my Mormon friend in high school who, vowing to keep his language clean at all times, came up with creative alternatives to popular prejoratives such as "Flip you" and, instead of "go to hell", "go to bed".

Hearing "GO TO BED!" in the halls is not as hilarious as PONYPONYPONYPONYPONY, though.

[ubiquity75.livejournal.com]

I could not stop playing this at Best Buy yesterday.

I cannot WAIT for the PS2 version.
I am so buying this. Immediately.

[spatch]

I almost want to buy an XBOX 360 so I can download the song packs off XBox Live.

They're coming out with a humongoid Grateful Dead song pack in a bit. Yes, you too can jam out to 45-minute live versions of Sugar Magnolia and Dark Star!

Oh yeah, what's that require again? Money. Forgot about that.

I'd also need 3 friends to come over and jam regularly, and the cat doesn't count cause all he could do is lay on the bass drum pedal or something.

[ubiquity75.livejournal.com]

This is just about the raddest shit ever.

I cannot justify it if it required me to buy an expensive console, but I already have the PS2.

[single-doubt.livejournal.com]

That game is, indeed, pure awesome. Distilled.

On a side note: Did your friend (or anyone else who reads this that feels like commenting) have any issues with the hardware? I need to play around with my stuff a bit more, but both the drum kit (specifically the kick pedal) and the guitar are acting a bit odd.

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

YES. Derspatchel, are we Rocksgiving survivors in basic agreement that the drum kit was a pain in the ass? I found the kickpedal on Lediva's kit fairly reliable, but the drum pads had kinda weird sensitivity and sometimes they didn't register when I KNEW I'd hit 'em. Also, the Fender that (I think?) came with Rock Band felt really chunky and unpleasant compared to the Guitar Hero controllers. Had a LOT of trouble activating Star PowerOverdrive.