I’m such a nerd.<\/p>\n
I want this. I want this so<\/i> bad.<\/p>\n
The Beatles: Rock Band<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n There’s nothing there yet to see at that website, just an image of the inside of Abbey Road Studios.<\/p>\n So what is it?<\/p>\n It’s a video game. Coming on September 9th, 2009. (Note to self: Look in The Complete Beatles Chronicle<\/i> when I get home from work tonight and see if there’s any significance to September 9th in the Beatles’ career.)<\/p>\n Kotaku has more on the game<\/a>:<\/p>\n The Beatles: Rock Band<\/i> will allow fans to pick up the guitar, bass, mic or drums and “experience The Beatles extraordinary catalog of music through gameplay that takes players on a journey through the legacy and evolution of the band’s legendary career,” according to the [press] release.<\/p>\n The game will also have a limited number of new hardware offerings modeled after instruments used by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr throughout their career.<\/p>\n The game will be sold as standalone software and hardware as well as a limited edition bundle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ooh, that premium edition bundle. Yeah, $250.00 is a wee bit pricey for something like that, but… It’s like Nick Hornby wrote in Fever Pitch<\/i> — “Obsessives have no choice.”<\/p>\n At the very least, I’ll get the instrument-less version. I’m assuming that Rock Band<\/i> can be played without instruments? Just the controller? I’ve never actually played it. I don’t really know.<\/p>\n Hmm, now I wonder if the long-awaited CD remasters of the Beatles’ original studio albums will coincide with the release of The Beatles: Rock Band<\/i>. That makes too<\/i> much sense, which means that Apple won’t do that. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n ETA:<\/b> So, consulting Mark Lewisohn’s The Complete Beatles Chronicle<\/i> for things that happened in Beatles history on September 9th:<\/p>\n As was pointed out to me, 9 was John Lennon’s favorite number. He was born on October 9th. One of his earliest songs was “One After 909.” His solo song “#9 Dream” is my favorite solo Lennon song. So there’s an instant connection — 9-9-09.<\/p>\n Works for me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m such a nerd. I want this. I want this so bad. The Beatles: Rock Band. There’s nothing there yet to see at that website, just an image of the inside of Abbey Road Studios. So what is it? It’s a video game. Coming on September 9th, 2009. (Note to self: Look in The CompleteContinue reading “On The Beatles: Rock Band”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4097],"tags":[98,4091],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","tag-the-beatles","tag-video-games","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n