If your just looking to kick back and push colored buttons while a song plays in the background, then this is for you, but don't be impressed with yourself like you learned to play the real thing. Otherwise, if you want real reward, learn to play the song on a real guitar. A harmony guitar and a small amp will cost you maybe thirty to sixty bucks more. Guitar Hero would interest me if it had six buttons on each fret, and the buttons were relevant to the songs, it would be hard, but they could have lessons that baby-stepped you up to unlocking the songs, that would be a good idea. Nothing as rewarding as being able to play the real thing, especially when you get into coming up with your own music. Then your a real guitar hero, not someone fast at matching colored buttons to colors on a screen that have no relevence to the song what so ever.
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This album may have been ok, if another band had done it, or if the same band would have been honest and told us when load came around, "Yeah, we're not putting the Metallica label on this one, because we're exploring our influences." When members of Suicidal Tendencies decided they wanted to do a funk album, they slapped, "Infectious Grooves" on it. Metallica should have done the same. What turned me onto Metallica back in the day was they were touching on subjects no other musician's would. WHile other bands we're sounding poppy, and singing about having a crush on someone, this band was tackling drug abuse, the death penalty, depression, and they were doing it in a way no one could imagine. Yes, if you played a Metallica album in the 80's, those who were brainwashed by mainstream music never gave it a chance,"It sounds weird...this sucks.." Metallica played against manipulation, and some people don't like that( and those are usually the ones that submit to all kinds of manipulation.) They inspired a whole movement of underground thrash bands, but none of them could reach you the way Metallica did. Many bands today are inspired by the, "Master's" formula, but they do things to ruin it, like throw cookie monster sounding incoherent vocals over their music, because they want to sound tough, and it's sad now many bands are just growling over anything and holding out their hands expecting a paycheck( growl, growl, growl, wow, I'm scream-o, it's popular now, where's my check..) I need old Metallica like some withdraw I never made it through. Now, with Load, Re-load, the critical thinking fans that were there when they had no videos on MTV..( Yes, back then..the only promotion they had were a few underground mags, and their loyal fans who sought their patches, and wore them proudly on denim jackets.) I'm not saying their's anything wrong with those albums...it's just upsetting that Metallica abandoned what was working completly. Well, those fans were traded for those who had the mentality to hack a verse-chorus-verse-chorus-one solo minimum -chorus structure. We were traded for the kind of guys who's favorite songs are those provided by top 40 radio, and the kind of women who think wearing big Paris Hilton style sun-glasses and owning small dogs is something cool now. I wouldn't trade, "Stinking drunk with power", over "tick tick tick tock, I'm madly in anger with you." anyday. I will take eight deep songs on an album, over the , "Let's knock out 25 real quick, and pick eleven" crap you've been doing." Keep trying guys, maybe someday you'll understand.
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