Jack White and Jimmy Page Condemn 'Guitar Hero'

Guitar Hero/Rock Band and games like it are shallow, practically worthless (except for labels who stoop to this level to inflate album sales) and TOTALLY miss the mark as to what music is about.
Thing is, to kids who play it, it's REAL! But it's nothing more than a delusion! COLORED DOTS moving on a screen and hitting corresponding COLORED DOTS on a fake plastic guitar is their first real exposure to music. No emotion! No soul! NO feeling. Just "press this color when that color appears". It's teaching them that THAT is all there is to music. We're teaching them to be ROBOTS. Pathetic.

It's very SAD indeed!

Jimmy Page is a musical GOD. Guitar Hero is a joke. Can't compare a video game to real music! No Way ! Jack White is the real deal as well. If you watched "it might get loud", it's very clear. I'm not a big U2 fan but respect Edge non the less as a very talented guitar player. Jimmy and Jack should do an album, it would be AMAZING.

How I was really exposed to such bands as Led Zeppelin or The White Stripes was really through listening to the radio and checkin out record stores after work and branching out from there, so what they are saying is entirely true, because you really don't need a video game to help you discover or learn to play new music. It takes all the fun out of discovering great artists on your own.

guitar hero is fine. as a game.
It has as much to do with real playing as a car based game does to driving.
actually ...... I am suspicious of anyone who claims that guitar hero has made them a better player on guitar.

In fact I would call them a liar.
A poseur
The strums and sustains and holding notes are DIFFERENT.
Don't pose as an "expert"
If you like guitar hero, kudos. If you want to play guitar, bravo.

Apples and oranges.

tell me different?
" don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining."

I mean REALLY?

Jefferson

These kids today...

hey guys I'm a self taught guitarist and as such have many bad habits now that are hard to shake but playing these games has got me playing better than before, my sense of timing has improved in my strumming and my upstroke/downstroke discipline is increasing the more I play. Kids being exposed to this is only a good thing as far as I can see...nurture a passion for music whatever wherever the source!

p.s jack white is sad that this is how the youth are exposed to music huh....hasn't stopped them putting "blue orchid" on guitar hero 5 tho has it!!

Having another outlet for people to find music on is a good thing. It gives kids a sense of history and allows them to experience a large variety of genres. Kids can't afford to buy albums, and artists don't want people pirating stuff so realistically rhythm games are pretty good way to get your music heard. Are they seeing bad in it simply because it's in a lowly video game? Perhaps, if that's the case, I would rather stay grinds wow gold
and joins raids on WoW.

WOW ! PEOLPE ARE REALLY LOSING TOUCH WITH THE REAL WORLD ! Jimmy Page would kick damn near any guitarists ass at just about any song out EVER . still to this day he is a guitar god ! i dont think he is upset at all about not being on the game. if he wanted to be on it he would hes friggin jimmy page dude can do what he wants . jack white on the other hand is a douche bag in general but i agree with him . it is sad that the only way to get kids exposed to music is with a game. KIDS go pick up a real guitar and play zeppelin or white stripes then tell me how easy it was . music is important.

As a guitarist myself, I also indulge in the odd game of Guitar Hero. It has shown me good music, but most of the exposure I get to great bands is through recommendations from music lovers I respect. I would then listen to the band through YouTube or whatever and then go out and buy an album.

However, there are a lot of kids out there who are learning about rock music through the series. Many accomplished guitarists agree that the game could teach many budding guitarists a lot of bad habits, but I think it could still inspire many to go out and properly learn guitar.

They may have a point in that the musical exposure could be very restricted though.

So Jimmy Page is just an 'old washed up' guitarist huh?
Disagree with him if you willo on the video game, but remember that this'old guy' can still play circles around most of the young idiots that pass for rock musicians right now. And no, a heavy power chord doesn'
pass for guitar prowess.