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Posted by: Marty | 07/17/2010 at 05:20
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It's been a while since the last collection of (smaller) news items but for your enjoyment here's another one.
Interview with Jay from Russia
With bad Religion playing their first shows ever in Russia in just a few days from now, the St. Peterburg Times did an interview with Jay.
Here's Jay talking about his expectations of Russia:
"I’ve never been (to Russia), I have no idea. Having never been there and getting an opportunity to go to someplace is truly humbling, and I’m really excited to go somewhere that I haven’t been before. This is a place that I’ve been looking forward to getting to for a long time. I’m really excited."
Check out the complete interview (in English!) here.
This is where Bad Religion will be playing:
July 19 - St. Petersburg - Glav Club
July 20 - Moscow - Milk Club
Two more songs for Rock Band
As of July 20 two more Bad Religion songs are available for download for the Rock Band video game. The songs are New Dark Ages and No Control.
Other Bad Religion songs for Rock Band obviously include 21st Century (Digital Boy) and Sorrow.
Are people still playing these games btw?
European tour poster by Munk One
Earlier Munk One made the 30 Year anniversary poster (you know, the one with Jesus on it). Now he also made one specifically for the European tour. Check it out:
This one is also available as a "signed and numbered artist edition" of 100. Dimensions are: 18″x 24″.
If you like it, you can get one from www.munkone.com for $45.00 USD + S&H.
Video interview with Brooks from Amsterdam
There's not much to tell about this one except that it's an interview, a video, from Amsterdam, the interviewer has an awful Dutch accent, it contains the obvious questions and it's from a few months back. Enjoy.
How come people are still asking Brooks (and the others) about how he joined the band? As if it happened last month instead of 8 years ago.
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07/21/2010 at 00:54
I'm sorry, but it just seemed like you were one of those generic people who'd say "AW MAN, ROCK BAND IS DESTROYING MUSIC" or "GO LEARN A REAL INSTRUMENT!" From my experience, everyone who had that mentality was a huge douchebag in that area, and that's the initial vibe I was getting. Though, it seems that you took what I had to say a little more to heart than anything. |
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07/20/2010 at 20:42
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07/20/2010 at 20:17
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07/20/2010 at 17:38
Also, I just want to say that I know how to play guitar, drums, and bass. I've been playing them for years, and I'm a huge supporter of Rock Band.
But, you know what? Expanding your mind to new mediums sucks, anyway. Right guys? |
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07/20/2010 at 17:37
There's this thing called research, I hear it's pretty good at figuring stuff out. www.google.com |
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07/20/2010 at 13:01
I'll play you some time if you want. You're already on my friend's list. |
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07/20/2010 at 11:57
The best way to get someone to learn something is by making it into a game. Although I don't know how Rock Band can teach how to play since it's nothing like a real guitar. |
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07/20/2010 at 11:35
I have never played any Rock Band in my life and I still don't understand what it is that you have to do in vocals mode but I figure anything off of No Control (think I Want Something More in particular) would be pretty hard to pull off. The same with Turn on the Light or Blenderhead. You have to sing into a special mic or something, I assume. Wow, I feel old. |
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07/20/2010 at 09:34
So i downloaded the DLC and i have some stuff to say about it. I immediately went to play both song on Bass, Expert. They are extremely difficult in my opinion. I found that the bass was easier on No control though. but i just skipped straight from bass to expert vocals on no control. I am addicted to the vocals and i can't stop. i 100 percent like 3 times out of the 11 times i played it.
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07/20/2010 at 08:40
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07/20/2010 at 01:49
I don't know why a bunch of you have a problem with Rock Band. It's a music video game made by people who are passionate about music. Bad Religion being featured on it is a GREAT way for exposure and it offers those a sense of knowing these songs even further. Also, I would love Bad Religion to be on Rock Band 3, as they're making the game able to actually teach people to play guitar.
To sum up, fuck all of those who only have negative things to say about Rock Band. |
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07/19/2010 at 21:03
Hmm... I'll be hanging out with a friend who has Rock Band tomorrow. I may have to convince her to buy it so I can play No Control. But not New Dark Ages, it's best to introduce people to BR with the older classic BR songs.
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07/19/2010 at 19:03
w00tt... tomorrow is the new DLC for rock band =D
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07/19/2010 at 01:24
70+ bucks w' shipping for the poster.. Didn't see any other stuff for sale than three shirts, and the 3rd shirt was that "same" old white '80-85 cassette' tee. I got a bit bummed out. I was waiting to get a shitload of stuff... |
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07/18/2010 at 11:46
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07/17/2010 at 14:21
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07/17/2010 at 14:16
Well, now I have a reason to dust off Rock Band again. I don't mind kids finding out about Bad Religion through Rock Band, I mean, they have to find out about them somewhere. I do, however, disagree with claiming you're a fan of a band after only hearing one song. But I think if you're going to download a song by any band, you'd probably only do it if you we're already a fan of the band in the first place.
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07/17/2010 at 13:36
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07/17/2010 at 12:50
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07/17/2010 at 12:41
Yeah, but it is DLC which means they have to pay 4 dollars for them, if it was on disk then we would have a problem, lots of rock band fans are mad this week since it is BR and The Stooges so I dont think we will have a problem with these 2 songs.
Also I dunno what happened to my profile i havent been able to log in for 2 months,did I get banned? Kyuss |
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07/17/2010 at 12:01
And then you ask them about songs that aren't Infected, Sorrow, No Control, New Dark Ages, or Digital Boy. |
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07/17/2010 at 11:28
YESSSS MORE BAD RELIGION SONGS!!! WOOOOTTT
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07/17/2010 at 10:41
"Yeah, we’ll play something from everything we’ve done, part of our whole catalogue"
Jay's denial of certain records is complete? |
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07/17/2010 at 10:11
Cool! Just when I was wondering the other day where I could get that awesome European tour poster I saw uploaded in the Tours&Shows section... Now there's no way I am spending 45 bucks on this so I'm hoping they will be selling it at the shows, like they did with the American tour version, in which case I'd truly appreciate it if some helpful Euro fan would buy one for me. Of course, I'm ready to PayPal in advance.
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07/17/2010 at 09:01
I know. |
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07/17/2010 at 08:32
Great, now there's going to be more obnoxious kids going around claiming they know Bad Religion because they played one of their songs on Rock Band. Damnit.
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