Nerds

If you are a frequent reader of this blog you know that one of the things I learned while in Detroit for a bachelor party is that nobody born before 1989 will ever be as good as anyone born after 1989 in Guitar Hero. Here is my proof:



I especially like how proud the kid is at the end. The song that this 9 year old is playing is called "Through the Fire and Flames" by Dragonforce. When I first heard it I thought that it must be from some hair metal band from the 1980s. The thrashing guitars, the lyrics that remind me of movies like The Neverending Story, Legend, or Willow. Well I was right about the hair but wrong about the date. Dragonforce put out this single way back in 2007! That's right. From this video I dare you tell me someone didn't just kidnap some garage band from 1984, put them in a time machine, bought some clothes from J. Crew, and took them back to 1984 where they then filmed this video and stored the tape in a time capsule not to be opened until there was a guitar based video game out there that was just as cool as they were. Check it out.



Classic. I know you are asking yourself, "Self, I wonder what Dragonforce's influences are." Well according to an interview by lead guitarist Herman Li:

The band influence is wide across the Metal spectrum. Everything we listen to can influence us in a way, Hard Rock, cock hard, Death Metal, Thrash, Speed, shred, guitar instrumental stuff, progressive and definitely late 80’s, early 90’s video games music.

Did you catch that? Hard rock, sure. Cock hard...um...okay... Death Metal, okay. Trash, Speed; ya think? EARLY 90'S VIDEO GAMES! Not enough bands have been influenced by video games and it is a shame think of all the wonderful songs the world has been missing because of the lack of video game pop/rock out there. For his next album Justin Timberlake better do remixes of the themes to the Legend of Zelda, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Brothers, and the song that plays during the training cut scenes in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out. If only the Beatles were around when Donkey Kong came out maybe there wouldn't have been a rift between John and Paul.

Speaking of Donkey Kong, if you haven't seen King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, you have to go out and rent it tonight. It is full of real winners like these guys:



My favorite is the guy in the food fight shirt.