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Guitar Hero II / Divided Sky / Face Melt

Posted on March 31st, 2007 by Chris

I know I’ve been posting a lot of youtube videos lately - but you know, it really is a great resource. Here’s a little nugget I found posted on a message board. If you’ve ever played Guitar Hero before and you like Phish (hell, even if you don’t like Phish) you should watch this. Apparently there is a way to create custom tracks using a pretty cool idiot proof process. I haven’t tried it myself, but after seeing this video I am extremely temped.

I’ll post the first part of the song here just so the whole thing is in this post:

Part two (for me) was much more interesting in terms of playing difficulty. Things get interesting at about the 2:15 mark, and then really interesting at about the 2:50 mark, and then…well, you’ll see.

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Come hear Uncle John’s Band…

Posted on March 4th, 2007 by Chris

We caught our first Ratdog show at the Rochester Auditorium - all around it was a pretty good show. I don’t know much about Bobby’s post-Dead music, but they did not disappoint in the least:

I: Jam > Shakedown Street > She Belongs to Me > Easy Answers > Money for Gasoline, Crazy Fingers > Brown-Eyed Women, Easy to Slip > Lazy River Road > Big Railroad Blues
II: Deep Elem Blues > Fever > Victim or the Crime, I Need a Miracle > Uncle John’s Band > The Other One > Stuff > Dear Prudence > Uncle John’s Band (reprise) > One More Saturday Night
E: Ripple, Touch of Grey

The killer Shakedown to open the first set had the place bouncing, and Crazy Fingers > Brown Eyed Women carried the momentum through to the end of the set. The last half of the second set was great fun, broken up nicely by a great version of Prudence. Touch of Grey was (shockingly) a nice surprise to me in the encore and it left everyone feeling a little better about life.

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