Things were going smoothly up until the last day of the festival when a band failed to show up on time. Apparently, most of the band was ready to go at the scheduled time, but the bassist had disappeared. Postponing the set for 5, 10 minutes is not a big deal, but pretty soon 20 minutes had gone by and the bassist was still no where to be seen. The bassist had been seen around the festival earlier that day so they suspected that he was still in the vicinity. The band, in an attempt to speed up the search as well as keep people entertained announced the problem to the crowd and got everyone involved in the missing bassist fiasco.

After 30 minutes, my friend who helped put on the event decided that they needed to put someone – something – anything on stage to keep people from getting bored and leaving the festival early. While thinking about this he happened to hear someone playing guitar. He looked around and found a guy in the corner of the lounge singing and strumming his guitar. The guy had never played a major gig in his life. He was just a nice dude that liked to play guitar. The staff member approached him and asked if he would be interested in going on stage. The guitarist didn’t hesitate to think about the offer. He gladly accepted, agreeing to play 2-3 songs until the bassist situation was settled.

The guitarist went on stage and played his heart out, an opportunity he may have never had if he was not prepared for anything. The story has a funny ending, too. While the unknown guitarist rocked out on stage, the bassist was found asleep on a couch. His band, I imagine, was royally pissed off.

The game is planned for a 2009 holiday release and has been described as a “journey” through the band’s albums. There aren’t many details yet except that the game will not be a part of the Rock Band series but a standalone game. However, rumor has it that you will still be using Rock Band instruments as controllers.

Harmonix has also stated that there will be more to the game than just playing through the music. My guess as to what this means is as good as yours. Perhaps you will play through the Beatles’ fictional worlds, such as Pepperland, taking out baddies with your guitar skills along the way? That would be a trip!

Paul McCartney, bassist and co-founder of the Beatles, commented on the project, “[the game] is a fun idea which broadens the appeal of the Beatles and their music. I like people having the opportunity to get to know the music from the inside out.”

Most metal guitarist

Those who weren’t afraid to raise some hell. The most metal of bands. They have invaded millions of minds with philosophies of death, blood, violence, sex, destruction and general loudness. Here is strumstrum’s list of the five most metal songs ever made.

At number 5, Slayer takes the title for the song Raining Blood. Truly one of the greatest thrash metal songs of all time, Raining Blood is absolute metal bad ass.

Numero 4 on the list is AC/DC’s Back in Black. A very recognizable song in rock n roll, there is no question of AC/DC’s influence on metal.

Metallica claims the 3rd spot on the list with Master of Puppets. What would metal be without Metallica? Less technical of a guitar style, perhaps?

At number 2, Guns N’ Roses kicks some hair-metal ass with Welcome to the Jungle. Listen to those vocals baby. Not to mention Slash! Welcome to the Jungle is pretty fucking metal.

Finally, the number 1 metal song of all time is Black Sabbath’s Iron Man. Say what you will about the man, but Ozzy Osbourne is one very metal dude!
Nobody wants him
They just turn their heads
Nobody helps him
Now he has his revenge
Heavy boots of lead
Fills his victims full of dread
Running as fast as they can
Iron man lives again!