The Jackson Four

Over the course of the past 5 years my video game playing has slowed to a crawl, but occasionally a game comes along that I get into. Carlos saved and saved and recently bought a game called "Rock Band" for the Xbox 360. It comes with drums, a guitar, and a microphone that you have to "play" in harmony to a variety of songs to gain points. Here's a movie that shows what the game is like:



When Carlos got the game on Monday night we formed our family band which as of now is unnamed (we are entertaining suggestions (no puns please)). We started with legendary axe-man Carlos on the guitar, Carrie and Jack on the vocals, and yours truly on the drums. I was stoked to find a song I really like that is somewhat "underground" - Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs - on the track list, so after some cajoling we fired it up.

The fusion of our uncoordinated, off-key, off-tone, seizure of an attempt at music would have sent Simon Cowell straight to the bottle/antidepressant combo. I literally shuddered and felt myself flushing mid-song. Needless to say we are going to have to schedule some band practices before taking it on the road.