That's what I tell people too

Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?

Listen to Billy Corgan.

Koggie: Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?

Listen to Billy Corgan.

^ This

keiverarrow: That's what I tell people too

so you are against playing a fun game purely because you can play a real guitar? I play real guitar as well, have been for over 10 years and will continue to even after guitar hero has faded, but guitar hero is fun (rockband is better). I just think that is a sad excuse to seem superior to everyone else.

Guitar hero is great training...for playing barre chords in Drop-D. But then you have to find one of those really screamy and/or guttural lead singers, which is tough.

More like a guitar ZERO!! Amiright?!

So Billy Corgan's a pretentious douche, and people are surprised? I could've told you that ten years ago.

funny I thought that James played the guitar in SP

suck it, haters.

Why would God need to play a game?

Dreadstar: Why would God need to play a game?

Clapton?

ac982000: so you are against playing a fun game purely because you can play a real guitar? I play real guitar as well, have been for over 10 years and will continue to even after guitar hero has faded, but guitar hero is fun (rockband is better). I just think that is a sad excuse to seem superior to everyone else.

Something tells me Corgan's comment was said in jest, and that people are inferring WAAAAY too much from soulless text.

Dreadstar: Why would God need to play a game?

The same reason why he would need a starship perhaps?

ac982000 [TotalFark] Quote 2008-10-17 10:22:58 AM
keiverarrow: That's what I tell people too

so you are against playing a fun game purely because you can play a real guitar? I play real guitar as well, have been for over 10 years and will continue to even after guitar hero has faded, but guitar hero is fun (rockband is better). I just think that is a sad excuse to seem superior to everyone else.

You misinterpret. don't get me wrong, I LOVE guitar hero. I don't play it, but it fosters a love of the types of music I like to play, while not fostering any competition for getting actual performance jobs. It's great for indoctrination.

keiverarrow: That's what I tell people too

That's what I tell people, too, but they know I'm joking. I totally suck at that game, and I hate it. I get confused, and I know I'm not the only one among my friends. I think it's because playing the songs in the game has no resemblance to actually playing the song in reality, and my brain can't compute.

JoJoTheIdiotMonkeyBoy: Something tells me Corgan's comment was said in jest, and that people are inferring WAAAAY too much from soulless text.

On Fark?

I am shocked.

DrBimka [TotalFark] Quote 2008-10-17 11:04:18 AM
keiverarrow: That's what I tell people too

That's what I tell people, too, but they know I'm joking. I totally suck at that game, and I hate it. I get confused, and I know I'm not the only one among my friends. I think it's because playing the songs in the game has no resemblance to actually playing the song in reality, and my brain can't compute.

Same here. I have played it, but I suck, and for the same reason. Rock band had lots of songs i really knew how to play, but it's so different, you want to press too many buttons too fast, or the opposite...

Let's see, a guitarist not wanting to play a game simulating playing a guitar when the guitarist spent 20 years perfecting their own personal sound options on the real gear, with real tubes and real speakers and real amps and effects and yes, even real guitars.

I can't imagine this being too much of a surprise to people.

JoJoTheIdiotMonkeyBoy:

Something tells me Corgan's comment was said in jest, and that people are inferring WAAAAY too much from soulless text.

Possible. But being that billy Corgan is a whiny, pretentious biatch who fails to realize that he sucks because over grown 30 year old overweight woman-children still adore him with their tin-ears and love of shiatty poetry, it's likely that he actually said it.

I am a horrible musician but I'd 10x prefer playing badly and singing as opposed to playing a video game.

My friends suggest Guitar Hero to me often. They can't understand that, since I can actually play most of the songs already it holds zero interest for me.

That being said, if you like it, more power to you.

HotLonelyTeenageGirl: Possible. But being that billy Corgan is a whiny, pretentious biatch who fails to realize that he sucks because over grown 30 year old overweight woman-children still adore him with their tin-ears and love of shiatty poetry, it's likely that he actually said it.

Well, it's likely he actually said it, as he was quoted as saying it in TFA.

What I'm saying is that we don't have context for the quote, nothing to tell us in what way the words were spoken. We simply don't have enough to make the kinds of assumptions that people are making.

Let me break out my valley girl here for a moment:

As If.


/like gag me with like a chain saw that's like running and everything.

Billy Corgan's is legendarily a douche, but in his defense, he's sort of right. Video games are largely about wish fulfillment and escapism. When something is your job, you're probably less likely to want to come home and burn your leisure time playing a game that simulates said job. Hell, I don't come home, fire up my 360 and play "Copywriter Hero." And I'm willing to bet YOU wouldn't buy a game called "Burger Flipper," either.

To wit: I have a cousin who has done two tours as a sniper in Iraq. As such, he's really all that keen on "Halo" or "Call of Duty" anymore.

That's the same reason I don't play Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers.

Control_this: I am a horrible musician but I'd 10x prefer playing badly and singing as opposed to playing a video game.

The people that are forced to listen disagree.

MaxxLarge: And I'm willing to bet YOU wouldn't buy a game called "Burger Flipper," either.

The faster somebody can port Burgertime to XBLA, the better.

Billy Corgan is a BAMF of a guitarist.

And the Pumpkins were an outstanding studio band, but a shiatty live band. Live, everything was played 2x normal speed, billy shrieked the lyrics, and they couldn't play together for shiat.

NuttierThanEver: funny I thought that James played the guitar in SP

QFT

James Iha > Billy Corgan

JoJoTheIdiotMonkeyBoy: ac982000: so you are against playing a fun game purely because you can play a real guitar? I play real guitar as well, have been for over 10 years and will continue to even after guitar hero has faded, but guitar hero is fun (rockband is better). I just think that is a sad excuse to seem superior to everyone else.

Something tells me Corgan's comment was said in jest, and that people are inferring WAAAAY too much from soulless text.

Yes. But the Smashing Pumpkins would have been so much better if he stuck to playing guitar, and had Vedder or Cornell singing.

/a man can dream, can't he?

I don't play guitar hero. No money in it.
However, I do play graphic artist. Pays the bills.

Actually, I really love Billy Corgan's guitar playing. His singing and lyrics usually leave something to be desired but I always did think he was a great musician. Live their shows have gone very very very downhill since the mid 90's but at least back in the day they put on some really amazing shows.
As for GH itself, I only like to play the songs I never bothered how to play in real life. If I can actually pick one of my guitars and play the song I'm horrible at the game. I've also played almost 15 years so I do at least somewhat know how to really play them.
I can understand people not wanting to mess with work stuff when they get home. I'm a network admin and people always think I enjoy working on their computers since I do it for a living and that I'll some big fancy gaming rig. I don't. My own computers are older Frankenstein machines that for some reason or another I haven't paid for anything in years. When it comes to fixing your computer, I do it because I get paid to. I'll offer light advice and occasionally do trade of services. Other than that when I'm at some sort of social gathering I tell people that I'm an herbal proctologist because I get so tired of people telling about how their computer has some virus or adware and want detailed instructions on how to fix it. Since I started telling people I'm an herbal proctologist people don't ask for help anymore.

i suck at guitar hero AND guitar.

/still waiting for "80's Tamborine Hero"

He also doesnt used a douche because he IS a douche.

Pornographer: NuttierThanEver: funny I thought that James played the guitar in SP

QFT

James Iha > Billy Corgan

Yea, because James Iha played all of those ripping solos on the first two SP albums. Uh-huh.

/Would disagree
//Get off the lawn Billy

ziggy_gazzo: Dreadstar: Why would God need to play a game?

The same reason why he would need a starship perhaps?

That's exactly what I was thinking.

This guy could kick the bejeezus outta your guitar "heroes" - and they would probably know neither what, nor whom, just hit them.

I'd like him better playing Guitar Hero.

Figure 1. Guitar God


Figure 2. Guitar God


Figure 3. Guitar God

Guitar God = guitarist who inspires millions of others to play the instrument. Billy Corgan not one of them.

Cherub Rock on GH is cool....too bad they didn't choose "Bury Me" instead. Corgan is kind of an ass though....I like rockin out Corgan circa Gish....not whiney ass Corgan circa Mellon Collie.

My guitar god... anyone care to disagree?

Real guitars are for old people/

/ once I rose above the noise and confusion

Guitar Hero is a crappy game. They're all the same, and the songs suck.

any shock at who my guitar god is:







playing the guitar is not a contest, but if it was he would win

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: playing the guitar is not a contest, but if it was he would win

True

AuralArgument Dude, you aren't farking kidding. Deaner shreds. I was listening to Moistboyz III when I saw your pic. Nice, man.

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: any shock at who my guitar god is:

playing the guitar is not a contest, but if it was he would win


I just saw him a few weeks ago. It was an awesome show but there was a farking mosh pit. That pissed me off. Why the fark would you mosh at a Buckethead show? I don't care if you get into it and start jumping around and having a good time, but throwing 'bows around during Soothsayer is retarded.


/Moshed the fark out at the Amon Amarth show on Sunday.
//Moshing at anything other than a metal show is idiotic

meteorite: Since I started telling people I'm an herbal proctologist people don't ask for help anymore.

Well, I have this question about the efficacy of the witch hazel in Tucks pads...