Tue, Jun 23, 2009 | 08:00 BST
White Stripes: Music games are “depressing,” “sad”
White Stripes’ Jack White has told NME that bands being forced to use music games to get in front of “kids” is all a bit crushing.
“It’s depressing to have a label come and tell you that ['Guitar Hero'] is how kids are learning about music and experiencing music,” said the musician.
He added that he doesn’t care “which format people should get their music in… if you have to be in a video game to get in front of them, that’s a little sad.”
Hey, Jack. Your music’s all over Guitar Hero. Just saying.
Thanks, IGN.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, EA, Music, Rhythm action
Tags: guitar hero, jack white
7 comments
#1
mart
23/06/09, 8:11 am
Heh that’s great; offer a complaint without offering a solution. Fact is, a lot of artists make a lot of their money from Guitar Hero et al, so a viable business model is sure to attract label attention. I’m sure they’d be all ears if you had an idea for a better exposure model, Jack..
#2
anasui
23/06/09, 12:07 pm
sad indeed, but I’dn’t want my kids to learn music from the White Stripes, either
#3
cachucha
23/06/09, 4:34 pm
they arent in any guitar hero or rock band game atm
#4
Dr.Ghettoblaster
23/06/09, 6:28 pm
We’re talking about KIDS here (generally 10 and under?). What does he expect, them surfing Pitchfork and reading Rolling Stone for the latest up and coming indy artists? Guitar Hero’s better for kids exposure to music than some Radio Disney…
#5
Stephany Nunneley
23/06/09, 8:33 pm
cachucha – Jack White’s side project The Raconteurs was featured in GH: World Tour, and Blue Orchid (White Stripes) will be in GH5.
#6
Cort
23/06/09, 8:52 pm
Wouldn’t mind hearing this sort of thing so much if he wasn’t such an affected, pretentious, contrived cock.
#7
Stephany Nunneley
23/06/09, 9:01 pm
Well don’t forget Jimmy Page, Cort, saying young people will not learn anything substantial from these games.
“You think of the drum part that John Bonahm did on Led Zeppelin’s first track on the first album, ‘Good Times Bad Times’,” he said. “How many drummers in the world can play that part, let alone on Christmas morning.”
While I tend to agree with him, I am surprised he hasn’t allowed any Zeppelin to help pad his Aleister Crowley fund. You know, since he loves anything the man touched, saw, owned or farted on.