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Quick question for you guys out there. My kick pedal cracked on me about a week and a half ago. It's just a minor inch and a half crack on the left/middle side of the kick pedal. It still can be played on, but too much pressure on it and I'm sure it's going to break. As soon as it cracked, I went to the Rock Band support site and got them to send me a box to ship the broken one in for another kick pedal. When the box arrived, I realized that they just sent me another kick pedal. The dilemma now is do I send the still operational kick pedal off or keep it? Has anyone had a similar situation? There was a return shipping label included.
 
Whoa Why do you Love me by Garbage is fucking awesome on drums.

El Scorcho and Sex Type Thing are also good on drums except that people might not like Sex Type Thing because it is really easy.

All the songs are fun and if you don't mind them not being too challenging (why do you love me is actually difficult in some parts) then I'd say get em if you want to play the drums on them.

Note: Just a disclaimer but I am playing these on expert if you want some context.

[quote name='Negronometry']Quick question for you guys out there. My kick pedal cracked on me about a week and a half ago. It's just a minor inch and a half crack on the left/middle side of the kick pedal. It still can be played on, but too much pressure on it and I'm sure it's going to break. As soon as it cracked, I went to the Rock Band support site and got them to send me a box to ship the broken one in for another kick pedal. When the box arrived, I realized that they just sent me another kick pedal. The dilemma now is do I send the still operational kick pedal off or keep it? Has anyone had a similar situation? There was a return shipping label included.[/quote]

I had basically that exact situation. Yeah I did the standard shipping option. I got my new pedal back in January and I was confused on why I received a new pedal when they explicitly stated that I was going to receive an empty box to ship the broken one back in. So I assumed that they were sending out new pedals and they did not want the old pedals back. Then a couple days later I received my Wood Rock Pedal in the mail. Since I'm a bit OCD (haha maybe thats an understatement or maybe thats not the reason at all) I did not want to take apart my new pedal and install the Wood Rock Pedal when I could install it on the broken pedal since installing the Wood Rock pedal means taking apart a bunch of stuff to in order to install it. So I installed it and it worked great. But a week or so later I find this piece of paper on the ground in my room and it has a shipping notice/label that talks about sending me the a box for the broken pedal. What I didn't notice before was that there were two sheets of paper tucked together and on the other sheet was the shipping label back to EA so I could send it back to them. Well I couldn't send them the broken pedal since it was modded and I was going to send them back the new pedal since it wasn't broken. But the main thing that makes me a frustrated is that they gave me ZERO instructions on what to do with the box or the new pedal or anything. I have real shitty luck so I've dealt with a lot of RMA's and when they ship you the return box there are always instructions. So that was unprofessional on their part. Now I'm a moral person but I really didn't know what to do with my situation. So I did a lot of research and they said that if they don't get the broken pedal back within about 30 days that they will bill you but take note that this rule is for the express option since EA was supposed to ship me an empty box in the first place thus they don't need this rule since they supposedly get the broken pedal back no matter what on the standard option in order to get the new pedal. So even though it was for express I'm sure it would also work with the standard. So the plan was now wait 30 days and see if they say anything back or send me a bill in the mail because if they were going to do that I would gladly call them up, explain my situation and send the new pedal back. But they haven't done anything so I guess they don't care? So I still have both the broken one and the new one. Hope that helps.
 
[quote name='Negronometry']Quick question for you guys out there. My kick pedal cracked on me about a week and a half ago. It's just a minor inch and a half crack on the left/middle side of the kick pedal. It still can be played on, but too much pressure on it and I'm sure it's going to break. As soon as it cracked, I went to the Rock Band support site and got them to send me a box to ship the broken one in for another kick pedal. When the box arrived, I realized that they just sent me another kick pedal. The dilemma now is do I send the still operational kick pedal off or keep it? Has anyone had a similar situation? There was a return shipping label included.[/quote]

you should send it back, there is a risk of them charging you some absurd amount if you do not send it back. plus you have a new pedal, what do you want a second broken one for?
 
[quote name='orntar']you should send it back, there is a risk of them charging you some absurd amount if you do not send it back. plus you have a new pedal, what do you want a second broken one for?[/quote]The kick pedal still works. Prior to getting the new one in the mail I was still playing on it. As long as I don't go crazy on it, it'll probably be fine. And could they really charge me for it? All they have is my shipping address, and none of my billing information.
 
[quote name='kaptinmorgan']any word yet on DLC for next week, still nothing on wikipedia and haven't heard anywhere else, RHCP maybe?[/quote] That RHCP pack is nothing, but a big ol internet rampant speculation with no real claim to it (and I would know, because I posted it here as possible DLC).

Better chance speculating with this list for next upcoming weeks, since Harmonix has yet confirmed nor denied any of the songs...
The Who - "Behind Blue Eyes"
The Rolling Stones - "Brown Sugar"
The Rolling Stones - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
The Who - "Pinball Wizard"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Zero"
(no clue) - "Received Your Letter"
Oasis - "Rock 'n' Roll Star"
Def Leppard (or Muse, either of which would rule) - "Hysteria"
Tokio Hotel - "Through the Monsoon"
Blur - "Beetlebum"
Grateful Dead - "Casey Jones"
Grateful Dead - "Alabama Getaway"
Grateful Dead - "Sugar Magnolia"
Grateful Dead - "Truckin'"
Grateful Dead - "I Need A Miracle"
Grateful Dead - "China Cat Sunflower"
Grateful Dead - "Franklin's Tower"
Grateful Dead (or The Crash or the highly unlikely Jonathan Coulton) - "Still Alive"
Foo Fighters (or Van Halen) - "D.O.A."

If I were to get Zero and Pinball Wizard all in one week, a part of me would shit myself in joy.
 
please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, please be Muse, pretty please?? :)
 
[quote name='bardockkun'] The Who - "Behind Blue Eyes"
The Rolling Stones - "Brown Sugar"
The Rolling Stones - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
The Who - "Pinball Wizard"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Zero"
(no clue) - "Received Your Letter"
Oasis - "Rock 'n' Roll Star"
Def Leppard (or Muse, either of which would rule) - "Hysteria"
Tokio Hotel - "Through the Monsoon"
Blur - "Beetlebum"
Grateful Dead - "Casey Jones"
Grateful Dead - "Alabama Getaway"
Grateful Dead - "Sugar Magnolia"
Grateful Dead - "Truckin'"
Grateful Dead - "I Need A Miracle"
Grateful Dead - "China Cat Sunflower"
Grateful Dead - "Franklin's Tower"
Grateful Dead (or The Crash or the highly unlikely Jonathan Coulton) - "Still Alive"
Foo Fighters (or Van Halen) - "D.O.A."[/quote]

Grateful Dead has no song called Still Alive that I can find, so I currently think Coulton is the most likely. And the only current lead on Received Your Letter is a Swiss band called Schnitzer.
 
WTF? I downloaded 2 of the songs released today and when I go to solo quickplay only 12 songs are listed and 10 of them are songs I downloaded. I tried restarting and got the same result. Anyone ever heard of something like this? I'm pretty annoyed.
 
[quote name='javeryh']WTF? I downloaded 2 of the songs released today and when I go to solo quickplay only 12 songs are listed and 10 of them are songs I downloaded. I tried restarting and got the same result. Anyone ever heard of something like this? I'm pretty annoyed.[/QUOTE]

not that it matters but what are the other 2 original survivors? (songs)
 
[quote name='mr ryles']not that it matters but what are the other 2 original survivors? (songs)[/quote]

Should I Stay Or Should I Go
The Hand That Feeds
 
[quote name='javeryh']WTF? I downloaded 2 of the songs released today and when I go to solo quickplay only 12 songs are listed and 10 of them are songs I downloaded. I tried restarting and got the same result. Anyone ever heard of something like this? I'm pretty annoyed.[/quote]
If you're talking about songs you dl'ed not showing up, just re-download them again. It happend to be and cherry bomb and so re-downloaded and they showed up.
 
El Scrocho might very well be the easiest song I've ever played on guitar. 98% on expert on my first time through, and I've never played any songs on expert.

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[quote name='Charron']Grateful Dead has no song called Still Alive that I can find, so I currently think Coulton is the most likely. And the only current lead on Received Your Letter is a Swiss band called Schnitzer.[/quote]

..still alive is the song from portal.
 
[quote name='Scorch']..still alive is the song from portal.[/quote]

It better be (that is John Coulton's song), but it's not yet confirmed officially.
 
Try as I may, I can't imagine anyone singing like GLaDOS and sounding good. Especially with 3 other band mates, so I can't imagine it being the Portal theme ever. EVER! If it somehow makes it, I will be more in shock and disbelief then anything when playing it.
 
Oh yah and for people who argue they can swear in DLC. Outside of "Goddamn you half-Japanese girls" in El Scorcho, they cut out the "I've held back a wealth of shit" in Why Do You Love Me. So looks like swearing only applies to saying the lord's name in vain...especially toward half Japanese girls.
 
Downloaded all 3 tracks, these are my opinions from a drummer that only plays on Expert:

1. Sex Type Thing - Found it to be very boring and linear, much of the beats during the verses are boring to play, even though they do sound "heavy," the bass isn't complex at all. On the other hand, the song seems to flow nicely, except for those quick fills with a quick double-bass hit before each verse.

2. El Scorcho - Well, I fucking love the song already, and this was surprisingly fun to play. From the dinky and slow intro, into the face paced sections after the chorus. Great song, uses a lot of great bass near the ending of the song.

3. Why Do You Love Me? - Wow, this song is fucking great and flows really well. I like the hi-hat work which translates into quick triplet hits. The chorus has a good bass-pedal feeling to it, much like how most of the bass is off-beat in Little Sister and such. The second part of the interlude is a big WTF though, but I only played the song 4 times (just to see if I could 5-star it, and I did), loving each replay of the song.
 
[quote name='bardockkun']Try as I may, I can't imagine anyone singing like GLaDOS and sounding good. Especially with 3 other band mates, so I can't imagine it being the Portal theme ever. EVER! If it somehow makes it, I will be more in shock and disbelief then anything when playing it.[/quote]

Have you not heard it?

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=sxNmeMklFk8[/media]
[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=bWUcVj31QaM[/media]

and it is the Portal theme. Just something fun to put in there.. like what they did with the Halo 3 theme in Guitar Hero 3, or the godawful Timmy song in Rock Band.

..and now for something completely random and just.. fucking creepy.

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=4X9Zuf9kPKU[/media]
 
[quote name='Scorch']Have you not heard the human version?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sxNmeMklFk8

and it is the Portal theme. Just something fun to put in there.. like what they did with the Halo 3 theme in Guitar Hero 3, or the godawful Timmy song in Rock Band[/quote]

Even still, I still can't help but be in COMPLETE disbelief that it's the Portal theme. Like even if/when I play it a part of me would feel so odd knowing that Harmonix listened to something abunch of gamers were listening to and felt the need to put it in their game. It's just so surreal...

Plus I just don't know how they'd make it sound with bass, guitars and drums so having a hard time to picture that as well. It also damn well better be GLaDOS vocals in it!

*EDIT: Thanks for posting that other link...I was going to sleep, but I'm afraid to because I don't want no EVIL looking robot singing Still Alive and possibly raping me to death in my dreams...or in real life.
 
[quote name='bardockkun']Even still, I still can't help but be in COMPLETE disbelief that it's the Portal theme. Like even if/when I play it a part of me would feel so odd knowing that Harmonix listened to something abunch of gamers were listening to and felt the need to put it in their game. It's just so surreal...

Plus I just don't know how they'd make it sound with bass, guitars and drums so having a hard time to picture that as well. It also damn well better be GLaDOS vocals in it![/quote]

..it's surreal to think that video game developers play other people's games and enjoy the same thing that we do? Does it blow your mind to think that actors watch movies, too?

It's not hard to imagine the theme with drums and a bass line.. considering the song already has bass and drums in it!!

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI[/media]
 
I'm calling it right now that next week DLC will have DOA - Foo Fighters. It's gotta. It's just gotta have it.... I will be back to gloat if it does and if it doesn't I will slink back to MLG unnoticed. Mwhahaahaha.
 
[quote name='Scorch']..it's surreal to think that video game developers play other people's games and enjoy the same thing that we do? Does it blow your mind to think that actors watch movies, too?

It's not hard to imagine the theme with drums and a bass line.. considering the song already has bass and drums in it!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI[/quote]
Soon you're going to tell me they eat food like us and breathe the same air we do. You may have even gone so mad and tell me that they're made of flesh and bone and capable of the emotion we call "love." Well fine sir, I call that HERESY!


...And I don't know, I'll still wait it out until it's actually out. So until then I'll just be in odd continuous disbelief...though I'll still download it and love it if all true.
 
[quote name='bardockkun']If you're talking about songs you dl'ed not showing up, just re-download them again. It happend to be and cherry bomb and so re-downloaded and they showed up.[/quote]

I'm talking about every song on the disc not showing up. When I select Solo Tour - Quick Play, I get a list of 12 songs (all categorized properly and sortable as usual). 10 of them are the 10 songs I DLed. The other two are "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" and "The Hand That Feeds" - WTF happened to all of the songs on the disc? It doesn't make any sense to me at all.
 
Does anyone have any problems with their total single tour score being totaled? My friend doesn't seem to be able to raise her score on the screen and it seems forever stuck at 7 million something on guitar. So it's killing her knowing she can't get high back up on the leaderboards, any suggestions, anyone?
 
Train is leaving the station tomorrow morning, here's the final list:

1. specialk
2. DrazenX
3. Mr. Ryles
4. SteveMcQ
5. InuFaye
6. tgk2044
7. Rel1203
8. CocheseUGA
9. H-Town Info
10. lilboo
11. Cleaner7
12. Venent
13. TheMoor
14.tako
15. Guessed

If you want on the list, talk to the last person on the list.. sending out to specialk in the morning!

I threw in some CAG business cards.. I think there were only three or four in there. Please take one and send on to the next person.
 
[quote name='SilverPaw750']Gah, I just watched a YouTube vid of the Freezepop song, and now I want on the list...
is it too late?
Crap![/QUOTE]

Check out Rock Rebellion.

So after listening to Why Do You Love Me? a kajillion times, I decided to give more Garbage a try. Metal Heart really needs to be the next Garbage RB song.

I hope Nevermind comes out next week, or at the very least, a Nirvana pack with Come as You Are. I really want to play that song.
 
[quote name='-Never4ever-']Check out Rock Rebellion.

So after listening to Why Do You Love Me? a kajillion times, I decided to give more Garbage a try. Metal Heart really needs to be the next Garbage RB song.

I hope Nevermind comes out next week, or at the very least, a Nirvana pack with Come as You Are. I really want to play that song.[/QUOTE]

i disagree. it should be "only happy when it rains," either way i really like playing the garbage songs.
 
Anyone know of a place where I can order some of the Drum cover things? I check Gamestop online and couldn't find them. Any info would be cool. I was thinking of replacing the sticks as well to see if that helped. Link me if you have a good recommendation. Thank You.
 
My game is working again! Whew! I played Sex Type Thing and El Scorcho on Expert last night - they are both pretty fun. What is with the weird guitar solo in El Scorcho? It's totally different than the original...
 
[quote name='Bigsauce']Anyone know of a place where I can order some of the Drum cover things? I check Gamestop online and couldn't find them. Any info would be cool. I was thinking of replacing the sticks as well to see if that helped. Link me if you have a good recommendation. Thank You.[/QUOTE]

http://drumshhh.com/
 
I'm thinking about sending in my drums for repair. The warranty expires in like a week and they are sometimes non responsive. I think I would be best to send them in. Do I only have to actually send in the pad piece or do they want the whole set (pedal, stand, etc.. I dont know why they would want all of this though). Also do you just send you a prepaid box to send the drums in with (like what M$ does with the 360 systems)? Thanks in advance, I didn't feel like searching through this whole topic for my answers..
 
[quote name='Staind204']I'm thinking about sending in my drums for repair. The warranty expires in like a week and they are sometimes non responsive. I think I would be best to send them in. Do I only have to actually send in the pad piece or do they want the whole set (pedal, stand, etc.. I dont know why they would want all of this though). Also do you just send you a prepaid box to send the drums in with (like what M$ does with the 360 systems)? Thanks in advance, I didn't feel like searching through this whole topic for my answers..[/QUOTE]

2nd for an answer
 
[quote name='Scorch']Train is leaving the station tomorrow morning, here's the final list:

1. specialk
2. DrazenX
3. Mr. Ryles
4. SteveMcQ
5. InuFaye
6. tgk2044
7. Rel1203
8. CocheseUGA
9. H-Town Info
10. lilboo
11. Cleaner7
12. Venent
13. TheMoor
14.tako
15. Guessed

If you want on the list, talk to the last person on the list.. sending out to specialk in the morning!

I threw in some CAG business cards.. I think there were only three or four in there. Please take one and send on to the next person.[/quote]

Thanks alot for starting it Scorch...
 
[quote name='Rodimus Donut']So the drum sets are available now, or did they get pushed back?[/quote]

I've seen them in several stores ranging from Wal-Mart to GS to... I think I saw one at Target.
 
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