Rush Album for Rock Band Delayed For "Weeks"
Well, dang.

Rush's 1981 album, "Moving Pictures," is literally my favorite album of all time. When I heard that the entire album would be available for Rock Band, I was thrilled.

Since this coincided with my week off, I thought I'd get some extra time to pretend to be Neil Peart or Alex Lifeson. No, I do not yet have the courage to try and imitate Geddy Lee's vocals. The last time I went to a Rush concert, Geddy Lee himself had a problem belting it out like he could in the 80's. Throughout the day on Tuesday, I'd pop onto the XBox and see if the album was available for it. They had a teaser ad in the marketplace for it, but the "new content" was only the Devo and Duran Duran songs from last week (which were plenty of fun, too).

But now... Harmonix has announced that the album's release is delayed because of "technical difficulties." Probably for a couple of weeks, not days. They've had a lot of practice releasing song packs by now, so I wonder if the technical difficulties are more of a hang-up on the legal / licensing side. Or if they are just trying to figure out how to get YYZ to work, since it is an instrumental piece with no vocals. Maybe the vocalist has to beat Morse Code on the microphone?

In the grand scheme of things, this isn't exactly a world-ending disappointment. I've got plenty of jobs and pleasures vying for my time this week. But ... it is still a bummer.

Labels: Mainstream Games, rock band

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