Dry your eyes, drummer. We feel your sense of loss at the news that
Rock Band 2 may not be getting its promised
second kick pedal after all, ruling out proper reenactments of Lars' two-foot prowess (without a little
modding). Now at least you can improve the quality of that one kicker you
do have, replacing it with something a little more weighty. Nyko's aptly-named Metal Pedal, a bargain at $20, works with both
Rock Band games as well as
Guitar Hero: World Tour on all platforms, and is made of real metal to give a more authentic heft. No, nothing will feel quite like the
real thing, but it's surely better than that cracked hunk of plastic you've been meaning to send back to Harmonix for months.
posted Dec 5th 2008 8:01AM
What's a "Lars"?
Neil Pert FTW.
While I agree that Pert is ridiculously good, because this article is about a bass pedal, I think Engadget was right in using Lars as the reference.
Metallica FTMFW!
\m/
How can you guys be lauding the guy and misspelling his name???
Peart
Neil Peart
I hope this comes with a lifetime cool guarantee...
Because I can't risk it otherwise...
Lars' drumming is craptastic.
Real drummers can do it on one pedal.
OMG who cares? this game is so stupid.
Where's my logo? Stupid avatar.
So Cool! I like it.
Will it charge my laptop?
Lars is shit at the double bass outside the studio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MReE6x2cgYU
This pedal cowers in the presence of the best current RB pedal:
http://www.rockpedal.com/
Hahaha, Lars has no two-footed prowess. It's quite sad that the most well-known "metal" drummer in the world can't handle one of the basic skills of the genre.
I like it! But whats wrong with the bog standard one?
I don't mean this as a troll, but Lars Ulrich doesn't really have "two-foot prowess." One of my friends with less-than-stellar musical tastes got the St. Anger album with a DVD included. On it it showed him getting tired after a fairly short, fairly standard double kick part. What has happened to you, Metallica? :(
As for double-kick prowess, hows about a little Behemoth? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oey85FGHOHc
Add another to the anti Lars fund...of all the metal drummers out there with unbelieveable double peddling, you picked the worst. Also, unless Lars is plural, you're missing an s (Lars's).
if it ends with s then it just has ' at the end (lars')
Not according to the Modern Language Association, The Elements of Style, or The Economists guide to punctuation. It's a very common mistake that is perpetrated so often it has become accepted among many paople. It's like ending sentences with a preposition; it's wrong, but people do it all the time, so no one knows it's wrong.
Also:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html
It's not quite that simple, Joe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Singular_nouns_ending_with_an_.22s.22_or_.22z.22_sound