Video: Beatles Rock Band books surprise gig at Xbox 360 meetup
By Ross Miller 
posted Jun 2nd 2009 7:10AM
posted Jun 2nd 2009 7:10AM
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I just want a HD version of the Beatles Rock Band intro thang to watch over and over and over and over..........
I just want a HD version of the Beatles Rock Band intro thang to watch over and over and over and over..........
if there was one game i completely wasnt expecting microsoft to open with, it was this
They are still holding out from selling their music in iTunes, but caved in to Rock Band faster than Monica caved in to Bill. What's the deal?
Distributing songs for personal use and integrating songs into a singing video game are different license issues because a person cannot purchase Rock Band: Beatles Edition and then burn the songs to CD or transfer them to a PMP. Plus, while the two parties (Apple Corp and Apple, Inc) say they "have reached" or "will soon reach" an agreement, I am sure the details of online music distribution are quite complicated given the two companies' past legal entanglements.
@Roberto: You need some remedial classes kid:
When Steve Jobs created the Apple I computer in 1976, he was well on his way to creating the personal computer market. Unfortunately, he named it specifically after the Beatles' Apple, a similarly idealistic company the group had formed back in the late Sixties as a tax write-off.
From there on a series of highly disputable and very illogical legal battles is dragging on to this very day. The relationship between Apple and The Beatles (or what's left of them) can be described as - liquid everlasting hate from the rotten meat fueled depths of the sewage that is the River Styx.
There is even a wikipage for it :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v._Apple_Computer
from what I understand, Paul McCartney bought the majority rights to the Beatles catalog from Michael jackson while he was married to Heather Mills. In order for Heather Mills to get no profit out of digital distribution, Paul MacCartney has to wait an undisclosed amount of time after the divorce to release the rights. If he releases them sooner, Mills gets 50% of the $$. I'd wait, too.
Besides, what Beatles fan hasn't already ripped the CD's onto their media players anyway? Who will buy the tracks AGAIN just because they're on iTunes? They already have the LP, the cassette, and the CD...
LOL, a Bill and Monica reference in 2009...
I'm glad to see it. The Beatles are a class act and Jobs is a conceited asshole.
If you can't fathom the "complexity" of Beatles on a regular guitar, there's no reason to embarrass yourself even further by grabbing a plastic abomination to anything that is called a "musical instrument".
It's for impressing women, dude. The women drip for plastic guitars 10x more than real ones. It's 2009.
Tenacious-D quote?
way to place a fake bass drum front to look remotely like a bass drum.
I was disappointed about this too. I don't know why, but from previous articles about Beatles Rockband I thought that the drums would look like the actual Ludwig set instead of a "glittery" rockband drumset with part of a car's sunshade strapped to the front and Ludwig slapped on it.
Silly me.
Nice ripoff from the ms Natal
These guys look totally bored. Which is better than looking all excited and being totally sad.