I have to hand it to the guys at the Clan of the Gray Wolf, who are doing a 1,000 song Rock Band marathon for the charity Childs Play, all streamed live on the Internet. Presumably this is linked with the fact that Rock Band itself recently crested the 2009 target of having 1000 in-game tracks – and a month earlier than their deadline.
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At the time of writing they’re 46 hours in which given that they’ve tackled 615 songs so far, represents not quite two thirds of the way. Even though there’s 6 of them taking shifts (3 playing, one commenting), this is still an ambitious thing to be trying – we haven’t even tackled the 80-odd song Endless Setlist 2 in Rock Band 2 yet, and probably never will! I can’t imagine how bad their blisters are going to be after this, not to mention their vision – my guess is that the whole world is going to look like it’s scrolling upwards for them in the next week.
Anyway, much respect – I encourage you to donate if like me you respect this kind of crazy endeavour which is nevertheless brimming with geek cool.
November 30th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
I might just pay them to stop singing – painful!
November 30th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Haha, they’re done now – but I challenge you to stay tuneful after that many hours
Seems like they’re not the only ones with this idea: http://www.therockathon.com/
November 30th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
The Desert Bus for Hope is perhaps the king of Childsplay fundraisers – during it’s run last week, it raised $132k, and was very, very funny.
Details at http://desertbus.org/ . Hopefully the LoadingReadyRun guys will have all the clips uploaded in HD soon.