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  • XD Hilarious!

    But in all seriousness, it actually is harder to play "Rock Band" instruments than real instruments if you're used to playing real ones. I'm a big "Rock Band" fan, but I recently started playing real bass and playing "Rock Band" and "Guitar Hero" instruments seems a lot harder now.

  • rock band and real music is so different, even tho a song might look eady in RB it can still be fucking hard irl

  • I saw a vid where Dave Mustaine tried to play Hangar 18 and failed miserably too. Just goes to show these games are nowhere near what playing a real instrument is like. The drums, from personal experience, are close when it comes to at least keeping a beat, but still suck. However, I would like to try the new Rocksmith just to see how good it really is with the real guitar

  • Where is alex's kimono?

  • that has made not only tin cans on steam punk skateboards hoakay dokey yet has turned a landmark into a landmine swerver swell gefilterze done all ready Ooompa next up on the bong show we got slopper duper, on 2011 shortest day of the year, it sounds like hooville

  • @SuperMegaUberGenius Do you know how to put together a proper English sentence? Holy crap, I got a headache in the 2 seconds it took me to try to read this mess

  • dont text and drive douchebag

    the world is  the world is

    Rand Paul with a Father who's a Libertarian

  • got your bouge was about how was rush was

    waaaazooo

    a la razon salza cubra libra salsa bones

    collectors of baseball mitts and decrees

    twanging ut of the language of bow fences and dense sasquatch poose women who

  • Its ironic

    Miley cyrus is apparently (according to my sister) really good at rockband

    But the most talented band ever cant play it

    Is there a pattern emerging, those who are shit in real life are good at rockband and vice versa?

  • @priamyvate ive noticed that myself from when i just started playing guitar almost 6 years ago to now. the better i got at guitar the shittier i got at guitar hero/rock band to the point that i can barely even play those damn games anymore

  • @priamyvate Or maybe it's because Miley Cyrus is like 17 and Rush is bordering 60 -_-''.

    Rock Band was not designed for old people lol.

  • @zkevwlu Maybe, i know its just me, but i found it that as i got better at bass i became crap at rockband.

    And its probably because she spends all her time doing it, which explains how crap she is

  • i really hope RockBand Inc. sees this, oh wait i take that back, if they see they will take it down

  • god even when neil is playing a game he still looks so serious

  • funny i tried to play guitar hero when i was at chuckys with my kids geeze i failed big time.i should of tried it a bunch of times though.

  • Peart and Lifeson totally into it..31% i keep on trying to play the tune like an instrument..WRONG!!!

  • haha too funny

  • This has only made neil peart stronger

  • Neil is not amused. Alex and Geddy are having fun though.

    By the way, how cute is Alex??? He's trying so hard. Watch how he searches the neck for more frets. Lol. He's spent so many years training his fingers to play that song on a six string guitar. It's got to be next to impossible for him to scale it back for RockBand.

    I love it!

  • OMG......NEIL CAN MAKE PLASTIC SOUND GOOD! Geddy and Alex are great too.

  • Neil's facial expression did not change once throughout that entire song. Epic.

  • I was wating for the drumset to detonate. It was not worthy.

  • they might break the game with their talent

  • Rock band Cant take so much talent Dude!

  • This is great! Thanks for posting. As a musician, I can tell you that it is harder for us to play Rockstar than a real instrument. :-)

  • you know neil is dying not playing his 65 piece drum set

  • Neil was playing that kind of drum set in the womb for starters.

  • Ol' Gary seems to be getting a kick out of Alex's "guitar" playing. xD

  • this would have been a lot more interesting is geddy played bass and sang. still hilarious though

  • its good to see gods become humans for a day!

  • 1:54 FAILED!

    hahahaha.

  • At the end Geddy says "yall suck i'm gonna join another band" !! lol

  • Pre-game conversation:

    Guy: Okay, Neil, i'm gonna need you to NOT completely destroy these drums.

    Neil: YOU CAN'T CAGE THE RAGE!!!!!

    Geddy: I AM GEDDY LEE AND I WILL SING WHATEVER LYRICS I WANNA!

    Guy: Okay calm dow--

    Alex: YOU CALM DOWN, BEYATCH! *smashes plastic guitar*

    Guy: Sh*t.

  • Best thing besides BC weed to come out of Canada, God damn it.

  • Now i don't feel so bad, even Rush isn't good at Rockband. I guess if your a real musician it's hard to play.

  • @4578a lol not true I played the original Rock Band for a couple weeks off and on(not my game) and I could play alot of songs on expert drums and I'm a guitarist. The drums are actually fun because I don't get to play them for real but playing rock band guitar is boring when you can just play the real deal.

  • @FrequentlyFried Oh well, i don't give a shit. I would never play that game anyway.

  • @4578a Well, why'd you say that chief? come on man don't let your mouth write a check your butt can't cash! so i'm blazing with my friends, so i'm a fucking pothead man, what's it to you, huh? what's the matter, pussy, out of observations? why don't you observe while i punch your teeth down your fucking throat!... I'll be watching you, newton! I only came here to do two things: kick some ass and drink some beer... looks like we're almost out of beer! lol

  • @4578a Being a musician doesn't make it harder... It's just completely different.

  • They failed b/c Guitar Hero is a pile of shit, & not designed like the real thing. The drums are crippling, & they are nothing like playing a real kit. When your a drummer as I am of 32 years you cannot re adjust rhythms, patterns, & beats. They made it simplistic so any idiot can play the drums, & not for an actual drummer this was why Neil quit play as he was disgusted.

  • @newmannow They don't show it, but it seems the kit's stand collapsed on him. You hear him say "Oh...!" just as he quits playing, and then the camera comes back to him just as he's pulling it back up into position. I can't imagine how tough it would be to play with just 3 pads and a kick when he's used to so much more, but he was doing well up to that point and actually seemed to be enjoying it too. Certainly much less intense an expression on his face here than when playing his own kit. :)

  • @ youneedmorecowbell. Nice.

  • I wonder what they really thoght about this bandhero stuff.. Probably: "go out and buy real instruments instead of wasting your money on this fake"

  • Alex: They hate us

    Geddy: We suck

    Neil: i cant play to that...

    lol

  • I love this........ period

  • lol Alex is like "what the hell is this?", Neil's as concentrated as ever, and Geddy is wishing to get out another guitar and play bass to it while he sings.

    So Rush, so Canadian.

  • 15 haters gona hate

  • LOL! SO FUNNY! when they finally played the video game version of their life they were all like, "wat the fuck!!!! only 31% and we made this song!!!!" LOL

  • hahaha thats cool as shit man i love rush

  • I've never bothered to try Rock Band.  Real musicians just can't make the switch to being gamers. This is what happens! Lol!

  • This just goes to show how much fun all the members of Rush are, and open-minded to having some fun (even at their own expense).

    What can I say, these guys are amazing!

  • Never thought I'd see the greatest drummer in history play rockband.

  • Rush does not fail at Rock Band. Rock Band fails at Rush.

  • 1:33 Neil: "hahaha this is so funny :D"

  • geddy is like aww shit this song again

  • Hahaha

  • It's funny. Rock Band/Guitar Hero is harder to play when you actually play the instrument as the rhythms and everything are not always correct and oversimplified.

  • @cranie4

    They're also playing on easy

  • @ChuckNorrisKratosLOL

    GEDDY LEE is GEDDY LEE!

  • Real musicians DON'T play Rock Band lol

  • @playfan88 lies

  • guitar part is the hardest i guess...

  • lmfao!!!! I watched this with a big smile across my face. And then when they failed at their own song, the smile grew even larger. I love these guys =D

  • hahahahahahahaha

  • For me is a thousand times easier to play everything in real life than in rock band or guitar hero, I've been playing for about four years obviously.......

  • this video is priceless!

  • it hurts seeing neil stuck behind this lil piece of plastic

  • With the amount of time some kids put into useless guitar hero/rock band they could have easily developed some solid musical skills. Music skills carry over into adulthood, whereas the simple motor skills and rudimentary hand/eye coordination developed from playing rock band has no practical application whatsoever--aside from playing more rock band. They should synchronize the games with chord shapes on the fret board so the hardcore players will at least have something to show for their effort

  • @ritter89 Wah. It's a game that's fun to play. If someone wants to learn some music skills then they can. If they want to play a fun game, they can do that too.

  • @ritter89 Guitar Hero/Rock Band was made to inspire kids to pick up real instruments. I was addicted to it 3 years ago, and now I'm addicted to my guitar because of it. It's a KIDS game, to help them discover music and make them want to pick up a real instrument later in life, like it did for me. There's nothing "useless" about that.

  • better than me on rock band and real life.

  • Alex is saying in his mind : WTF

  • I gotta admit I laughed so hard when I saw this. I don't even know why.

  • wouldnt it have been funny if it told geddy he failed the vocal section haha

  • Neil looks disgusted. RIghtfully so.

  • I love how lost Alex looks during the whole song.

  • Shouldnt Geddy get like, 100% on this?

  • They are like lets get the hell out of here this is sofaking Gay

  • Just how LAME does this look? Hahahaha. Love Rush.

  • this is like watching Rembrandt draw with a crayola marker... just silly

  • how can u not love 1:18?

    niel trying to come in touch w/ that toy set lmao

  • Lol song failed! I think playing Rock Band is so much harder than playing a real guitar

  • @PhantomMenaced

    Hahaha... you make me laugh....

    So you mean that I'm better than Alex just because I can play Tom Sawyer on expert?

  • @PhantomMenaced you are completely and utterly hopeless

  • Besides being amazing musicians you can see how professional they are by making reserved comments at the end of the game.

  • those games can be harder to play than the instrument itself

  • I'm not surprised that they weren't doing too well at this. Being a musician myself, I can tell you that playing a game like that is WAY WAY different and alien to you compared to playing a real instrument. I play guitar, bass and drums and I couldn't do any of them well at all with that game.

  • @quarktron The timing is like .05 seconds off, and real musicians can't really play it, I tried to play it and it was atrocious! I was like half of a second early for every note, and it fucked me over horribly.

  • @joanim its the same for me haha, although once i figured it out i did really good, the drums are really easy in comparison to a real set. its quite funny to watch real musicians play rock band though XD

  • @joanim Yeah, I hear you! LOL

  • Hell, the booklet in the Moving Pictures album case lists Plywood under Neil's instrument list; it's got to be impossible for him to condense himself to 4 drum pads and a kick pedal. :P

  • Great watching the Professor wanting to bust out on the drum set. Rare site seeing the Master imprisoned.

  • lmao neil still wrecks everything even when hes never played it, what a machine

  • @Mayhem3033

    he fucking failed.

  • They still rock when they use the real deal instruments. i would like to see geddy try singing while playing the bass guitar on rock band. that would be awesome.

  • Funniest thing seen in ages ! Neil was not amused ! Great to see the lads still happy within` themselves! One of the BEST EVER bands ! Peace Ye`all !!

  • oh, my, too funny huh? well, they all "do it with humility"! LOL! killin' me watchin this. one of the Greatest Rock bands in History, and ........having to get knocked down a notch or twenty! ......to play this silly game. naw, they took it well.......have to be able to laugh at yourself and they are, while still being good natured and unaffected by it. Go Rush!

  • HAHAHAHHAHAA!

  • they're learn to play they own song... OMG!

  • I could imagine the Rock Band guys transcribing something wrong and Neil and Alex playing it the right way and losing points.

  • people on youtube seem to repeat themselves...

  • Why is Neil talking in an English accent?

  • @Ignore14 He's just goofing around. Listen to Geddy at first and you'll hear that hes doing an english accent too.

  • @Ignore14

    he traveled in europe for awhile.

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  • jajaja, is normal, is hard to play with five buttons when you play with a real guitar all the time, slash say the same thing heheh

  • @apocalyptik4ever yeah dude i seen a video of scott ian from anthrax playing mad house on guitar hero and he fail on medium

  • Geddy to Alex : "Where`s your silk kimono?"

  • hahahaha... they suck........ at rock band... jk i love rush fuck rock band

  • lol the commentary afterwards is hilarious

    -Alex: They hate us!

    -Geddy: We suck.

    -Neil: I can't play to that!

    -Geddy: I'm gonna go join another band...

  • LOL this is so epic

  • 0:38 alex trys to play the real way to play it xD

  • lifeson es el peor yo cacho

  • Alex looks so lost. At one point I could tell he wants to play the rest of the guitar but sadly theres no strings.... just buttons! :( Poor Alex lol.

  • From a forest of drums and cymbals to about 6 pieces of instrument karaoke for Neil. I would feel deprived XD

  • wow. guitar hero is such a dorky game that even rush looks dorky playing their very own bad ass song on it

  • it'd be cool if neil busted out a solo on the kit

  • Alex is the funniest to watch

  • i would crack up if they failed there own song.

  • @JakeArino They did. :D

  • This is like god playing with an ant. Funny but a waist of time.LOL

  • RIDICULE !

  • lol Neil Peart's face

  • @2:00

    Geddy is like "I'm gonna go join another band" xD

  • Neil Peart don't give a fuck

  • Relax Neil, it's just a video game man!!! :)

  • @yolchie When you're used to playing within a 32nd note accuracy of music and then have to deal with the delay of electronic transmission. It makes you have to play on the backside of the beat to be accurate. It's frustrating for drummers who know what they're doing and told they suck by a game. Neil..case in point.

  • This is a demostration... if you play rockband so good... your are so bad in real instruments

  • @69aadicto true that i play bass and suck at rockband

  • Neil Peart is thinking this :

    "Are you kidding me? I WANT MY DRUMS" :D

  • this is hilarious! LOL! I've never seen alex and neil concentrate so hard! LOL!

  • very very good !!!!!

  • why isnt neil on expert lol

  • @MarshallLP25 because rock band has nothing to do with talent

  • @MarshallLP25 cuz he doesn't have to be he wrote the drum part so i think he knows what he's doing

  • anybody else find it fuccy how even though neil's not actually playing drums he's still super ultra focused?

  • Neil looks like he's super concentrated haha

  • Neil Pert's concentration is like, boss.

  • The sound Neil makes is hilarious.

    "OH!"

  • its Weird when great bands play their own songs on rock band or guitar hero and fail but when they play it with real instruments they nail it

  • Peart looks so bored ahah

  • HAHA thats awesome. i play guitar, and i know Texas Flood like the back of my hand, and i had to mute the T.V. to get through the song!!! i know how they feel, lol.

  • I'd love to get these guys to play my office.

    .

  • This is great stuff. I love the irony.

  • This is too funny! These guys are awesome!

  • this is kiddy play for peart :D

  • @brandinator22 he should have busted the drum thing and said, "GAWD ITS A PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!"

  • My best friend is a HUGE rush fan, and plays a lot of rush on the drums (real drums) and one time we were playing this on rockband together and he just stops and goes "No one they couldn't F'n get this, the drum part is F'ed up!" we haven't played any Rush on rockband since.

  • This is the funniest thing. But it's obvious that these "instruments" fail in comparison with the real thing!

  • it's like me trying to ride my daughter's tricycle hitting my knees on the handle bars and moving my big ole' feet on those pedals... with every 4 year old going "ha ha you're dad can't ride your tricycle."

  • see! Rock band does teach you how to play guitar properly! These so called professionals can't even get above 40%! What a bunch of noobs

  • Atleast Rock Band 3 is trying to get it right by using a real fender. But it is what it is, and it's a videogame, not real life.

  • @Logan912 Point taken, I guess this new on isn't as bad as just 4 buttons. Still, I prefer to plug in a real guitar and play on a backing track with no video :)

  • @Rafterman123 True. Nothing beats the real thing. I'm more of a bass guy myself (Geddy Lee FTW.)

  • Looks like they were struggling. This ruins my image of them; they were terrible. They'll never make real rock stars......bahahaha.

  • The very thought of RUSH > Everything Rock Band has or ever will put out

  • @vitaminsandstds. You make a vvery valid point, but may I point out, Rockband fails altogether.

  • Neil looks so serious. I think he's a little over qualified for it.

  • I wish they would have a Drum set for rock band thats the size of Neil Pearts...

  • Rock band Rush

    Drum kit:

    8 million toms and an army of cymbals and a quadruple bass pedal, A 8 meters long array of cowbells and the drum set rotates while playing

  • @Epic41241 That would actually be Terry Bozzio's kit lol. But nonetheless a great comment! Haha.

  • haha neils playing like all the extra notes that are missing.

    epic

  • They look so funny with the Rock Band instruments!

  • Geddy's not singing very well in this. I've neer seen them live. Has he been singing good live lately?

  • @Qazic12

    It's a game, if they screwed up the vocal patterns then it's screwed him to xD

  • @Qazic12 Oh yeah, he's singing really good, just listen to Caravan and BU2B, he has a differint approach but I like it a lot.

  • Geddy Lee doesn't look unlike a witch.

  • Neil's like where the crap is the rest of my kit?

  • this is hilarious... and a great example that people that are good on the game, could'nt come close to actually playing anything...and conversely..some of us that play well on the real thing.. are not gamers

  • Rush don't fail at Rockband. Rockband fails at Rush. lol

  • @vitaminsandstds spot on, spot on

  • @vitaminsandstds "In Soviet Russia..."

  • @vitaminsandstds In Soviet Russia, Rockband fail you!

  • @vitaminsandstds so true, man.

  • @vitaminsandstds in soviet russia rush fail you

  • @vitaminsandstds

    exactly

  • tom hanks looks like neil