Rock Band 3: The Search For Squeeze

[gbeenie]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/rock-band-3-squier-stratocaster-plays-both-real-and-virtual-guit/

Pretty cool gadget! Now all the "why don't you get a real guitar" jerks can shut up. 

"Can" and "will" are, alas, two different things.

[James of LinHood]

4 More Rock Band 3 Song Announced

25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
Midlife Crisis - Faith No More
Spinning Wheel - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Need You Tonight - INXS


Also, it's probable that 20th Century Boy by T Rex will also be in Rock Band 3.  But that has not been 100% confirmed by Harmonix yet.

[James of LinHood]

6 More Songs Confirmed

Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
The B-52's - Rock Lobster
Def Leppard - Foolin
Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
Foreigner - Cold as Ice
Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot


I prefer Head Over Heals instead of Everybody Wants to Rule the World and Head Games instead of Cold as Ice.  Oh well.  DLC, perhaps.

[k1]

Wow. Didnt see that Chicago song coming, but I'm looking forward to it for some odd reason.  (My taste in music is quite varied. As I'm typing I have As I Lay Dying cranked.)

[Insert Coin(s) to Continue]

Rock Lobster is a good addition.

[gbeenie]

6 More Songs Confirmed

Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
The B-52's - Rock Lobster
Def Leppard - Foolin
Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
Foreigner - Cold as Ice
Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot


I prefer Head Over Heals instead of Everybody Wants to Rule the World and Head Games instead of Cold as Ice.  Oh well.  DLC, perhaps.

In terms of songs I like, I'd have preferred "Shout" over "Everybody Wants To Rule The World," but I totally understand why it was picked. And "Foolin'" may be my favorite Def Leppard song.

[James of LinHood]

9 more songs have been announced.  As of right now,  we know 44 out of 83 songs on the setlist.  The 9 newly announced songs are bolded:


Metric - Combat Baby
Them Crooked Vultures - Dead End Friends
The Vines - Get Free
Phoenix - Lasso
Juanes - Me Enamora
Ida Maria - Oh My God
Rilo Kiley - Portions For Foxes
The White Stripes - The Hardest Button to Button
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Spacehog - In the Meantime
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
Smash Mouth - Walkin' on the Sun
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Joan Jett - I Love Rock and Roll
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Dio - Rainbow in the Dark
Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
The Doors - Break on Through
Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic
Yes - Roundabout
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel
INXS - Need You Tonight
T. Rex - 20th Century Boy
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
The B-52's - Rock Lobster
Def Leppard - Foolin
Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
Foreigner - Cold as Ice
Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Get Up, Stand Up
Poni Hoax - Antibodies
Rammestein - Du Hast
Rozette - The Look
Tokio Hotel - Humanoid
HIM - Killing Loneliness
Maná - Oye Mi Amor
Slipknot - Before I Forget
War - Low Rider

Also, there's been a supposed partial leaked set list that's been out for a couple weeks now.  But it's been right on the money so far.  So, it looks like it's real.  If so, here's the rest of the songs from that list that have not been officially announced yet:

Amy Winehouse – Rehab
Anthrax – Caught In A Mosh
Avenged Sevenfold – Beast and The Harlot
Devo – Whip It
Queens Of The Stone Age – No One Knows
Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle
Tegan and Sara – The Con
The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
The Police – Don't Stand So Close To Me
The Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated
The Smiths – Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – I Need To Know
Warren Zevon – Werewolves Of London

Again, this list has not been confirmed.  So, as on-the-money as it has been, take it as speculation at this point.

[Compound]

Warren Zevon – Werewolves Of London

Again, this list has not been confirmed.  So, as on-the-money as it has been, take it as speculation at this point.

If true, woot. I've been asking for Zevon for a while. Although I've been asking for Lawyers, Guns and Money, which would be more fun to play.

[James of LinHood]

Warren Zevon – Werewolves Of London

Again, this list has not been confirmed.  So, as on-the-money as it has been, take it as speculation at this point.

If true, woot. I've been asking for Zevon for a while. Although I've been asking for Lawyers, Guns and Money, which would be more fun to play.

If this is true, I'd fully expect Warren Zevon DLC down the road.

[James of LinHood]

One more song confirmed by this article/video:

http://rockbandaide.com/7429/music-from-tom-petty-appearing-rock-band-3/

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – I Need To Know

I'd count on that leaked setlist being pretty much confirmed now.  Woo!  Werewolves of London!  :-D

[James of LinHood]

Huge setlist announcement.  We now know 79 out of the 83 on-disc songs.  New songs are bolded:

Metric - Combat Baby
Them Crooked Vultures - Dead End Friends
The Vines - Get Free
Phoenix - Lasso
Juanes - Me Enamora
Ida Maria - Oh My God
Rilo Kiley - Portions For Foxes
The White Stripes - The Hardest Button to Button
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Spacehog - In the Meantime
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
Smash Mouth - Walkin' on the Sun
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Joan Jett - I Love Rock and Roll
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Dio - Rainbow in the Dark
Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
The Doors - Break on Through
Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic
Yes - Roundabout
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
INXS - Need You Tonight
T. Rex - 20th Century Boy
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
The B-52's - Rock Lobster
Def Leppard - Foolin
Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
Foreigner - Cold as Ice
Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Get Up, Stand Up
Poni Hoax - Antibodies
Rammestein - Du Hast
Rozette - The Look
Tokio Hotel - Humanoid
HIM - Killing Loneliness
Maná - Oye Mi Amor
Slipknot - Before I Forget
War - Low Rider
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - I Need to Know
Riverboat Gamblers - Don't Bury Me... I'm Still Not Dead
The Bronx - False Alarm
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Blondie - Heart of Glass
The Who - I Can See for Miles
James Brown - I Got You (I Feel Good)
John Lennon - Imagine
Big Country - In a Big Country
Primus - Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
Dover - King George
The Raveonettes - Last Dance
The Sounds - Living in America
Phish - Llama
Paramore - Misery Business
At the Drive-in - One Armed Scissor
The Muffs - Outer Space
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Something Bigger, Something Brighter
Echo and the Bunny Men - The Killing Moon
Swingin' Utters - This Bastard's Life
Hypernova - Viva la Resistance
Dire Straits - Walk of Life
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1
Amy Winehouse – Rehab
Devo – Whip It
Queens Of The Stone Age – No One Knows
Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle
Tegan and Sara – The Con
The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations (Live)
The Police – Don't Stand So Close To Me
The Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated
The Smiths – Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
Warren Zevon – Werewolves Of London

Wow.  Werewolves of London, Good Vibrations, Fly Like an Eagle, No One Knows, Whip It, Smoke on the Water, Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting), Misery Business, I Got You, and I Can See For Miles are ones that I'm really looking forward to.  I'm thrilled that they got a John Lennon track.  I hope that this means that we can look forward to more of the Beatles solo effort tracks to be released as DLC.  And I'm beyond happy that Free Bird is back.  It will be nice to be able to play the master track of this since we only got a cover back in Guitar Hero 2.

Until this announcement, the setlist was looking fairly weak, IMO.  Now this might just be the best setlist yet....assuming that the charts are charted well.

Since they're holding off on announcing the last four tracks I hope that means they'll be the biggest songs on the setlist (A Led Zeppelin song, for instance, would be huge).  Finish strong, Harmonix!   

[k1]

One Armed Scissor! I can sell my copy of GH5 now! (Or whichever one that song was in.)

Also Primus! Finally! (Hopefully we can get more in the future!)

[James of LinHood]

The last 4 songs have been officially announced.  They're bolded.

Full Rock Band 3 Setlist

Metric - Combat Baby
Them Crooked Vultures - Dead End Friends
The Vines - Get Free
Phoenix - Lasso
Juanes - Me Enamora
Ida Maria - Oh My God
Rilo Kiley - Portions For Foxes
The White Stripes - The Hardest Button to Button
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Spacehog - In the Meantime
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
Smash Mouth - Walkin' on the Sun
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Joan Jett - I Love Rock and Roll
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Dio - Rainbow in the Dark
Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
The Doors - Break on Through
Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic
Yes - Roundabout
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
INXS - Need You Tonight
T. Rex - 20th Century Boy
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
The B-52's - Rock Lobster
Def Leppard - Foolin
Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
Foreigner - Cold as Ice
Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Get Up, Stand Up
Poni Hoax - Antibodies
Rammestein - Du Hast
Rozette - The Look
Tokio Hotel - Humanoid
HIM - Killing Loneliness
Maná - Oye Mi Amor
Slipknot - Before I Forget
War - Low Rider
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - I Need to Know
Riverboat Gamblers - Don't Bury Me... I'm Still Not Dead
The Bronx - False Alarm
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Blondie - Heart of Glass
The Who - I Can See for Miles
James Brown - I Got You (I Feel Good)
John Lennon - Imagine
Big Country - In a Big Country
Primus - Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
Dover - King George
The Raveonettes - Last Dance
The Sounds - Living in America
Phish - Llama
Paramore - Misery Business
At the Drive-in - One Armed Scissor
The Muffs - Outer Space
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Something Bigger, Something Brighter
Echo and the Bunny Men - The Killing Moon
Swingin' Utters - This Bastard's Life
Hypernova - Viva la Resistance
Dire Straits - Walk of Life
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1
Amy Winehouse – Rehab
Devo – Whip It
Queens Of The Stone Age – No One Knows
Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle
Tegan and Sara – The Con
The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations (Live)
The Police – Don't Stand So Close To Me
The Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated
The Smiths – Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
Warren Zevon – Werewolves Of London
Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and the Harlot
Anthrax - Caught in a Mosh
The Doobie Brothers - China Grove
J. Geils Band - Centerfold

China Grove!   

Also, just a note that if you pre order this game from Gamestop they'll give you a free 3 pack of DLC which includes:

Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
Deftones - My Own Summer
New Order - Blue Monday

EDIT:  Eagle-eyed peeps may notice that Spinning Wheel by Blood, Sweat, and Tears is no longer on the setlist.  We know that this was originally planned to be on the Rock Band 3 disc when it was announced.  But between now and then Harmonix has obviously changed that.  Whether that means there was some kind of legal dispute or that they simply moved it to their DLC release list remains to be seen.

[James of LinHood]

Lots of tidbits are coming out here and there about the interface and game features.  Here's some info on the new song selection screen interface.  Pretty cool stuff:

http://www.rockband.com/zine/rb3-features-music-library

Also, it looks like Gamestop isn't taking pre-orders for the Madkatz Rock Band 3 Keyboard stand or the Rock Band 3 mic.  It's a good thing that Amazon.com is though!    

If you're a singer you might want to look into getting the Rock Band 3 mic as it has higher clarity and a much more accurate vocal detection range:

RB3 Mic:

http://www.amazon.com/Rock-Band-Microphone-Xbox-PlayStation-3/dp/B004073MCM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1284117995&sr=8-2

RB3 Keyboard Stand:

http://www.amazon.com/Rock-Band-Keyboard-Stand-PlayStation-Nintendo/dp/B0040J1REA/ref=sr_1_8?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1284118102&sr=1-8

And yes, you can adjust the height on the keyboard stand. 

The only reason I'd purchase this stand over a regular, cheaper stand is that this one is designed for the RB3 keyboard.  My fear is that a regular stand would be too wide for the RB3 keyboard as it's considerably shorter than a normal keyboard.

[k1]

So is anyone else confused by the lack of being able to pre-order the PS3 game & keyboard bundle?      The Wii & Xbox both have it.