Ryan Block » Rock Band http://ryanblock.com Editor and technology critic in the midst of founding a new web startup: gdgt. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:37:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Veronica plays meta-Rock Band with Jonathan Coulton http://ryanblock.com/2008/02/veronica-plays-meta-rock-band-with-jonathan-coulton/ http://ryanblock.com/2008/02/veronica-plays-meta-rock-band-with-jonathan-coulton/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:43:33 +0000 Ryan Block http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/02/veronica-plays-meta-rock-band-with-jonathan-coulton/
Still Alive was unironically one of my favorite songs from 2007, so you can only imagine how mind-poppingly awesome I find the real-life on-stage combination of it, one of my favorite games (Rock Band), Veronica, and Jonathan Coulton, as they belt it out along with Leo Laporte and Merlin Mann. Even better was how Veronica saved the band from failing out, what, three times?

P.S. -Extra bonus: Veronica, Jonathan, Merlin, and myself will all be on TWiT this week with Leo, so watch out for it.

[Video by Joystiq]

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Bonus: she says the drums “would look at home in a 1980s Flock of Seagulls video”, which is almost identical to what I used in my first draft before changing it to Simmons / Duran Duran.

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