Rock Band Weekly: Iron Maiden, The Hives, Stone Temple Pilots

well get ready, cause i can almost guarantee you that sometime this year maybe even early this year there will be at least 1 full metallica album on there. When the announcement that Metallica would be in rock band came they said they secured the rights to albums as well.

My bet would be on Master of Puppets because that would be including what most regard as the greatest heavy metal album ever and would greatly fill the overall void of heavy metal in Rock Band.

I'd be really surprised to see SFOM make it to DLC. That really isn't a mainstream album. It freaking rules though. Good luck playing Overture on expert with basically any instrument!

yeah, they'd have to come out with the double bass pedal add on to even hope to play SFAM on drums. On guitar, it would probably as difficult as "Through the Fire and Flames" on GH3.

I'd settle for just "Home" off that album though.

not necessarily crono, they managed to pull the old school metallica songs off without the double bass pedal so far, we'll see for sure if/when Damage Inc. comes out. I was wondering the same thing before i had the game but i think they did quite well

Honestly, after thinking about it, you could actually rig up a double bass pedal setup yourself. You'd need a second standard pedal, and then you just have to wire them together so that they both would send the pedal signal on 1 wire.

More than a Feeling is a must have, so far rock band is kicking GH ass. Such a better product best 170 bucks i ever spent.

Only if there was some sort of exclusivity arrangement in the original contract. Otherwise no, they just have to relicense the songs.

It has to do with the method the original masters were recorded. Older tracks were recorded with the drum set all on 1 track. RB needs each individual drum on its own track.

You really think Neil Peart's drums on 'Tom Sawyer' were recorded on one track?

You're talking crazy talk!

NONE of the drums on those songs you mentioned were recorded to one track - or even to stereo tracks. They were multi-tracked. It wasn't the 50s, you know! The 70s were the baddest-ass recording studio years and that's not the limitation stopping those recordings from being put on Rock Band - it's the bands themselves deciding not to allow it, for whatever reasons (legal, publishing, fear of a new usage of their recording, who knows). They're hurting themselves, it's soooo nice to hear the actual tracks. I've bought almost every "original recording" song they offer.

If the whole studio/recording thing is interesting to you, you should look into the documentary on legendary recording engineer Tom Dowd:

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Music-Thelonious-Monk/dp/B00011ZBOS/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1199778008&sr=8-1

I'm wishing they would get some Ronnie Dio-era Sabbath on there - "If you listen to fools... THE MOB RULES!"

errata: That should read "NONE of the songs *he* mentioned were recorded to one track..."