Rock Band Weekly: The Grateful Dead to Smithereens

We know, we know! The last thing that should happen when somebody mentions the Grateful Dead -- undeniably one of the most culturally significant bands of the 20th century -- is that our brain immediately goes to delicious ice cream. Sorry, but word association works in magical ways. Grateful Dead to Jerry Garcia to Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia.

Full details on next week's Rock Band DLC, featuring the Grateful Dead and The Smithereens, can be found after the break.

Xbox 360 / Wii / PS3
Available: May 19

Grateful Dead Pack 03 (800

/ $9.99):

"Beat It on Down the Line" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Cumberland Blues" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Scarlet Begonias" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Throwing Stones" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Touch of Grey" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"U.S. Blues" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)

Individual songs:

The Smithereens - "A Girl Like You" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
The Smithereens - "Only a Memory" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)

*Track packs not available for purchase on Wii; all tracks sold individually.

Tracks also available in Lego Rock Band Music Store.

Reader Comments (30)

So, uhh, wheres that snoop dogg and Pantera we were promised?

We were promised these Grateful Dead songs way before Snoop and Pantera. After two years of waiting it is soooo nice to finally see Touch of Grey show up.

I don't recall being promised those by a specific time so as long as they come eventually, Harmonix will be keeping their promise.

@Mcmax3000 You're right about snoop dogg, but Pantera was supposed to be released in 2009, before the holiday season: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/19/rock-band-dlc-to-hit-1000-tracks-by-holiday-with-help-of-queen/

Pantera was NOT promised by the end of 2009. They simply said that there would be "x" amount of songs on Rock Band by the end of the year. They never once said that those artists would be out before 2010.

I could care less about the Snoop Dogg, but I've been wanting more Pantera since, well, Guitar Hero 2.

Joystiq just poorly worded the article you posted. The actual Harmonix post on Rockband.com never said those specific artists would be out in time to help Rock band reach 1000 songs.

I've always thought Cherry Garcia ice cream should contain guitar picks and small bits of beard.

Don't forget the payote chunks.

I will purchase anything Grateful Dead for RB. Thanks for the update Joystiq!

I Second That Emotion

Rest of the Beatles albums, please. Or at least the bigger hits, come one. Where's Eleanor Rigby?

Awesome to get the Grateful Dead, though..

Outside of the microphone, what instruments would you play Eleanor Rigby on? I've yet to receieve my Rock Band cello...

A fair point, but they've addressed it in plenty of other songs, like the Benefit of Mr. Kite and Within you Without You.

They said after GDRB comes out Beatles will get more DLC.

No they didn't. They never said that. Please don't start rumors, it's just making me want to keep my backhand strong.

It's great to see The Smithereens get some love but come on, now..."Behind the Wall of Sleep," please?

For being a Black Sabbath cover they surprisingly did well with it. I wouldn't mind seeing the original or Smithereens version for download.

Scarlet Begonias, U.S. Blues and Cumberland Blues? Yes please!

Good stuff.

More Smithereens! How about "Blood and Roses"?

I agree. More Smithereens!

As happy as i am to see another Dead pack... i wish they would have done some live tracks instead of all masters. Can't wait to play Scarlet!

Yeah...but then they would be all 20+ minutes long with Gerry and Bob just shredding...I guess that wouldn't be a bad thing for the guitar players in the games.

Total number of Grateful dead songs in rock band = 19
Sucks I'm not a dead head.

Of course, there's still at least two other bands (Foo Fighters and Pearl Jam) that have more tracks available.

RB has tons of diversity even with those spikes in counts for certain bands. You can't please everyone every week (or every month for that matter). I know that there have been times where I'll go a few weeks without seeing anything I'm interested in, or maybe 1 track or something.

I still love the game and still play it regularly.

I'm seeing fewer and fewer RB songs I'm even remotely interested in buying, unfortunately. Granted, the RB songs are still 10x better than the GH5 tracks, but I'd really like more modern, popular rock, especially the harder stuff. Then again, maybe 250 songs is enough to last me out the rest of the year.

Gotta save the good stuff for RB3.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!! FINALLLLLYYYYY!!!!!!

Although i should say that "Throwing Stones" is probably one of their worst songs. They really should have included more of the dead's difficult and complex songs. Enough of the studio stuff.

Rock Band Weekly: The Grateful Dead to Smithereens

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