When I was growing up music got into my veins early. I'd thumb through all my family's various 8 Tracks and Albums looking for the ones with cool covers and finding songs that I liked. Soon MTV was born and I would spend all day watching waiting for them to finally play the video for "Thriller". It was a little later into grade school that I first fell in love with the guitar (not that I more than a few chords outside of Rock Band or Guitar Hero) which lead to my love of hair metal. I listened to it all: Dokken, Skid Row, Poison, Slaughter, Ratt, Cinderella and especially Mötley Crüe. Those guys were fucking EVIL when I was nine, and I loved it.
You're not here to read about these minute details of my adolescence so I'll get on with it.
Hot on the heals of Def Leppard announcing their intention to debut a new single via Guitar Hero The Crüe come out of nowhere and announce that they intend to be the first band to do this and release their new single "Saints Of Los Angeles" via Rock Band starting TODAY (for 360 owners, Thursday for PS3 as usual). I have yet to hear it, as I've grown a little wary of post-Dr. Feelgood Mötley Crüe but I might spend the 80 points to support this new marketing scheme.
If you're a fan of something like Behind The Music and you don't care who it's about I highly suggest picking up the band's autobiography The Dirt, it's a great read.
Hit the jump for the full press release.
MÖTLEY CRÜE First Band Ever To Release Brand new Single In Rock Band"SAINTS OF LOS ANGELES" FROM UPCOMING MÖTLEY CRÜE ALBUM AVAILABLE THROUGH ROCK BAND BEGINNING APRIL 15
Two of rock & roll’s biggest powerhouses—mega-platinum recording artists MÖTLEY CRÜE and revolutionary music video game ROCK BAND—are joining forces to make history. Harmonix and MTV Games announced today that Mötley Crüe will be the first group to release a brand-new song as a playable track in the innovative ROCK BAND game. The highly anticipated new track, “Saints of Los Angeles,†released on Mötley Records, will be available for download for $0.99 beginning on April 15th via Xbox Live Marketplace (80 Microsoft Points) and on April 17th via the PLAYSTATION®Store.
Release date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 (Xbox LIVE® Marketplace)
Thursday, April 17, 2008 (PLAYSTATION®Store)
Track:
Mötley Crüe “Saints of Los Angelesâ€
***(this track utilizes the original master recording)***
Price: $0.99 (80 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360®) per track for a limited time
Locations: Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION®Store
** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change **
With the addition of this track to the Rock Band library, there are now more than 80 tracks available for download in addition to the 58 tracks in the original game. In three months since its release, gamers have purchased more than 6 million downloadable songs for Rock Band since its launch on November 20, 2007.
Downloadable content for the Xbox 360 will be available via Xbox LIVE® Marketplace using Microsoft Points and is downloaded directly to the Xbox 360 hard drive. Downloadable content for the PLAYSTATION 3 system’s version of Rock Band will be available on the PLAYSTATION®Store through the free PLAYSTATION®Network and is downloaded directly to PLAYSTATION 3 system's built in hard drive.
Rock Band is rated “T†for Teen (lyrics, mild suggestive themes) by the ESRB.
For more information on Rock Band and Harmonix Music Systems please visit www.rockband.com and www.harmonixmusic.com. For a complete list of tracks available for download to date in Rock Band, please visit www.rockband.com/dlc.
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