Rolling Stone Looks at Rock Games Battling For Bands, Hendrix Probably Coming To Rock Band Too
Written by Kevin Alexander   
Thursday, 24 July 2008 08:00
The same legendary rock magazine who featured the fucking Jonas Brothers on their latest cover have a nice article about the battle between Rock Band and Guitar Hero to nail down the big prize bands for their respective games. While most of the article is filled with stuff you probably already know there are a few interesting business-y bits like the following:

  • Guitar Hero: Aerosmith outsold their last album in the first week by over 400,000 copies.

  • Led Zeppelin have no plans to be licensed because of concerns about turning over their masters to outsiders

  • Hendrix might not be exclusive to Guitar Hero for long, Janie Hendrix is working on a similar deal with Rock Band

  • "Bands and labels each earn about 50 cents per [dlc] track, more than they get from iTunes and other standard download sites."

  • "[VH1] Rock Honors [The Who] was originally floated as an idea to help sell Rock Band," Who guitarist Pete Townshend wrote in an e-mail to Rolling Stone.

Read the full story here.

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