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Novoselic not cut out for Rock Band

By | Published on Friday 16 January 2009

Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic has revealed that attempts to play one of his former band’s songs on pretend-to-play videogame ‘Rock Band’ resulted in him being embarrassed by a passing child.

Novoselic told Xfm: “I know about ‘Rock Band’, because Nirvana has some songs on it. I had never tried the game before, so I gave it a go. I worked through the menu and found the song ‘In Bloom’. I picked up the little guitar-shaped controller and hit the stage”.

Initially confident that he would be on pretty safe ground with one of his own songs, he soon found himself on shaky ground.

He continued: “I knew the bass line to the song, of course, but I couldn’t quite master this new, different way of playing it. The game reminded me of Space Invaders. I tried to hit the notes cascading down the screen, but could barely keep up. Meanwhile, this kid was watching me fumble with the game. I became self-conscious and took the controller off. I handed it to him, and he proceeded to jam on the song and was really good! He had no idea that I was the musician he was emulating on the game, and I didn’t tell him”.

And how does one recover in such a situation? “[I] walked away to buy some paint supplies, groceries, and other items from the store”.



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