How do musicians see the video game industry, particularly with games like Guitar Hero?
Tyler: I think there are so many kids playing video games now, it’s kind of like a sound-track to a movie. It takes a song and enhances it. That attached with a good moment in a song can mean everything, like a live appearance where Joe runs to the end of the ramp and takes his shirt off and smashes his guitar. I had my doubts, but it’s really insane. I was able to do things you would never see live. And if you win, we did some special things like interviews and told some secrets like what was I thinking of when I wrote the songs. In the old days we thought it was cheesy to attach a song to selling something, but this isn’t like selling a product. You are playing the game and the room is full of your friends. Q: Can you tell me how this video game came about? Joe Perry: I walked through the den where we have the video games usually set up and I noticed the controller had an oddly familiar shape and I heard some rockin’ music and I said, ‘What’s going on? What is this?’ (His youngest so
