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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 12:23 |
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 The Boston Herald reports that video game dorks and rock stars never had much in common. But that may be changing.
Last night Salt Lake City’s Eric Miller parlayed his talent for joy-stick jockeying into a full-on rock star experience, playing “Sweet Emotion” center stage at Boston’s Hard Rock Cafe and hobnobbing with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.
Looking more like meditating monks than guitar shredders, Miller and three other regional winners competed in Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Rocks the Hard Rock Finals before a crowd of a couple hundred.
If you’re not a “Guitar Hero” enthusiast, the game allows players simulate the real thing using a guitar-shaped controller with fret buttons that corresponded to notes that scroll on the screen. It’s difficult, pretty addictive and massively popular.
“I thought it was kinda dumb the first time I saw it,” said Miller, after besting Orlando’s Joe Ostrom during final tune “Love in an Elevator.” “I didn’t even want to try it, but a friend told me it had (Ozzy Osbourne’s) ‘Bark at the Moon’ in it, so I gave it a try.”
As champion, Miller took home a custom “Guitar Hero”/Hard Rock Cafe Red Wing motorcycle, which Tyler was nice enough to sign for him. Not bad for a 24-year-old plastic guitar slinger.
“I came here thinking I’d lose,” he said. “I was just in for the free trip to Boston.”
Read the full story here.
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