Jenny and I played a fun new game this weekend called Rock Band. It’s like Guitar Hero but takes the experience even further by adding other instruments and vocals to create, well, a rock band. Each person has an electronic “instrument”, either a guitar, drum kit, or microphone. You choose a song together from over 60 available songs. Then you “play” it by hitting the buttons on the guitar while strumming, hitting the drum pads, or singing as directed by the scrolling musical “score” on the screen. It’s fun to watch, even more fun to play, and highly addictive, especially when you invite your friends and family over and take turns on the different parts. For example, I played drums on the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage”, guitar on The Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go,” and sang vocals on Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz”. You can also add a second guitar for the bass part. It’s an absolute blast! Unfortunately, the Rock Band set were were using belongs to Jenny’s department and will be used for events, so we have to give it back. We brought it home to unlock as many songs as we could before the first event. We hope to get our own set later. When we do, you need to come over and rock out with us!