"Not even the creators of Rock Band could possibly believe that playing the game is tantamount to making your own music. There is, however, a sad similarity between Rock Band and some actual bands, and that is the attempt at realness. With so much of music blurring the lines between ersatz and authenticity, at least the Rock Band game is a tribute to rock, rather than an affront. In the realm of fakery, I would choose Rock Band over American Idol or over any of the other flimsy truths masquerading as music. With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song." If Rock Band is even a bit successful in getting the average listener to appreciate the dyanmics of putting together musicians of differing levels of skill to create something moderately Rocking to Face-melting, then it has done a great service to the music which the creates of the game wish to put on a pedestal. To put it another way, a way that takes all the fun out of it (joy!) Rock Band is an interactive learning tool for the development of muscial connoseuirship. I have looked over this post and see that I have a legion of spelling and gramatical errors. Hooray!