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Sgt. Pepper’s comes to The Beatles Rock Band next week

Chris Greenhough — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:30:28 +0000

What’s your favorite Beatles album? If you answered “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” we can almost certainly be friends.

Now we’re friends, want to come round my place and play Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on some plastic instruments? Well you can’t. Not until next week, anyway. That’s when Sgt. Pepper’s will be hitting The Beatles: Rock Band, with the album pack including:

Fixing A Hole
She’s Leaving Home
Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Within You Without You
When I’m Sixty-Four
Lovely Rita
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
A Day In The Life

That lot will join the other five Sgt. Pepper’s tracks that are already in the game, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “With A Little Help From My Friends,” “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds,” “Getting Better,” and “Good Morning Good Morning.”

This latest batch of Beatles downloadable content hits Xbox 360 on November 17, and PS3 and Wii on November 19. Each individual track – not that you’d want to miss any of these – will set you back $1.99, 160 MS Points, or 200 Wii Points. The whole album will cost $13.49, or 1080 MS Points.

[Via press release]

Anti-piracy group raises the surrender flag

Steven Hodson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:00:04 +0000

While it may be a long time before we see this type of thing happen in the US and Canada the people of Denmark can look forward to one less anti-piracy agency trying to sue everyone in sight for downloading music from the internet – legal or otherwise.

It appears according to a report over at TorrentFreak that the Danish anti-piracy group Antipiratgruppen has given up on trying to get illegal downloaders convicted as well as announcing the group will no longer take people to court.

Part of the reasoning behind the decision is as the Antipiratgruppen lawyer, Mary Fredenslund, is that the evidence required has to be strong and concrete in order to have people convicted and the organization apparently couldn’t convince the courts the lift the burden of proof in cases like these.

Defense attorney Per Overbeck says that in addition to these outcomes, cases against two of his clients have been dropped in recent years. “Antipiratgruppen has acknowledged that they can not get people convicted without either catching them in the act or threatening them to confess,” Overbeck said. “In practice, this means that without a confession there is no case,” he added.

Per Overbeck and Antipiratgruppen’s assessment that recent High Court rulings make it virtually impossible to get individuals convicted for illegal file sharing are supported by a recent Government report from the Ministry of Culture.

According to the report, IP-addresses can only be used to identify the person paying for the Internet subscription, not the person who actually downloaded the files. The courts have ruled several times that in terms of evidence, an IP-address alone is insufficient to prove guilt.

Source: TorrentFreak

It’s too bad we couldn’t see the same common sense be applied here in North America but with so many politicians being supported by entertainment industry trade groups common sense seems to be in short supply. When it comes to the courts they can only really go by the guidance of the laws as they exist – laws crafted by lobbyists and condoned by politicians.

Brian May had hair demands for LEGO: Rock Band

Chris Greenhough — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:53:54 +0000

Queen guitarist Brian May had only one demand when signing up for LEGO Rock Band (aside from receiving a stack of money): that developer Traveller’s Tales get his famous perm right.

As you can see above, they got it right. Very right, actually. In fact, I doubt hair has ever been more right. No doubt about it: May’s LEGO Rock Band hair is rad. Turns out the man himself is rather pleased with it as well:

“I think my LEGO character is wonderful. I want one. We had discussions about the hair, there were a few emails. They had to negotiate to use my likeness, but it’s a nice thing.”

Not only that, but May scored a point over fellow venerable rock legend and Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott, who is totally jealous:

“Joe Elliott rang me up and said he was pissed off because they didn’t make one of him.”

Bless ‘em. Also, isn’t it nice to hear a rock star not bitching about their likeness in a music videogame?

[Yahoo, via Eurogamer]

[VIDEO] Get a look at Queen in LEGO Rock Band

Chris Greenhough — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:31:03 +0000

The LEGO Rock Band version of Iggy Pop horrified me, but the LEGOfied Queen that appears in the game delights me. Just look at Brian May’s hair!

Below is the first footage of Queen in EA/Harmonix’s blocky take on traditional Rock Band. They sing “We Are The Champions,” and it all looks predictably fun and goofy.

Still, after the furore caused by Kurt Cobain’s controversial appearance in Guitar Hero 5, I’m curious to see how people react to the late Freddie Mercury being in this. My guess is they’ll get away with it. I can’t imagine anyone getting their knickers in a bunch about tongue-in-cheek LEGO versions of dead rockers.

That, and Harmonix will probably make sure you can’t use Freddie to rap to Flavor Flav.

[Via press release]

The day that radio was killed

Steven Hodson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:22:59 +0000

Technology didn’t kill radio.

Satellite radio didn’t kill terrestrial radio.

But as of today radio stands a very good chance of becoming an ever increasing wasteland to the point that we will see a massive shift away from radio stations playing music. If you think that talk radio is big now you ain’t seen nothing yet.

This is going to happen all because the very basis of how music radio works has shifted. Instead of record companies using radio stations as a way to promote new artists and new releases from established musicians the passing (with a heap of lobbying entertainment backed groups like the RIAA and musicFirst Coalition) of the Performance Rights Act radio stations will now have to pay to play that same music.

The argument put forth by the lobbyists is that this is a revenue stream that the artists are not seeing and therefor not getting paid for their work. Radio has been getting a free ride forever – getting rich off of the backs of musicians by not having to pay royalties for the music they play.

It’s a nice argument and would make sense if the musicians were actually going to see any of that royalty money. As it is they already don’t see a large chunk of what is suppose to be their money that is collected supposedly on their behalf by SoundExchange. The excuse used of course by the organization is that they can’t find the artists in order to give them the money.

So what happens with all that money?

Well the SoundEchange gets to keep it which ends up making this suppose to be non-profit very wealthy - to the tune of over $100 million as of 2007.

Now this is the group that is going to be able to collect some pretty hefty royalty money from radio stations all on the basis that it is for the musicians. The problem is that by changing the economic landscape by which radio works they are removing the incentive for any stations, other than the big conglomerates, to play new music from anyone other than the really big established musicians or bands.

Radio play has always been considered to be the biggest promotional play a musician could hope for. Even though the power of the hit lists may have lessened in our Internet world they still hold considerable power. It was advertising at it best (or worst during the payola years). That power is now gone.

As Michael Masnick at Techdirt notes

Besides, all this will do is harm up-and-coming musicians. Because radio stations will now need to pay more for playing music, they’ll play less music, and if they’re playing less music, they’ll focus just on the big name acts. Smaller up-and-coming artists should be furious with the RIAA for giving radio stations less incentive to play their works. Remember, this is the opposite of payola. While payola got new records on the air, this will make sure fewer get on the air. But it will sure put a bunch more money in the pockets of the major record labels.

This new tax revenue stream for the entertainment industry through its watchdog groups might not truly kill off radio but is sure is going to lengthen its time on life-support.

Kurt Cobain Guitar Hero 5 videos pulled by Activision

Chris Greenhough — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:37:50 +0000

Remember the fuss kicked up over Kurt Cobain’s appearance in Guitar Hero 5?

The late Nirvana frontman’s avatar could be used to ‘perform’ any song in the popular music game, leading to numerous YouTube videos depicting Cobain singing inappropriate guff, like Bon Jovi. Eventually, Courtney Love caught the scent of money, and threatened to sue Activision (despite signing a contract), while Cobain’s former bandmates publicly tutted from a distance.

Now, publisher Activision is having said YouTube clips taken down, presumably in a desperate, revisionist bid to save face, or maybe just calm the frothing Love down. The heroic chap who uploaded the videos in the first place, one corporalgregg3, has paid the ULTIMATE PRICE. Well, he’s had his YouTube account shut down, anyway:

“Yeah, my last account was permanently disabled due to (I think) Activision. Right before my account was shut down, the Kurt Cobain vid was removed due to copyright claim by Activision Games Inc. I will be continuing with this account so whatever f—k it all.”

Censorship much, Activision?

[Via Kotaku]

Beyoncé wants to make a dance game

Chris Greenhough — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:08:58 +0000

Beyoncé loves the free copy of Wii Fit that Nintendo gave her. In fact, she loves it so much that she has a new career goal: make a dance/fitness videogame, teaching fans the dance moves of Beyoncé. Though not that one in the picture, I’d wager.

Here’s the woman herself, who BY TOTAL COINCIDENCE is on Nintendo’s payroll, announcing her love of Wii Fit. Just sayin’:

“I`d like to get involved in video games, since I really love Wii Fit. I think it would be a great idea to incorporate choreography, because, for me, my workout is way more fun when it involves dancing, as opposed to running on a boring treadmill. So I would love to do some kind of fitness game but incorporate dance and performance into it. I think a lot of women would enjoy that.”

And you know what’s utterly gut-wrenching and horrific about this? She’s probably right with that last sentence: this is a gazillion-seller in the not-too-distant future. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.

[SpiceZee, via 1UP]

Spotify signs deal with Telia

Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:01:09 +0000

The European based online music service Spotify has just signed a deal with Telia in Sweden. Telia is Sweden’s largest ISP and mobile carrier with branches in the Nordic and Baltic countries and in Russia, Spain and Turkey.

The deal expands Spotify’s potential even more. At first customers in Sweden will benefit from the music streaming, but that will probably hopefully change very soon.

From the official announcement:

Telia will start selling Spotify Premium service to their mobile and broadband customers and we hope to work with them on some amazing new initiatives in the near future. Telia is Sweden’s largest ISP and mobile carrier and great match for us, this is a big step towards being able to offer Swedish homes the very best in digital entertainment services.

Spotify is currently available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France and Spain.

Ten Queen tracks for Rock Band this month

Chris Greenhough — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:50:04 +0000

Fans of big hair, big tunes, and even bigger guitar solos are well served by this month’s Rock Band updates.

Harmonix has confirmed that ten tracks from excellent British pomp-rockers Queen are winging their way to the Rock Band Music Store on October 20, including some absolute belters:

* Another One Bites the Dust
* Crazy Little Thing Called Love
* One Vision
* Fat Bottomed Girls
* I Want It All
* I Want To Break Free
* Killer Queen
* Somebody To Love
* Tie Your Mother Down
* Under Pressure

October 20 is a Tuesday, so expect these on the PlayStation Network’s usual Thursday update two days after the other systems. They’ll probably run you the usual 160 MS Points / $2 apiece.

Also, it’s with some sadness that I note the biggest guitar solo of them all still hasn’t made it to either Rock Band or Guitar Hero. Altogether now, gentlemen:

[Via press release]

Courtney Love planning to “sue the s***” out of Activision

Chris Greenhough — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:22:55 +0000

Courtney Love has hopped back on the Crazy Train, ranting at Activision for its portrayal of Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5. That is, the portrayal that she approved.

There’s been an outcry about Cobain’s appearance in the game, and not just because you can watch the Nirvana frontman’s avatar sing along to Flavor Flav. Commentators have argued that Cobain’s memory has been exploited and soiled by his inclusion in a product that he would have had little interest in endorsing.

Getting him in the game reportedly took three years of negotiations, with Love, Universal Publishing, and (former Nirvana drummer) Dave Grohl all involved. Now, Love denies (via her Twitter feed) that she approved the Cobain avatar, while exhibiting the spelling and grammatical prowess of a drunk manatee:

“FOR THE RECORD I DID NOT APPROVE KURTS AVATAR FOR GUYITARHERO5. i think Kurt would despise this game alone let alone this avatar”

This directly contradicts a statement made by Activision’s Tim Riley, from last month:

“Courtney supplied us with photos and videos and knew exactly what she wanted Kurt to look like. She picked the wardrobe and hair style, which turned out to be the ‘Teen Spirit’ look, then we went back and forth over changes – some subtle, some not so subtle.”

Alas, it sounds like Love will not be deterred in her attempts to take Activision down. Labelling the publisher a “bully,” she adds:

“WE are going to sue the s[***] out of ACtivision we being the Trust the Estate the LLC the various LLCs Cobain Enterprises”

Man, who knew selling off your deceased anti-establishment husband’s image for use in a multi-billion dollar videogame franchise could end badly? Apart from everyone over five years old, obv.

[Love's Twitter, via Giant Bomb]

ZOMG!: The amazing Beatles Xbox 360

Chris Greenhough — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:30:36 +0000

The Beatles: Rock Band launched today (it’s been mentioned here once or twice already), so Microsoft is putting some very special edition Xbox 360s up for auction. Featuring artwork from the game, they are freaking gorgeous, and proceeds from the sales will go to the charity Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières. Which is jolly nice.

It’s unknown how many of these actually exist, though I do know that each console will be individually numbered. The first is already up on Ebay and going for $7,000 as I type this. Wouldn’t it be amusing if Microsoft manufactured another five million?

The game is also out on PS3 and Wii, so if Sony or Nintendo want to mass produce a stunning, limited edition console for retail, I could be swayed. As it is, this Ebay auction simply causes my wallet to Gently Weep (last Beatles pun of the day, promise).

More pictures of this breathtaking beast are below. Check your drooling as you scroll:

[Via press release; Ebay auction here]

Virgin’s solution to piracy not sitting well with all record companies

Steven Hodson — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:45:00 +0000

Well color me surprised but not all of the record companies are happy with UK ISP Virgin Media’s planned subscription service for downloading music.

The UK company believes that consumers want to be able to download as much music as they want and without it being loaded down with DRM restrictions. It’s newly announced subscription service is built around this idea that will allow their subscribers to download as much music as they want for an additional monthly fee and allow them to keep it permanently. The fee for the service hasn’t been announced but people in the know are suggesting it will be around the £15 mark.

At this point only Universal and some smaller indie labels have signed up with the ISP’s service. The other record companies, like Warner Bros, EMI, and Sony Music aren’t too happy with the service as they believe that it will cannibalize their existing digital sales. They also don’t believe that it will do anything to convert persistent file-sharers.

A Virgin Media spokeswoman said it’s committed to launching a “comprehensive” service this year. “We’re making good progress in developing the service and are on track to launch before Christmas,” she said. “We’re in talks with both major and independent labels and are committed to launching a comprehensive service.”

However, while record labels are keen to work with Virgin because of the reach it offers via its 3.7m broadband subscribers, they argue the music download service needs to make commercial sense.

A label executive involved in the negotiations said the labels support Virgin Media’s music plans in theory, but any service must deliver both feasibility and scale.

“We want to work with Virgin Media as a partner but any deal has to sit comfortably with how we value our assets against how it values its customers,” he said. “We have to evaluate each deal as it comes in and make sure we’re happy with the overall value of the proposition.”

Source: New Media Age – Record labels cast doubt on Virgin Media’s music model

Somehow I don’t hold out much hope that the Virgin Media subscription idea will end up seeing the light of day.

Beatles: Rock Band: Review Round-up

Chris Greenhough — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:09:26 +0000

As you may already know, The Beatles: Rock Band launches today. It’s probably the first really massive release of this fall, and in the next few weeks you’ll have a ton of downloadable songs to look forward to. But will you be playing it Eight Days a Week, or is there Something about it that doesn’t quite Come Together? Let’s find out, With a Little Help from My Friends these reviews:

IGN (full review here) envisages the game appealing to both serious and casual Beatles fans. Doesn’t that cover … everybody?:

“The Beatles: Rock Band isn’t for everyone. Like, say, people who don’t care about The Beatles. If that’s you, then move along. For those who have a love or even just a fondness for the Fab Four, Harmonix has created a fantastic tribute. It won’t teach you the full history of the world’s most celebrated band nor give you even a quarter of their extraordinary catalogue of music, but it’s still great.“
90%

Eurogamer (full review here) published a review that mostly read like a love-letter to the band, but got to the point eventually. The point being: it’s ace:

“Beatles fans will have their own highlights from the game. Mine is the 45th and final track of the game, “The End”, also the final track on Abbey Road, the final album recorded by the greatest band in history. It’s the unimprovable climax to an astonishing career, with Paul, John and George trading riffs before the final swooning couplet, encapsulating the Beatles’ philosophy, melts into lilting strings that leave you unsure whether to laugh or cry.”
9 out of 10

GameDaily (full review here) proclaimed the title a landmark:

“Of course, The Beatles are worth every penny, especially for fans of the Fab Four. This game delivers one of the most phenomenal music experiences, outside of hopping into a time machine and watching them perform live, we’re likely to see during this phase of our digital age.”
9 out of 10

1UP (full review here), in a moment of sobering reality, gave the game a good-but-not-great mark of B, arguing that Beatles: Rock Band doesn’t do the necessary legwork:

“Rock Band Beatles is an excellent tribute to the band; if any group deserves to stand in the limelight of their own game, it’s The Beatles. But affixing “Rock Band” to the title leads to certain expectations — as a Rock Band player who still gets plenty of use out of Rock Band 2 and its ever-expanding setlist, I feel a little cheated that none of these songs are available online for the other Rock Band games.”
B grade

The End.

[Via Metacritic]

Play illegal music on cellphone and find it shut down

Steven Hodson — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:35:00 +0000

Word is beginning to trickle out of Japan that the country’s government and music companies are trying to get a pioneering system in place that is designed to stop unauthorized copying of music on mobile phones. As well repeat offenders could find their phone’s music playing capabilities disabled.

The system would be dependant on a centralized database containing information about music that is authorized to be downloaded as well as verifying that cellphone users weren’t downloading illegal copies of music files.

According to the folks over at FreakBits the system is planned to be in service by April 2010. I bet the RIAA is getting the biggest woodie possible at the thought of being able to do the same thing here.

Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5 … singing Flavor Flav

Chris Greenhough — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:50:04 +0000

It appears they may not have fully thought this through …

I’ve already posted about Kurt Cobain’s posthumous appearance in Guitar Hero 5. Not to speak for Cobain, but I can’t see him endorsing the franchise were he alive. Alas, it turns out I hadn’t seen the worst of the Nirvana frontman’s creepy presence in the game … until now.

Giant Bomb user skrutop put together this video of virtual Kurt Cobain bopping along to a Bon Jovi song, surreally rapping out a Flavor Flav track, playing between two other Kurt Cobains, singing alongside some of the cartoony Xbox Avatars, and, well, you get the point. It’s just so … ugh. Couldn’t they at least have restricted the use of the polygonal Cobain to Nirvana songs?

Hope it was worth the money, Courtney and Dave!

[Via Giant Bomb]

No Pirate Bay for those bad bad people in Ireland

Steven Hodson — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:10:00 +0000

Not satisfied with just screwing people through pointless idiotic lawsuits the music industry has been trying to get ISPs around the world to block torrent sites – with The Pirate Bay being their principal target. the thinking being if they can con the ISPs into blocking them it will be a short step to getting them to block other sites the music industry has a hard-on for.

In Ireland several of the ISPs were sent letters requesting the blockage of The Pirate Bay an while UPC and BT Ireland refused lily-livered Eircom, the country’s largest ISP, bowed down to the industry lapdogs and began – as of today – to block the site.

According the the gang over at TorrentFreak people trying to access the site will see the following message, which I have copied from TorrentFreak’s post on the story (hope they don’t mind)

TorrentFreak can confirm that Eircom customers can no longer access The Pirate Bay and instead, are faced with this message when trying to access the site (body in plain text for clarity);

On the 24 July 2009, an Order was made by the High Court requiring eircom to block or otherwise disable access by its subscribers to the website ThePirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs. The Court was satisfied that on the basis of the evidence presented by the record companies that the PirateBay website is a website that facilitates the exchange of copyrighted sound recordings without the consent of the copyright owners.

eircom recognises the legitimate rights of the owners of copyrighted material and believes that individuals who share or download copyrighted material without the authorisation or the permission of the copyright owner are acting illegally.

The Order further provides that should the PirateBay website content be legitimatised in the future then eircom has liberty to apply to the Court to have the Order vacated and access to the PirateBay website enabled.

eircom in compliance with the Order has agreed that access to the website the PirateBay.org, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs from the eircom network will be blocked indefinitely from the 1st September 2009.

eircom would like to reassure customers that:

* eircom will not monitor customer’s activities at any stage, nor will it place any monitoring equipment or software on its network in order to facilitate this block.
* eircom will not provide personal details or any information relating to customers to any third party, including the record companies.

Way to Eircom.

note: the picture has absolutely nothing to do with the story other than to show that Ireland has some really beautiful women.

Every wondered what the Beatle’s top selling songs were?

Steven Hodson — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:20:00 +0000

Ah the Beatles, I can still remember seeing Help in the movie theater when it was first shown and it would have been a lot of fun except for all the silly girls screaming all over the place. The band has been a icon of our society and the music we listen to and even though there music has yet to make it into the digital world but that is about to change with the upcoming release of The Beatles: Rock Band game. Of course with the Sept. 9 Apple conference there are also the never ending rumors that The Beatles might finally be coming to iTunes.

So it is interesting in light of this that The Official Chart Company – who puts together the weekly Top 40 in England – has come up with a list of 30 of the band’s top selling songs. There will probably be a few surprises in this list for some people.

1 She Loves You
2 I Want To Hold Your Hand
3 Can’t Buy Me Love
4 I Feel Fine
5 Day Tripper/We Can Work it Out
6 Hey Jude
7 From Me to You
8 Help!
9 Hello, Goodbye
10 Get Back
11 Paperback Writer
12 All You Need Is Love
13 Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby
14 Ticket to Ride
15 Magical Mystery Tour EP
16 A Hard Day’s Night
17 Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
18 Lady Madonna
19 Love Me Do
20 Please Please Me
21 The Ballad of John and Yoko
22 Let It Be
23 Free as a Bird
24 Something/Come Together
25.Beatles Movie Medley
26 Yesterday
27 Real Love
28 Baby It’s You
29 Back In the USSR
30 Strawberry Fields Forever (re-issue)

Personally being an album person it’s a toss up between Revolver and the White Album.

[VIDEO] Hugh Hefner and Playmates sell you Guitar Hero 5

Chris Greenhough — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:25:35 +0000

Firstly, I’d like to apologize for posting twice in one day about the same game.

Right, with my hollow apology out of the way, here’s one of the first TV adverts for Guitar Hero 5, starring a whole line-up of Playboy Playmates alongside a leering Hugh Hefner. Activision has dead guys in the game, and a nearly-dead guy shilling it.

I’m sure some of you will recall that the last Guitar Hero release, Guitar Hero World Tour, had an extremely similar commercial to this, only with Heidi Klum dancing solo in her underwear and socks. Considering last year’s video caught a lot of flak from Master of Logic Bill O’Reilly, I’m wondering what he’ll have to say about this:

Finally, as I’m on the subject of commercials for music videogames, and just because I can, I thought I’d post this link to my all-time favorite.

[YouTube, via Go Nintendo]

[VIDEO] Kurt Cobain makes long-awaited return in Guitar Hero 5

Chris Greenhough — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:52:11 +0000

Activision has decided it could shift a few more copies of Guitar Hero 5 by including a virtual Kurt Cobain, and I know what you’re thinking: that could be the classiest damn move you’ve ever heard of.

Cobain will be appearing in the game after three years of complex negotiations between Activision, Courtney Love (who controls Cobain’s estate), and Universal Publishing (who control Nirvana’s catalog). Love apparently had some input into the appearance of Cobain’s avatar, which sports the singer’s famous cardigan-and-”Frog”-t-shirt look. They still haven’t got the mouth animations quite right.

As this newly released Cobain trailer shows, you’ll be able to thrash your way through “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and a live version of “Lithium,” all while looking forward to the inevitable Michael Jackson appearance in Guitar Hero 6.

[Via YouTube]

9 Year-old’s dream comes true

Steven Hodson — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:24:02 +0000

Remember a month or two ago when the Ellen show had 9 year-old guitar phenom Yuto Miyasawa on the show and he proceeded to totally amaze every-one with his playing – including Ozzie Osborne. Just incase you missed it or have forgotten here is a video of his appearance on Ellen

One of his dreams apparently was to one day meet and play with Ozzie Osborne. On the show Ellen brought the first part of the dream to reality when Ozzie showed up on the stage to greet the 9 year-old. It apparently didn’t stop there either as at this year’s Blizzcon young Yuot got his chance to play on stay with Ozzie as they performed Osborne’s “Crazy Train” song together.

What an experience that must have been for a 9 year-old – wow!