Chris Kohler
Culture

Next Week: <cite>Rock Band</cite> Gets 'Dead'

Rock Band is about to get a lot more freeform. Next week, Harmonix will slap six master recordings from the Grateful Dead onto their already-ample list of downloadable tracks. Prior to the game’s release, Harmonix promised that eighteen Dead songs would eventually land on the marketplace. Next week’s update, on March 4, will bring six […]

Rockbanddead*Rock Band *is about to get a lot more freeform. Next week, Harmonix will slap six master recordings from the Grateful Dead onto their already-ample list of downloadable tracks.

Prior to the game's release, Harmonix promised that eighteen Dead songs would eventually land on the marketplace. Next week's update, on March 4, will bring six of them:

  • "China Cat Sunflower" (1969, Aoxomoxoa)
  • "Casey Jones" (1970, Workingman's Dead)
  • "Sugar Magnolia" (1970, American Beauty)
  • "Truckin'" (1970, American Beauty)
  • "Franklin's Tower" (1975, Blues For Allah)
  • "I Need A Miracle" (1978, Shakedown Street)

Twelve more Dead tracks will become available "over the next several months," says Harmonix.

Here's the best part: They're $2 each, but only $10 for the whole package. That's a savings of something like two dollars!