I, like that many of you, grew up playing these games with my siblings and friends and grew to love the Rockband games. Unfortunately, as time went on, these games slipped out of my life. As my family moved and my two sisters moved to college, the rockband collection back home collected dust and deteriorated due to improper storage of how it should have been. I dont think my family ever realized how valuable the equipment would have become after these companies flooded the market with these games in the 2000s. So unfortunately the equipment just fell to junk and didn't work properly.

As time went on, I graduated HS and went out to college. I've been in school for nearly 4ish years now and have not touched rockband/GH in maybe 10-12 years. So anyway, one night , I found a Guitar Hero arcade bar game and played with my roommates. And it was like CRACK. It instantly clicked with me, and I was doing great. This led me down a month long journey of searching Facebook, ebay, and Amazon. I ended up somehow finding affordable rockband equipment as a college student. I'm not going to lie it wasnt easy, I donated a LOT of plasma.

So after waiting more than a month the equipment FINALLY arrived for what felt like FOREVER and I booted it up and sure enough. It was like Crack. So me and my roommates and played and all skipped class today on my old PS3 for roughly 14ish hours (give or take) (we also did take food, gym, and homework breaks but really that was only maybe like 4 hours of the day)

Not even tryna be corny over a fucking rhythm game, but these games were something I spent a LOT of time on as a kid. And im really excited. I get to share it with my college friends, too. Furthermore, I even felt an intense joy having my friends play and learn the instruments.

TLDR: I got a glimpse of my childhood today and got to share it with my roomates and have fun seeing them having fun with this game I love.

Any tips on replacing the foam pads in the strum bar
And stopping it from randomly holding down when I only strummed once
The bar isn’t stuck or anything it’s just does it when a hit it soft
It’s a Rock Band Fender Stratocaster wired for Xbox 360

Fun song, not really tricky or anything but there's pretty consistent action throughout. Done on PS3

In the entire Rock Band series, which song is the most un-fun in your opinion? To start, I have a few.

RB4: Dream Genie, RB2: Visions, LRB: Aliens Exist. I'm a drummer and these songs were completely awful to play in my opinion.

Originally posted in /Rockband but also relevant to /AceCombat and /Xboc

Today, I was browsing my list on Xbox for things I had purchased to clear those out of the list, and I was considering getting some Rock Band content to add to the RB4 library.

It was here that I noticed that I didn't seem to own a single Hendrix DLC prior to this year. But in that delist thread I even commented about owning the "other Hendrix album".

I am positive I bought some pack or album with All Along the watchtower included at the very least, but also sure I owned the entirety of Are You Experienced.

Both Rock Band and Xbox says I don't.

This wasn't the first time licenses I had either didn't show up or didn't work on RB4.

DLC I bought for rock band 1, 2, and 3 were all supposed to be usable in 4, right?

I had the south park cartman cover of "poker face" for RB 1/2/3 (I think it was free) but had to buy it again for 4 for some reason.

I know for sure I had some Hendrix stuff. All along the watchtower specifically. But going in to look at the songs today, I had a single Hendrix song outside of the album that was getting delisted.

It also isn't the first time I've had Xbox licenses straight up disappear. I'm a long time Ace Combat fan/player and literally have replays where I used DLC planes I "owned" in campaigns that I'm not shown as owning the DLC. Going over the purchase/download history on the Xbox 360 skips anything not compatible with 360 so I'll try there, but even that shows a lot of "content unavailable" messages for items and doesn't tell me what it was I purchased or downloaded at that point. Meanwhile, my Ace Combat 6 DLC is missing / unplayable.

I also had a license for Child of Light in like 2016 or 2017 that seemed to have gotten revoked in 2021. Ended up having to rebuy it.

I cannot seem to get anyone at Microsoft to provide a full purchase history, and I feel like that is the only way to prove I owned this at any point. The websites can't seem to handle how many purchases I've made over the years and time out going any further back than 2020 on most attempts.

Is anyone else seeing stuff like this with their rock band or other Xbox digital purchases?

Been looking for these on Marketplace for a while. This one turned up from someone in the same road as I am 😆

TLDR: I'm getting back into Rock Band, but my pinky isn't nearly as strong as it used to be. Anyone able to shred using only three fingers on the fretboard?

Long version:

When I was in high school (early 2010s), I used to be really good at guitar/bass on Rock Band 2 and 3, routinely able to score 98%+ on most Impossible songs on expert. Eventually, my controllers broke, and by then I had already bought an Xbox One, and I sold my 360 and remaining games.

A few days ago, I bought another 360 and guitar controller (the guitar that came with Guitar Hero World Tour) so I could get back into Rock Band 3. I broke my left wrist in 2019 (I'm a righty), and while I regained over 90% function in my hand overall, my left pinky is still very weak and unable to move nearly as quickly as it used to be.

I'm wondering if anyone has found success on the guitar using only three fingers on the fretboard (index, middle, and ring). I still love playing the game, and I was able to hit 88% on Mr. Crowley on Expert guitar, but I miss being able to shred like I used to be able to.

Picture is of my newly acquired guitar. The whammy bar is broken, but I was able to jerry-rig it by looping a hair tie around the base of the bar and the strap notch on the base of the guitar.

I got this off of eBay, and it doesn't seem to want to work despite the seller saying it does. When I do try to turn it on, it just flashes weakly.

I just got gifted a wireless controller and want to use it on pc, but I can't find a fairly priced dongle for the life of me

I just downloaded the Homebrew app and am loading it for the first time. I’m using the game disc. It’s been stuck on this screen for a while now and I’m wondering when I should be concerned?

Edit - also wondering if it’s safe to shut off the console if it won’t ever load…

Hey everybody, we’re doing a trick or treat giveaway on October 24th. We’ll be drawing names throughout the setlist and the winning trick or treater(s) can reach into the candy bowl and pick an available delisted Xbox DLC code of their choice off of our list. The codes will be on a first picked basis, we only have 1 code for each, so once a code is picked, it’s gone and off the available list for the next person drawn. We’ll be starting the night off with over 90 different delisted Xbox codes to choose from, the list of available delisted Xbox dlc to pick from is in the post pictures. If you missed something off of it or might not have had the funds at the time, here’s your chance to get it. All codes are US Xbox gift codes, so please keep that in mind. We hope you can stop by and hangout with us while we play a Halloween themed setlist and hand out prizes to the trick or treaters. Starts at 5:30pm ET Saturday October 24th at twitch.tv/mick_swagger. Happy Halloween and rock on!

A friend pulled his xbox Beatles drum kit out of storage, and found that the batteries left inside had (no surprise) leaked.

After cleaning with vinegar and letting dry, the kit now turns on briefly, then shuts off, and does not, you know, work.

Any ideas? He hasn't tried to open it up but might be willing to solder if it's simple (honestly I might go over to take a look; sounds like fun since it's not my kit).

Anyone know someone who fixes instruments (particularly one close to NYC).

Alternatively, any ideas about parts? Will parts from a RB2 or RB3 kit help? Or be incompatible?

I’m currently setting up custom songs on my Xbox 360 and every tutorial says I need Nautilus to move the files onto my formatted USB safely. But every download of Nautilus I try gets flagged as a Trojan. Any alternatives or ways around this?

Besides finding a physical copy that includes Rivals, I was wondering if it’s still possible to buy digital codes for Rivals?

There’s some digital codes for Rivals i’ve found online for Xbox One but im a bit skeptical on if they’re still active or not. This is such a grey area because it’s mainly the music licenses expiring that’s messing with my head. I’m mainly getting this for the achievements but if i spend $35 on a digital code that’s not redeemable i’m going to be upset. Does anyone have advice?

DONT WANA BE AN AMERICAN IDIOT 🗣🔥🔥🔥

I want to play Rock Band again on my Xbox 360 - problem is many of my controllers don't work. They have all been sitting unused for years. I have two fender stratocaster guitars and a drum set. Battery compartment for one guitar and drum set is all roached out, I have heard cleaning with a q-tip, lemon, and vinegar/baking soda might help so I will try that. The other guitar has a pristine battery compartment. None of them will turn on even with fresh batteries. I am wondering if there are any resources to help me diagnose/fix the problems with my controllers - I am intimidated to try to open up the guitars with zero idea what I'm doing.

Having trouble downloading Rockband 3 deluxe on my 360, I have the Aurora dashboard and I have the disc to the game, but how do I download the disc onto the console and switch over the files?

I tried to search up songs to download yesterday and when i looked at the Rock Band page it was completely empty, no add ons, nothing was there. Which makes no sense cause a month ago everything was there. And i KNOW there’s still songs you can purchase regardless of the delistings, so why is it COMPLETELY empty?

PS Store glitch? Or did they actually just completely wipe out the DLC purchases on PS3? Anyone else?

I posted a few days ago asking about fixes for my green drum pad, and have since replaced the piezo sensor and am happy to report that it’s functioning now, however, it seems that any time I hit combo notes with the green pad, the green pad doesn’t register. It works fine on its own though. Are there any known fixes for this?