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Led Zeppelin Rock Band Or Guitar Hero Will 'Never Happen'

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Led Zeppelin have rejected continued requests from the makers of Guitar Hero and Rock Band to release a game inspired by the group, it's been revealed.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the band are not comfortable with giving away the master copies to their songs.

"It ain't about the money," explained Peter Mensch, a partner at Q Prime Management, who manage guitarist Jimmy Page.

Pressure has grown on Led Zeppelin to return to the public arena since their reunion concert in London last year.

A number of bands have released special edition versions of both games, with Guitar Hero: Aerosmith hitting shops last weekend.

Metallica have also been linked with a future edition of the game, which is expected in Spring 2009.

Led Zeppelin - Through The Years

 
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  • Guitar hero would do it for the money. Rock Band is for the fans though.

    ~ by carzynick 7/7/2008

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  • Page is worried about selling out after he committed that awful injustice to Kashmir with Puff Diddy Daddy or whatever he’s using for that crappy Godzilla movie from a few years ago? Yeah, Jimmy. Stick to your principles, man.

    ~ by Chili 7/7/2008

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    • Never heard of that. ANYTHING that involves that idiot, Puff... is scary. He has no talent... we'll he's a BS'er, but he has no MUSICAL talent.

      ~ by Tom195 9/12/2009

  • After seeing some three Guitar Hero games released this year alone. I’ll agree with nick that if they were to give in to the demand it should be rockban not GH that gets the music. Rockband does happen to be by the original creators of the first 2 GH games.

    ~ by Tommy2Guns 7/26/2008

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  • Rock Band and Guitar Hero, both, basically amount to a glorified air-guitar session. It\'s deeply annoying, for anyone who actually can play guitar, to have to suffer through watching people get off on thinking their skills" on GH are something to be proud of. Kurt Kobain is probably rolling over in his grave at Nirvana songs in RB; and I\'m glad Page is keeping his integrity, and leaving Led Zeppelin out of this ludicrous sham altogether.

    ~ by BW 7/29/2008

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    • Integrity? Led Zeppelin's integrity disappeared when Page let Puff Daddy rape Kashmir.

      ~ by Joe 3/7/2009

  • And Go-karts are glorified NASCAR competitions, and mini-golf is for non-rating Tiger Woods enthusiasts.. it’s ENTERTAINMENT! Kurt couldn’’t handle any kind of fame so yeah, being glorified in a game probably isn’’t how he envisioned himself before Nirvana took off. How is giving a rapper rights for Kashmir but not selling rights to true rock fans keeping integrity? Thankfully, since I do play guitar, I don’’t get too annoyed

    ~ by Nino 7/31/2008

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    • No, not true. People who play miniature golf aren't necessarily fans of golfers. I never knew of any golfers when I was a kid and enjoyed miniature golf. And go-karts other little vehicles have been driven around large fields and properties long before Nascar was around. Doing something doesn't mean you have to pretend to be someone else. The fact is that playing Rockband and Guitar Hero are NOTHING like playing a real guitar. It's more like playing a "SIMON" game.

      ~ by Tom195 9/12/2009

  • Tom195 Contridicts himself, I play the guitar, and RB, It's a Fucking game calm down and get a job

    ~ by JohnLennonIsAlive 10/1/2009

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