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Alex Rigopulos And Giles Martin On Behind The Scenes Of TB:RB
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Harmonix CEO and Co-founder Alex Rigopulos
An exclusive interview with Harmonix CEO and Co-founder Alex Rigopulos, and Creative Producer and Music Supervisor for The Beatles: Rock Band, Giles Martin straight from Abbey Road Studios in London.
Alex and Giles took a few minutes to offer The Beatles: Rock Band fans some insight on the difficult process of deciding which songs would make it onto the disc; they also shed some light on what to expect from the dreamscapes and cut scenes featured in the game.
The interview is revealing the way TB:RB was created, starting from the concept, choosing which songs will be featured and the challenges the creative team had to deal with.
In an anwer to the question What were the most challenging tracks you had to work with that you had to de-mix, Giles answered:
“The most challenging tracks are the early ones such as, “Twist and Shout” and “I Saw Her Standing There” because they are all just stereos and are using different elements. For example, take “I Want To Hold Your Hand” – its bass, guitars and drums are all on a single track, so we had to be very careful when de-mixing these earlier songs to ensure that we didn’t alter the sound. We have to represent [The Beatles] in the best way possible and they were such an amazing band and amazing players that we have to sync to that. The later the music gets the easier it becomes for us.”
Giles and Alex also explains what is the difference between The Beatles Rock Band and other Rock Band games:
Giles: “It is very different because Rock Band generally favors bands that have lots of guitars and play riffs and stuff like that. People know Beatles’ songs by the words and they know them by singing along. But it’s funny because their instrumentation has always been very precise and very good, and it’ll be the first time that people will start listening to what’s being played underneath. I think that’s a great thing because they were damn fine players.
Alex: “They were, and particularly some of the drum parts. There were intricacies in some of the drum grooves that I had just never noticed before and I think people are going to touch that for the first time and it’s going to change how people understand this music.”
Paul McCartney Talks About The Beatles: Rock Band
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Game Informer got an exclusive interview with Paul McCartney about the upcoming Rock Band Beatles game. This is a very interesting interviews, and quite funny as well. It reveals the “behind the scenes” of The Beatles : Rock Band and how Paul was convinced to develop the game along with Harmonix and MTV.
Here’s McCartney’s answer on how he was first approached about The Beatles : Rock Band
“We’re always kind of looking for ideas. Post-the actual Beatles career, what tends to happen is ideas just come in, people say, “Do you want to do a movie? You wanna do a thing? Do you want to do a show in Vegas?” So we sift those ideas, as they come to us. I believe this came to us via Dhani Harrison, who’s a gamer and he’s of the generation. So he came up in conversation, “Would you like to do a video game?” And I was like, “Yeah, how would that work? Talk to me.” He’s like, “You can do this, you can do this, we’ll call people who can do it, Harmonix and Rock Band people.”
“Yeah, let’s just see, let’s talk to them.” So it came in as an idea and I think just immediately we were interested in it. Then it was either going to be great or not, like The Love Show, like any of these other ideas. If it wasn’t a good idea, then we’d go, “We’re cool on it.” If it’s a good idea we heat up; like this one, it just got better and better.”
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