Once again proving that playing the actual guitar and playing Guitar Hero are two entirely different skill sets, Matchbox 20 guitarist Kyle Cook reveals the shame of being a professional musician beaten by his little brother in a video game about being a professional musician.
My little brother, who doesn’t play a lick of guitar, will just smoke me on that game. And I don’t get it. A lot of the songs I know, because some of them are from my era, like “Sweet Child o’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses. I’m like, “Dude, I know how to play that song (on a real guitar). How are you smokin’ me on this game?” It’s just tough for me. I think it’s ’cause I’m a player; I can’t get used to this little colour-coded thing and looking at light beams coming at my head.
Funny, you’d figure a rock star would be used to light beams coming at their head by now.
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