{"id":5133,"date":"2010-01-07T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"led-zeppelin-explains-rejecting-guitar-hero-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5133-led-zeppelin-explains-rejecting-guitar-hero-offer","title":{"rendered":"Led Zeppelin explains rejecting Guitar Hero offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music legend Jimmy Page of infamous rock band Led Zeppelin has always had a thing or two to say about Activision&rsquo;s Guitar Hero.<\/p>\n<p>Part of his commentary explains why none of the bands iconic songs will ever feature in the game.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When Guitar Hero were pitching for Led Zeppelin to get involved they wanted the multi-tracks of our original recordings. I said, &lsquo;It&rsquo;s all very well having a bit of fun, but don&rsquo;t be silly!&rsquo;&rdquo; Page told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/features\/jimmy-page--its-been-a-long-time-since-he-rocknrolled-1854570.html\" target=\"_blank\">Independent.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The interview was done as part of PR for the just filmed documentary It Might Get Loud which features Page along with U2&rsquo;s The Edge and Jack White of the White Stripes.<\/p>\n<p>Documentary maker Davis Guggenheim also took a swipe at the video game series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You could say our film is the antithesis of the Guitar Hero game,&#8221; going on to elaborate:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each of our three guitarists has a brilliantly individual voice, but in Guitar Hero you have to replicate an existing part &ndash; how dull is that?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimate Guitar Hero Jimmy Page says why Led Zeppelin won\u2019t feature in the game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}