My soon-to-be 11 year old step-son is getting to that “too cool for parents” stage. So anything we can do to help bridge the gap helps with the attitude. Well, I got GuitarHero III for Christmas and have been working my way through the different levels. I made it all the way through medium and now I’m over half way through hard – but I had to wuss out on both battles.
Anyway, remember that scene in the movie “City Slickers” – when they’re sitting around the fire talking about how they used to fight with their dads all the time. But, the only thing they had in common was baseball – going to games, talking stats, stuff like that. I was reminded of this when Tommy and I were playing GuitarHero the other day. It’s common ground and a heck of a lot of fun.
I think I even get some cool points with his buddies when I go up and smoke them on the songs they’re working through. One day I heard them playing a song and fired up my amp and Strat and started playing the song for real – they got a kick out of that.
Who knew we’d be united in ROCK!
