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Every other Friday at work the whole studio get together and plays a game.  It might be a video game… it might be a board game or trivia.  Other then the planners of it no one knows until that day.  The winner gets to pick a video game of their choice.

This past Friday we played Rock band.

Now my time with Guitar Hero equals about an hour at the most so I knew I was in trouble.  I mean to pick it up but I just don’t have the time.  So playing an interment would be rough… but singing would be scary… especially in front of your whole studio.  Sure enough I was asked to do vocals and, because I knew I could read the lyrics better then I could play something in the game I agreed.  Man… I could feel my heard pounding and I’m sure others could hear it.

We looked over the song list.  I knew most of them, but not well enough to really know the lyrics.  I figured if I’m going to sing I want to know the song well.  We soon all agreed that Enter Sandman by Metallica would be a good selection.  Sweet!  I used to rock out to that in High School.  Our turn came up and we got ready and did our thing.  As I started I got less and less nervous.  I mean, it’s understandable to be nervous but I work with these people, we’re not going to put each other down and then kick each other.  It takes guts to get up and sing in front of everyone and I think everyone knew that.  Besides, I gave conference to about 100 people at a game summit a few years ago so I shouldn’t have been nervous at all looking back now.

It went very well and I had lots of fun and people where commenting on my nice gravely voice as I sung my best Hetfield.  We failed our song… drummers fault ^_^ but we all had a great time and that’s was counts.

I can see the draw to Rock Band after just that one time.  If I had more friends to play with I would probably pick it up.