Steven Van Zandt chairs Rock Band music advisory board

by Richard Mitchell { Jul 11th 2007 at 7:06PM }

During EA's E3 press conference, Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos announced the formation of the Rock Band music advisory board. The board is to be comprised of music industry experts and will oversee the selection of music that will appear in Rock Band as the game's constantly expanding music selection grows every week. Rigopulos further announced that the advisory board would be chaired by Steven Van Zandt, former guitarist for the E Street Band (and Silvio Dante from The Sopranos). Van Zandt stated to the crowd that is the advisory board's mission to select the best songs from every era of rock n' roll as well as selections from up and coming artists.

Of course, there are still a few unanswered questions, the first being how much all this mammoth content will cost. We'd also like to know what other music luminaries have been invited to join the music advisory board. Your guess is as good as ours.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

zwarrior @ Jul 11th 2007 7:10PM

New up-and-coming artists too? I never meant one music elicist who wasn't biast towrds the veterans more.

Levi @ Jul 11th 2007 7:15PM

Steven Van Zandt approving games for Rock Band?

*crosses fingers for Born to Run*

Lord Chako @ Jul 11th 2007 7:21PM

I don't like people or advisory boards telling me what the "best" songs are.
I would rather they just sign as many rock/metal bands as possible, and let me choose what songs/albums I want.

I understand that isn't possible for the content on the disc, but as far as dlc goes I feel there shouldn't be a "advisory board" telling us what's "best".

Squid @ Jul 11th 2007 7:29PM

Too bad there's no coat advisory board! Hey Alex Van Ruxpin, lose the parka!

Ocho @ Jul 11th 2007 8:08PM

Ha ha, zing!

Imadogg99 @ Jul 11th 2007 7:40PM

I hope they fill up the disc with like 5000 songs. And that they're not lying about the DLC every week...

Hey Apples @ Jul 11th 2007 8:37PM

The bar is so low after GH2 downloads.

I don't believe it possible to fail, and entirely possible that this feature bumps rhythm-based games up another notch entirely.

Cloaker @ Jul 11th 2007 9:07PM

Yeah, but did anyone ask him the REAL question?

Is Adriana really dead? Never in a cable TV show did I ever stand up with so much anger and fury at a character's demise.

Glad the bastard's on permanent life support as a vegetable. Silvio, that is.

David Costin @ Jul 12th 2007 10:48AM

In case anyone thinks this is an odd celebricty to be choosing songs for Rock Band ... other than the fact he plays in a band. Steven programs a number of channels for Sirius Satellite Radio ... a number of genres, different kinds of music -- not just rock.

Excellent choice for the board!