As you might have noticed from my article over the weekend, I traveled up to Chicago (DeKalb to be exact) to catch up with the Rock Band Tour. I’ll say this much, it was well worth it. While I was there I spent some time with John Drake of Harmonix. He took me in the bus and let me rock out for a while and then sat down for an interview. Check it out after the jump.
If you’ve been reading SlashGear for any amount of time you’ve probably noticed that I’m a huge Guitar Hero nut. Well last Friday I had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sit down and talk Guitar Hero with another fan of the series, Jonathan Davis of Korn.
Korn has been headlining the Family Values Tour for almost a month now with Guitar Hero sponsoring the second stage. At each stop they have a competition for the best Guitar Hero player, the winner gets an autographed guitar (a real one) and the opportunity to jam with Jonathan Davis. While I wasn’t able to enter the competition, I still had the chance to witness the late-night jam session. That video, however, is for another day.
Jonathan was kind enough to agree to an interview with me where we talked about gaming, gadgets and Guitar Hero. First, I have to say that Jonathan is a really cool guy, he’s very laid back and not uptight like some people that I’ve heard about. If you’re wondering what all of the background noise is, that’s some people playing Guitar Hero outside the bus.
Full video of the interview after the jump
As some of you might already know, our own Vincent is camping out in front of 5th Ave’s Apple store to be one of the first groups to buy an iPhone. He stopped a nice young lady that apparently a college student and an intern name Kelly to ask about her perspective on the iPhone.
http://www.slashgear.com/media/kelly-on-the-iphone.flv
Remember that awesome XBox 360 Laptop case-mod, done by dremmel-wielding mod-meister Ben Heckendorn? Well the guys over at Hack-A-Day have scored an interview with the man himself, part one of which is currently online, in which they ask a whole variety of questions as suggested by readers of the site.
Definitely worth a listen if you prefer your gadgets less-than-stock.
Ben Heckendorn Interview [Hack-A-Day]
Can you think of a media centre OS that requires no installation, is in many cases plug’n'play, and can be used as simply as dropping a CD into an otherwise bog-standard PC? Having trouble? Well, welcome to the world of GeeXboX.
GeeXboX is a so-called Live CD; that is, a CD that contains an entire OS which runs without needing any installation to a connected hard drive. In this case, the OS is very much media specific, whether that be simply playing DVDs, video and audio files downloaded from the internet, scheduling and watching recordings of live TV and more. Yesterday, SlashGear sat down to talk with Benjamin Zores, one of the core developers of GeeXboX Embedded Linux for HTPC
Check out the interview after the cut…
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