Fifty Eight songs. 5 hours. Two dudes. One Dream.

With Rock band 2 on the way (for PS3, so it'll be importable), me and a friend - Mitchell, decided to tackle the "insane person" challenge in the original game. The Endless Setlist.

After a few false starts: playing a song with the vocals turned off before deciding it'd probably get annoying 45 songs in, and all sorts of dodgy drum pedal malarkey, we finally made our assault on the list. I was playing Expert guitar and Mitchell was on Hard drums. We can both pass most songs on expert drums, but the sheer fact is that neither of us had EVER beaten Run to The Hills on Hard or Expert and we actually wanted to finish the setlist, instead of getting 57 songs in and not being able to do it.

It was almost 11pm when we started. We took a short break after 29 songs (half way) and after 48 (10 left). We successfully finished the setlist, causing much rejoicing, at a few minutes after 4am.

On the way in we were worried about a few specific songs. Run to the Hills, most importantly, Won't Get Fooled Again, Green Grass and High Tides. We got freakishly lucky with Run to the Hills. Our first attempt ended with miserable failure about 1 minute into the song, but through star power hoarding and by waiting as long as we could before using star power to save failed band mates, which some might call 'cheating' but we like to think of as 'strategy', we scraped by somehow on our second attempt, with about 1 second left before a permanent fail. WGFA and GG+HT were both passed on our first play, with no such cheatery.

Mitch's Addendum:

Afew short points, if anyone ever works our what the f**k the "New Pornographers" are on about with particular reference to "Screaming out of the Magnets" then please let us now. This song absolutely slayed the both of us with laughter and nearly rendered our grand attempt null and void.

Also it is now my opinion that Keith Moon, of "the Who" fame was a schizophrenic bastard whose sole aspiration as a musician (obviously in reference to a Drummer I am using this term loosely) was to one day manage to hit every single piece of his kit at once, and I have to say that I think he succeeded at some point throughout the over 10-minute epic "Won't Get Fooled Again" Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Ah, CSI.... I'm a sucker for TV theme tunes.

I would heartily recommend this sort of insane gaming practice to anyone out there in the world of Giant Bomb, because the sense of accomplishment at having somehow thwarted those Iron Maiden bastards in their attempt to foil our noble attempt at Virtual Rock Legendry is nothing short of orgasmic... well perhaps a little short, although I have to tell you that I was just as tired at the end of the whole piece.

Well, I can't stick around here all morning, I have virtual groupies to discuss feelings and share yoghurt with.