Guitar Hero a Wii Bit Off

Wii users, stop banging on your speakers. It's not your system or your ears. Your Pearl Jam solo is suffering from a glitch in the Wii version of Guitar Hero 3 that's putting out mono sound rather than a multi-channel version advertised as Dolby Pro Logic II on the package. The only way your Guitar Hero 3 will output multi-channel audio is via an update due out early next year.

Activision sent out this mea culpa with a promise of making good--without providing details.
    

"YYZ": Heroic Guitarist or "Guitar Hero"?

My older son, Paul, is kinda bummed that he wasn't able to go with me to Rush's American tour finale last night at Madison Square Garden. Seems he was especially eager to hear "YYZ."

That would be "YYZ" as made famous by Guitar Hero II, the videogame that includes a cover of the classic instrumental, with the billing: "YYZ" as made famous by Rush. Y'see, Paul doesn't think he's even heard the original track. After all, it was released on Moving Pictures way back in 1981 — eight years before Paul himself was, um, released. (And folks, that's a helluva long time in "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" years.)