A couple of days ago the Librarian and I bought a copy of Guitar Hero World Tour for Game Guru’s X-Box 360. The Game Guru took to the game like the proverbial duck taking it’s daily paddle. The Master Builder found it too difficult and decided to use his own percussion kit instead while the Librarian adjusted quite nicely after some trial and error. As for me I have to admit that musical ability looked at me, sniggered, and hurried away.

I first tried the microphone figuring that at least I had a fighting chance in the vocal department. Optimism, my friends, doesn’t always net you the prize. There was no chance, fighting or otherwise, of anything melodic leaving my lips. So how bad is my singing? Let’s just say that my cat was giving me loving looks. If I had sung to the car salesman, yesterday, he would have buckled at the knees and begged me to take the vehicle just as long as I stopped singing. The X-Box 360 was on the verge of shutting down. That bad!

The Librarian took over the singing duties and did quite well. I moved on to the drums and did reasonably well on the easiest level. By reasonably well I mean I thumped here, banged there and got some semblance of the required rhythm. Sort of. As for the guitar the less said the better. So it looks like I will take the drumming duties in the family band.

Now if you excuse me I have an adoring public waiting to see me play. So what if they are just a bunch of pixels.