The delayed-longer-than-expected Rush album “Moving Pictures” was finally released for Rock Band today, so of course I had to grab it. It was pretty much as good as expected, and the one song notable for being 11 minutes long actually seemed to fly by a lot faster than that; I had a bunch of overdrive left over at the end because I wasn’t expecting the end so soon. I also grabbed a bunch of the other releases this week that looked interesting, but didn’t really get around to trying them.

Instead, I finally tackled the 8-song Rolling Stone Rock Immortals List set, passed it fairly easily (only Battery and Painkiller were new to me, not having gotten around to them in the other cities), and in doing so ‘beat’ the World Tour mode.

There’s still plenty else to do in it, though. There are still some songs to be unlocked in the cities, the instrument challenges, the ongoing Battle of the Bands, the endless setlist (84 songs in a single set, with a special achievement if you can do it without pausing), a whole bunch of old songs to put new scores against… And, of course, I’ll hopefully be playing with some of you guys soon. :P

But one other thing I’m going to work on is trying to finally make the shift to Hard difficulty. With the instrument-specific challenges and the ability to play bass solo in the world tour, I think I’m going to try to redo the tour on bass in hard first, and then transition over to lead guitar. That should ease things a bit, as otherwise it’s a rather large leap in difficulty.