<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/236e13ca-7a4e-412f-a4bd-2c6ebadd2e37/105FB32A-41CD-4FFC-9739-F3D958B96B5C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/04/guitar_gateway" href="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/04/guitar_gateway" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/04/guitar_gateway"><P> Guitar Center, which set up virtual shop in <CITE>Guitar Hero</CITE> and has offered deep discounts to gamers who buy real instruments, thinks "interactive videogames such as <CITE>Guitar Hero</CITE> and <CITE>Rock Band</CITE> are minting more guitar players," according a representative of the store. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/04/guitar_gateway"><P> "We actually publish songbooks in hard-book form in conjunction with <CITE>Guitar Hero</CITE> and <CITE>Rock Band</CITE>," he said. "They're the only sanctioned songbooks that work with the game, and those books are flying off the shelves." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2008/04/guitar_gateway"><P> The wildfire success of music games like <CITE>Guitar Hero</CITE> and <CITE>Rock Band</CITE> is causing a subtle revolution in popular music -- maybe not on the level of the British Invasion of the '60s, but noticeable nonetheless. The games are bringing about renewed interest in the guitar, a music-making machine that's been losing traction lately to turntables and laptops. <CITE>Guitar Hero</CITE> is like a gateway drug that's getting a new wave of players hooked on guitar. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/105FB32A-41CD-4FFC-9739-F3D958B96B5C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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