Teen Drops Out of High School To Become Professional “Guitar Hero”
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WHAT WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT?
IDJITS :)
Call it The Decline of Western Civilization IV: Blake Peebles, a teenager in North Carolina, recently dropped out of high school to pursue his dream of playing music. While this sounds like an everyday occurrence, there is a catch: Peebles dropped out so he can concentrate on playing Guitar Hero with hopes of becoming good enough at hitting colored plastic buttons to play in the surprisingly-lucrative world of competitive gaming. Peebles has already won a few Hero tournaments, but so far his winnings include gift certificates, gaming equipment and 52 Chick-fil-A meals. For what it's worth, Peebles was doing poorly to begin with in school, and his parents have since hired him a private tutor. If Peebles lives up to his high-flying Guitar Hero dreams, he could earn up to $80,000 a year on the competitive circuit, though groupies should be slightly harder to come by.
Comments (12)
OH SHIT!
WOOT MY ASS
fuggin MOG
i loaded the song from my 'puter n it shows up as a yellow button?
ARGH!
There was an article in the Sunday NY Times a couple weeks back about the kid who holds the official Guitar Hero record - 1191 notes without a miss. I told my kids, "yeah, but he lives in Minnesota, what else is there to do?" Then I read the rest of the article, and the kid was a poster boy for game companies - totally normal, athletic, does well in school, good looking blah blah blah - shit, I'm none of those things and I suck at Guitar Hero.
The great thing is the kids always seem to be going for speed and playing Dragonforce, but put on QOTSA 3's & 7's and those weirdass rhythms mess em up.
my son THINKS he can get paid for playing video games
ahahahahahahahahahah
reminds me of that episode of south park, "guitar queer-o."
I don't know who pays people to play video games.
Although can someone pay me?
I will pay people to play video games, but sorry Darren, it requires specific people and a certain amount of nudity.
In the words of Chauncy Gardiner - "I like to watch."
yes that guy was in the news up here in MN but it seems they weren't gonna let him compete because he was under age. I take offence at the remark that "there's nothong else to do". Please don't make me start on Hillbillies from down there
So I guess this work out for him Rawk!
hmmm
cpetersonart3: hillbillies from WHERE? i take offence that you think they b hillbillies in Cali. ahahahahahaha
fun fun fun on MOG as ALWAYS
AND WHAT'S WRONG WITH HILLBILLIES? ;-)
DITTO DAT
HELLBILLIES RAWK
From Hellbelly country RAWK!