In fact, if you want to take advantage of the drum kit, guitar and microphone in the hot-selling Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 title "Rock Band" it helps to have more than a few friends.

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You'll need friends to handle the drum kit and guitar while you take it away on vocals.

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It was very special of him to see that and take me back to places that I couldn't fill any more ... those kind of venues and take me around the world and reintroduce me as the guitar player and I still owe him.

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The late musician, whose primary instrument was guitar, also played ukulele and would take one along wherever he went.

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"The solo guy with an acoustic guitar, in my mind, seems to me to be the hardest path to take, " Hanson says.

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Then, when the tracks were ready for some hands-on care, he would take his hard drive and his guitar back to Dublin for some final studio work.

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