Guitar Hero Grows Up

It’s easy to boast when making utopian pronouncements, but I can so guarantee that, if I were playing video games today with the same fanatical fervor as I did in my teenage years (homework and tests be damned), I would be a master at these newfangled games of faking an actual talent — after all, I killed in Madden and NHL without ever catching a football or hitting a puck in real life — and I would be playing the guitar like a Rock God that can press buttons really, really fast. Seriously I would. But, alas, Guitar Hero, or its competitor Rock Band, are two or three generations removed from my free time. Now, instead of being excited about a video game release and getting in line at the crack of dawn, I’m giddy about its logo. Pentagram partner Michael Bierut, desi