Holiday Specialtacular 2017: Rockin' Around

That thumbnail is promising.

Rock Band, Rock Band.

Maybe it's a Rock, maybe it's a Band now.

Rock Band now! Rock Band now! Rock Band now! ROCK BAND.

Brad sings or we riot.

This should have been 3 hours.

The Great Vincenzo

Thanks for doing another one of these, I was hoping y'all would after last year. Can't wait to watch!

Rockband GOTY 2017 confirmed!

Awww yeah!!!

I think someone messed up on the mixing front. I can hardly hear the crew playing/singing over the game audio. Did they not mic up the vocalist? Bummer.

the boys are back in town

It's unbelievable how hard Abby kills it!

Uh-mazing!!

Ska Confirmed!

Uh oh. The audio mix is all wrong. The couch mics and game audio are way up in the mix and the band is either way down in the mix, or only being picked up by other mics. That's unfortunate, especially for a feature that relies entirely on music.

Brad continues to have the voice of an angel!

This is fucking awesome. I love you guys.

@xenolon: Now, I know what you're saying. But since I can't tell if you're being all the way genuine here, I also want to point out that those instruments are tragically plastic. Like, wow, duder, those are some horrible-sounding subjects of noise production. Bet money any front-facing band instrument in the mix would grate on everyone's nerves.

I waited a whole year to hear mesmerising Brad singing voice again.❤️

Also Brad is the best singer of the crew

This is the content.

This is it.

Thank you for this.

I hate this so much!!

Abby is just INCREDIBLE

The fact that you can't really hear the singing when the duders on the couch are talking is a bit of a bummer.

Also, Brad singing is always the best GiantBomb content.

It's ok to be wrong sometimes.

this is the best birthday present i could have asked for probably

She has that youthful energy. Makes me feel old.

i love rock band content

@rahf: I'm being genuine. The mix in this one isn't great. Just go watch the 2016 episode of Rockin' Around and tell me that the mix isn't better in that one.

Bummer, you can't really hear the singing.

Looking forward to Brad's album release

Man, I wish the mix wasn't so bad. But this was still fun to watch.

I love you Brad❤️

Does the mix get better at all? Just started watching this and I can barely hear the singing?

edit: guess not, shame.

THOR

Kinda sucks that you cant actually hear the music. All I can here is the people on the couch.

Was hoping they'd do this again. Awesome!

Agreed, I always wish these are longer.

thor

God help me if it stays cold in here.

TWILIGHT OF THE THUNDER GOD!!!

Alex, thank you for that thunder of the lightning god, it was superb.

Alex well done on Amon Amarth. that was awesome.

god bless vinny

Rick' Roll'ed by Brad is one thing I don't mind :)

Holy it! Alex on the last one! also it also brought out Abby's drummer face :)

DAMN Brad! xO

Altough nothing will ever beat Vinny's performance from last year, i really enjoyed this!

Great energy Abby!

Alex wins!

Cohesive

Honestly, I think the mix is better than previous years. You can't hear the singers that well, but it was too loud last year. It should probably be a bit louder, but I prefer this over the shitty Rockband mic audio overpowering everything. You can still hear the folks singing.