Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

May 16, 2008

With so many elected officials bashing video games these days, GP naturally has a soft spot for any politician willing to get hands-on with our favorite pastime.

Kudos, then to Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert (R) who played a bit of the Pat Benatar anthem, Hit Me With Your Best Shot at a charity Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock marathon today in Dallas. The event is sponsored by Blockbuster and benefits Education is Freedom, a local nonprofit which is part of Mayor Leppert's Igniting Opportunity for the Children of Dallas Campaign.

The Dallas Morning News reports on hizzoner's performance:

Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert attempted to play Hit Me with Your Best Shot during a 24-hour charity event featuring the video game Guitar Hero.

 

Once the mayor began to play he handed the guitar to 11-year old game whiz Aaron Blockmon to play most of the song. At the end, the mayor grabbed the guitar, dropped to his knees and cranked out the last few fake chords rock-star style...

 

After the mayor won a coin toss, Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes kicked off the event with School's Out. While Mr. Keyes was playing, the mayor stuffed his guitar strap with $5 bills.

GP: Awesome, Mr. Mayor. Simply awesome... The marathon runs through Saturday. Click here for details.

UPDATE: GP Correspondent Andrew Eisen has tracked down a video clip of Mayor Leppert's GH3 performance.

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Re: Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

Awesome.

It's a shame he didn't play the whole song, but admittedly I found guitar hero a bit intimidating when I was handed a controller too.

Re: Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot
Just Awesome.
Re: Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

Stuffed the guitar strap with $5 bills?! This guy sounds awesome!

Re: Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

There's politicians for you.

They make a halfassed start on something, pass it off to someone else for the bulk of the work, and then take all the credit.

Re: Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

Blockmon! I choose you!

Re: Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

So he just grabbed the guitar from the poor kid's hands. :(

Re: Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

I respect the attempt. Still, he did take all the glory from the kid... Oh well, he tried.

This whole business of stuffing of bills into a strap does sound somewhat suspect though...

Re: Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

to the mayor

ROCK ON DUDE! ROCK ON!

Re: Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

I find it interesting that we're seeing a lot more of this type of news lately. Perhaps some of the politicians are finally getting the hint that video games arent evil and can even assist in doing good when used properly. Either way you put it, Rock On Mayor Leppert, Rock On!

Re: Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

I saw the video and that mayor looks like a real nice guy, that must've been a really cool event.

Now let's see they got their mayor to do that thing so maybe we can top them and have our governer do it...

Oh shrawcheneggar (sp) I think I know how you can get more respect from gamers (I can dream can't I).

Re: Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

That's pretty frickin awesome.

It's be funny if John McCain were to play Rock Band or Guitar Hero,eh?

Re: Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

So is it just me, or is GP a little borked today?  This story says it only has 1 comment, and I haven't seen a new news story since Friday... O.o

Re: Dallas Mayor Hits Guitar Hero III with His Best Shot

Er.. It's telling me I'm a spammer. Oh well, Dennis'll have some fun when he sees what I tried to post.

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