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Ultimate buzz kills Jimmy Page and Jack White believe that the drunken act of playing plastic instruments and slurring lyrics at a friend’s party is not the best way to learn how to play music.

In a press conference for their upcoming documentary It Might Get Loud the White Stripes, Raconteurs, and Dead Weather frontman (he gets around) said that the notion of children being exposed to music through video games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band is incredibly discouraging to him.

“It’s depressing to have a label come and tell you that [Guitar Hero] is how kids are learning about music and experiencing music,” White said. “If you have to be in a video game to get in front of them, that’s a little sad.”

The legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist also chimed in on the matter by alleging that no one playing a toy drum set will ever become as good as his deceased bandmate.

“You think of the drum part that John Bonham did on Led Zeppelin’s first track on the first album, ‘Good Times Bad Times’,” Page pondered. “How many drummers in the world can play that part, let alone on Christmas morning?”

Well, no sh*t Sherlock, there isn’t a whole lot of trained musicians around that can play as good as Bonham, and I seriously doubt people are turning to video games in lieu of actual lessons.

Instead of pointing out the obvious, you should be embracing the fact that an entire new generation of consumers who may not have otherwise been exposed to your music, will now have an opportunity to experience Led Zeppelin IV and De Stijl first hand rather than grow up with the next Lady Gaga.

And no offense, but your music stopped being sacred the second you turned it into a commodity for Cadillac commercials, so really what harm can come from licensing it to a video game publisher?