How to Earn the "Bachman-Turner Award" Achievement in Rock Band 2 for the 360

The achievement simply calls for you to maintain Overdrive (that's Star Power for you Guitar Hero veterans) for a whole 90 sec, which leaves it wide open for interpretation.

There have been quite a few theories floating around on how to earn this achievement. For example, some people say start off with your overdrive completely filled out at a point in a song where additional white notes will pop-up. By completing a set of white notes while in overdrive, your meter will refill. However, it will deplete rather quickly before another set of white notes can appear. Therefore, this achievement can be virtually impossible for you to earn on your own.

What's the answer, you ask? Simply, use the aid of your friends to earn this achievement while playing together in Tour Mode.

1. You will need a complete band, which means that you will need 4 players and their associated instruments (guitar, bass, microphone, and drums.
   • Note: if you have guitars from Guitar Hero 2 or 3, they will work; the drums from GH 4 will work; and any USB microphone (that is designed for the XBox) will work as well.
2. Enter Tour Mode using either the Local or XBox Live play settings.
   • Note: it should be possible to complete this achievement while in Quick Play Mode while playing with a full band.
3. Select the city and venue of your band’s choice.
4. I would suggest selecting a song that your band is already comfortable with and can play without many errors. This will not only increase your chances of filling up your Overdrive meters quickly, but will reduce the chance of having to bail another band mate from a failure. Also, I would suggest selecting a song that is longer, as it will contain more chances to get white notes, and playing it on a higher difficulty that you are comfortable with (individual setting).
5. Have everyone fill their Overdrive meters completely by hitting all of the white notes, and holding down the whammy bar on sustained white notes (held notes for guitar and bassists; doing this will quickly fill their meters).
6. Now for the hard part, having each of your band mates properly deploying their Overdrive consecutively. See page 2.