Cyberpunk 2077 – Johnny Silverhand & Rockerboys!

In today’s Cyberpunk 2077 video we will be talking about Johnny Silverhand, Rockerboys, Samurai + How it started, the rockerboy class and Johnny Silverhands involvement with Samurai as one of the most famous Rockerboys in Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk 2077.
Rockerboys are a class in Cyberpunk who use music in combination with a rebellious attitude to fight authority. Rockerboys live for rock and roll and are modern day street poets who have the ability to spread their ideals, music, lyrics and message to everyone. In a world where corporations rule with an iron fist, Rockerboys who are at the top of their game have a surprising amount of power and are able to amass followings to take down corporate giants and lead armies and troops onto the streets to fight the system. Rockerboys don’t care about the repercussions of what they are saying in their lyrics. They spit in the faces of those abusing power, and they’ll do it with a smile. We won’t be able to be a Rockerboy in 2077, but you can bet we will run into Rockerboys and girls through our adventures in Night City.
Powerful rockerboys of the past in the world of Cyberpunk include Bob Dylan, Springsteen, The Who, Elvis Presley and The stones.
Now not all Rockerboys and girls are musicians. They can also fall into the subsections of Street poets, performance artists, social leaders and politicians.
Street poets are the most similar to their purely musician counterparts, but they use their words and only their words propelled by their deliveries, and theatrics to fire up the public.
Performance artists make impressions and a statement using plays, skits, and visual presentations before their public audiences.
Social leaders are charismatic rebellious higher ups who are on the front line in the war against the greed and bloodlust of megacorporations. With charismatic presentations, they stimulate movements and social change. Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Che Guevera are just some examples of this archetype.
Politicians of the rockerboy variety are not corrupt or selfish in their pursuits. Crusading heroes like JFK and Winston Churchill are your role model as a Rockerboy politican, and your main focus is to righteously serve your people.
Rockerboys have special skills in general including the ability to brawl, play instruments, be streetwise, theatrical performances, and can be very persuasive and seductive. Their special Ability stemming from the original table top game is a skill called Charismatic Leadership.
Johnny Silverhand is a famous Rockerboy singer and guitarist known for his silver-chrome Cyberarm. He is also a ex-Central American vet with a history of failed relationships. Silverhand opposes Arasaka Corporation for a variety of reasons from the loss of his arm to the death of many of his close friends. Now Johnny Eventually went on to produce a solo album, but before that he was a part of a rockband named Samurai featuring Kerry Eurodyne on vocals and guitar, denny as a drummer, Nancy / Bes Isis as the keyboardist and Henry on bass guitar.
Samurai was first discovered in 2003 by Jack Masters, an executive at Universal Music after seeing their performance at a bar called the Rainbow Cadenza, a backstreet bar in Night City.Their first single was Blistering Love and was a hit skyrocketing to #1 on the EuroCharts. Samurai’s first Album was called A Cool Metal Fire and featured Dancing With My Axe, Never Fade Away, Out of the City and the song we hear in the gameplay demo, Chippin In’ This presumably means that we will be hearing all the other songs on this album in the full release of Cyberpunk 2077. Samurai makes another appearance in the form of a Samurai jacket in the gameplay demo.
Samurai eventually split up in 2008. The catalyst to them parting ways was Nancy going to jail for seven months after she threw her abusive husband out the window of an 83rd story apartment. The band supported her through this time, but creatively they all drifted apart to do their own thing.
Henry ended up moving on to work on a human interface prototype, but an accident friend his brain and he had to rebuild his mind.
Denny joined a Band called Mastermind and Nancy become a major media presence on Network 54, a prolific news station in Night City.
Johnny Silverhand and Kerry Eurodyne both ventured off into solo careers, often performing and touring together.
After Samurai split up however a media corporation called Diverse Media Systems attempted to sign Johnny Silverhand by any means necessary. This included threats, violence and blackmail. They discovered the ex-Central American vet was actually a deserter who left the USMC whilst still serving in the central and south American wars.
Silverhands first solo album, Sins of your brothers was released in 2009 and included songs that explained the reality of the wars, governmental lies, experimental cybernetics programs for soldiers and his pwn actions when he was involved.