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** [[https://youtu.be/7zeQsLscYco At one point]], Neversoft pitched a band spin-off focusing on Music/TheBeatles to celebrate their iconic legacy. For reasons unknown, this never got picked up, but Harmonix was still able to realize this idea with ''The Beatles: VideoGame/RockBand''.
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** An unused CoverVersion of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDmXiNkJQjQ "Unchained"]] by Music/VanHalen was found on the disc of III.
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** In the Wii version of ''Guitar Hero 5'', there were going to be 5 extra songs. These songs were "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynrd[[note]]It would later get official chart exclusively for that system[[/note]], a live version of Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog", "March of the Pigs" by Nine Inch Nails, "Bug Eyes" by dredg, and a ''World Tour'' medley consisting of "Beautiful Disaster" by 311, "Freak on a Leash" by Korn, "About a Girl (Unplugged)" by Nirvana, "What I've Done" by Linkin Park, "Are You Gonna Go My Way" by Lenny Kravitz, "Feel the Pain" by Dinosaur Jr., "Prisoner of Society" by The Living End, and "Dammit" by blink-182.
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** In 5 extra songs were found in the Wii version files of ''Guitar Hero 5'', there were going to be 5 extra songs.5'''s Wii version. These songs were "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynrd[[note]]It would later get official chart exclusively for that system[[/note]], a live version of Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog", "March of the Pigs" by Nine Inch Nails, "Bug Eyes" by dredg, and a ''World Tour'' medley consisting of "Beautiful Disaster" by 311, "Freak on a Leash" by Korn, "About a Girl (Unplugged)" by Nirvana, "What I've Done" by Linkin Park, "Are You Gonna Go My Way" by Lenny Kravitz, "Feel the Pain" by Dinosaur Jr., "Prisoner of Society" by The Living End, and "Dammit" by blink-182.
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** Band Hero 2 was in development and was planning to follow a storyline similar to ''[=Warriors of Rock=]'', if [[https://twitter.com/DodylectableT/status/1441668291139981312 unearthed graphics]] in ''[=WOR's=]'' files were anything to go by. [[https://twitter.com/Acai28/status/1631383237862862848 A partial setlist was also leaked]] and would've included songs from Music/DavidBowie and Music/LadyGaga. However, layoffs within Neversoft ultimately led to the game's demise.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iYaD-v2WOQ An Xbox 360 development build of ''Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock'' discovered in February 2024]] contained ''Master of Puppets'' by Music/{{Metallica}}. As of now, it's not clear whether it was intended to be part of the game's setlist, since the prototype's career setlist was otherwise identical to the final game, as part of a potential pitch for ''Guitar Hero: Metallica'' or something else entirely.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iYaD-v2WOQ An Xbox 360 development build of ''Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock'' discovered in February 2024]] contained ''Master of Puppets'' by Music/{{Metallica}}. As of now, it's not clear whether it was intended to be part of the game's setlist, since the prototype's career setlist was otherwise identical to the final game, as part of a potential pitch for ''Guitar Hero: Metallica'' or something else entirely.
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** Band Hero 2 was in development and was planning to follow a storyline similar to ''[=Warriors of Rock=]'', if [[https://twitter.com/DodylectableT/status/1441668291139981312 unearthed graphics]] in ''[=WOR's=]'' files were anything to go by. [[https://twitter.com/Acai28/status/1631383237862862848 A partial setlist was also leaked]] and would've included songs from Music/DavidBowie and Music/LadyGaga. Music/LadyGaga; additionally, [[https://youtu.be/Iwjj5Kk7oDY?si=M_CaRU1EzEtmYSlj&t=3268 according to Neversoft charter Chris Vance]], his team also really wanted "Hocus Pocus" by Focus, to the point of having already charted the song, but were unable to get it because the masters were lost. However, layoffs within Neversoft ultimately led to the game's demise.
demise; according to Vance, the game never made it far into development before its cancellation.
** [[https://youtu.be/Iwjj5Kk7oDY?si=BP9Qi5WRUVps6sQC&t=2137 The first three songs prototyped]] for ''III'' were [[Music/OzzyOsbourne "Crazy Train"]], [[Music/{{Metallica}} ''Master of Puppets'']] and [[Music/LivingColour "Cult of Personality"]]; the latter made it into the final game (as a re-recording by the original artist), though the former two would have to wait until later installments in the series (''World Tour'' and ''Metallica'' respectively). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iYaD-v2WOQAn Xbox 360 A prototype chart for Master of Puppets would be found in an early development build of ''Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock'' ''III'' discovered in February 2024]] contained ''Master 2024.]]
** A cover version ofPuppets'' by Music/{{Metallica}}. As of now, it's [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} "Same Old Song and Dance"]] was recorded and charted for ''III'', but Neversoft was later able to license the master track, making it unnecessary. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp2MpyxaQZc The chart for the cover version (but not clear whether it the audio)]] survives on the same development build where Master of Puppets was intended to be part of the game's setlist, since the prototype's career setlist was otherwise identical to the final game, as part of a potential pitch for ''Guitar Hero: Metallica'' or something else entirely.
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** [[https://youtu.be/Iwjj5Kk7oDY?si=BP9Qi5WRUVps6sQC&t=2137 The first three songs prototyped]] for ''III'' were [[Music/OzzyOsbourne "Crazy Train"]], [[Music/{{Metallica}} ''Master of Puppets'']] and [[Music/LivingColour "Cult of Personality"]]; the latter made it into the final game (as a re-recording by the original artist), though the former two would have to wait until later installments in the series (''World Tour'' and ''Metallica'' respectively). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iYaD-v2WOQ
** A cover version of
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* DisownedAdaptation: Charlie Daniels hated the version of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" that appeared in ''Legends of Rock'', mainly because the devil could ([[NintendoHard and often would]]) win. He said that losing to the devil undermined the whole meaning of the song, and the only reason why it appeared in the game was because he had lost its publishing rights- had he still owned them, he would have never approved of its inclusion.
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* DisownedAdaptation: [[Music/TheCharlieDanielsBand Charlie Daniels Daniels]] hated the version of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" that appeared in ''Legends of Rock'', mainly because the devil could ([[NintendoHard and often would]]) win. He said that losing to the devil undermined the whole meaning of the song, and the only reason why it appeared in the game was because he had lost its publishing rights- had he still owned them, he would have never approved of its inclusion.
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** The final version of the drum chart for "Scatterbrained (Live)" we see in ''Guitar Hero 5'' is actually a nerfed rechart after Neversoft decided the original chart was too difficult. The result is a ''ridiculously'' undercharted drum chart missing tons of ghost notes that's rated a 10 in terms of difficulty, but in practice is closer to an 8 or 9.
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* CreatorBacklash: Due to the fact that avatars of real musicians can perform any song once unlocked, resulting in some colorful and often inappropriate performances, Creator/AdamLevine and Music/GwenStefani sued Activision over the feature. Music/CourtneyLove and Music/DaveGrohl also expressed distaste over Music/KurtCobain's avatar being allowed to perform any song, and requested that he can only be used on Music/{{Nirvana}} songs.
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** The Romantics attempted to sue Activision over the cover of ''What I Like About You'' in ''Encore: Rocks the 80s'', claiming it was "virtually indistinguishable from the original".
** Due to the fact that avatars of real musicianscan could perform any song once unlocked, unlocked in ''Guitar Hero 5'' and ''Band Hero'', resulting in some colorful and often inappropriate performances, Creator/AdamLevine and Music/GwenStefani sued Activision over the feature. Music/CourtneyLove and Music/DaveGrohl also expressed distaste over Music/KurtCobain's avatar being allowed to perform any song, and requested that he can only be used on Music/{{Nirvana}} songs.
** The Romantics attempted to sue Activision over the cover of ''What I Like About You'' in ''Encore: Rocks the 80s'', claiming it was "virtually indistinguishable from the original".
** Due to the fact that avatars of real musicians
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* DisownedAdaptation: Charlie Daniels hated the version of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” that appeared in ''Legends of Rock'', mainly because the devil could ([[NintendoHard and often would]]) win. He said that losing to devil undermined the whole meaning of the song, and the only reason why it appeared in the game was because he had lost the rights to the song. Had he still owned them, he would have never approved of its inclusion.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Charlie Daniels hated the version of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” that appeared in ''Legends of Rock'', mainly because the devil could ([[NintendoHard and often would]]) win. He said that losing to the devil undermined the whole meaning of the song, and the only reason why it appeared in the game was because he had lost the rights to the song. Had its publishing rights- had he still owned them, he would have never approved of its inclusion.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iYaD-v2WOQ An Xbox 360 development build of ''Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock'' discovered in February 2024]] contained ''Master of Puppets'' by Music/{{Metallica}}. As of now, it's not clear whether it was intended to be part of the game's setlist, since the prototype's career setlist was otherwise identical to the final game, as part of a potential pitch for ''Guitar Hero: Metallica'' or something else entirely.
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* The first three games mostly used covers as opposed to the original songs. Awesome, sometimes hard to distinguish from the original, but covers nonetheless. Outside bonus songs, every song in the original game is a cover. Outside "[[Music/JanesAddiction Stop]]" and "[[Music/{{Primus}} John the Fisherman]]" (plus "[[Music/MyChemicalRomance Dead!]]" and "[[Music/{{Toadies}} Possum Kingdom,]]" plus some DLC in the 360 version), every non-bonus song in Guitar Hero II is a cover. Same for ''Rocks the '80s'', where the originals were "[[Music/AFlockOfSeagulls I Ran (So Far Away),]]" "[[Music/JudasPriest The Hellion/Electric Eye]]" (okay, they credit only "Electric Eye" in the game, but...), "[[Music/TwistedSister I Wanna Rock]] and "The Warrior" (and that's without mentioning "[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Because It's Midnite]]" which, for what it's worth, was as close to a bonus song as this game got). The widespread use of masters didn't start until [=GH=]3 and the first ''Rock Band.''
** Ironically, the cover of ''What I Like About You'' was apparently so good, Music/TheRomantics tried to ''sue'' Harmonix over it. Which is doubly ironic when you consider it's not even one of the games' best covers.
** As for the originals present in ''Rocks the 80s'', since both "I Wanna Rock" and "The Warrior" end in fade-outs, the in-game versions ''also end in fade-outs''. Harmonix's later ''VideoGame/RockBand'' series and later games in the ''GH'' series that use masters let the songs run past the fadeouts or constructed original endings from the masters, so it's likely Harmonix was rushed for a summer release, didn't care since this was their last game before Activision hijacked their own series from them, or simply hadn't thought of doing that yet. "I Wanna Rock" later reappeared in ''Smash Hits'' and "The Warrior" in ''Rock Band 4'' with full endings, allowing both songs to be played on a five-fret chart without fadeouts.
** Of all the on-disc bonus songs in all the GH games, there's the sum total of ''one'' cover; "[[Music/TheStoneRoses She Bangs The Drums]]" in [=GH3=].
** Ironically, the cover of ''What I Like About You'' was apparently so good, Music/TheRomantics tried to ''sue'' Harmonix over it. Which is doubly ironic when you consider it's not even one of the games' best covers.
** As for the originals present in ''Rocks the 80s'', since both "I Wanna Rock" and "The Warrior" end in fade-outs, the in-game versions ''also end in fade-outs''. Harmonix's later ''VideoGame/RockBand'' series and later games in the ''GH'' series that use masters let the songs run past the fadeouts or constructed original endings from the masters, so it's likely Harmonix was rushed for a summer release, didn't care since this was their last game before Activision hijacked their own series from them, or simply hadn't thought of doing that yet. "I Wanna Rock" later reappeared in ''Smash Hits'' and "The Warrior" in ''Rock Band 4'' with full endings, allowing both songs to be played on a five-fret chart without fadeouts.
** Of all the on-disc bonus songs in all the GH games, there's the sum total of ''one'' cover; "[[Music/TheStoneRoses She Bangs The Drums]]" in [=GH3=].
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* The first three games mostly used covers as opposed to the original songs. Awesome, sometimes hard to distinguish from the original, but covers nonetheless. Outside bonus songs, every song in the original game is a cover. Outside "[[Music/JanesAddiction Stop]]" and "[[Music/{{Primus}} John the Fisherman]]" (plus "[[Music/MyChemicalRomance Dead!]]" and "[[Music/{{Toadies}} Possum Kingdom,]]" plus some DLC in the 360 version), every non-bonus song in Guitar Hero II is a cover. Same for ''Rocks the '80s'', where the originals were "[[Music/AFlockOfSeagulls I Ran (So Far Away),]]" "[[Music/JudasPriest The Hellion/Electric Eye]]" (okay, they credit only "Electric Eye" in the game, but...), "[[Music/TwistedSister I Wanna Rock]] and "The Warrior" (and that's without mentioning "[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Because It's Midnite]]" which, for what it's worth, was as close to a bonus song as this game got). The widespread use of masters didn't start until [=GH=]3 and the first ''Rock Band.''
** Ironically, the cover of ''What I Like About You'' was apparently so good, Music/TheRomantics tried to ''sue'' Harmonix over it. Which is doubly ironic when you consider it's not even one of the games' best covers.
**As for the originals present in ''Rocks the 80s'', since both "I Wanna Rock" and "The Warrior" end in fade-outs, the in-game versions ''also end in fade-outs''. Harmonix's later ''VideoGame/RockBand'' series and later games in the ''GH'' series that use masters let the songs run past the fadeouts or constructed original endings from the masters, so it's likely Harmonix was rushed for a summer release, didn't care since this was their last game before Activision hijacked their own series from them, or simply hadn't thought of doing that yet. "I Wanna Rock" later reappeared in ''Smash Hits'' and "The Warrior" in ''Rock Band 4'' with full endings, allowing both songs to be played on a five-fret chart without fadeouts.
** Of all the on-disc bonus songs in all the GH games, there's the sum total of ''one'' cover; "[[Music/TheStoneRoses She Bangs The Drums]]" in [=GH3=].fadeouts.
** Ironically, the cover of ''What I Like About You'' was apparently so good, Music/TheRomantics tried to ''sue'' Harmonix over it. Which is doubly ironic when you consider it's not even one of the games' best covers.
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** Of all the on-disc bonus songs in all the GH games, there's the sum total of ''one'' cover; "[[Music/TheStoneRoses She Bangs The Drums]]" in [=GH3=].
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** The first three games mostly used covers as opposed to the original songs. Awesome, sometimes hard to distinguish from the original, but covers nonetheless. Outside bonus songs, every song in the original game is a cover. Outside "[[Music/JanesAddiction Stop]]" and "[[Music/{{Primus}} John the Fisherman]]" (plus "[[Music/MyChemicalRomance Dead!]]" and "[[Music/{{Toadies}} Possum Kingdom,]]" plus some DLC in the 360 version), every non-bonus song in Guitar Hero II is a cover. Same for ''Rocks the '80s'', where the originals were "[[Music/AFlockOfSeagulls I Ran (So Far Away),]]" "[[Music/JudasPriest The Hellion/Electric Eye]]" (okay, they credit only "Electric Eye" in the game, but...), "[[Music/TwistedSister I Wanna Rock]] and "The Warrior" (and that's without mentioning "[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Because It's Midnite]]" which, for what it's worth, was as close to a bonus song as this game got). The widespread use of masters didn't start until [=GH=]3 and the first ''Rock Band.''
** Ironically, the cover of ''What I Like About You'' was apparently so good, Music/TheRomantics tried to ''sue'' Harmonix over it. Which is doubly ironic when you consider it's not even one of the games' best covers.
** As for the originals present in ''Rocks the 80s'', since both "I Wanna Rock" and "The Warrior" end in fade-outs, the in-game versions ''also end in fade-outs''. Harmonix's later ''VideoGame/RockBand'' series and later games in the ''GH'' series that use masters let the songs run past the fadeouts or constructed original endings from the masters, so it's likely Harmonix was rushed for a summer release, didn't care since this was their last game before Activision hijacked their own series from them, or simply hadn't thought of doing that yet. "I Wanna Rock" later reappeared in ''Smash Hits'' and "The Warrior" in ''Rock Band 4'' with full endings, allowing both songs to be played on a five-fret chart without fadeouts.
** Of all the on-disc bonus songs in all the GH games, there's the sum total of ''one'' cover; "[[Music/TheStoneRoses She Bangs The Drums]]" in [=GH3=].
** Ironically, the cover of ''What I Like About You'' was apparently so good, Music/TheRomantics tried to ''sue'' Harmonix over it. Which is doubly ironic when you consider it's not even one of the games' best covers.
** As for the originals present in ''Rocks the 80s'', since both "I Wanna Rock" and "The Warrior" end in fade-outs, the in-game versions ''also end in fade-outs''. Harmonix's later ''VideoGame/RockBand'' series and later games in the ''GH'' series that use masters let the songs run past the fadeouts or constructed original endings from the masters, so it's likely Harmonix was rushed for a summer release, didn't care since this was their last game before Activision hijacked their own series from them, or simply hadn't thought of doing that yet. "I Wanna Rock" later reappeared in ''Smash Hits'' and "The Warrior" in ''Rock Band 4'' with full endings, allowing both songs to be played on a five-fret chart without fadeouts.
** Of all the on-disc bonus songs in all the GH games, there's the sum total of ''one'' cover; "[[Music/TheStoneRoses She Bangs The Drums]]" in [=GH3=].
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** The Bow Wow Wow cover of "I Want Candy" was going to be in ''Encore: Rock the 80s'', and even appeared in some preview builds of the game, but was removed for undisclosed reasons. It's speculated that [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Because It's Midnite]] was originally going to be a bonus track like "Trogdor" was in ''2'', but was ultimately moved to the main setlist to replace it.
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** The Bow Wow Wow cover of "I Want Candy" was going to be in ''Encore: Rock the 80s'', and even appeared in some preview builds of the game, but was removed for undisclosed reasons. It's speculated that [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Because It's Midnite]] was originally going to be a bonus track like "Trogdor" was in ''2'', but was ultimately moved to the main setlist to replace it.
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* The first three games mostly used covers as opposed to the original songs. Awesome, sometimes hard to distinguish from the original, but covers nonetheless. Outside bonus songs, every song in the original game is a cover. Outside "[[Music/JanesAddiction Stop]]" and "[[Music/{{Primus}} John the Fisherman]]" (plus "[[Music/MyChemicalRomance Dead!]]" and "[[Music/{{Toadies}} Possum Kingdom,]]" plus some DLC in the 360 version), every non-bonus song in Guitar Hero II is a cover. Same for ''Rocks the '80s'', where the originals were "[[Music/AFlockOfSeagulls I Ran (So Far Away),]]" "[[Music/JudasPriest The Hellion/Electric Eye]]" (okay, they credit only "Electric Eye" in the game, but...), "[[Music/TwistedSister I Wanna Rock]] and "The Warrior" (and that's without mentioning "[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Because It's Midnite]]" which, for what it's worth, was as close to a bonus song as this game got). The widespread use of masters didn't start until [=GH=]3 and the first ''Rock Band.''
** Ironically, the cover of ''What I Like About You'' was apparently so good, Music/TheRomantics tried to ''sue'' Harmonix over it. Which is doubly ironic when you consider it's not even one of the games' best covers.
** As for the originals present in ''Rocks the 80s'', since both "I Wanna Rock" and "The Warrior" end in fade-outs, the in-game versions ''also end in fade-outs''. Harmonix's later ''VideoGame/RockBand'' series and later games in the ''GH'' series that use masters let the songs run past the fadeouts or constructed original endings from the masters, so it's likely Harmonix was rushed for a summer release, didn't care since this was their last game before Activision hijacked their own series from them, or simply hadn't thought of doing that yet. "I Wanna Rock" later reappeared in ''Smash Hits'' and "The Warrior" in ''Rock Band 4'' with full endings, allowing both songs to be played on a five-fret chart without fadeouts.
** Of all the on-disc bonus songs in all the GH games, there's the sum total of ''one'' cover; "[[Music/TheStoneRoses She Bangs The Drums]]" in [=GH3=].
** Ironically, the cover of ''What I Like About You'' was apparently so good, Music/TheRomantics tried to ''sue'' Harmonix over it. Which is doubly ironic when you consider it's not even one of the games' best covers.
** As for the originals present in ''Rocks the 80s'', since both "I Wanna Rock" and "The Warrior" end in fade-outs, the in-game versions ''also end in fade-outs''. Harmonix's later ''VideoGame/RockBand'' series and later games in the ''GH'' series that use masters let the songs run past the fadeouts or constructed original endings from the masters, so it's likely Harmonix was rushed for a summer release, didn't care since this was their last game before Activision hijacked their own series from them, or simply hadn't thought of doing that yet. "I Wanna Rock" later reappeared in ''Smash Hits'' and "The Warrior" in ''Rock Band 4'' with full endings, allowing both songs to be played on a five-fret chart without fadeouts.
** Of all the on-disc bonus songs in all the GH games, there's the sum total of ''one'' cover; "[[Music/TheStoneRoses She Bangs The Drums]]" in [=GH3=].
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** The first three games mostly used covers as opposed to the original songs. Awesome, sometimes hard to distinguish from the original, but covers nonetheless. Outside bonus songs, every song in the original game is a cover. Outside "[[Music/JanesAddiction Stop]]" and "[[Music/{{Primus}} John the Fisherman]]" (plus "[[Music/MyChemicalRomance Dead!]]" and "[[Music/{{Toadies}} Possum Kingdom,]]" plus some DLC in the 360 version), every non-bonus song in Guitar Hero II is a cover. Same for ''Rocks the '80s'', where the originals were "[[Music/AFlockOfSeagulls I Ran (So Far Away),]]" "[[Music/JudasPriest The Hellion/Electric Eye]]" (okay, they credit only "Electric Eye" in the game, but...), "[[Music/TwistedSister I Wanna Rock]] and "[[Scandal The Warrior]]" (and that's without mentioning "[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Because It's Midnite]]" which, for what it's worth, was as close to a bonus song as this game got). The widespread use of masters didn't start until [=GH=]3 and the first ''Rock Band.''
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** The first three games mostly used covers as opposed to the original songs. Awesome, sometimes hard to distinguish from the original, but covers nonetheless. Outside bonus songs, every song in the original game is a cover. Outside "[[Music/JanesAddiction Stop]]" and "[[Music/{{Primus}} John the Fisherman]]" (plus "[[Music/MyChemicalRomance Dead!]]" and "[[Music/{{Toadies}} Possum Kingdom,]]" plus some DLC in the 360 version), every non-bonus song in Guitar Hero II is a cover. Same for ''Rocks the '80s'', where the originals were "[[Music/AFlockOfSeagulls I Ran (So Far Away),]]" "[[Music/JudasPriest The Hellion/Electric Eye]]" (okay, they credit only "Electric Eye" in the game, but...), "[[Music/TwistedSister I Wanna Rock]] and "[[Scandal The Warrior]]" "The Warrior" (and that's without mentioning "[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Because It's Midnite]]" which, for what it's worth, was as close to a bonus song as this game got). The widespread use of masters didn't start until [=GH=]3 and the first ''Rock Band.''
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** Lots of bands saw a spike in sales of any song featured in the series, leading to many new fans of old school rock and metal like Music/JudasPriest, Music/IronMaiden, Music/{{Kiss}} and Music/{{Rush}}, to name a few. Power metal band Music/DragonForce cite ''Guitar Hero'' as a huge contributing factor to their popularity, and their song "Through the Fire and Flames" remains the band's most popular song more than ten years after ''Guitar Hero 3'' made it famous.
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** Lots of bands saw a spike in sales of any song featured in the series, leading to many new fans of old school rock and metal like Music/JudasPriest, Music/IronMaiden, Music/{{Kiss}} Music/{{Kiss|Band}} and Music/{{Rush}}, Music/{{Rush|Band}}, to name a few. Power metal band Music/DragonForce cite ''Guitar Hero'' as a huge contributing factor to their popularity, and their song "Through the Fire and Flames" remains the band's most popular song more than ten years after ''Guitar Hero 3'' made it famous.
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** {{Creator/Neversoft}} took over the franchise starting with ''Guitar Hero III'', after Harmonix left to create ''VideoGame/RockBand''.
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** The first three games mostly used covers as opposed to the original songs. Awesome, sometimes hard to distinguish from the original, but covers nonetheless. Outside bonus songs, every song in the original game is a cover. Outside "[[Music/JanesAddiction Stop]]" and "[[Music/{{Primus}} John the Fisherman]]" (plus "[[Music/MyChemicalRomance Dead!]]" and "[[Music/{{Toadies}} Possum Kingdom,]]" plus some DLC in the 360 version), every non-bonus song in Guitar Hero II is a cover. Same for ''Rocks the '80s'', where the originals were "[[Music/AFlockOfSeagulls I Ran (So Far Away),]]" "[[Music/JudasPriest The Hellion/Electric Eye]]" (okay, they credit only "Electric Eye" in the game, but...), "[[Music/TwistedSister I Wanna Rock]] and "[[Music/{{Scandal}} The Warrior]]" (and that's without mentioning "[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Because It's Midnite]]" which, for what it's worth, was as close to a bonus song as this game got). The widespread use of masters didn't start until [=GH=]3 and the first ''Rock Band.''
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** The first three games mostly used covers as opposed to the original songs. Awesome, sometimes hard to distinguish from the original, but covers nonetheless. Outside bonus songs, every song in the original game is a cover. Outside "[[Music/JanesAddiction Stop]]" and "[[Music/{{Primus}} John the Fisherman]]" (plus "[[Music/MyChemicalRomance Dead!]]" and "[[Music/{{Toadies}} Possum Kingdom,]]" plus some DLC in the 360 version), every non-bonus song in Guitar Hero II is a cover. Same for ''Rocks the '80s'', where the originals were "[[Music/AFlockOfSeagulls I Ran (So Far Away),]]" "[[Music/JudasPriest The Hellion/Electric Eye]]" (okay, they credit only "Electric Eye" in the game, but...), "[[Music/TwistedSister I Wanna Rock]] and "[[Music/{{Scandal}} "[[Scandal The Warrior]]" (and that's without mentioning "[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Because It's Midnite]]" which, for what it's worth, was as close to a bonus song as this game got). The widespread use of masters didn't start until [=GH=]3 and the first ''Rock Band.''
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** Band Hero 2 was in development and was planning to follow a storyline similar to ''[=Warriors of Rock=]'', if [[https://twitter.com/DodylectableT/status/1441668291139981312 unearthed graphics]] in ''[=WOR's=]'' files were anything to go by. [[https://twitter.com/Acai28/status/1631383237862862848 A partial setlist was also leaked]] and would've included songs from Music/DavidBowie and Music/LadyGaga. However, layoffs within VideoGames/Neversoft ultimately led to the game's demise.
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** Band Hero 2 was in development and was planning to follow a storyline similar to ''[=Warriors of Rock=]'', if [[https://twitter.com/DodylectableT/status/1441668291139981312 unearthed graphics]] in ''[=WOR's=]'' files were anything to go by. [[https://twitter.com/Acai28/status/1631383237862862848 A partial setlist was also leaked]] and would've included songs from Music/DavidBowie and Music/LadyGaga. However, layoffs within VideoGames/Neversoft Neversoft ultimately led to the game's demise.
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** Band Hero 2 was in development and was planning to follow a storyline similar to ''[=Warriors of Rock=]'', if [[https://twitter.com/DodylectableT/status/1441668291139981312 unearthed graphics]] in ''[=WOR's=]'' files were anything to go by. [[https://twitter.com/Acai28/status/1631383237862862848 A partial setlist was also leaked]] and would've included songs from Music/DavidBowie and Music/LadyGaga.
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** Band Hero 2 was in development and was planning to follow a storyline similar to ''[=Warriors of Rock=]'', if [[https://twitter.com/DodylectableT/status/1441668291139981312 unearthed graphics]] in ''[=WOR's=]'' files were anything to go by. [[https://twitter.com/Acai28/status/1631383237862862848 A partial setlist was also leaked]] and would've included songs from Music/DavidBowie and Music/LadyGaga. However, layoffs within VideoGames/Neversoft ultimately led to the game's demise.
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** Band Hero 2 was in development and was planning to follow a storyline to ''[=Warriors of Rock=]'', if [[https://twitter.com/DodylectableT/status/1441668291139981312 unearthed graphics]] in ''[=WOR's=]'' files were anything to go by. [[https://twitter.com/Acai28/status/1631383237862862848 A partial setlist was also leaked]] and would've included songs from Music/DavidBowie and Music/LadyGaga.
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** Band Hero 2 was in development and was planning to follow a storyline similar to ''[=Warriors of Rock=]'', if [[https://twitter.com/DodylectableT/status/1441668291139981312 unearthed graphics]] in ''[=WOR's=]'' files were anything to go by. [[https://twitter.com/Acai28/status/1631383237862862848 A partial setlist was also leaked]] and would've included songs from Music/DavidBowie and Music/LadyGaga.
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** Band Hero 2 was in development and was planning to follow a storyline to ''[=Warriors of Rock=]'', if [[https://twitter.com/DodylectableT/status/1441668291139981312 unearthed graphics]] in ''[=WOR's=]'' files were anything to go by. [[https://twitter.com/Acai28/status/1631383237862862848 A partial setlist was also leaked]] and would've included songs from DavidBowie and LadyGaga.
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** Band Hero 2 was in development and was planning to follow a storyline to ''[=Warriors of Rock=]'', if [[https://twitter.com/DodylectableT/status/1441668291139981312 unearthed graphics]] in ''[=WOR's=]'' files were anything to go by. [[https://twitter.com/Acai28/status/1631383237862862848 A partial setlist was also leaked]] and would've included songs from DavidBowie Music/DavidBowie and LadyGaga.Music/LadyGaga.
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** Band Hero 2 was in development and was planning to follow a storyline to ''[=Warriors of Rock=]'', if [[https://twitter.com/DodylectableT/status/1441668291139981312 unearthed graphics]] in ''[=WOR's=]'' files were anything to go by. [[https://twitter.com/Acai28/status/1631383237862862848 A partial setlist was also leaked]] and would've included songs from DavidBowie and LadyGaga.
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** As for the originals present in ''Rocks the 80s'', since both "I Wanna Rock" and "The Warrior" end in fade-outs, the in-game versions ''also end in fade-outs''. Considering that later games by Harmonix (read the ''VideoGame/RockBand'' series) and later games in the ''GH'' series that use masters bothered to raise the volume of the fade-out and make an ending, it's safe to assume they didn't care (besides, "I Wanna Rock" reappeared in ''Smash Hits'' with a proper ending, despite using different masters). Then again, this was their last game before Activision hijacked their own series from them, and while not really bad, the final product ''did'' seem rushed for a summer release, so that's possibly the reason not much work was put in here.
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** As for the originals present in ''Rocks the 80s'', since both "I Wanna Rock" and "The Warrior" end in fade-outs, the in-game versions ''also end in fade-outs''. Considering that Harmonix's later games by Harmonix (read the ''VideoGame/RockBand'' series) series and later games in the ''GH'' series that use masters bothered to raise let the volume of songs run past the fade-out and make an ending, fadeouts or constructed original endings from the masters, so it's safe to assume they likely Harmonix was rushed for a summer release, didn't care (besides, "I Wanna Rock" reappeared in ''Smash Hits'' with a proper ending, despite using different masters). Then again, since this was their last game before Activision hijacked their own series from them, or simply hadn't thought of doing that yet. "I Wanna Rock" later reappeared in ''Smash Hits'' and while not really bad, the final product ''did'' seem rushed for a summer release, so that's possibly the reason not much work was put "The Warrior" in here.''Rock Band 4'' with full endings, allowing both songs to be played on a five-fret chart without fadeouts.
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* AwesomeDearBoy: When Activision approached {{Music/Tool}} to see if they can put one of their songs into ''World Tour'', they agreed and license out three of their songs ("Parabola", "Schism", and "Vicarious")... but on the condition that they get personally involved with their own exclusive venue inspired by Alex Grey's artwork.
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* DoingItForTheArt: When Activision approached {{Music/Tool}} to see if they can put one of their songs into ''World Tour'', they agreed and license out three of their songs ("Parabola", "Schism", and "Vicarious")... but on the condition that they get personally involved with their own exclusive venue inspired by Alex Grey's artwork.
