Trivia / Guitar Hero Live

• Ascended Extra: Many bands that were only playable through DLC or bands that had specific songs for DLC in previous games now have songs available on the main mode and in GHTV, including but not limited to:
  • OneRepublic (formerly DLC in multiple entries of the series) with "Counting Stars" on-disc and GHTV.
  • Marilyn Manson (formerly DLC in multiple entries of the series) with "Disposable Teens", "Deep Six", "mOBSCENE", and "The Fight Song"
  • Disturbed's track "Down With the Sickness", only available as DLC in previous entries of the series
  • My Chemical Romance's track "Na Na Na", only available as DLC in Warriors of Rock
  • A Day to Remember (formerly DLC in multiple entries of the series) with "Right Back At It Again"
  • Trivium (formerly DLC in Guitar Hero II only) with "Strife" and "Through Blood and Dirt and Bone"
  • AFI's track "Girl's Not Grey", only available as DLC in Guitar Hero 5.
  • Faith No More's track "Epic", only available as DLC in Guitar Hero 5.
  • Hinder's track "Use Me", only available as DLC in Guitar Hero World Tour.
  • Against Me! (formerly DLC in Guitar Hero World Tour) with "Black Me Out"
  • Incubus's track "Drive", only available as DLC in Guitar Hero World Tour
  • Soundgarden's tracks "Spoonman" and "Black Hole Sun", only available as DLC in Guitar Hero, Warriors of Rock
  • Deftones (formerly DLC in Guitar Hero 5 and Guitar Hero III) with "Diamond Eyes"
  • Jack White (Formerly DLC in Guitar Hero World Tour) with "Lazaretto", "Sixteen Saltines", and "Freedom To 21"
  • Marcy Playground with "Sex and Candy" (Previously DLC in Warriors of Rock) and "Saint Joe on the School Bus"
  • All Time Low (formerly DLC in Guitar Hero World Tour) with "Merry Christmas, Kiss My Ass"
  • The Killers track "Mr. Brightside", only available as DLC in Guitar Hero World Tour
  • Goo Goo Dolls (formerly DLC in Warriors of Rock) with "Iris"
  • Def Leppard's track "Rock of Ages", only available as DLC in Guitar Hero 3
  • MotleyCrue's track "Girls, Girls, Girls", only available as DLC in Warriors of Rock
  • Flogging Molly (formerly DLC in multiple entries of the series) with "Drunken Lullabies"
  • Rancid"s track "Ruby Soho", only available as DLC in Guitar Hero World Tour and Guitar Hero 5
  • Rush's tracks "Limelight" and "Tom Sawyer", only available as DLC in Warriors of Rock
• Development Hell: Activision claimed that a new game in this series would be released in 2012. Assuming they were telling the truth, and the fact that no Guitar Hero game was released in 2012, it probably fell into this, and ended up being cancelled anyhow. This was later confirmed after the Guitar Hero Live announcement, with the proposed Guitar Hero 7 being cancelled due to the expensive controller design and the bad state of the project at the time.
• Dueling Works: With Rock Band 4.
  • Friendly Rivalry: Judging from similarities in both games setlists (with many songs and/or artists being shared, whether through GHTV or Live mode), the competition with Rock Band 4 may be this.
• Franchise Killer: The series was on ice after Warriors of Rock didn't sell as well as hoped. This game was intended to revive the series, but its own poor sales and divisiveness among fans seems to have merely killed it even more conclusively.
• Prop Recycling: Since it is a series reboot, the game featured songs that were featured in prior installments.
  • From the original Guitar Hero: "Cowboys From Hell", "More Than A Feeling", "Higher Ground", "Thunder Kiss '65", "Cochise", "Fat Lip", "You've Got Another Thing Comin'", "Unsung"
  • From Guitar Hero 2: "Hangar 18", "Cherry Pie", "Killing in the Name", "Them Bones", "Carry On Wayward Son"
  • From Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s: "Round and Round", "Nothin' But a Good Time", "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)"
  • From Guitar Hero 3: "Bulls on Parade", "When You Were Young", "Paint it Black", "Cult of Personality", "Stricken", "Before I Forget", "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", "Reptilia", "Through the Fire and Flames", "Rock and Roll All Nite"
  • From Guitar Hero World Tour: "Freak on a Leash", "Float On", "Are You Gonna Go My Way", "Eye of the Tiger", "The Kill", "The One I Love", "B.Y.O.B.", "Livin' On a Prayer", "Dammit", "Santeria"
  • From Guitar Hero Smash Hits: "Cowboys from Hell", "More than a Feeling", "Thunder Kiss '65", "Message in a Bottle", "Cherry Pie", "Killing in the Name", "Round and Round", "Cult of Personality", "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", "Them Bones", "Through the Fire and Flames", "Nothin' But A Good Time", "Unsung"
  • From Guitar Hero 5: "Lust for Life", "The Rock Show", "Sex on Fire", "A-Punk", "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Kryptonite"
  • From Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock: "Black Rain", "Modern Day Cowboy", "Seven Nation Army", "Pour Some Sugar On Me", "Losing My Religion"
  • From Guitar Hero: Van Halen: "Stacy's Mom", I Want It All", "First Date", "Painkiller", "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)"
  • From Guitar Hero: Metallica: "Toxicity", "Albatross" by Corrosion Of Conformity, "No Excuses"
  • From Guitar Hero: Aerosmith: No tracks were ever released from this game.
  • From the Guitar Hero On Tour Series: "Buddy Holly", "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet, "We Are the Champions", "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", "Eye of the Tiger", "Are You Gonna Go My Way", "Bohemian Like You", "All the Small Things", "Reptilia", "The One I Love", "I Can't Drive 55" by Sammy Hagar, "I Believe in a Thing Called Love", "Rock the Night", "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Still Waiting", "Jessie's Girl", "Dimension", "Volcano Girls", "No Rain"
  • From Band Hero: "In Too Deep", "Sugar, We're Goin Down", "First Date", "A-Punk", "Club Foot", "Two Princes"
  • From Guitar Hero iOS: "Say It Ain't So"
• What Could Have Been: Instead of the 2x3 keys we see in the upcoming game, it could have been the new guitar controller from the proposed Guitar Hero 7, with 6 keys in place of the strum bar and the 5 frets.
  • Also stated on the now-deleted Timeline page for Guitar Hero Live that there are a bunch of songs on the GHTV files. With GHTV shutting down in December 2018, some users managed to hack the cache and upload the unreleased songs to a new game called Clone Hero.