I value my fingers too much. Good lord...I actually didn't know there was a 100% run.

I picked up GH Aerosmith (almost as much to get a decent guitar for the 360 as for the game, so I can retire my Rock Band Fender and its' retarded strum bar/non-registering tilt sensor). It's decent...I'm starting on expert this time and the difficulty is nowhere near III (they don't feel the need to throw random 3-note chords in at every opportunity, thank god...at least not yet).

Not a whole lot to report. I only know a handful of Aerosmith songs and what I've heard/played is decent enough. True to form with both Last Child and Same Old Song and Dance in II and III though...A lot of Aerosmith songs are just painfully repetitive and GH tends to bring that out to spotlight pretty badly. Sweet Emotion is a blast to play and so was No Surprize (the main riff is mad fun to hit!). Need to do Tier 4 and above later tonight.

$70 for the guitar, $30 for about 41 songs...I'm fine with that.

^ I hated the Rock Band guitar controller... it's garbage.  I'm curious how the Rock Band 2 controller will be, or even the Guitar Hero World Tour one.  Actually, I guess the latter one is more important because Activision is so pathetic that they only let their software work with peripherals they develop.

"Hi, I'm Chris Chike and I have way too much time on my hands."

"Oh, hey! I'm some other guy having an orgasm off camera. Oh my gaaawwwwwd."

Yeah, you know you're jealous.

It's the same guy, genius.

Ooooh, someone took that a little personally. Why don't you go relax and play some Guitar Hero to blow off some steam?

Not really.  An immature response just seemed to call for an equally immature response right back.  Then I just corrected your wildly-off assumption about the camera.

You're right.  I'll go ahead and play On Tour; it's sooooooo good.

I don't particularly like Guitar Hero after Activision took it over, but I have to agree with GoldfishX that the strum bar on the Rock Band guitar lacks any feedback mechanism.  It is difficult to hit notes on songs where there are a long of streaming notes back to back.  I purposely got an Guitar Hero II Xplorer guitar to use in Rock Band (Xbox 360 only).  I hope that Harmonix read the feedback about the guitar's strums and will correct this in the next generation.  Otherwise, I will just get a third-party guitar.  Harmonix said that they encourage and will work with third parties to make peripherals, unlike Activision, who seem to want people to use only the RedOctane guitars.

I wish Harmonix and RedOctane were owned by the same parent company so we can get the best of both worlds.

In a way, I do too, but I like the idea of competition...Both companies trying to one-up the other (and Rock Revolution waiting in the wings...its' 80's-heavy soundtrack means I have to get it). Plus, I respect that Rock Band is a much lesser single player game than GH, so it depends what I'm in the mood for (although I still hate a good bit of the RB notecharts).

Rumored GH4 tracklist:

Eagle Rock High School Tour:
“Dope Nose” by Weezer
“The Middle” by Jimmy Eat World
Encore: “Today” by Smashing Pumpkins

Big City Kids Tour:
“Roland” by Interpol
“Santeria” By Sublime
Encore: “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers

Feelin’ Nostalgic Tour:
“Take It on the Run” by REO Speedwagon
“Hold the Line” by Toto
Encore: “Rebel Yell” by Billy Idol

Vixens Tour:
“Heartbreaker” by Pat Benatar
“All Around Me” by Flyleaf
Encore:”Misery Business” by Paramore

Undertow Tour:
“Stinkfist” by Tool
“Lateralus” by Tool
“Schism” by Tool

Synchronicity Tour:
“Guitar Battle Vs. Sting” (Guitar Career Only)
Encore: “Every Breath You Take” by The Police

Fight the System Tour:
“The Kids Aren’t Alright” by The Offspring
The Good Left Undone” by Rise Agaisnt
Encore: “Bleed it Out” by Linkin Park

QQ Tour:
“Face Down” by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
“The Kill” by 30 Seconds to Mars
Encore: “Thank You for the Venom” by My Chemical Romance

Rockin the Carnival Tour:
“Dammit” by Blink 182
“When You Heat Stops Beating” by +44

Neva’ Forget Tour:
“Jumpin Jack Flash” by The Rolling Stones
“Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Öyster Cult
Encore: “Light My Fire” by The Doors

We Want the Funk Tour:
“Take it Away” by Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Renegades of Funk” by Rage Agaisnt the Machines
Encore: “No Sleep till Brooklyn” by The Beastie Boys Feat. Kerry King

Rockin’ the Joint Tour:
“Are You Gonna Go My Way” by Lenny Kravitz
“I Don’t wanna Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith

On Top of the World Tour:
“Man in the Box” by Alice in Chains
“Kickstart My Heart” by Mötley Crüe
Encore: “Spin the Black Circle” by Pearl Jam

G. Stinger Tour:
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana
“Car Chase City” by Tenacious D
Encore: “Everlong” by Foo Fighters

Lands End Tour:
“Animal” by Def Leppard
“Runaway” by Bon Jovi
Encore: “Paradise City” by Guns N’ Roses

Doin’ it Different Tour:
“Song for the Dead” by Queens of the Stone Age
“Vasoline” by Stone Temple Pilots
Encore: “Assassin” by Muse

Hootin’ and Hollerin’ Tour:
“The Boys Are Back in Town” By Thin Lizzy
“Life in the Fastlane” by The Eagles
Encore:”Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd

All Pissed Off Tour:
“Here to Stay” by KoRn
“Dragula” by Rob Zombie
Encore: “Bat Country” by Avenged Sevenfold

Here Me Roar Tour:
“10,000 Fists” by Disturbed
“Duality” by Slipknot
Encore: “Toxicity” by System of a Down

S.D.M.F. Tour:
“Guitar Battle Vs. Zakk Wylde” (Guitar Career Only)
*Encore: “Demise of Sanity” by Black Label Society

Fathers of Metal Tour:
“Don’t Talk to Strangers” by Dio
“Heaven and Hell” by Black Sabbath
Encore: “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne

Making Progress Tour:
“The Spirit of Radio” by Rush
“Comfortably Numb” by Pink Floyd
Encore: “Pull Me Under” by Dream Theatre

Eruption Tour:
“Beat it” by Micheal Jackson Feat. Eddie Van Halen
“Hot for Teacher” by Van Halen

Tooth Fang & Claw Tour:
“Guitar Battle Vs. Ted Nugent” (Guitar Career Only)
Encore: “Stranglehold” by Ted Nugent

Decades of Metal Tour
“Warriors of Time” by Black Tide
“Leather Rebel” by Judas Priest
Encore: “Hallowed be Thy Name” by Iron Maiden

Livin’ in a Nightmare Tour:
“Angel of Death” by Slayer
“Tornado of Souls” by Megadeth
Encore: “Master of Puppets” by Metallica

Legends of Rock Tour:
“Johnny B. Goode” by Chuck Berry
“The Wind Cries Mary” by Jimi Hendrix
Encore: “Purple Haze (Live)” by Jimi Hendrix

Bonus Tour:
“45″ by Shinedown
“96 Quite Bitter Beings” by CKY
“Bombshell” by Powerman 5000
“Clavado en un Bar” by Maná
“Enjoy the Silence” by Lacuna Coil
“Feuer Frei” by Rammstein
“Fury of the Storm” by Dragonforce
“Never Too Late” by The Answer
“Nottingham Lace” by Buckethead
“One Armed Scissor” by At The Drive-In
“Satch Boogie” by Joe Satriani
“Schrei” by Tokio Hotel
“Soul Doubt” by NOFX

“We’re An American Band” by Grand Funk Railroad
“Guitar Battle Vs. Sting” by Sting
“Guitar Battle Vs. Ted Nugent” By Ted Nugent
“Guitar Battle Vs. Zakk Wylde” by Zakk Wylde

Sample Songs:
“Untitled Drum Sample” created by Chad Smith
“Untitled Drum Sample” created by Dave Grohl
“Untitled Drum Sample” created by Travis Barker
“Cliffs of Dover” created by Neversoft
“Misirlou” created by Neversoft
“Walk This Way” created by Neversoft
“YYZ” created by Neversoft

Wow, if this true, they went for the teeth in some of those...Not even saving Master of Puppets for GH: Metallica is a good sign of that. Hallowed be Thy Name, Crazy Train, Leather Rebel (THE most underrated JP song ever, IMO and probably my favorite after Electric Eye), Teen Spirit (the ONLY Nirvana song I like..."In Bloom" not counting, since I had to learn how to use the RB drums/mic on it and it grew on me) RB dupes suck (bleh...) and some in there I'm not crazy about but ****...the classics definitely make up for it. I think this may be a declaration of war on Harmonix (whose tracklist is quite good as well).

lol, Angel of Death. Activision now has to fend off accusations of being pro-Nazi (I'm surprised they would take this one on...War Ensemble or Seasons of the Abyss would probably be far less of a hassle and just as effective, gameplay-wise). That song is going to mangle guitar controllers...Can't wait for the vocals!

Final thought: Seeing what they made for sample songs, might we be seeing many user-creater VGM rock songs? No vocals for the most part, instantly recognizable, tailor-made for GH...Hmm, the mind boggles. I'll take a round of Guilty Gear X:Heavy Rock  Tracks (W/ ability to redo bass/drums!) or F-Zero X on GH, please. Or even NES tunes just transcribed to guitar? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...*drools uncontrollably*

0_o

How'd they get Tool?  Awesome.  Just might push it into "buy" territory.

Money?  Everything Can Be Bought for the right price.

Still don't know how they intend to implement double-bass (Schism comes to mind), but I guess we'll see.

Activision and RedOctane announced that the GHWT list is fake.   GH fans will ahve to go back to speculating again.

I suspected as much (guitar battle vs Sting...um, he doesn't play guitar! And no way Angel of Death would be greenlighted for a game like this), but you can't blame me for hoping. And it did seem plausible for the most part...Hopefully the REAL tracklist gets people as excited.