[BUCKETHEAD, RUSH Featured on CBS' Guitar Hero II Show; Trailer Available - July 25, 2007]

From Blabbermouth.net:

This Sunday, July 29 at 12:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m. PT, CBS will show some of the best Guitar Hero II players in North America as they compete for a piece of the $90,000 prize pot at the WSVG Louisville circuit stop. At the WSVG, the top prizes aren't awarded to the players with only the highest scores but rather to the most accurate, stylish and energetic performances as determined by a panel of celebrity judges including "MTV Style" VJ Coltrane Curtis, legendary video game composer Tommy Tallarico, and Becky "Aktrez" Young, leading lady of the Girl Gaming Network. The event attracted players such as David "WuLFe" Briers, the number one player on the Xbox leaderboards, Nikolai "Kov" Shish and Kelly "Tipper Queen" Law-Yone. Catch a glimpse of Kov playing an amazing rendition of REVEREND HORTON HEAT's "Psychobilly Freakout" here, as he tries to one-up WuLFe's stellar performance of RUSH's "YYZ" in the finals. Kov and WuLFe end up battling it out in a hair-raising performance of BUCKETHEAD's "Jordan", the hardest song in Guitar Hero II. The show will also feature footage from the circuit's other games, World of Warcraft and EA Sports Fight Night Round 3. A teaser video of the show has been posted on YouTube.

You can check out the teaser video at this link. In case you aren't familiar with it, Guitar Hero 2 is a video game released last fall which allows players to play bass or guitar in a virtual band, playing along with hit songs from a number of artists. One of the songs included in the game is Rush's YYZ. The makers of the game recently announced a sequel to the game to be released this Christmas called Rock Band which adds drums and vocals to the mix. The new game will feature a cover of Rush's Tom Sawyer.

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