Four stars on my performance of Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Texas Flood" in Guitar Hero. I rock!

I was thinking earlier that it's more difficult to play well in Guitar Hero than it is in real life, because in the computer game you either get it right or wrong, no in-between. If you're playing for real, though, it's usually fairly easy to cover your mistakes or bluff your way through them, like if you play the wrong note on the guitar you can bend up or down to the right one, and act like you meant for that little frill to be in there, or do a fancy little scale run with the right note included, or even just speed right by the misstep. Chances are no one will notice or if they do, they're the professional musician types. Like Bo.

My contention was validated by none other than "Michael Einziger, the 30-year-old guitarist for the hard-rock band Incubus, [who] says he was 'shocked at how hard it was' to play the videogame's version of his song "Stellar." He admits he was handily beaten by his then-14-year-old sister, Ruby Aldridge, when the two of them squared off earlier this year." Allison Robertson, the guitar player for The Donnas, also had a hard time playing her own song and "took some good-natured ribbing from her bandmates, says drummer Torry Castellano." Those quotes are from an online article about Guitar Hero; you can read the entire thing here.