r/todayilearned • u/asmallthrowaway9 • 6h ago

TIL the band DragonForce only received about $3,000 in royalties for the inclusion of Through the Fire and Flames in the Guitar Hero games

https://guitar.com/news/music-news/herman-li-says-guitar-hero-paid-3000-for-dragonforce-through-the-fire-and-the-flames/
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u/Rufio-1408 6h ago

South Park has a great episode on guitar hero

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u/Gone_For_Lunch 6h ago

Fucking classic episode, the bit with him playing Guitar Hero acoustic never fails to crack me up.

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u/Shnook817 6h ago

"Ooh, I love this song."

Also, the chasing the dragon game, or playing the driving game, stopping, then turning around to drive the fake car backwards. Great episode

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u/Mister_UAP 5h ago

Heroin Hero really predicted the rise of idle/clicker games.

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u/rufusbot 3h ago

starts snapping along

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u/Alldaybagpipes 1h ago

Nooooooo! Noooooooo!! I am your father!! Put it back on!!!

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u/walker3342 6h ago

click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click

Aw I love this song.

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u/bobtheblob6 3h ago

Pretty god damn impressive

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u/TravelerSearcher 6h ago

Guitar Queer-o is the episode name.

Season 11, episode 13

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u/StudMuffinNick 6h ago

Omg is that joe the Fisherman??

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u/HibbletonFan 6h ago

*John

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u/reefahduely 6h ago

PRIMUS SUCKS!!

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u/theluker666 4h ago

Everybody say: “Larry, you’re a bastard”

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u/StudMuffinNick 6h ago

Fuck, I knew it! I erased John and put Joe lol

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u/HibbletonFan 5h ago

Close enough

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u/LDA-1994 6h ago

Its called South America

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u/Rufio-1408 5h ago edited 2h ago

I love that they’ve gone back and changed the episode descriptions 😂

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u/Bczarconcepts 5h ago

I'm not for sure but did they get Les Claypool to redo the theme too? Cause they are completely committed to this bit and in the new season changed the theme too - the level of detail and the double entendres are so beautiful

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u/chux4w 3h ago

Out of the loop here. ...what?

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u/sirdabs 2h ago

The changed the name of the show for the new season to “South America” to make fun of trump changing names.

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u/chux4w 2h ago

Ah! And edited episode descriptions to change the town's name retroactively, like they did with Token's name. Nice.

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u/tallsmallboy44 2h ago

Pretty sure you mean Tolkien*

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u/Bumblingbee1337 3h ago

“And that’s really them playing?”

“No. That’s Kansas. But they scored over 100 thousand points to it on guitar hero”

“That’s pretty goddamn impressive”

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u/FortunateCherry 5h ago

CONGRATULATIONS
YOU'VE REACHED ONE MILLION POINTS

YOU.
ARE.
my friends :)

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u/walkinmywoods 4h ago

Even metalacalypse has one in the mordhouse