Answering fan-submitted questions at the Guitar Hero blog:

Even songs that I’ve grown up loving that I’ve played on Guitar Hero, it’s just a different way to connect to the song than before.  I tell people that when you’re on stage in a band and you pull off a wicked solo, it doesn’t feel any different than when you do it in Guitar Hero except that there is no audience witnessing it.  It feels just as good to lick a great solo on Guitar Hero as it does when you do it live – it’s a weird thing.

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