Guitar Superstar
The Guitar Hero Competition is a yearly competition hosted by the Guitar Player magazine in which 10 finalists compete for the title of Guitar Hero for the year. The competition started in 2005 and in 2008, the competition was changed to the Guitar Superstar Competition.
Guitar Hero 05
Held at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, on June 10, 2005.
Judges: Joe Satriani, Steve Lukather, Trevor Lukather, DJ Munch, and Jude Gold[1].
Guitar Hero 06
Held at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California, on September 23, 2006[2].
Video of the competition on Guitar Player TV
Finalists[3]:
- Trey Alexander (First Place) (video)
- Patrick Woods (Second Place) (video)
- David Powers (Third Place) (video)
- Joshua Karickhoff
- Joe Cefalu
- Nathan Hahn
- Ed DeGenaro
- Ron LoCurto
- Sergei Roudzinski
- Anton Tsygankov
Judges[4]: Joe Satriani, Steve Lukather, Richie Kotzen, Rafael Moreira, Shredmistress Rynata, and Steve Read.
Guitar Hero 07
Held at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California, on October 12, 2007[5].
Finalists[6]:
- Ladd Smith (Nashville, Tennasee) (First Place[7]) (video)
- Les Robot (real name: Cory Melnychuk) (Edmonton, Alberta) (Second Place) (video)
- Danny B. Harvey (Canyon Country, California) (Third Place) (video)
- Jamie Robinson (Toronto, Ontario)
- Juan Coronado (Whitby, Ontario)
- Tony Smotherman (Jacksonville, Florida)
- Taka Minamino (Hollywood, California)
- Curtis Fornadley (Playa Del Rey, California)
- Casey Harshbarger (Indianapolis, Indiana)
- Chris Peters (Orlando, Florida)
Judges[8]: Joe Satriani, Steve Lukather, Nuno Bettencourt, Elliot Easton, Greg Howe, and Mike Varney.
Host[9]: Brendon Small.
Guitar Hero 06 winner Trey Alexander also came back to battle Guitar Hero III expert Mark Johnson. Johnson played Lay Down by Priestess on GH3 while Alexander played the riffs with his Peavey HP Special[10].
Guitar Superstar 08
Will be held at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California, on September 13, 2008[11].
Finalists: TBA
Judges: TBA