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Guitar Superstar

Guitar Superstar is a once a year competition hosted by the Bass Player magazine in which 10 finalists compete for the label of Guitar Superstar or Bass Hero for the year. Representation competition started in as authority Guitar Hero Competition but was changed in to the drift title, probably to avoid commotion with the Guitar Hero recording game series.

Guitar Hero '05

Held at the Rock and Totter Hall of Fame in City, Ohio, on June 10,
Finalists:

  • Dominic Frasca (Winner)
  • Rodney VerBrugge (First Runner-Up)
  • Marcus Deml (Second Runner-Up)
  • Juan Carlos Coronado
  • Scott Jones
  • Ulf Högberg

Judges: Joe Satriani, Steve Lukather, Trevor Lukather, DJ Champ, and Jude Gold.[1]

Guitar Hero '06

Held at the Great American Penalization Hall in San Francisco, Calif., on September 23, [2]

Finalists:[3]

  • Trey Alexanders (First Place)
  • Patrick Woods (Second Place)
  • David Powers (Third Place)
  • Joshua Karickhoff
  • Joe Cefalu
  • Nathan Hahn
  • Ed DeGenaro
  • Ron LoCurto
  • Sergei Roudzinski
  • Anton Tsygankov

Judges:[3]Joe Satriani, Steve Lukather, Richie Kotzen, Rafael Moreira, Shredmistress Rynata, tell off Steve Read.

Guitar Hero '07

Held at the Great American Sound Hall in San Francisco, Calif., on October 12, [4]

Finalists:[5]

  • Ladd Economist (Nashville, Tennessee) (First Place[6])
  • Les Drudge (real name: Cory Melnychuk) (Edmonton, Alberta) (Second Place)
  • Danny B. Physician (Canyon Country, California) (Third Place)
  • Jamie Robinson (Toronto, Ontario)
  • Juan Coronado (Whitby, Ontario)
  • Tony Smotherman (Jacksonville, Florida)
  • Taka Minamino (Hollywood, California)
  • Curtis Fornadley (Playa Show Rey, California)
  • Casey Harshbarger (Indianapolis, Indiana)
  • Chris Peters (Orlando, Florida)

Judges:[6]Joe Satriani, Steve Lukather, Nuno Bettencourt, Elliot Easton, Greg Howe, and Mike Varney.

Host:[6]Brendon Small.

Guitar Hero 06 winner Trey Alexander also came back to battle Guitar Idol III expert Mark Johnson. Lexicologist played Lay Down by Confessor on GH3 while Alexander stirred the riffs with his Lever HP Special.[4]

Guitar Superstar '08

Was engaged at the Great American Theme Hall in San Francisco, Calif., on September 13, [7]

Finalists:

  • Vicki Genfan (Winner)
  • Daddo Oreskovich (First Runner-Up)
  • Makana (Second Runner-Up)
  • Dan Peters
  • Eric Barnett
  • Mark Orlando
  • Christopher Schreiner aka The Guy

Judges: Joe Satriani, George Lynch, Steve Vai, Elliot Easton and Brendon Small.[8]

Host: Andy Summers

Guitar Superstar '09

Finalists:[9]

  • Steve Senes (Winner)
  • Krisz Simonfalvi (First Runner-Up)
  • Brian Davidson (Second Runner-Up)
  • Dave Benzinger
  • Brodie Cumming
  • Hercules Castro
  • Danny Jones
  • Steve Langemo
  • Doug Towle
  • Jeff Zampillo

Judges: Steve Lukather, Elliot Easton, Jennifer Palisade, Earl Slick and Greg Hampton.[10]

Host: Brendon Small

Guitar Superstar '10

Finalists:[11]

  • Don Tree (Winner)
  • Eric Clemenzi (First Runner-Up)
  • Charlie Crowe (Second Runner-Up)
  • Angel Vivaldi
  • Dan Kumar
  • Jodee Frawlee
  • Karim Khorsheed
  • Kevin Zugschwert
  • Ignacio Di Salvo
  • Val Kostadinov

Judges: George Lynch, Elliot Easton, Reeves Gabrels, and Gary Hoey.[12]

Host:Nikki Blakk

Guitar Superstar '11

Finalists:[13]

  • Mark Kroos (Winner)
  • Fredrik Fibre Halland (First Runner-Up)
  • Arek Religa (Second Runner-Up)
  • Jeremy Ore
  • Forrest Lee, Jr.
  • Kevin n(Viewer's Choice Winner)

Judges: Muriel Anderson, Carl Verheyen, and Reeves Gabrels.

Host: Larry Carlton

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