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Ben, The 8 Year Old Real Guitar Hero –

Posted: May 5th, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | 18 Comments »

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There’s been lots of talk on the interwebs about Ben, the 8 year old who totally nailed a Guitar Hero song on hard mode without missing a note. Jeremy at Livedigitally suggested that the game developer should hire Ben to use him in their marketing campaigns, which I totally agree with, except he’s already marketing them. His “perfect song” video has been watched close to 250,000 times.

Even more interesting, if you calculate the number of views for the 20 related guitar hero videos that youtube places beside this video you get a total of: 6,376,714. So that’s 6 Million plus views of user generated videos of Guitar Hero, wow. Very exciting, but I guess not every game can be as fun to video as Guitar Hero

I have to plug one of my fav t-shirts from Tcritic, it’s called Cowbell Hero, now that game is going to rock!

cowbell hero

Via LiveDigitally

  • http://www.ichabod13.com Ichabod13

    Nice article :P

    Check the interview I posted on my site with Ben Eberle….

    http://ichabod13.com/?p=12

  • http://www.xyhd.tv/2007/04/gaming/becoming-a-guitar-hero-tips-and-tricks-for-guitar-hero-2-on-xbox-360/ Brandon Wirtz Master Guitar Hero

    The Video is Faked. I’m sure the kid is good, but he hits some of the Hammer on / Hammer off’s wrong. and there are a couple of places where his fingers don’t match quite what is on the screen. Likely He played the game looking at the screen VCR’d it and then Played it back while playing along to make it look better than he is.

    There performance mode Code is how one would prove this.

  • http://youtube.com Dave

    brandon wirtz u are so gay…….this kid is amazing look at the interview on gametrailers check out youtube and you will find the tourneys he’s been in you are a complete ass hole and probobly suck at guitar hero

  • http://www.guitarcenter.com randall helton

    this idiot is stupid im 12 years old and i can play way better than this little weirdo i can play thunderhorse verse 2and3 without using my rite hand this kids an ass hole!!!!

  • http://www.guitarcenter.com randall helton

    sorry i went 2 hard on the kid really im, sorry

  • http://www.guitarcenter.com randall helton

    i agree with dave……..wirtz ur the ass hole!

  • http://guitarhero3unoffical.com im better than u!

    lol randall ur the cheesiest person 2 be smered on this planet!

  • KILLER

    randall helton loves cock and sux at guitar hero.

  • http://NONE CHAD KANDIDD

    THIS IS JUST A MOTHER FUCKING GAME U DUMB ASSES WHO ARE FOGHTING OVER IT!!!!

  • http://NONE CHAD KANDIDD

    OH AND WERTZ WAS RITE
    FUCK U KILLER!!!!

  • http://TANNER GH3

    DUDE YOUR GOOD AND SOME OF THESE ASSHOLES SUCK ROCK ON

  • http://TANNER GH3

    BRANDAN WIRTZ IS A ASS HOLE

  • wow

    this kid is legit believe it or not, i didn’t want to believe it either b/c his psycho billy vid is so ridiculous, but you can’t deny it after watching most of his vids, and seeing his name in so many different places on the web….if you search for him you will see that he is legit, he has a sponsorship from some company in colorado b/c he won a GH tourney

    the craziest thing for me is how he uses different fingers for different buttons and he says “i don’t put my fingers on the buttons, i just do what i need to do to finish the song”, really mind boggling how he does it, that’s what makes him look like he’s faking it

  • Architype -X-

    yeah if you watch all of his videos you will find out hes not fake. who cares though its a game. people that are good at guitar hero can’t do shit with a real guitar. if this ritch bitch plays some sweet riffs on the guitar that sits in the backround on most of his videos then i’ll shut up

  • Steven

    Ben, you rock! I watch all your videos on youtube. Rock on!!!!!

  • http://poopinacup.com killa sucks!!!!

    its a game stop wasting ur goddamn lives you fucking cock sucking assholes and randall said sorry so you can all suck a .cock!!!!

  • http://n/a gibsonkid33

    the kid is dam good at the game and you fucking dumb asses that think it fack check out you tube vids. like the one in the store where a crowed of people stand in shock. Email me if you really think the kid is fake with proof gibsonkid33@aol.com

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