Rock Band 1 - 'Green Grass and High Tides' Expert Guitar (677,800)

Green Grass and High Tides - The Outlaws

Well, we've reached the end of RB1 folks. This is actually the highest non-FC score by nearly 2000 points. This song has only been FC'd on the original RB1 engine once, and that happened last year by Aby on a PS2 emulator:
Before Abyssion got that FC, this song has remained un-FC'd on Rock Band 1. Three people have FCd this song on RB2, and the only video that exists of that now is from Ukog:
This song suffers from the same issue as Trogdor from GH2, where the strumming in the solo (6:55) is faster than the strum limit of the engine. It is still possible on NTSC I think, but you need to be incredible accurate. That's why the only FC's are on PAL, which allows for a higher strum limit. I could go further into detail on the technicalities of that, but this description would go on far longer than it already has. The early Guitar Hero and Rock Band Engines are basically identical in most regards, and the strum limit stayed in Rock Band up until RB3, which allowed plenty of people to FC this song with ease. Then the question is, is an RB3 FC of GGaHT legitimate? Does it count for the FSFC? The way I see it, it should count for the FSFC, but every other song should be done on the original engine. I'm a big supporter of playing songs on the original game if you're going for an FGFC, especially when it comes to Guitar Hero. For Rock Band, some songs need to be FC'd on exports (Like Rock Band Blitz, and AC/DC). No one has every FC'd the AC/DC live version of Let There Be Rock on the original engine, let alone on the AC/DC track pack standalone game. This debate has been had plenty of times over on scorehero, and I'm just rambling at this point, so I'll leave it at that. I uploaded an FC of this song on RB3 alongside this video, so if you'd like to see an FC, check that out

I've enjoyed going through RB1. This is the first time I've played through this game whilst going for good scores, and it was fun learning the intricacies of squeezing on Rock Band. I have far less experience squeezing rock band games than Guitar Hero games. The next game I'll be uploading is Guitar Hero 5. Between now and when I start uploading those, I'll upload a few filler videos. GH5 has 85 songs, so I'm not sure if I'll upload those once a day again like this game, or if I'll go 2 a day so that that game doesn't drag on for the entirety of summer. Let me know what you'd prefer: one video per day, or two videos per day. Furthermore, if you'd like 2 videos per day, would you rather they be uploaded at the same time, or spaced apart by a few hours?

My scores:

[MWzeppelinfan]

[first play through]
[gets to first solo]
"Shouldn't be too bad."
[hits first 6 notes]
[STILL AT 0% THROUGH THE SOLO]
"Ha, I'm in danger!"

[nickbecksayer]

I will never forget this song as the capper to the 'endless setlist' mode from RB1 - I was in my junior year of university and we stayed up all night running the (IIRC) 48 songs in a row. When the sun came up, we were ranked #3 on the Playstation server, despite having a singer playing on 'hard' - and even years later it's one of my greatest gaming accomplishments - playing guitar for the #3 ranked rock band in the world at the time. I'd give anything to go back to those simpler times.

[curtiscole]

CRAZY how good of a run this was! ANYONE who's played Rock Band, Guitar on Expert knows what an absolute KILLER this song is to try...And A Wise Moose SHREDS IT!

[Jaceblue]

You can tell this song was made in the 70s when the guitar solos last for minutes on end.

[Superunknown]

Took me forever to finally get through this part, 7:52, but once I did it was smooth sailing and it felt so good to finally become "Lord of the Strings".

[Swiftimus]

Always loved coming back to this song of course you can look up the concert live but goddamn nothing like the Rock Band Atmosphere.

[mailman]

Still remember beating this song with my dad and my brother. I was aching hard, but I rocked out on the Drums. Good times

[SNOWDUDE]

I remember having to play this song perfectly on Bass just for me and buddy to survive this song. Dang the memories

[deathkiddanolive]

mad respect to you for even beating this song let alone 100 percenting it

[justabean]

I can only get about 26% of the way through this song on expert. This song is hard, man, so props to you for being able to play it so well

[tloz]

Deep memories of playing this. We would cycle out drums and guitar and there was once a moment where we beat this song. Thank you.

[Lordnat]

Seeing this almost just brings me to tears. Me and my wife used to play this song when we were high over and over and over. We really miss playing this. This taught us so much about music in general. I never could get past the last solo on expert. Kudos.

[chuckharper]

This rendition is spot on. The Outlaws were one of the most underrated country rock bands ever.

[routeproductions]

This was so difficult. I remember being so proud at getting 100% when I was 14, hours and days of trying to get it right. I never played the song at that difficulty again.

[kingkeefage]

Man, I will never forget finally getting through this on expert only AFTER playing the endless set list and having to play and sing, as my friend who was helping me had left a long while ago.

[Naplingbat]

Man I try and keep up nowadays and I have no idea how I even used to do shit like this was I was younger. Getting old blows

[robertcoyle]

God I miss playing this song when I was younger. Especially at 9:10 which was just so, so satisfying to lead into. Always did a little jig for the build-up.

[UlisesC]

4:18 he’s very happy just like the thumbnail

[RyantheGTFalcon]

The hardest song in the game! No way I can get past this song.

[Mrzayskates]

6:37 till the rest is amazing I love the other part but I love the part the guitar makes at this time frame omg