What is the Etymology of phrase Guitar Hero?

Answer 1

The term was originally pulled for the game by the developers (though ironically the song was not used in the game) from a song by the band The Presidents of the United States of America off the Album Love everybody (released in 2004)

The full lyrics are below.

I invited salmonella poison

They brought their blushin' daughter, stuffed into a tux

I invited all the guitar heroes

We threw away the guest list, and lost a thousand bucks

I called all the local geniuses

They wrote the guide for the perplexed and the drunk

Wild eyed they came from all directions

Stompin' on the dance floor and droppin' all their junk

All I've got to show are shreds of boa

All I've got to keep is paper-thin

All I've got to show are shreds of boa

Smashed into the rug and vacuumed out again!

We're out again!

We're out again!

We're out again!

Hoo!

Check out the stone on Tammy Tuesday

She's handin' out a fortune in party favor pearls

Here come all those thunderin' beasties

Disabling security, and touchin' all the girls

Check out all the star-struck ramblers

Littering the dance floor with scorpions and Sting

Here come all the ruby-studded hap'ners

Everybody came and destroyed everything

All I've got to show are shreds of boa

All I've got to keep is paper-thin

All I've got to show are shreds of boa

Smashed into the rug and vacuumed out again

You left your shreds of boa

We sucked it off your chin

You left your shreds of boa

Smashed into the rug and vacuumed out again!

We're out again!

Conversely, The Clash used the term "Guitar Hero" in their 1979 revision of "Complete Control" on their American release version of their self-titled album "The Clash" - lyrics listed below:

They said release 'Remote Control'

But we didn't want it on the label

They said, "Fly to Amsterdam"

The people laughed, but the press went mad

Ohh, oh, ohh, someone's really smart

Ohh, oh, ohh, complete control, that's a laugh

On the last tour, my mates they couldn't get in

I'd open up the back door but they'd get run out again

At every hotel, we was met by the law

Come for the party, come to make sure

Ohh, oh, ohh, have we done something wrong?

Ohh, oh, ohh, complete control, even over this song

You're my guitar hero!!

They said we'd be artistically free

When we signed that bit of paper

They meant let's make a lotsa money

And worry about it later

Ohh, oh, ohh, I'll never understand

Ohh, oh, ohh, complete control, let me see your other hand

I don't trust you, why should you trust me?

-Huh?

All over news, spread fast

They're dirty, they're filthy

They ain't a gonna last

(Total) This is Joe Public speaking

(C-O-N, Control)

I'm controlled in the body

I'm controlled in the mind

(Total) This is punk rockers

(C-O-N, Control)

We're controlled in the price

Of the hard drugs we must have to find

Total C-O-N, Control

Total (Parent! Control!)

C-O-N, Control

We've gotta ??????

(C-O-N, Control)

That means you

I kick it, I fight it, I gotta get up at it

(C-O-N, Control)

I gotta kick it