You might not know who Charlie Daniels is, but you’d probably recognize one of his most famous tunes: “The Devil Went Down To Georgia”. It portrays the Devil stumbling upon a young man named Johnny with exceptional fiddle skills. The devil of course being a greedy type challenged the young man to a fiddle-playing contest. The stakes? Johnny’s soul against the Devil’s golden fiddle. Johnny accepts the challenge and of course whips the Devil soundly (pun intended). The game is featured along with many other classic rock tunes in Guitar Hero 3, and apparently Mr. Daniels has taken offense because of it. Luckily he has no real grounds for a lawsuit as he lost the rights to the song in a settlement with a former partner, but that’s not going to stop him from complaining about it. He put a post up on his personal website detailing the ‘dark side’ of the game which includes ‘grotesque monsters on stage with the band, strange, eerie lighting effects and all manner of weird things popping up on the stage’. This all sounds about as threatening and psychologically twisting as pretty much any film Jim Henson or his studio have had a part in. He criticizes the game for the ‘world’ it’s exposing the children to, complaining at the fact that when the player comes to that song he or she engages in a guitar battle against a digital, horned devil. Much of his complaint comes down to the fact that the devil often wins. Hey Charlie? It’s a video game. They’re no fun if you win all the time. When you consider that the song itself has the hero betting his soul against the devil based on his own hubris, Mr. Daniels moral tirade seems more like the whinings of a petulant child who’s had his toy taken away.