He is also replaced by random people in Guitar Hero Metallica and Guitar Hero Van Halen. He is also replaced by the main characters (such as Axel Steel, Judy Nails, etc.) in Guitar Hero Smash Hits, Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero, and a few songs in the story mode of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. In Guitar Hero World Tour, he and his female counterpart are replaced by random people (possibly characters randomly generated in the create-a-rocker mode). In Guitar Hero: On Tour, The Male Singer returns just like the other games, but now he replaces The Bassist, so he sings and plays the bass at the same time. The Male Singer, along with the rest of the band, returns to perform all non- Aerosmith songs in Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, with the exception of Walk This Way and King of Rock, both by Run-DMC DMC himself appears in the game. Bret Michaels also mo-capped his performance with the motion-capture suit.
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He was also the only male singer in the series until Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, when Bret Michaels was introduced as both a hidden character with cheat codes and a guest character, appearing in Career Mode to sing Talk Dirty to Me and Go That Far. The Male Singer appears during all performances except for multiplayer matches, instrumental songs, like " Cliffs of Dover" and songs with female vocalists, like " Hit Me with Your Best Shot". The male singer (right) as he appears in Guitar Hero II on stage with Eddie Knox (left) Performances The Male Singer (left) as he appears in Guitar Hero on stage with Clive Winston (right) After all, if they could do it with little trouble, if any trouble at all, why couldn't he?) Doing this will prove that the male singer could potentially imitate a woman's voice if other male singers could do the same for songs such as " Heartbreaker" or " One Way or Another". In fact, one idea that is tossed around is that Harmonix might as well not have even included a female singer, since he could just imitate a woman's voice if necessary (a theory proven in Guitar Hero World Tour by playing the Vocalist's solo career as a male character, Riki Lee for example, and not changing to another character. Many jokes are made about him being the only male singer in the game, such as an apparent ability to imitate anyone's voice, from Axl Rose to Billy Gibbons and everyone in between, speak any language (or at least Spanish, French, and German). This is his most recognizable appearance, as in Guitar Hero through Rock's the 80's, the camera focused primarily on the player's character, the guitarist, with the backup band only briefly being in the shot (not to mention the rather dark venue lights making the characters somewhat difficult to see), whereas in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock the camera, while still focusing primarily on the guitarist, focused on the backup band more often than previously, even giving close-up shots of individual band members (plus, the lights of all the venues being much brighter allowed for easy views of the characters).
He wears a black tank top, blue torn jeans with a black belt, gray and white sneakers, black fingerless gloves on his hands, a black and gray striped arm warmer on his right arm, and a tattoo on his left shoulder. Perhaps the greatest change he has ever undergone relates to his facial look: while, in the first three games, he looked like an average youngster, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock designed him with a fringe covering his eyes and an impossibly wide mouth.
In the Xbox 360 version, he wears sunglasses. In Guitar Hero II and Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s, he wears black and white baseball sleeves, the same pants from the first game, blue and white sneakers and red cloth bands. His Guitar Hero appearance bears resemblance to Axel Steel's Guitar Hero appearance, except he has shorter hair, and his shoulders aren't as broad. Though his design has gone through minor changes from one game to the next, he is depicted invariably as a tall, white, brown-haired man dressed in a black tank top with a necklace, black jeans with a brown bullet belt, white baggy socks, gray and white flat-top sneakers with yellow markings and black gauntlets in the first game. The Male Singer is a recurring NPC in the entire Guitar Hero series up until Guitar Hero World Tour.