The Log is the guitar you unlock for getting 5 stars on every career song on Expert difficulty in Guitar Hero 1 and 2.  I forget the names of the equivalent guitars in the subsequent GH games, so I just refer to the same feat as “Log” in those too.  I was hitting a wall in GH:M, so I dusted off 2, where I was 4 songs short of the Log.  I’m now Log -3, having rocked the casbah on Institutionalized.  I’d been away for quite a while, because my previous best only barely earned 4 stars.

All signs pointed to Rock This Town falling before Institutionalized, but the former is more of a rhythm challenge, and the latter a fingering exercise.  Rhythm strumming is the weakest part of my game, hence stuff like Welcome to the Neighborhood giving me fits.

For extra measure, I admit it was a pleasure, I passed stage 4 for the first time in RF1.  Died horrendously to the snow stage boss in our first ever meeting.  Improved my score by a few million, but stayed in 3rd on the leaderboard.  I’m only about halfway to Khoa’s #2 score, so I can expect stasis for a spell.

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