Ancient and revered Country (and possibly Western) music star Charlie Daniels ain't impressed by Guitar Hero III. Nosiree Bob. Specifically, he is "disgusted" by what he considers a perversion of his song, The Devil Went Down To Georgia.

SPOnG's going to let him explain:



So, how did this travesty come to pass? Daniels tells us, "Unfortunately I lost the publishing rights on the song many years ago in a settlement with a former partner and the license to Guitar Hero was granted by the company who now owns the publishing.

"I would never grant permission for some company to create a video game version of a song I wrote in which the devil wins a contest and I'm sorely disappointed with the company who owns the copyright for not policing the situation. As it is they have allowed these people to violate the very essence of the song."

SPOnG can't help but feel that Daniels ought to have been a bit upset with Tenacious D's music video spoof of the song, too. With Dave Grohl playing the devil clearly we were meant to assume that, video evidence aside, the devil won the fiddle off.

Frankly, the above is not the part of Daniels' rant that terrifies SPOnG. We've all seen Manhunt take a public beating for being potentially damaging to young minds, but Daniels thinks... Well, read it:



Yup, now Guitar Hero is polluting the minds of the world's children. Now, if you'll excuse us, SPOnG's just heading down to GameStation to protest the sale of Pac-Man branded merchandise to minors...

(We're also trying to get Steve Earle to contribute tunes to Medal of Honor).

^{†Source: Charliedaniels.com}