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First off, be careful out there. Some Rock Band demo units, packaged suspiciously like retail product, have been sold already by dimwitted clerks. If you see an eBay auction that's too good to be true, it's probably because someone bought the less-than-complete game by mistake, thinking they're cracked the Nov. 20 street date. Next, an update on those pesky guitar controller issues. It seems some of the early reports were false:

• Guitar Hero II and IIII controllers do work with both Rock Band and Guitar Hero III, though you won't be able to activate Rock Band special effects with them
• The Guitar Hero III controller for PS3 won't work with Guitar Hero II in backward compatible consoles
• The Rock Band guitar (at least the prerelease version given to reviewers) actually won't work with Guitar Hero II and IIII

Finally, Harmonix released the final set list for Rock Band:

• Train Kept a Rollin (Aerosmith) - cover
• Sabotage (Beastie Boys)
• Paranoid (Black Sabbath) - cover
• Don't Fear the Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)
• Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi)
• Foreplay/Long Time (Boston)
• Suffragette City (David Bowie)
• Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash)
• Welcome Home (Coheed & Cambria)
• Highway Star (Deep Purple)
• Epic (Faith No More)
• Dead on Arrival (Fallout Boy)
• Learn to Fly (Foo Fighters)
• I Think I'm Paranoid (Garbage)
• Main Offender (The Hives)
• Celebrity Skin (Hole)
• Run to the Hills (Iron Maiden) - cover
• Are You Gonna Be My Girl (Jet)
• When You Were Young (The Killers)
• Detroit Rock City (KISS)
• Enter Sandman (Metallica)
• Flirtin' With Disaster (Molly Hatchet)
• Mississippi Queen (Mountain) - cover
• Electric Version (New Pornographers)
• The Hand That Feeds (Nine Inch Nails)
• In Bloom (Nirvana)
• Here It Goes Again (OK Go)
• Green Grass & High Tides (The Outlaws) - cover
• Wave of Mutilation (Pixies)
• Next to You (The Police)
• Go With the Flow (Queens of the Stone Age)
• Creep (Radiohead)
• Blitzkrieg Bop (The Ramones)
• Dani California (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• Orange Crush (R.E.M.)
• Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones)
• Tom Sawyer (Rush) - cover
• Cherub Rock (Smashing Pumpkins)
• Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden)
• Vasoline (Stone Temple Pilots)
• Reptilia (The Strokes)
• Ballroom Blitz (Sweet) - cover
• Say It Ain't So (Weezer)
• Won't Get Fooled Again (The Who)
• Maps (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

There will also be 13 unlockable indie tracks. The only one that's been revealed so far is Pleasure (Pleasure) by Bang Camaro. Oh, and EA warns that Rock Band will be in short supply, so if you see one (and verify that it's really the full game!), you might want to grab it...