For some fun, Air Guitar.

October 27, 2005 3:27 PM

I love to guita-r. (QT required, but the downloads were pretty fast.) Wha-wha without the paddles. These are videos of past winners and hall-of-famers of US Air Guitar Championships. Makes for a laugh.
posted by countzen (12 comments total)

It's not so much an abundance of talent and more of a lack of dignity.
posted by cloeburner at 3:47 PM on October 27, 2005

Air guitarists are just energetic mimes. Hard to figure out what is more fantastic, the playing style or clothing style.

Awesome link. Looking forward to air DJing in the future.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 4:10 PM on October 27, 2005

This is a good excuse for me to link to a kid playing Eruption.
posted by gwint at 4:15 PM on October 27, 2005

For a surreal cacophonous symphony, play them simultaneously.
posted by found missing at 4:46 PM on October 27, 2005

It's hard to appreciate the beauty when you know they're playing all wrong. I know, I know... suspension of disbelief. Still, I liked gwint's video better.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 6:24 PM on October 27, 2005

The device you are thinking of is a wah-wah pedal.
posted by w0mbat at 7:17 PM on October 27, 2005

Huh? There's no tennis rackets...
posted by jefbla at 8:05 PM on October 27, 2005

I appreciate air guitar. Always did. I just find I can't sing and play air guitar at the same time.
posted by Decani at 8:06 PM on October 27, 2005

This is a good excuse for me to link to a kid playing Eruption.

Eh. I was expecting it to be better.
posted by ludwig_van at 10:37 PM on October 27, 2005

Disappointed. I thought the guitaring would be a capella.

Remind me sometime to hit you guys with my a capella version of Jimi's Star-Spangled Banner.
posted by Eideteker at 11:47 PM on October 27, 2005

Awesome. I'm totally going to study and rip-off some of Bjorn Turoque's moves.
posted by mexican at 1:21 AM on October 28, 2005

Heh. The girl on the Conan clip says she studied the tablature of the song she did to get the fingering right, "with a few liberties."
posted by danb at 2:43 PM on October 28, 2005