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Wednesday, July 6, 2005

Get Your Rock Face Ready

Posted by on July 6 at 10:52 AM

The national Air Guitar Championships are coming right up July 14th in, of course, Hollywood, CA, where you don’t have to actually know how to play music in order to become famous. Contestants “perform” for one minute and are judged on “a combination of technical prowess, stage presence and ‘airness.’ ‘What we mean by that,’ said [founder] Cedric Devitt, ‘is really that elusive quality of transcending the imitation of an art form, ­ie playing guitar—and creating a new art form, air guitar.’” There are high hopes that the US winner will do our country proud in the future Air Guitar World Championships. We can only dream.