Boston Air Guitar Blog

The other weekend (I'm catching up, you guys), LA had their qualifier, and by all accounts it was a killer show, filled with talent and - it's LA - total babes. More on the babe factor in a minute. Six String General piloted this plane, to great effect - having a whole airline theme which was fantastic. I've got him penciled in to win the "Relentless Commitment to the Bit" award this year. Maybe one year he will make my head explode by playing a song by Providence, RI's Six Star General. Also fun: a handful of competitors were part of a group traveling the world having once-in-a-lifetime experiences, and competitive air guitar was one option on their list. I hope they liked it enough to make it a more-than-once-in-a-lifetime experience!

Another semifinal is in the books, ladies and gentlemen. On Saturday night, the famed Troubadour in LA was host to the US Air Guitar Southwest Semifinal, meaning there's only one more semi to go before Nationals. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. We need to talk about what happened in LA!

LA held their US Air Guitar Qualifier the same night as Des Moines. There was, as I understand, less in the way of men exposing themselves, but they did keep alive the tradition of family rivalry. They also had a healthy number of competitors, which I like to see, and they rocked the famous Viper Room - which has a lit-up extension to the stage that apparently is great for powerslides. Let's talk about it!

Is your 2013 US Air Guitar National Champion going to let you down? Of course not. So, when Lt. Facemelter signed up to host the San Diego Qualifier this year, everyone knew it was going to rock. Last year, they had Plinko to choose people's second-round songs. This year... well. We will get to that.

Ok, I know I haven't posted anything in ages even when I said I would - mea culpa - I've just been so busy with my job telling other people to blog more. But this is something you need to know about: legendary LA air guitarist 6-String General is going to be coming to Boston on Nov. 20th! And he's not just coming for a visit. He's going to be opening up for a captivating young lady named Ali Spagnola, whose entire raison d'etre is singing one-minute-long songs about beer! And/or drinking in general. And he is a General. So there you go: perfect synergy.

Well, folks, that's another US air guitar season in the books. All the qualifiers, the semi-finals, the Dark Horse, and even the annual karaoke night have come and gone. And the culminating event of all of this took place on Saturday night at the House of Blues in LA: the 2013 US Air Guitar National Finals. Now that it's all said and done, a winner has been crowned (or belted) and will be competing in the Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland this coming weekend, and my voice is entirely lost. Good thing this blog is a text blog and not a video one, then, because even though I sound like a wheezing, squeaking, un-oiled machine, I can still tell you what went down.

Thursday night was the US Air Guitar Dark Horse competition, and I promised to live-tweet it, and I let you down. I tried to tweet, I promise! No one's phone got any service in the bar - but I took notes the whole time, so here you go.