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Recap: 2015 Kansas City US Air Guitar Qualifier

Posted by Camille Barichello on Tue, Jun 02, 2015 @ 09:29 AM

Kansas City! Home of last year's US Air Guitar National Championships, and of 2013 World Champion Mean Melin, and for that matter of possibly a higher concentration of air guitarists than anywhere in this country. And every one of them is really good. You can already get an idea of the caliber of competition to expect. That said, it means that someone could kick total ass, get great scores, and still not come close to winning.

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Tags: qualifiers, kansas city, recaps, 2015 season

Recap: 2014 US Air Guitar National Finals

Posted by Camille Barichello on Sat, Aug 16, 2014 @ 02:32 PM

The dream came true, everybody. Kansas City hosted the 2014 US Air Guitar National Finals and the city went crazy for air guitar. And so did I, all over again. This is truly in large part because of the huge, supportive, involved air guitar community in the area, and specifically defending World Champion Mean Melin, who apparently knows everybody in town and can make things happen. But everyone really jumped in and did all they could, from arranging events to housing out-of-towners to setting up a livestream of the finals (which you can watch here).

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Tags: kansas city, nationals, 2014 season

Recap: 2014 US Air Guitar Dark Horse Competition

Posted by Camille Barichello on Wed, Aug 13, 2014 @ 08:52 AM

I know this post is super late. There's been a LOT going on, you guys. But let's start at the beginning: Thursday night in Kansas City, the US Air Guitar Dark Horse competition went down, with the largest number of competitors in history - 31! We took over Missie B's, Kansas City's premier gay club, and I do say "we"... I got a last-minute invitation while sitting in a barbecue restaurant earlier that day. So that was a little nuts. In fact the entire evening was a little nuts. Nuts were perhaps the only foodstuff that didn't end up all over the stage. I'm getting ahead of myself.

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Recap: 2014 Kansas City US Air Guitar Qualifier

Posted by Camille Barichello on Wed, May 21, 2014 @ 03:07 PM

What's that? "Recap" and not "second-hand recap"? Well, I wasn't technically there, but they had the livestream running so apart from the first few air guitarists, who were outrageously blurry (like, indistinct gobs of light level of blurry), I was able to see the whole thing!

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Recap: 2014 Kansas City US Air Guitar Qualifier

Posted by Camille Barichello on Wed, May 21, 2014 @ 03:00 PM

What's that? "Recap" and not "second-hand recap"? Well, I wasn't technically there, but they had the livestream running so apart from the first few air guitarists, who were outrageously blurry (like, indistinct gobs of light level of blurry), I was able to see the whole thing!

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Tags: qualifiers, kansas city, recaps, 2014 season

Watch Kansas City's Air Guitar Qualifier Online Tonight!

Posted by Camille Barichello on Fri, May 16, 2014 @ 02:01 PM

Tonight, Kansas City's US Air Guitar Qualifier takes place at recordBar in that fair city. Most of us don't live there. Now, we can still watch! They'll be live-streaming the show starting at 9:30pm Central - that's 10:30pm Eastern. Bookmark this link for the livestream tonight!

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Watch Kansas City's Air Guitar Qualifier Online Tonight!

Posted by Camille Barichello on Fri, May 16, 2014 @ 02:00 PM

Tonight, Kansas City's US Air Guitar Qualifier takes place at recordBar in that fair city. Most of us don't live there. Now, we can still watch! They'll be live-streaming the show starting at 9:30pm Central - that's 10:30pm Eastern. Bookmark this link for the livestream tonight!

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Tags: qualifiers, kansas city, 2014 season

The Campaign: US Air Guitar Nationals - KC 2014!

Posted by Camille Barichello on Sat, Jan 04, 2014 @ 07:06 PM

Well, happy new year, everybody! I'm going to kick it off with a big idea, inspired by all the conversations last year at Nationals and online, and this might be a bit surprising coming from me. I think that 2014's US Air Guitar Nationals should be in Kansas City! Who's with me?

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Tags: kansas city, nationals

The Campaign: US Air Guitar Nationals - KC 2014!

Posted by Camille Barichello on Sat, Jan 04, 2014 @ 06:00 PM

Well, happy new year, everybody! I'm going to kick it off with a big idea, inspired by all the conversations last year at Nationals and online, and this might be a bit surprising coming from me. I think that 2014's US Air Guitar Nationals should be in Kansas City! Who's with me?

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Tags: kansas city, nationals, 2014 season

Help the WORLD CHAMPION air guitarist pay for his trip to Finland!

Posted by Camille Barichello on Thu, Aug 29, 2013 @ 01:20 PM

As you are now well aware, Mean Melin won the Air Guitar World Championships! As you also know, that competition took place in Finland, which is a long hike from Kansas City. And if you've been keeping up with things, you'll know that he made a snap decision to go (after much peer pressure from his fellow air guitarists at the US National Air Guitar Championships) since he hadn't won his way there.

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Tags: kansas city, world championships