Boston Air Guitar Blog

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 in LA, at a bar called Bar 107, the US Air Guitar Dark Horse competition will be contested. Today, I'm going to run over exactly what the Dark Horse is, for the newbies among us, who's in it this year, and why it is amazing. You're going to get so amped that you won't be able to sleep tonight... and you're going to hope that Nationals are in your city next year so the Dark Horse can be there too.

As you likely know, the US Air Guitar National Finals are taking place in Los Angeles this weekend, preceded on Thursday by the Dark Horse competition, and your faithful correspondent will be there, along with an array of Boston air guitarists who will be playing in one of those two competitions (or both, if all goes well). You'll be seeing Danny Tanner Tantrum and Rockupine competing on the national stage, and Captain Airhab on the Dark Horse stage and, if that goes well, nationals as well. If you want to give Jean-Luc Pickguard Boston air guitarist status (even though he's from Brooklyn) since that's where he earned his semi-final berth, and that performance would have been enough to get him to Dark Horse even if it hadn't taken him through to the semis... well, by all means, add one to our tally. The Marquis was also a Boston competitor - he just secured his semi-final spot before the Boston qualifier came around - and he'll be competing in the national finals himself.