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.
Tags: qualifiers, kansas city, recaps, 2015 season
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).
Tags: recaps, nationals, 2014 season
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.
Tags: recaps, dark horse, 2014 season
Glitter-streaked, sweaty, and exhausted, Team Boston Air Guitar has returned from New York City, where the Northeast Semifinal was just contested on July 1. We upheld two great traditions: being a competitive force to be reckoned with, of course, and packing an unauthorized number of people into a hotel room via the cozy expedient of a megabed. For the purposes of today's recap, I'll focus on the former.
Tags: semi-finals, nyc, recaps, 2014 season
I'm not sure I'm fully recovered. Boston's US Air Guitar Qualifier took place on Saturday, and the evening was a great success. Sure, there were only 9 competitors (including walk-ons), and that was a bit of a concern, but it all went off successfully. Let's talk about it!
Tags: qualifiers, boston, recaps, 2014 season
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!
Tags: qualifiers, kansas city, recaps, 2014 season
You might be reading that title and thinking "wait, you went to Finland?" No... but it isn't a second-hand recap because I watched the whole thing live online. Now that that's out of the way, let's dive in!
Tags: world championships, recaps
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.
Tags: los angeles, recaps, nationals
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.
Tags: 2013 season,, los angeles, recaps, nationals
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.
Tags: los angeles, recaps, dark horse, nationals