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Air Guitar World Championships (AGWC) is an annual event taking place in Oulu, Finland. AGWC was arranged for the first time in 1996. [1] Today, national championships are held all around the world. Playing air guitar is based on mimicking guitar playing. Music genres may vary, but the most common ones are heavy metal and rock.
Air guitar is a form of dance and movement in which the performer pretends to play an imaginary rock or heavy metal-style electric guitar, including riffs and solos. Playing an air guitar usually consists of exaggerated strumming and picking motions, and is often coupled with loud singing or lip-synching. Air guitar is generally used in the ...
The Best Air Guitar Album in the World...Ever!, referred to in retrospect as Air Guitar I, released 5 November 2001, was compiled by Brian May. A sequel was released in November 2002 and another in November 2003, the latter proclaiming itself to be the last Air Guitar Album in the World...Ever!. Both sequels were again compiled by Brian May.
Air Guitar Nation is a feature-length 2006 documentary about the first US Air Guitar Championships, following the top contestants, David "C-Diddy" Jung and Dan "Björn Türoque" Crane, to the 2003 World Championship in Oulu, Finland.
The second video, "United Breaks Guitars: Song 2", was released on YouTube on August 17, 2009. [8] The song takes a humorous look at Carroll's dealings with "the unflappable" United customer service employee Ms. Irlweg; it targets the "flawed policies" that she was forced to uphold. [7] In March 2010, "United Breaks Guitars: Song 3" was ...
Air Guitar in Oulu is a 2003 documentary film by Canadian filmmaker Kent Sobey. The film was produced by the Farmhouse Productions with the support of the Canadian Television Fund . [ 2 ] The IMDb estimated budget was 15,000 Canadian Dollars. [ 1 ]
The section on Innovation seems to me to be about something different than air guitar as it is commonly known. Air guitar is a sort of dramatic performance accompanying recorded music. These innovations listed are about actually performing (or at least conducting) the production of music via gestures. I'm not sure what the correct term should be.
After Eastwood Guitars purchased rights to the "Airline" trade name in the early 2000s, they reissued the early 1960s "JB Hutto" Airline shape as the "Airline DLX." The new version set aside the defining hollow fiberglass body of the Valco-made original [4] in favor of the simpler and less-costly chambered mahogany body, giving it a more traditional electric guitar feel and tone, rather than ...