Talk:Air guitar
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[edit] Convenience
"An air guitar is an imaginary musical instrument that can be played anywhere at any time, as it doesn't make a sound and is very light to carry around."? I'll say! - Ta bu shi da yu 05:48, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Are you saying this is a false statement? Mikkalai 06:53, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] "Unusual article" nomination
I'd like to nominate this for Wikipedia:Unusual articles - what's the process for that? -- BDAbramson thimk 15:44, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
Added details of an incident that happened Lord Of Nothing 16:43, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nonsense?
"Air band sign record deal and record worlds first air guitar band studio session. In 2004, after 3 years of relentless touring that saw them headlining the UK Air guitar championships, conquering Glastonbury & V festivals, culminating in the mother of all food fights, PISS signed a record deal with Brighton based Red Records. The result was a 4 track EP entitled 'Piece of PISS'. Only 500 were pressed and are now prized collectors pieces fetching upwards of £280 on EBay. Shortly afterward the release the label went bankrupt. PISS played their last ever gig at the Motley Crue end of tour party 2005. See This is PISS: The worlds greatest Air Guitar band"
The first sentence seems very... not written by someone familiar with English. It seems very incoherent and I'm going to rempove it unless someone can make sense of it.Phoenix Song 02:00, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Air Guitar Kills
I've removed this text from the article, it's far from encyclopedic, but I'll preserve it here:
- "In Singapore, Chinese student Li Xiaomeng was jumping up and down on his friend’s bed imitating a rock star when he accidentally jumped out of the third storey window to the ground below.
Xiaomeng was taken to hospital immediately, but died the next day from his injuries. Usually the windows were locked, but students sometimes forced them open to smoke [1]."
-- stillnotelf has a talk page 04:51, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Picture?
Should we put in a picture (either blank, of an air guitar, or of someone playing one), or would that be too jovial? Daniel (☎) 17:57, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
- I think it might be hard to find a picture of someone playing an air guitar that captures it - it's all in the motions, I'm not sure a still shot will do justice. If you've got one, go for it. I think a blank picture would be a little silly, though... -- stillnotelf is invisible 23:51, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] My challenge
I challenge this page to find a photograph of not the second best air guitarist, but the best air guitarist, playing air guitar. That would improve this page significantly. Original, copyright-free work, it should be. --DavidShankBone 14:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bill and Ted?
How bout citing Bill & Ted's use of the Air Guitar?
Great idea. Heh heh.
- Yeah, in "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey". Excellent! Jerome Potts 00:02, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed merge
Information on Air guitar is scarce and I believe that it would be better to unite information on all history, championships and events in one article. I really want to write up history, styles and schools parts, but I don't know where to do it: on "championship" article or "air guitar" article - these two seem to intersect a lot. --GreyCat 14:44, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
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- I think "Air Guitar" because it's a broader category. The championship article wouldn't be the place to discuss general air guitar techniques, etc., but an air guitar championship would fit nicely under the broader Air Guitar article. --DavidShankBone 19:26, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] History
Air Guitar originated in England in the mid to late 70's? Please! Competitive Air Guitar maybe, but certainly not the instinctive informal type of Air Guitar most commonly played nor any variation such as Car Guitar, Air Drums, Air Vocals, Air Harmonica, Air Mick Jagger...etc. Impossible to say who Air Guitared first, or when it was done, but there were plenty of air strings broken before the mid-70's. Jameywiki 19:04, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
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- I agree - any "history" of air guitar should be cited. Until then, I removed this section:
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The origins of the air guitar is highly debated among fans and practitioners. What can be told with some certainty is that it originated in England during the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era during the mid to late 1970s. The person most likely to be the originator of the air guitar is Rob Loonhouse who was one of the many visitors of the club The Soundhouse in North West London back in 1975-76. He was widely known for showing up playing air guitar and later cardboard and hardboard guitars. This practice soon gained many followers with eventually several dozen people in front of the stage, and eventually on stage, playing various degrees of air and board guitars.
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- --DavidShankBone 19:08, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- Somebody re-added the history section. To avoid a revert war I left it in, but added Template:Unsourced and Template:Fact in and around the history section. Unsourced material should be flagged as such, not removed outright. If no sources appear for a while then it may be removed. I think this material is possible to source (and write in a more verifiable tone with less weasel words). For example: "It is impossible to say when the air guitar was first played, since humans have certainly been pantomining playing musical insturments since their inventions. However the modern air guitar as an imitation of the stylized electric guitar playing of heavy metal bands was apparently popularized by Rob Loonhouse, who played cardboard guitar and air guitar at the popular London club The Soundhouse." This link might be a good start. --TexasDex 18:21, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
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Earl Marischal writes:
History of Air Guitar - I can remember this being practised in the late 1960s to Jimi Hendrix & Cream songs. The dating of it from the start of the NWOBHM is quite definitely wrong. ````
