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Air Guitar Nation

Jan 31, 2008

My brother gave us the Air Guitar Nation DVD for Christmas, which chronicles the USA's first entry into the Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland in 2003. The documentary centers on US rivals Dan "Bjorn Turoque" Crane and David "C-Diddy" Jung, the latter shown here:

C. Diddy Air Guitar Nation Performance

Need I mention that the movie is a blast? My daughter is so taken with it that she has signed up to do air guitar for her elementary school talent show. I helped her pick out a song last night, then edited out some slow bits to get it down to under three minutes. She asked me to post the song here, so here it is: she'll be rocking out to Buckethead's "Brewer in the Air"--

Brewer in the Air

Buckethead

This comes from Buckethead's 2007 album Pepper's Ghost, which received a mixed verdict from fans. I'm mostly familiar with Buckethead from his 1990's (pre-Guns'n'Roses) work with Praxis, Bill Laswell's thrash-funk-prog project. (Amazingly, he has kept up the mask-and-KFC-bucket disguise for 15 years or so.) Pepper's Ghost is definitely more conventional than that groundbreaking work, but on the other hand it's perfectly suited for, say, air guitaring. I'm going to have fun coaching this performance!