Just played the greatest heavy metal song ever Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden and had to air guitar.
Can’t stop
I am 60.
Air Guitar playing – when should you stop?
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Here is a version:
Air guitar
Air drums
Air piano
Air saxophone
Never too old …
Air drums i do as well
If his podcast is to believed (which is not guaranteed) Bill Nighy is an enthusiastic air guitarist at the age of 75.
Of course not, you expand your repertoire, genre wise, and your instrumental polycapabilities. I was playing air oboe only this evening. Plays havoc with the cheek muscles.
Air mellotron, air bombarde, air gurdy. I’ve done them all.
Ah, so you’re the Air d’Gurdy man!
Chapeau, or, as we say in Brittany, ‘cap’.
Exquisite!
“Air Guitar playing – when should you stop?”
When the song is over…
When it’s time for the keyboard solo.
Well, yes – but if you’re playing Big Fat Mama?
When you’ve put the air guitar back in its air case.
I’ve just finished playing air Summer Of ’69…I must say I ROCKED – and the Royal Albert Hall audience agreed!
Air drums since the Seventies, man. I have a list of the best. Heart Of The Sunrise is first of course.
I once tried air-drumming to the title track of Aja by Steely Dan.
I wasn’t quite as good as Steve Gadd…
Been there done that given that up rapidly too. I’d also like “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” to be taken into consideration.
Air kazoo anyone?
As a friend posted to me the other day – ‘you don’t stop dancing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop dancing’.
I play air bass guitar- normal air guitars is too difficult.
Try the Yessongs version of The Fish – that’ll get your fingers moving.
I do air vocals.
Hand held mike or hovering near a stand?
Hovering; hands are for emotive gestures.
I’m rather better on the trouser trumpet…
Vincent, my old pal.
This Christmas, just cook this brussels sprout curry recipe from Meera Sodha in the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/dec/21/meera-sodha-christmas-recipe-vegan-achari-brussels-sprout-curry
Then, your trouser trumpet will be able to play the whole of Haydn’s trumpet concerto in E flat from start to finish.
I love curry and I love Brussels sprouts but pairing them together is simply asking for trouble.
Looks lovely
That’s going to be made over Chrissie for sure. Many thanks! My lucky family….
I used to play air drums but I got rid of them because they were taking up too much room.
Air maracas may be what you need, but avoid playing at waist level, for fear of misunderstanding.
I see you what you mean. I tried air tambourine once and someone thought I was insulting them.
In one episode of Father Ted, Dugald is playing air guitar to Simply the Best. Ted comes in and tells him to stop. We then see Dugald taking off the air guitar and placing it against the wall.
See also “I’m Alan Partridge”. That one is fretless too I think.
When the oxygen tank runs out?
I too have played air hurdy-gurdy in my time. I once organised an air string quartet for that sophisticated sound (if you listen quietly).
Where can you purchase air left-handed guitars?
I can’t be beaten on steering wheel drums.
With a side thump on the window tom tom?
You should stop for the air drum solo.
Air rhythm guitar for the keyboard solo.
The correct answer is you should stop playing Air Anything when the last pimple leaves your face … Except, of course, when alone in the car and you are indeed The Lead Singer of your favourite band .