Talk:air guitar

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups:

• air-guitars: net.music - Jan 15 1984, 7:02 pm by Oscar M. Nierstrasz

  TP doesn't "rate" the albums with little stars or skidoos or even little air-guitars.

• air guitar: net.music - May 3 1985, 5:13 am by Elliott Adler

  a combination of great music (you know, the kind that goes straight to the heart, you can't help playing air guitar, even though you don't even know how to play guitar), and great lyrics.

• AIR Guitar: rec.music.makers - Jun 28 1989, 10:47 pm by Jeffrey J. Clesius

  Excuse me? Weren't we discussing AIR Guitar? We weren't? Oh... never mind.

• air guitarists: alt.rock-n-roll - Mar 3 1990, 11:19 am by Mark Friedman

  Alex Lifeson (just ask those 200 Rush fans that stood in line next to Kareem's scalper pal! Can 200 air guitarists be wrong? B-)

• air-guitar: alt.rock-n-roll - Mar 3 1990, 11:29 am by Mark Friedman

  Hey! I'm one of those 200 Rush fans! But I don't play air-guitar. I bring the old Gallien-Kruger stack of amps to the Ticketron! B-)

• air guitars: alt.tasteless - Nov 14 1990, 1:22 am by Stephen King

  Well all my friends like heavy metal / But I've always been partial to polkas / While they're all playin their air guitars / I'm fartin along with the booming tubas

• air guitarist: alt.tv.prisoner - Jul 11 1991, 4:37 pm by Paul T. S. Lee

  "Discovered at last... the famous rock 'n' roll air guitarist slumps to the stage... his air guitar sprawled across his chest. He is fatally embrassed."

• air-guitarist: sci.stat.edu - Apr 12 1995, 11:10 am by Richard M Barton

  As a closet musician and air-guitarist extraordinaire, this thread (modeling data with sound) has been intriguing me.

• air-guitarists: rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc - before Feb 8 1996, 7 pm replied to by Roger M. Wilcox

  Hmm, like Fighter Pilots are SORT-OF like air-guitarists?

• airguitar: alt.fan.tom-robbins - Mar 18 1996, 12:15 am by Barbara Karman

  it's the new ac/dc cd,i've been listening to. it's quite good- so good i've been on the verge of making a complete airguitar ass of myself. . .

• Air Guitar's (proper noun): alt.zines - Jun 4 1997, 7:01 pm by NYCGORMAN

  Bill Clinton's Nut Sack Conspiracy, by Air Guitar's Mike Gorman

• airguitars: alt.bitterness - Nov 15 1997, 3:44 am by Tommy T

  Well, that's just great, but what kind of music do all those airguitars make?

• Air guitar's (air guitar is): uk.people.support.depression - Oct 25 1999, 7:46 pm by steak

  Air guitar's cheaper and easier to learn ;o)

• airguitarist: alt.fan.robert-jordan - Nov 21 2000, 7:00 pm by cyberwolf

  ..but a great airguitarist.

• air guitar's (possessive): alt.music.nirvana - May 22 2001, 2:28 pm by Brian W. Peterson

  The current list of air guitar's greatest hits includes:

• Air Guitarist's: alt.music.queen - Oct 2 2001, 2:10 pm by Daniel Dreibelbis

  actually, back in the '80s someone did a book called "The Air Guitarist's Handbook", on how to practise this art. It even included advice on using props.

• air-guitarist's (air-guitarist is): alt.config - Dec 28 2002, 5:31 am by Zoe

  ScottZf's Lead Singer, air-guitarist's me me me, and ratzilla's the varia guy (tambourine, Jew's Harp, Kazoo, banjo, dulcimer, etc., etc.)

• air-guitarist's (possessive): rec.arts.movies.reviews - Sep 13 2003, 12:21 pm by Laura Clifford

  "The School of Rock" is feel good, frivolous entertainment, an air-guitarist's fantasy, but it sure is fun.

— Hippietrail 16:57, 16 May 2005 (UTC)