At what age must I stop playing air guitar?

[Common Sense Party]

I realize I should have stopped when I was no longer a teenager. I'm pushing 40 now, and yes...I still play the air guitar when I hear a rockin' good tune (when my wife isn't around to mock me). Childish and immature? Yes.

Must I now cease and desist, and succumb to being a fuddy duddy adult?

Are there any other closet-air-guitarists out there? If so, what are your favorite air guitar tunes?

[Heidi]

1. You don't ever need to stop, but remember

we DU Lounge Lizards will _always_ be around to mock you for it. ;)

[billyskank]

3. Heideeee!

:bounce:

:loveya: :hug:

[Heidi]

8. Billy, I have to ask:

Do you play the air sitar? CMW does. :rofl: It could be one more thing that two of my favorite men have in common. :loveya:

( :* )

[billyskank]

9. I play the air mrdanga

I don't have an air sitar. :D

:* :* :* :* :*

[Heidi]

10. Sometimes,

CMW plays the air alphorn. It's not as impressive as air guitar, though.

[billyskank]

11. That requires a more fertile imagination

:rofl:

[Heidi]

12. He also does an impressive impersonation

of a unicyclist, but that only requires a fertile imagination on _my_ part. :rofl:

[billyskank]

15. You are crackers

:hug:

[Heidi]

16. Why, thank you, sir.

But really, you ought to see his unicyclist impersonation. :spray:

[Common Sense Party]

5. Thank you. I knew I could count on y'all. Mock on, dudes...

and dudettes!

1000th POST TIME!!!

:party:

[Heidi]

6. Congratulations!

And don't worry about the air guitar at nearly 40 thing. The worst anyone can say about you is, "Wow, he has really let himself go." ;)

[Common Sense Party]

7. They've been saying that about me since I was 17. nt

[reyd reid reed]

2. Never succumb...

Not as long as there's breath in your body. Don't let the fuddy-duddies get you down.

:hi:

[WCGreen]

4. What she said....

[Common Sense Party]

24. Thank you. I shall keep on rocking out.

If it's too loud, you're too old.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. 'Closet' my hiney!

I'm 50 and a master air musician. I ain't never gonna stop. :P

[Heidi]

14. Name your instruments, please.

And show your wrists. :evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Guitar (lead and rhythm), drums (single kick),

keyboards (especially Hammond B-3) and mouth harp. I'm a little weak on bass. :blush:

You've seen the wrists, but... what the hell.

[Heidi]

43. Oh.

*Swoon* (But you knew that.)

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. Yeah...

But it still feels awful good. :hug: :loveya:

[Common Sense Party]

41. You, sir, are my inspiration.

Maybe we can get together some time and jam.

[Oeditpus Rex]

45. Hell, yeah!

I've loved every air jam I've ever been in. Used to do "Free Bird" with this guy at parties. It was amazing; we knew the lead switches without even talking about it.

[Duncan Grant]

17. I only do it in private but I'd argue that it's a wholesome activity.

We can't all be Eddie Van Halen, so why not fake a riff every now and then? Perhaps we'd all have better mental health if we'd just get over our air guitar guilt and let our inner rock star out.

As you know, there's a lot of good material out there for air guitarists but I say AC/DC's "Back In Black" will lend you mega credibility among connoisseurs - if you can convincingly mime the fingering. :toast:

[Heidi]

18. I salute your inner rock star,

and honor the Eddie Van Halen who abides within you. :thumbsup:

[Duncan Grant]

21. At last, I feel validated! Thank you, Heidi.

:spray:

[Heidi]

23. By the same token,

you should, out of courtesy, honor my inner Pat Benatar. Just sayin'.

[Common Sense Party]

26. Hit us with your best shot, Pat.

[Heidi]

30. You Better Run.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqHsJi23RJM&search=%22Pat%20Benatar%22

[Common Sense Party]

35. Before you put another notch in your lipstick case

I'd better make sure to put you in your place...

Hey! Waitaminute! Let's stop all this!

Stop Using Sex as a Weapon! Just because Love is a Battlefield, we don't have to, y'know, Get Nervous.

[Heidi]

40. .

:rofl: :spray:

You owe me a cup of coffee, bubba. :rofl:

[Common Sense Party]

49. Sorry--all I have here is yerba mate.

But here...use this:

[Duncan Grant]

36. May God bless and keep your inner Pat.

We pause for a moment of reverence... :thumbsup:

[Heidi]

42. Thank you.

I certainly do feel validated. :rofl:

[Common Sense Party]

19. In high school English I gave a speech on how to play the air

guitar. I've got skills.

I think it would be a shame to retire and let those air skills deteriorate.

I play some mean air drums, as well.

[Heidi]

20. Have you thought of starting an Air Guitar Academy?

It's an idea whose time has clearly arrived. :thumbsup:

[Common Sense Party]

22. I think I'll just sell an instructional video. Y'know, like "Esteban."

I can wear a black sombrero and everything.

[Heidi]

25. That's the ticket!

You can be the Bob Ross of air guitar.

You, sir, are a genius.

[Common Sense Party]

28. I am growing my afro as we speak.

[Heidi]

38. Fantastic!

The afro is but another 80s synergy just waiting to be leveraged by entrepreneurs such as yourself. :thumbsup:

[Common Sense Party]

44. Damn! I've been scooped!

Someone thought of it first!

[Heidi]

46. There's always the Air Alphorn Academy.

It's an emerging market of 7 million Swiss people, just waiting to be tapped. And as a resident of this nation, I can tell you that there are many, many of us who would be only too pleased if the alphorn enthusiasts would be so kind as to take up _air_ alphorn. :evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

47. I thought of that like 20 years ago

I wanted to write the Whole Earth Air Guitar Catalogue, but I never did. :blush:

[Duncan Grant]

29. Ahhhh, air drums.

You know, I took air drum lessons as a kid but I couldn't keep the beat.

Years later, I found that I could do a pretty good air saxophone. You should see my "Who Can It Be Now?" by Men At Work - it rocks! :D

[scoey1953]

32. Don't forget SANTANA...

If your in THE CITY BY THE BAY...you have to rock out on SANTANA..

[Oeditpus Rex]

39. When 'Soul Sacrifice' comes on

y'better stand back.

[Duncan Grant]

51. How true, how true.

The smooth God himself. Now that's a world class choice, not for the amateurs... :thumbsup:

[T_i_B]

31. NEVER!

[Random_Australian]

33. Never!

:D

[Jazz2006]

34. Never never never ....

although you might have to hide it from your children (if you have any) around the time that they hit their teenage years :D

But, only temporarily.... after they pass the "oh my god, I have a weird parent" stage, they'll start praising your glories to their friends and will once again love you for your air guitar prowess and you can then come back out of the temporary closet.

It's a teen thing.

:D

[Common Sense Party]

37. My girls are quite used to Dad's...um...eccentricities. But they're

not yet at the teen stage.

Will my ego survive the teen years? (It barely survived mine.)

[Jazz2006]

50. My magic 8 ball says yes, your ego will survive....

and my experience with a teenaged daughter says that yes, your girls will adore you to bits for many, many years to come with only a brief little interlude of teenage "omg" angst which is, I believe, required by law ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ so no worries!

:toast:

[Skittles]

52. you don't stop playing because you get old

you get old because you stop playing

[Oeditpus Rex]

53. And if you're not actually playing anything

you're not actually getting old — so you'll never die! :headbang:

[Skittles]

55. YEE HAW !!!

:D

[MrSlayer]

54. 267

When you reach that ripe old age you're too old to play air guitar. Anything younger than that you should just have at it.

[peekaloo]

56. switch to air drums!

more beneficial to bi/triceps!

:silly:

[Burma Jones]

57. You're never too old to Rock and Roll if you're too young to die

at least that's what Tull says......

[tyedyeto]

58. My s/o will air does that at times and he's 58

So, he shouldn't be doing this? :shrug:

[UTUSN]

59. (stop) Before starting? n/t

[DawgHouse]

60. DH plays air guitar and air drums.

I don't think he will ever stop. How embarassing when we are sitting in traffic! :)

[New Earth]

61. i'm an air-drummer

:blush:

always pounding on my steering wheel to the beat while driving :blush:

[Mutley]

62. You're supposed to stop?

Why? :cry: :P