To be fair, playing air guitar well, and getting good sound is really difficult. I'm not surprised they needed to use professional air guitar players.
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Agrees, it doesn't really matter how they did the stunts, the movie brought competitive air slinging to the masses. The sport was on top of the world after this movie released. It was Over The Top for air guitar.
Air Guitar World Championships are every August in Hawaii. Wyld Stallions walked so we could rock into space on an imaginary fire pegasus.
I think you'll find they are in Oulu, Finland every year since 1996.
Do you have to bring your own air guitar or are loaners available? With airline baggage fees i won’t be able to bring mine along.
Be excellent my dude
Pretty sure Reeves played guitar.
That’s a bass guitar, so while technically true, not what he was riffing on in the movie.
That guitar is clearly solid