Best Air Guitarin' Song?
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Topic: Best Air Guitarin' Song?
Posted By: The Whistler
Subject: Best Air Guitarin' Song?
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 03:29
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Point is, I air guitar my way through LIFE. These are all my classics; a library I'm glad to say is still growing (so I'll have to revamp this some time). Of course, I'm too close to the subject to call it--I think they're all great. Even other! ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
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Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 04:26
I used to love playing air guitar on DANCING WITH THE MOONLIT NIGHT. O, what fun I had! I could be Steve Hackett (but standing up and running about) and Peter Gabriel at once! FIRTH OF FIFTH was even more fun! But nothing could beat the final side of the original 3-album edition of Yessongs: first YOURS IS NO DISGRACE (loooong guitar workout) and then STARSHIP TROUPER, the climax of climaxes! 
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Posted By: iguana
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 05:45
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i'd go for "yours is no disgrace", probably my favorite YES song.
but WHY isn't "heat of the moment" (ASIA) on the list? air guitarin' air drummin' air singin' (so to speak...) air keyboardin' all in one tune and simultaneaously! obviously, everyone thinks i am not well... ------------- progressive rock and rural tranquility don't match. true or false? |
Posted By: AcostaFulano
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 08:47
| dancing with the moonlit knight |
Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 08:50
| Minstrel in the gallery(especially the part where Barre uses those heavy bar chords!! |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 09:32
Dire Straits-- Money For Nothing
Nothing beats the intro. ------------- 
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Posted By: proghairfunk
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 10:07
| How can you have no quarter, but the list doesn't include stairway to heaven? It's one of the few songs where the solo actually is vital to the song. Picture that song without the solo. It's a completely different song! My vote goes for stairway. (i know it's cliche but eh) |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 10:25
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So many. A couple of good air guitar numbers that come to mind immediately: The Gold It's In The... and Childhood's End on the Floyd's Obscured By Clouds. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=326" rel="nofollow - Read reviews by Fitzcarraldo |
Posted By: eloii
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 10:28
Pink Floyd - Echoes 
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 10:37
I the poll, yes. Personally I would have to say BöC: Don't Fear the Reaper. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
AcostaFulano wrote:Posted By: Open-Mind
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 10:49
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Dancing with the Moonlit Knight!
------------- "I'm on a roll, I'm on a roll this time, I feel my luck could change.. " |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 11:01
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Posted By: Lofcaudio
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 11:22
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Easy choice for me...but it wasn't on the list: Comfortably Numb
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Posted By: lunaticviolist
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 13:32
Zeppelin are always good for air guitar. Stairway gets my vote too, but I went for No Quarter on this poll. ------------- My recent purchases: 
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 14:25
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High Tide - Death Warmed up. there ain't anything better. great for air violin too!
-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 16:02
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Baba O'Riley by the Who You can even "windmill" without need of apology.... ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 17:22
Heartbreaker of course
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: peter_gabriel
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 19:44
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im sorry i dont speak english so good.. what's air guitar?? |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 19:49
Your first post, so welcome to the forums. You can read about air guitar here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_guitar - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_guitar ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=326" rel="nofollow - Read reviews by Fitzcarraldo |
Posted By: peter_gabriel
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 20:01
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thanks... anyway i didnt understand very much but i think i got the idea... (vocalist sing like guitar) xDD if im wrong sorry i voted for dancing with the moonlit night just because its perfect the entirely song so the air guitar in there must be perfect too |
Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 20:43
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peter_gabriel, You've done nothing requiring an apology. The vocalist does not sing like a guitar. Playing 'air guitar' simply means that you pretend to play the electric guitar. Perhaps the photograph on the following Web pages will help you understand: http://www.mirrorimage.com/air/ - http://www.mirrorimage.com/air/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByFdvhGVzw8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByFdvhGVzw8 ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=326" rel="nofollow - Read reviews by Fitzcarraldo |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 21:05
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a good example of air guitar is Joe Cocker in the movie of the Woodstock festival
------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: peter_gabriel
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 21:30
| hahahah... ohh so this poll is about those songs played live and the members of the band simulating a guitar... lol ok.. anyway my vote is still dancing with the moonlit knight |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: September 22 2006 at 23:36
Ahhh...that air guitar? I thought he was having a stroke ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: September 23 2006 at 02:36
ARGH! That's my favorite Who song!!! Why didn't I put it up there?!? ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: September 23 2006 at 02:40
why dont you put one of the RUSH song, myaaan ? |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: September 24 2006 at 02:21
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Er, haven't heard enough Rush yet...and by that, I mean haven't heard any. BUT I've got Moving Pictures lined up for a listen later on.
Also, I'm glad to see that two forms of Aqualung have recieved votes. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: September 24 2006 at 02:33
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Whole 2112
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Posted By: Kleynan
Date Posted: September 24 2006 at 16:42
Lol, check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_guitar - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_guitar
Who makes these things???  ------------- 
You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks. |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: September 24 2006 at 19:12
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Posted By: Asyte2c00
Date Posted: September 24 2006 at 19:14
| "Painkiller" Judas Priest |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: September 25 2006 at 03:31
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smoke on the water of course ... ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: September 26 2006 at 03:23
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Wow. Moonlight's beating out even Other. Huh. And no one voted for poor Aqualung Live. As for myself, were I to vote, might be No Quarter, might stronger still be 21st Century Man...but I'd have to say Minstrel. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Hacketeer
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 15:43
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Spanking the imaginary plank to any of the following is most satisfying!
Every Day - Steve Hackett
No No No - Deep Purple
The Attitude Song - Steve Vai
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Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 15:47
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Eruption. |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 16:29
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As I play bassguitar I rarely play airguitar anymore. I used to do it a
lot when I was younger though (I even backed it up with sound, I was
called "the human guitar" at kindergarten ). I don't remeber any particular favourite though.
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: October 01 2006 at 01:10
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That's no excuse! Just today, I air-bassed my way through Minstrel in the Gallery...I love Jeffrey. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: October 01 2006 at 01:11
I always have fun air bassing "Assassing" by Marillion, especially the intro.  ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Sasquamo
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 16:43
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21st Century Schizoid Man for, especially the huge guitar chord that leads back into the main melody.
What about pretending to play other instruments? Air drumming is the obvious other instrument, but does anyone ever pretend to play piano? I sometimes pretend to play keyboards on a desk or table in songs such as Hoedown by ELP and Rick Wakeman's solo in Siberian Khatru.
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Posted By: lucky_man123
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 20:27
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I always enjoyed Ritual from Yes's TALES album for this purpose. You can switch from instrument to instrument because there's SO MUCH going on. At the psychedelic part with the chinking wineglasses, I always pretend to hit them.
But my vote was for 21st Cen...Come on people.
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Posted By: Grunt
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 09:15
That's an "air guitar classic".... shall I add Al Di Meola's "race with the devil on a spanish highway" ? |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 11:13
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Yours Is No Disgrace.
The first guitar solo from Steve Howe on a Yes album, The Yes album
 . That one blew my mind and it is still one of my favourite air guitar moments. |
Posted By: Tyrant
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 04:19
I think that there are many, many songs to which the solo is vital. Especcially in prog rock. I mean, prog rock without solos? The solos are vital, all right.
In this poll I chose the "other rocker" alternative. For me the best prog air guitaring songs are (in random order):
Genesis: The Knife (phantastic solo by Anthony Phillips).
Camel: Ice (Andrew Latimer's best).
Camel: Summer Lightening (Andrew Latimer's second best solo).
King Crimson: Starless (Total monotony, but superbly executed).
Rush: 2112 (Some phantastic solos).
Rush: Jacob's Ladder (The solo in the beginning is just haunting).
Rush: Natural Science (Beautiful, and technically advanced).
Yes: Machine Messias (Beautiful guitar work from Howe).
Yes: Siberian Khatru (Phantastic interplay between Howe and Wakeman).
ELP: Tarkus (The bluesy guitar parts in the last chapters are phantastic).
Pink Floyd: Echoes (David Gilmour rocks).
Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb (OK, it's perhaps a bit overrated, but still very good).
I also like Aqualung's solos. In a way, the keyboard/guitar-interplay in Camel's Slow Yourself Down kind of reminds me a bit about the one in Aqualung.
And if one includes Iron Maiden here, I would certainly also mention the song The Phantom Of The Opera, for some amazing and beautiful guitar solos.
And perhaps Second Home By The Sea (Genesis) should also be included. The guitar parts in the end of that song are beautiful.
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Posted By: PaperDuck
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 04:38
| Out of these choices I'd go with Aqualung, but really - Locomotive Breath is better. |
Posted By: reality
Date Posted: October 04 2006 at 19:52
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Anything by Maiden (I switch between guitar, bass and drums all through the songs).
Oh yea, "The Knife" (Ant Phillips rocks!!!!)
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 07:30
Damn you el bóthy, I was going to say that!
Favorite air guitar? In Prog? Probably Hackett's solo on Firth Of Fifth from 'Seconds Out', but yes, Whistler, I have been known to go for it on the live version of 'Aqualung' too... Having said that - air Hammond is much kinder to these old legs... you get to sit down. ------------- 
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Posted By: MadcapLaughs84
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 11:23
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I really think that nobody can disagree that Smoke On The Water or In A Gadda Da Vida. ------------- 
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