Air guitarists live out rock dreams

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NEW YORK - The Bowery Ballroom was packed. The hip downtown Manhattan music hall had been sold out for weeks and fans stood outside begging for extra tickets. Inside, the raucous crowd waited for the show to start, chanting for the performers backstage.

The concert, though, was created purely out of thin air — because this was the U.S. Air Guitar Championships, where last week 15 contestants with such stage names as The Godfather of Air and Thunderpants the Destroyer took to a barren stage, bereft of ... instruments.

The rules for air-guitar competition are simple:
• The guitar (which can be acoustic or electric) must be "invisible."
• "Air bands" are not allowed.
• "Air roadies" are OK.
• You can use a real pick.

It is funny cause Conference USA actually had a national contest going on for this at UCF basketball games. This is spreading nationwide. This is something I am not down with. Paper-Rock-Scissors that is something I can see growing!!!