Thoughtful Preparations: Media Spin Blog

Perhaps long ago adoring fans of great violin or piano players performed mimicries of their heroes, but today we have The US Air Guitar Championships. In my recollection, this rock peculiarity was popularized by Joe Cocker seen above in the first of many of my rock concert photographs. Fortunately Cocker’s primary talent is singing, but in his early days his convulsive spasmodic reactions to his band’s music (Leon Russell on real guitar and piano) added to the entertainment. To be just an air guitarist is to build a profession out of pretending, kind of like some folks we all know in Washington DC who professed they knew about fatally dangerous WMDs in Iraq.