AND IN SPORTS
Simulated strumming returns to Finland for Air Guitar World Championships
(Thanks to Bob Brogan, who says "Kind of like a really quiet Woodstock.")
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August 26, 2022
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Is there a "with one hand tied behind my back" category?
Posted by: Lefty | August 26, 2022 at 01:31 PM
I'm not sure air guitar had been invented when Woodstock took place, but if the phrase had not yet been coined this clip was way before air Guitar's time.
*The Blog gets full credit for original link to the blog.
Posted by: man tom | August 26, 2022 at 02:03 PM
JULY 16, 1969 - Apollo 11 launch
The first of six American lunar missions is launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida. NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins are aboard Apollo 11. Michael Jackson thinks, "Moonwalk?"
JULY 26, 1969 - The Manson murders
AUGUST 14, 1969 - Woodstock
Nearly 400,000 people attend this chaotic music festival held in a farm field in Bethel, NY. Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Sly and the Family Stone and more perform. Joe Cocker invents the Air Guitar.
August 1969 - man tom registers for first year high school with two buddies who pull fire extinguisher off the wall and blow plaster all up and down the halls. Chaos nearly ensues when man tom and friends meet up with a really tough guy who walks around pointing at fellow students saying, "I'm going to kick your ass."
Posted by: man tom | August 26, 2022 at 04:25 PM