Air Guitar, Air Mic (Vocals) Air Drums ETC..

Toolfan66

With the passing of Myles Goodwyn (April Wine) I was thinking back to the song I like To Rock, and growing up how many times I must have just rocked out to this song, it's a banger for sure, but also other songs that just got me, and my friends up and rocking out.

Here is a few off the top of my head I loved acting like I was the one on stage.

April Wine, I like To Rock.
Def Leppard, Let It Go (Kick A.s.s Tune..)
Ted Nugent, Free For All
KISS, King Of The Night Time World
AC/DC, If You Want Blood (You Got It.)

There's a ton more, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and what not.

What you got? To be young again..

Viking64

I loved KISS until 1978 or so. I used to air guitar with a tennis racket to "Alive II" every day after school when I was in 7th/8th grade.

April Wine was absolutely HUGE where I am from (100 MYLES south of Montreal) when I was in high school. Particularly the albums "Harder, Faster" and "Nature of the Beast". That April Wine video you posted was recorded in Le Studio in Morin Heights, Quebec. The Rush videos from "Moving Pictures" were shot in that very same room. The list of bands that recorded there is staggering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Studio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLBLk4ibAk

When I bought the Styx "Grand Illusion" album, I used to sit on my bed and listen to it while using the box of this Bavarian gun model kit as my synth keyboard.

msg

Most of my listening started in the mid to late 80s. I got a ton, also, but just a couple here...

Pretty much the whole Def Leppard Hysteria album, but especially Animal, Hysteria. I can't believe that tape still plays. I musta played that thing for an entire summer on auto-reverse on my yellow Sony Sports Walkman while out riding with my friends all day, practicing tricks, ripping on each other, and showing off to girls who really didn't care about us, lol

Van Halen - Jump & Panama

Bryan Adams - Summer of 69

Mr. Mister - Kyrie for the drum bit in the lull

The only Rush song I've ever heard was Time Stand Still. I thought that was pretty effing great, too. I had no idea that was Aimee Mann until last year.

So, a bunch of stuff from MTV in the late 80s.

Also...
Spinal Tap - Big Bottoms
Vocals and Choreography

https://youtu.be/YjC0vMIrOAk?si=RF_Dy4GOEV_aIkJz

Toolfan66

Viking64 wrote: »

I loved KISS until 1978 or so. I used to air guitar with a tennis racket to "Alive II" every day after school when I was in 7th/8th grade.

April Wine was absolutely HUGE where I am from (100 MYLES south of Montreal) when I was in high school. Particularly the albums "Harder, Faster" and "Nature of the Beast". That April Wine video you posted was recorded in Le Studio in Morin Heights, Quebec. The Rush videos from "Moving Pictures" were shot in that very same room. The list of bands that recorded there is staggering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Studio

When I bought the Styx "Grand Illusion" album, I used to sit on my bed and listen to it while using the box of this Bavarian gun model kit as my synth keyboard.

That was a great/sad story on Le_Studio, I never put those together that they were the same room..

Viking64

Toolfan66 wrote: »

Viking64 wrote: »

I loved KISS until 1978 or so. I used to air guitar with a tennis racket to "Alive II" every day after school when I was in 7th/8th grade.

April Wine was absolutely HUGE where I am from (100 MYLES south of Montreal) when I was in high school. Particularly the albums "Harder, Faster" and "Nature of the Beast". That April Wine video you posted was recorded in Le Studio in Morin Heights, Quebec. The Rush videos from "Moving Pictures" were shot in that very same room. The list of bands that recorded there is staggering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Studio

When I bought the Styx "Grand Illusion" album, I used to sit on my bed and listen to it while using the box of this Bavarian gun model kit as my synth keyboard.

That was a great/sad story on Le_Studio, I never put those together that they were the same room..

I think I only noticed this connection a year or so ago when seeing the April Wine video. I had seen the Rush video way back 20+ years ago when watching one of their DVDs. Probably 1999 or 2000.

When I was in boy scouts around 1977, we went to a place called Camp Tamaracouta that was about 5 miles from Le Studio. Sadly, I was too young to ask to drive by.

halo71

The Trooper-Iron Maiden
Peace Sells-Megadeth
Tall Cool Woman-The Hollies
Stuck in the Middle with you- Steelers Wheel
One thing leads to another-The Fixx


to name a few....

jdjohn

I guess one of the earliest for me was Boston's first album, with "More Than a Feeling", "Peace of Mind", and "Foreplay/Long Time" to get my arms and fingers flailing.

A few years later, I started liking the harder stuff, so lots of air guitar solos to early metal like Dio, Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Ratt, The Cult, AC/DC, Def Leppard.

Then I drifted into more classic rock like Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who. Pete Townsend never really did screaming guitar solos, but Keith Moon could really pound those skins.

For serious air drums, mostly Rush. Serious guitar, Eddie Van Halen.