{"id":128,"date":"2016-05-18T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2024-03-24T03:32:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T03:32:37","slug":"hot-face-melting-guitar-acrobatics-are-go-at-the-air-guitar-championship-may-21-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"HOT, FACE-MELTING GUITAR ACROBATICS ARE GO AT THE AIR GUITAR CHAMPIONSHIP \u2022 MAY 21, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/submergemag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Sacrament-Air-Guitar-Championship-e1463594484893-1217x1420.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo by Kyle \u201cSweetness\u201d Payton<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think you can shred like Yngwie Malmsteen? Have fingers as dextrous as Steve Vai? Looking to be Sacramento\u2019s next Joe Satriani? As luck would have it, you don\u2019t need a guitar, just a good imagination and an ability to make goofy faces and stage poses while rocking out to your favorite song selection. At press time, confirmed judges for this year\u2019s Air Guitar Championship May 21 at Starlite Lounge include Ben Bradley (operations director at California Cannabis Industry Association and Mansion Flats Block Party Organizer), Jody Collins (who judged last year\u2019s fiesta) and yours truly. The US Air Guitar Championship started in 2003, but last year was Sacramento\u2019s first annual Air Guitar Championship Qualifier and the contestants were mind-boggling, to say the very least. The hosts for the night\u2019s festivities are Ben \u201cRockus Airelius\u201d Thomas along with the also ridiculously nicknamed Kyle \u201cSweetness\u201d Payton. Along with cash prizes, the top two air guitarists can earn a spot at the US Air Guitar National Finals! Are you tough enough? Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/usairguitar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USairguitar.com<\/a>\u00a0to enter or come out to watch the madness starting at 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Submerge)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Kyle \u201cSweetness\u201d Payton Think you can shred like Yngwie Malmsteen? Have fingers as dextrous as Steve Vai? Looking to be Sacramento\u2019s next Joe Satriani? As luck would have it, you don\u2019t need a guitar, just a good imagination and an ability to make goofy faces and stage poses while rocking out to your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}