Austin Improv

Posted: **July 30th, 2008, 4:09 pm**

I'm doing this tomorrow. Anyone else interested? Follow the instructions below.

Hello Austin Air Guitaristâ€™s!

As promised, GSD&M Idea City is keeping our fellow Austiniteâ€™s top of mind, and first to submit their sixty second rip at one of the five Foreigner songs listed below!

Too Late

Cold As Ice

Juke Box Hero

Hot Blooded

Feels Like the First Time

Make sure to practice to your favorite Foreigner jam, as your chance to win a $7,000 Mick Jones autographed Les Paul Gibson guitar to be presented on stage during Foreignerâ€™s New Yearâ€™s Eve concert, and a trip for two and four night stay at the Sheraton Waikiki in Hawaii, is this week!!!

We need to get participants up to the agency Thursday, 7/31 or Friday, 8/1 from 12:00pm â€“ 4:00pm to record their preliminary submissions!!! Please come prepared with your song selection, which sixty second bit youâ€™ll be jamming to and in full blown costume! Weâ€™ll have the music hereâ€¦ so no worries on bringing your own CD!

We will have details regarding our mobile recording studio visit to Austin releasing soon and hope to see each of you fantastic participants submit your video to be rated by viewerâ€™s across the nation. Also, we will be recording a live b-roll production to send on to the Today Show in New York and use on our WinMickJonesGuitar.com site throughout the entire contest!

We need all interested participants to please send back an email with your stage name, birth name and year, and email address to Jessie.fenstermacher@ideacity.com in order to follow up with timing details! We expect the truck will arrive early next week so mark the date and get your Air Jamminâ€™ peeps gathered for support too!

Jessie Fenstermacher | Assistant Account Manager

GSD&M Idea City | 828 W 6th St. | Austin, TX 78703

512 242 5617 | fax 512 242 8617

Posted: **July 30th, 2008, 5:24 pm**

Pgraph should jump on that. Kill two birds with one Rolling Stones Song.

Posted: **July 30th, 2008, 5:28 pm**

Jon Bolden wrote:Pgraph should jump on that. Kill two birds with one Rolling Stones Song.

Unfortunately, they only let you air guitar to Foreigner for this contest. ALL of the songs they chose are totally lame for air guitaring to. I'd still love to see Kaci rock it out though.

Posted: **July 30th, 2008, 5:41 pm**

$7,000 Mick Jones guitar.

What a tool.

Posted: **July 30th, 2008, 5:42 pm**

kbadr wrote:$7,000 Mick Jones guitar.

What a tool.

Hello eBay!

Posted: **August 1st, 2008, 11:14 am**

A note from the promotion folks:

Still looking to recruit 3-4 local air guitarists. We need yo between noon and 4 today - please give Jessie a call if you need directions/specifics.

Jessie Fenstermacher | Assistant Account Manager
GSD&M Idea City | 828 W 6th St. | Austin, TX 78703
512 242 5617 | fax 512 242 8617

Posted: **August 1st, 2008, 11:23 am**

I'll be there at 1pm.

Posted: **August 1st, 2008, 11:52 am**

It's hard to get excited by any of these Foreigner songs, but I suppose I'll gear up and head over there this afternoon....

Posted: **August 1st, 2008, 2:10 pm**

Foreigner is pretty much the crappiest band you could possibly air guitar to. I just did my bit and I think it turned out pretty good. It'll all be worth it if I win a trip to Hawaii for doing freakin' air guitar!

Posted: **August 1st, 2008, 4:14 pm**

Extending our hours through 6pm today and may try to capture a few more performances on Monday.

Wish we had a broader song selection to offer. Hot Blooded and Juke Box Hero seem to be the favorite song selections so far - performances by Deviled Elvis, Starwolf Night Ranger, Gentleman Joe and Captain Action were all off the chain. Deviled Elvis considered the less than adequate song selection a test of his improvisational ability - a testiment to his committment to the craft.

Posted: **August 1st, 2008, 4:25 pm**

Awesome! Who is Captain Action?

Posted: **August 1st, 2008, 6:18 pm**

Captain Action is a drummer in a local band, Go Action Team. he was kind/brave enough to put down the sticks and pick up an air guitar for us.

Posted: **August 2nd, 2008, 2:49 pm**

Hello Austin Air Guitaristâ€™s!

Guitarists doesn't have an apostrophe in it. Ugh.

I'm curious about the technique needed to truly lay down a good air guitar solo. Precision and accuracy in the fingering and picking? True ability to mime the missing object?

Anyone know any good youtube examples, perhaps? I'd love to see the winner.

Posted: **August 3rd, 2008, 1:24 am**

julie_m wrote:
Anyone know any good youtube examples, perhaps? I'd love to see the winner.

I actually had a gig recording online how-to lessons for air guitar, but the company that was going to do it had to pull the plug b/c of issues with the unsanctioned use of copyrighted music. Really lame.

Posted: **August 3rd, 2008, 2:51 am**

julie_m wrote:Guitarists doesn't have an apostrophe in it. Ugh.

You and Jeff should totally hang out some time.

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