RetroFedBill & Ted's air guitar riffs were mimed, as the actors didn't actually know how to play. The scenes were dubbed over by professional air guitarists in post production.
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To be fair, playing air guitar well, and getting good sound is really difficult. I’m not surprised they needed to use professional air guitar players.
Agrees, it doesn’t really matter how they did the stunts, the movie brought competitive air slinging to the masses. The sport was on top of the world after this movie released. It was Over The Top for air guitar.
Air Guitar World Championships are every August in Finland. Wyld Stallions walked so we could rock into space on an imaginary fire pegasus.
Do you have to bring your own air guitar or are loaners available? With airline baggage fees i won’t be able to bring mine along.
The last time I checked my air guitar it ended up as lost luggage.
If you fly Hawaiian they’ll check your air guitar for free.
I think you’ll find they are in Oulu, Finland every year since 1996.
My fault entirely, Suomi friend! Skimmed Wikipedia and thought it said Oahu! Fixed the original.
Be excellent my dude
It’s hard to find good tone-air
Pretty sure Reeves played guitar.
That guitar is clearly solid
So is Reeves
As am I ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
That’s a bass guitar, so while technically true, not what he was riffing on in the movie.
What’s that whammy-bar looking thing at bottom?
I didn’t know basses had those, and it doesn’t look like it’s in the right place for that, anyway.
There are four thick strings, it is definitely a bass.
Yes, that was completely obvious. I was wondering about the extra bit.
It is a whammy bar, some basses have them. Whammy bars are near the end of the strings. The strings on the base are closer to the back edge of the body which is why the bar is so far back.
Air guitars don’t look like air guitars on film. You have to use air ukuleles. Which has led to the myth that they aren’t really playing air instruments at all.
There’s one scene they didn’t dub and you can tell:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn9qIotEWkw
NO WAY!?
Yes way.
By Steve Vai specifically if I’m not mistaken.
He also played the awesome solo in the ending song