âMake Air, Not Warâ is the personal motto of Dan Crane, the musician who decided to put his âthereâ guitar aside and reinvent himself as BjÃķrn TÞroque: the take-no-prisoners future of competitive air guitar. Jeopardizing love and livelihood to join the ruthless international circuit of the World Air Guitar Championships, BjÃķrn TÞroque (pronounced âb-yorn too-RAWKâ) began a three-year odyssey to secure what was rightfully his (and Americaâs!)âthe air guitar world crown.
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To Air is Human is the riotous tale of one manâs journey through a world of wheelchair-bound Christian air rockers, spandex-jumpsuit fittings, Finnish stunt wolves, catatonic â80s guitar heroes, air groupies, AireokeâĒ, Air Supply, dry-ice injuries, and ultimately, good vs. evil (in the form of BjÃķrnâs rival pretender to the air guitar throne). But it is also a sincere and penetrating account of the pursuit of an elusive, intangible, and perhaps nonexistent goal: to achieve âairnessââthat is, when air guitar transcends the ârealâ art that it imitates and becomes an art form in and of itself.
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âBjÃķrn TÞroque is so good that people with real guitars now have contests to see who can do the best imitation of his air guitar imitation.ââMalcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point
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