We have all been guilty of it. An up-tempo track is playing. There is that urge... we get to our feet, and play for all our worth, our instrument of choice... it may be drums, piano, bass guitar or lead guitar... for classical fans, lute, mandolin, triangle...

So how long do you imagine that music fans have been doing this ? the 1980s ? 1970s ? 1960s ?

Take a look at the following photograph of four American ladies playing "air guitars" in 1900 !

http://www.vintag.es/2014/09/louise-...udents-ca.html

Nothing is as new as we think !

Actually they're way more likely to be playing air banjo, banjos were far more popular than guitars at the time. Even their hands look like they're playing clawhammer style.

Maybe even pretending to be a minstral band.

Actually, because they're using tennis racquets, they're probably playing "air lute."

Phwoar! Get yer ankles out for the lads!

Joe Cocker was the master of this. Except he played "air band"... https://youtu.be/POaaw_x7gvQ

Hardly 'air' guitar when that bunch of cheeky rock chicks have props. IE. tennis rackets?

Glad someone mentioned Joe Cocker, as he is widely known as the founder of the art of air guitar or headbanging ,