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Great CD for cruising, working out and playing a air guitar

Stephen Cabral | New England | 02/17/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is a great double CD for cruising to, working out to and yes, playing air guitar to. Brian May compiled this collection as well as listing the advantages to being an air guitarist such as no tuning problems, no tedious practicing of scales, no roadies complaining about heavy equipment, no neighbors complaining, etc. There are also some various guitar posing diagrams such as the "chicken walk", "stride splitter", "low slung" and so on right up to "you've been a wonderful audience".



First this collection consists of the usual classic rock suspects:

* Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

* Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water

* Aerosmith/Run DMC - Walk This Way

* David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose

* Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way

* Stevie Ray - Look At Little Sister

* Santana - Black Magic Woman

* Free - All Right Now

* BTO - Takin' Care Of Business

* Ratt - Round & Round

* Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

* Guess Who - American Woman

* Boston - More Than A Feeling

* Outlaws - Green Grass...



But interspersed throughout to keep it interesting are other great non-classic guitar songs like:

* Blur - Song 2

* Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (short version unfortunately)

* Motorhead - Ace Of Spades

* Husker Du - Sorry Somehow

* Queensryche - Jet City Woman

* Status Quo - Down, Down

* Foo Fighters - Wish You Were Here (with Brian May)



Throw in a couple of golden oldies like:

* Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode

* The Surfaris - Wipe Out



and you have a really great collection to rock out to (with the exception of Rainbow doing "Since You've Been Gone"...please give me a break!).



This is also an enhanced CD in which you can tap out the guitar notes with the space bar on your keyboard to Motley Crue's "Kickstart My Heart", CCR's "Fortunate Son", Sabbath's "Paranoid", and Stevie Ray's "Pride & Joy". Unfortunately the only one that I could figure out to play was "Kickstart". Now all you need is an "air band"!



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