Thursday, January 08, 2009

Wasted Talent

I demand… DEMAND that Hintz be allowed to perform an AC/DC songs before every session. 

One more. Representing a small college town in the Wisconsin state legislature is a champion air guitar player, featured in the 2006 movie Air Guitar Nation. Gordon Hintz, a 35-year-old budget analyst and former instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh was just reelected to a second term in the Wisconsin state assembly.

What’s air guitar? I can’t explain it any better than this youtube clip of 2003 Air Guitar World Champion C-Diddy, who defeated Hintz at the 2003 USA finals in California.

Hintz, a life-long rock fan, was a 29-year-old budget analyst for the city of Long Beach, California outside Los Angeles, when he came to air guitar. Some friends heard about a competition held at a prominent Los Angeles nightclub, and urged Hintz to enter.

“I really had very little idea of what I was getting into,” he told me about his 2003 leap into air guitar stardom. “At worst case scenario it would be a pretty fun night out with my friends.”

But Hintz, in character as “Krye Tuff”, wowed the audience and judges with his performance of David Lee Roth’s “Yankee Rose”. He was crowned “west coast” champion and advanced to the final round.

“He was a great performer,” said C-Diddy, known to his mother as David Jung. “He really understood how to relate to the audience, and he was having a lot of fun out there. He just let it go.”

 

(1) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1342 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opr1pDkdbNg

    Posted by WOW on January 08, 2009 at 2128 hrs


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