Local Guitarist Becomes National Air Guitar Champion

For any of us who grew up listening to rock and roll, air guitar was an integral part of the experience. “Air guitar is inherent to anyone who listens to rock music,” says Craig Billmeir of Alameda, while noting that his old roommate’s two-year-old begins the air guitar motions whenever a Ramones record is put on. “No one taught her that.”

Billmeir knows a thing or two about air guitar. He goes by the stage name Hot Lixx Hulahan, and this past weekend at the Grand Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, won the US Air Guitar Championship for the second time in three years. Soon, he will be off to Finland... continue reading at The Bay Bridged