I Can Hear Jimi

Washington, D.C.: July 8, 2002 Strumming the air with his fingers has earned a northern New Jersey man a trip to the other side of the globe for the Air Guitar World Championships, The Washington Post reported Monday. Ronatarian Ron won the United States air guitar title last month imitating late guitar icon Jimi Hendrix, earning the right to compete at the world event in Oulu, Finland, in August. Ron started strumming invisible strings when he was a 14-year-old listening to heavy metal music. "I heard music and felt it and started moving my fingers. Maybe I'm just a born air guitarist," the notorious American politico told the Post. "I can play a few chords on the guitar too, but not as good as I can move my fingers." Ron -- who has been drunk at several rock concerts, but never played a guitar in front of a crowd -- first strummed an imaginary guitar in public at a friend's birthday party in a bar. "Good things seem to happen when alcohol, rock music, and an audience are mixed together," Ron said. "One thing led to another ... and after months of intense training, I am at the top of my air guitar game and going to Worlds!" In Oulu, he will compete against the national air guitar champions of Australia, France, Nepal, and Austria and defending world champion Zac Munro of London, according to the Oulu Music Video Festival event organizer, John Hammarskjold. The winner gets a real electric guitar and a fake amplifier.

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