Brütal Legend Fans Set New Air Guitar World Record

[Andy Chalk]

Brütal Legend Fans Set New Air Guitar World Record

Download Festival [http://www.brutallegend.com] in Donnington Park.

440 fans attending the Download Festival gathered at the EA Hub, a special trailer where people could try out a range of games from Guinness Book of World Records [http://www.ea.com] judge was on hand to verify the new record for most people playing air guitar at one time, which handily trounced the previous mark of 318 people that was set in 2008.

"That was one of the raddest jams I've ever been involved with," said Christian Stevenson of Kerrang FM [http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk/], who led the shred. "The crowd played their air guitars better than Eddie Van Halen! Then they destroyed 'em good and proper. Who cares, right? They can go to the air guitar shop and get another one. Sick to the infinity of sickness! I want a crowd like that at every gig I'm at. Awesometacular - air guitar world records rule!"

Established in 2003, the Download Festival is a three-day music festival held at Donnington Park. The 2009 event was headlined by Faith No More, Slipknot and Def Leppard, with appearances by Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson, Dream Theater, Lacuna Coil, Chris Cornell and many others.



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[Sir Ollie]

Wished I was there

 

[Armored Prayer]

Wished I was there

Same here... That looked awesome as hell.

 

[Sparrow]

Eeeeeeeeeeeengland!

We set records like a motherbitch.

 

[Ranooth]

ESCAPISTS UNITE!!

WE MUST BEAT THESE UNWASHED STUDENTS!!!

 

[calelogan]

Yay! Another Guinness game related record!

But on the other hand, seriously, aside from being fun trivia facts, is there a purpose? How many more weird world records (with few contenders) are there to be set?

P.S. - I truly don't mean to sound rude. I just don't get it.

 

[CUnk]

^^^ I'm with this guy.

____ number of people doing _____ are the most retarded records and are nothing more than PR stunts for whatever product is central to the event. I guess Guinness needs to make a buck somehow since no one really cares about them any more (it used to be an annual purchase when I was kid).

P.S. I meant that to sound rude.

 

[Davey Woo]

I was at Download! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
But I did not take part in this silly Air Guitar nonsense.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

I loves me some air guitar. *Rocks out*

 

[Angron]

damn, now u made me wish I was there even more...

maybe next year ill go and smash this record