In a performance that combined mime and freestyle gymnastic floor routine with heaping doses of rock and roll abandon, Alameda, California’s Hott Lixx Hulahan, aka Craig Billmeier, trounced two-time defending champion Ochi ‘Dainoji’ Yosuke of Japan in Helsinki last week to capture the title of World Air Guitar Champion. Asked about his muse by a Bay Area reporter last year, Billmeier said: “When people ask John Frusciante where his inspiration comes from he says he's just channeling what the spirits around him are feeding him. Like him, I'm just following the cosmos, man.”
Craig/Hott Lixx also offered some insights into his evolving technique: “The Shred Salute is my own personal Triple Lindey, my Blue Steel, but it has since been retired. I’m working on a new one that involves a ladder, a flare gun and some lavender-scented shaving cream.”