Tosin Abasi Revealed as Official 'Bill & Ted 3' “Air Shredder”

Tosin Abasi
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Animals as Leaders guitar maestro Tosin Abasi has confirmed that he is the official "air shredder" of Bill & Ted Face the Music, the new, third installment in the Bill & Ted film series.

This means that every time Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves' titular characters make eye contact and engage in some emphatic air guitar, you'll be hearing Abasi's licks. 

Abasi follows in the footsteps of his Generation Axe bandmate Steve Vai, who provided the air guitar licks in 1991's Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, and Stevie Salas, who provided them for 1989's Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

“So, when you go see the @billandted3 movie tomorrow and hear the air guitar moments, that’s me!” Abasi said in an Instagram post. “So awesome to be a part of something as epic as this and to follow in the footsteps of the OG’s Steve Vai and Nuno Bettencourt. Most excellent!” 

Gibson recently confirmed that it was sponsoring the movie, providing it with a bevy of Gibson, Epiphone, Kramer and Steinberger models.

Bill & Ted Face the Music is out today, and can be streamed on demand. 

For more info, head on over to billandted3.com.

Jackson Maxwell
Associate Editor, GuitarWorld.com and GuitarPlayer.com

Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com and GuitarPlayer.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.