Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:24 pm
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Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 1:36 pm
The guitars will tour and then be donated... Correct? I'm not as far as offended, but I do think it is in questionable taste. It sounds like the company has good intentions... But the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
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Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:35 pm
Seems like it would be much better to make some exact Clapton replicas, of Blackie and Brownie, then auction them after he tours with him. Same amount of wood, but a lot more money for first responders.
Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:53 pm
Wanna buy a bridge? I've got several available...Wildberry wrote:I'm not really comfy with that last remark towards the company I work for.Prairie Hunter wrote:As if people don't feel bad enough about 9/11 already.manta wrote: Maybe Gibson should make a couple of 9/11 models.....
I'm sure Fender did this with honourble intentions. That the end result is kitschy rubbish is a matter of taste.
Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 1:05 pm
Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 1:20 pm
Yeah I saw that. There's a huge gap between one man's slightly quirky patriotism, and a super-corporation's cynical attempt at exploiting a tragedy by bandwagon-jumping. "Hijack" would be a good keyword in this case.
Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 1:36 pm
I think Thomas (egosheep) hit the nail on the head. If they got Clapton to play them and autograph them, that's enough, without venturing into the arena of poor taste. Even if they wanted to special label them as tributes, there are ways that it could be done that have a lot more class.
Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:34 pm
YUCK!
Good cause, but such tasteless, inelegant and amateurish design! It's practically a mockery of those it was intended to honor, and I find it insulting. How embarrassing!
Good cause, but such tasteless, inelegant and amateurish design! It's practically a mockery of those it was intended to honor, and I find it insulting. How embarrassing!
Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:09 pm
+1!kiramdear wrote:Oh, Eric, please don't ...
Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:02 pm
My opinion can be highly influenced by whether or not these are going to be charitable.
Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 10:49 am
Ugly as hell, just awful...
Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:10 pm
The sound of Country music, who actually did capitalize on 9/11, with songs like "Have You Forgotten." Chet Atkins knew it in the sixties, but I don't think anyone could forecast that so many people would use other people's emotions to sell a product.collin wrote:CHA-CHING
(the sound of shamelessness)
Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:44 am
Re: TOO CYNICAL FOR WORDS...
Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 4:09 pm
Thats marketing nowadays...Ain'tGotNoPokemon wrote:The sound of Country music, who actually did capitalize on 9/11, with songs like "Have You Forgotten." Chet Atkins knew it in the sixties, but I don't think anyone could forecast that so many people would use other people's emotions to sell a product.collin wrote:CHA-CHING
(the sound of shamelessness)