Guitarist Dave Carroll from the band Sons of Maxwell has written a song about how United Airlines broke his Taylor guitar. He's hoping to get one million views for the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

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Ah very similar to italian baggage handlers.

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No no and no

i saw this on the gibson fourms

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Paddle faster! I hear banjo music!

What a riot. Mike

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The blues ain't nothin but a good man feelin bad.

Sometimes it's better to ship your guitar rather than let the cargo people have their way with it.

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Don't leave home without it!

**Breaking news** -- looks like the story has a happy ending:

http://www.timminspress.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1647542

But he still plans to release the other two songs.

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2002 LP Special Ebony Faded
2008 G-Dec
'59 Reissue Bassman 4x10 combo
TS 808
DS 1
Gretsch 6120DS (on loan)

No wonder United went in to bankruptcy. The heck with getting it fixed. Make them pay replacement value. Thanks for sharing Ellen I'm sure he'll get his million views and hopefully some compensation too.

The first thing I thought about here was the line from John Hiatt's song "perfectly good guitat" where he says
There oughta be a law without no bail
smash a guitar and you go to jail.

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I tried to think of something clever to put here but- OH! Something shiny!!!

fast logistics. maybe the baggage handlers need for time for being carefully.
i think they have a special time to load an reload a plane.

cheers

Don't worry: the broken one is not the only nice Taylor in that vid. By the time a million people have viewed it Taylor ought to give him a new guitar themselves: he's worked hard to give them a ton of free advertising...

Cheers - C

Ditto on that Ceri...

Got to finally watch it-great stuff!

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I remembered this incident from a few years back.

"July 10, 2005: Ravi Shankar's and Anoushka Shankar's sitars were broken by Air France during transit in Paris even though they were marked fragile and special handling was requested. Two sitars from India were brought just in time for the concert in Arle's. The same week, one of Ravi's students sitar and a cello were also broken by Air France in transit via Paris."

It's on Ravi Shankar's official site.

http://www.ravishankar.org/

I also believe that David Gilmour played a Telecaster before the Pink Floyd years, and that guitar was lost or stolen during a transit flight.

Anyway, I really like the way this guy made his point about his "Broken Taylor guitar"

See ya around.
Claude.