United Breaks Guitars

Dave W · July 08, 2009, 05:27:13 PM

Heard about this? He put the video up 2 days ago and he already has 148,000 views.

The background: http://www.davecarrollmusic.com/story/united-breaks-guitars

I saw another story today that says United is now listening. Nothing like bad publicity to get them moving.

gweimer · July 08, 2009, 09:04:31 PM

They showed it on CNN about 5:00 here. By then, they were reporting 175,000 hits, with more expected. They also said that United had called the guy, and agreed to make good on the damage. Furthermore, they said they were going to use his video as an internal training video.

Freuds_Cat · July 08, 2009, 10:52:39 PM

Absolute gold. Good on him, and good luck to him with regards to the amount of free (kinda) publicity he's getting.

uwe · July 09, 2009, 03:35:00 AM

Brilliant!

Barklessdog · July 09, 2009, 04:59:43 AM

Good things can come from tragedy.

Dave W · July 09, 2009, 10:26:17 AM

Over 500,000 views now. I wonder if United's baggage goons are proud of themselves now.

godofthunder · July 09, 2009, 02:18:23 PM

That is perfect.

gearHed289 · July 09, 2009, 03:26:29 PM

That's f*ckin awesome! Good for him.

Highlander · July 09, 2009, 04:45:27 PM

Having worked "airside" way back when, this is nothing new...

brilliant video...

godofthunder · July 14, 2009, 04:53:59 PM

Over 3 million now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! local radio is even pushing it ! Having United break his Taylor is the best thing thats ever happened to him !

Hornisse · July 14, 2009, 05:32:45 PM

I traveled a lot in the late 70's and early 80's with my trusty Fender Precision and never had a problem with anything. The bass always traveled in it's tolex case. Maybe I was lucky, or the Fender was just sturdy.

SKATE RAT · July 14, 2009, 06:32:07 PM

you could throw a P bass down the stairs,and it would still be in tune.

uwe · July 15, 2009, 04:20:13 AM

It's a great catchy song, something Messrs Frey and Henley would have immediately turned into a hit had they gotten their hands (or larynxes) around it. I love the "Gone-by-car" part, that is musically brilliant the way it stands out and gels with the rest of the music at the same time.

If this guy brings out an album, I'll buy it. Ever since I bought and liked a Garth Brooks CD way back, I'm shameless about AOR-C&W.

And I always liked The Bellamy Brothers too, so there!

Dave W · July 15, 2009, 08:12:38 AM

Is there something wrong with liking the Bellamy Brothers?

uwe · July 15, 2009, 08:31:44 AM

No, Dave. You said that beautifully. No one will hold it against you.

And even these days the brothers are still quite footloose:

United Breaks Guitars

Hornisse