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Location: south east Michigan | It's more of an ad for Taylor than anything else.
Seen it in print and on the tube.
Be warned... most of you won't like it.
Be double warned. If you're hanging with Beal and it comes on it'd be best to move out of range of those pointy cowboy boots. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Didn't Elvis shoot his TV when he saw something on it he didn't like? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | by Capo Guy:
Didn't Elvis shoot his TV when he saw something on it he didn't like? Which annoying commercial are we discussing?
This One? or This One?
Or this one where the guitar gets runned-over at about 0:27? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | The first one you listed is the one that I have seen on TV. I thought it was kinda cool. |
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Location: south east Michigan | That's just the finance guy in you talkin'. |
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Location: Tennessee | You gotta wonder, since GE Capital was the biggest beneficiary of government money to bail out the financial institutions, if We The People now own Taylor Guitars. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | DAMM!!! I was hoping it was just a bad dream. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Guys,...guys....Taylor does make some very fine guitars. Just because some of the owners are not the most congenial people on the planet doesn't mean the guitars are crap. Can't we all just get along? :p |
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Location: south east Michigan | Come on James... We have all kinds of rules about being nice to each other, not rocking the boat, stay on topic, and be the champions of PC.
Allow us our one little tongue-in-cheek vice.
Anyway.. it's not like your tryin' to sell one or anything.
Or are you? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Actually that chick did a really good Spanish guitar lick...
Just think of how great the woulda been on an Ovation 1114! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Actually that chick did a really good Spanish guitar lick... I watch a lot of Sci-fi and I sense the work of Industrial Light and Magic.
Or at least some clever sound editing. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Be double warned. If you're hanging with Beal and it comes on it'd be best to move out of range of those pointy cowboy boots. rotflmao!!!!!! |
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Location: Tennessee | It's the newest innovation from Taylor. "Guitars that play themselves". All you got to do is sit back and admire 'em. The perfect guitar for a lot of folks. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Jim... just looked in the For Sale section.... I guess your selling one.
Good deal, too. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Ummmm, Brad, haven't seen a Taylor for sale here since March 8, 2010...
Actually, I can't remember TJ ever owning one! He is selling a sweet Tak though. ;) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Guys,...guys....Taylor does make some very fine guitars. Just because some of the owners are not the most congenial people on the planet doesn't mean the guitars are crap. I've played new Taylors in the store, where technically they don't have an owner yet congenial or otherwise and the guitars were still crap. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Well, I don't own one now, but I have had a few. (I think at one time I had 4) and they were all what I would consider very nice guitars, although I prefer the smaller 12 series bodies. Of course, what would I know about guitars? I haven't owned many. :rolleyes: |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Ummmm, Brad, haven't seen a Taylor for sale here since March 8, 2010...
Actually, I can't remember TJ ever owning one! ;) 
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Okay... Enough is enough!
This commercial is on every day during the NBC news.
As nice as that English accent is, that commercial is getting redundant.
Right after that BP commercial that takes credit for the ka-ka-sucker trucks on barges cleaning-up the oil slick...
(which BP had absolutely nothing to do with).
But the novelty has worn-off... Kill that commercial.
[I did notice that we don't have that Petroleum Industry commercial about how Chevron is doing "Good things with Oil" that used to be on every day at this time... So that is an improvement] |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I love it!!! |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Okay... Enough is enough!
This commercial is on every day during the NBC news. Sounds like you need to stop watching NBC news. |
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA | Unfortunately, the commercial(s) mentioned above aren't aired here in Canada.
Saying Taylor guitars are 'crap' might be a bit overstated. Highly oversold? Highly over-rated, certainly.
No doubt, their market share has more to do with visibility than quality. If you drive an Aston Martin and are suddenly forced to use the wife's Chevette... the experience might seem rather painful. It will still get you to the store for a quart of milk, but it's just not the same.
Taylor guitars are like that. Most of the stores here have an over abundance of them... so the less-informed buying public winds up comparing one Taylor... to another!! Hardly a definitive viewpoint.
Now that my Adamas has been repaired (and restrung with Cleartones... thanks guys!!), it sounds so good I probably wouldn't be able to see the TV anyway... through misty eyes.
Aaaahhhhhhhhh.....
Somebody say something about... Taylors? ;) |
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Location: Cincinnati | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
It's the newest innovation from Taylor. "Guitars that play themselves". All you got to do is sit back and admire 'em. The perfect guitar for a lot of folks. At least you didn't mention me by name. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Well I'll tell you what's painful for me...
I need to see something new from Ovation that makes me feel good about my brand loyalty to them. Everything glorious about Ovation seems to be in the past. At least Taylor fans have current things to be excited about.
John <>{ |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by bauerhillboy:
Everything glorious about Ovation seems to be in the past.
Au contraire, mon frere! My top 5 have all been made in the last five years. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | And my OFC II IS the GAS... |
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| I bought a Taylor for my daughter and I think it is a great guitar. Besides, they are selling a bunch of them, so they must be doing something right.
I agree Ovation could help their cause by getting their name/instruments out there more often and with more visibility. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Resonant Woody:
I agree Ovation could help their cause by getting their name/instruments out there more often and with more visibility. Excellent idea. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Resonant Woody:
I bought a Taylor for my daughter and I think it is a great guitar. Besides, they are selling a bunch of them, so they must be doing something right.
I agree Ovation could help their cause by getting their name/instruments out there more often and with more visibility. Yeah... The have a Nationwide commercial campaign!
They even have a commercial bragging that they got a loan from a Hedge Fund! :eek:
There is a Taylor on every stage at every music award show on the tube.
They have name recognition right up there with Martin, Fender and Gibson.
The average American knows nothing of Larivee or Collings, or Adamas...
But they know about Taylor cuz every acoustic guitar they see on TV is a Taylor.
This does not mean that a Taylor is better than my Morgan Monroe woodbox, or any other woodbox.
It just means that they hired people who may know nothing about guitars... But they know Marketing.
ooo! I found an Ovation on the Tube!
You gotta wait to hear "Every Neil Young song you have ever Heard! :cool: |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Taylor,
Fresh warm runny spoo on the new carpet.
As good as a glass of warm 1% milk.
click. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I agree except I was thinking skim. |
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| In the end, I think that the "warm runny spoo" is what the musician produces, not the guitar.
I have seen a great guitarist make a $99 laminated guitar sing like a bird and captivate a room.
I own several brands of guitars, but I don't feel obliged to defend one guitar against another since it is only opinion. Everybody is welcome to get what they like best. |
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