Posted in: Guitar by Stephen J. Ardent on July 8, 2009 | 0 Comments
Apparently you don’t break a musician’s Taylor guitar and not pay for the damage.
The music group “Sons of Maxwell” was on tour last year (2008) when they made the mistake of flying United Airlines. On their trip from Halifax to Omaha with the connecting flight being in Chicago. When they arrived, as they were waiting to get off the plane, a passenger behind them shouted that the luggage crew was throwing guitars around. Sure enough, and those guitars belonged to the Sons of Maxwell. And upon inspection, the base of lead Dave Carroll’s $3500 Taylor guitar had been smashed.
Dave tried to get someones attention concerning this, and once in the airport some kind of reimbursement for the damage. He was rebuffed by everyone from the flight attendant to person after person within the company, who always seemed to not be the person responsible for making things right, but could put him in touch with someone else. Nine months and no reimbursement later Dave told the last person he talked to at United that if he didn’t get satisfaction he would write and produce three video songs and put them on YouTube telling everyone how United Airlines broke his guitar.
Here’s song #1…Enjoy.
