brazmonki wrote
Howdy
Not sure if any of you have noticed this before, but the guitars used in most magazine ads are quite bad. In the new FHM (the one with Paris Hilton), the second ad as you open the magazine; yep, the Truworths ad.
I mean come on, ad shoots cost a lot. Setting, lighting, photographer, models, make up...the list goes on. They might as well get a decent guitar in there. There is no use in looking rock 'n roll in the ad, but the guitar is a k@k guitar. I mean a lot of money is spent on creating the image, they might as well get a decent guitar.
You notice these details because you're a guitarist and interested in guitars. Most people will just vaguely register that there's a guitar in the picture and that's enough of a cue.
Non-guitaring folk see things very differently, I guess because those details are not important to them. I was at TJ's a while back with a friend of mine who has been to live shows before, seen musicians on TV and is generally a well-read, intelligent and knowledgable person. There was a trio on stage - two guitars and a bass guitar. After a while John (friend) tugs at my sleeve and says he doesn't know for sure but it looks like the bridge on the one guitar is set a bit further back on the body than is the case on the other two. Is this so, and if it is so then is there any good reason for that?
It was, of course, the bass. I said "well, that's a bass guitar." Then I had to explain what a bass guitar is, that it has a longer neck (he hadn't noticed) and only 4 strings (he hadn't noticed).
If
you see footage of the Beatles you register that Paul is playing bass and it's a Rickenbacker, that John has an Epiphone semi-acoustic and George has a Telecaster (or whatever they played on that day). Most folks just see three guitars and don't even pay a lot of attention to the different shapes and layouts.
