Two more videos followed and Dave Carroll launched a second career as a public speaker about customer service. Four days after the video was released, UnitedвЂ™s share price dropped 10%. So they wrote a song about it вЂ“ United Breaks Guitars. His $3,500 Taylor guitar was badly damaged and the company stonewalled him on compensation. Dave Carroll and his brother Don who record as Sons of Maxwell made it big (17,738,587 Youtube views and counting) when his guitar was badly handled by United Airlines on a flight from Halifax to Nebraska for a gig. Today the internet has created sensations almost overnight. He wants to pass that on by giving a guitar as a gift to an underprivileged kid. For him the setting was JoeвЂ™s Garage! That song brought back so many memories, even to вЂњhis mama was screaming, вЂturn it downвЂ™!вЂќ My momвЂ™s favourite refrain!Д¬hase Rice starts the video for Three Chords and the Truth with a call to his manager recalling how much his first guitar meant to him. Frank Zappa tells about this memorable time for many. I played drums in one and my brother played rhythm guitar (and occasional lead) in another. When I was a teenager in the 1960s, the British invasion created a whole new interest in guitars and rock bands. What if a guitar could talk? What would it tell you? Stillwater tells us about a guitar named Mindbender, a guitar that literally tells us that вЂњMy Daddy was a Gibson, my Mama was a Fender.вЂќ I bend to the wood and I coax it to sing.вЂќ вЂњMy finger plane's working gentle persuasion. вЂњThe chisels are calling,вЂќ Monteleone would tell him. How are guitars made? Mark Knopfler sings about a real life artisan, John Monteleone, who made a guitar for him and called with periodic updates as it was being made. My wife is fond of Starbucks coffee, so I sometimes cock an ear and tell her, вЂњI think I hear a Starbucks with your name on it calling.вЂќ Guy Clark tells the story of a, shall we say haunted, guitar? ItвЂ™s about a guitar with his name on it! Not just any guitar, but The Guitar! вЂњHot hands on his wet neck, IвЂ™m a hunter, heвЂ™s my gun.вЂќ And Lita Ford shows that the ladies can grind that axe as well as any man.

вЂњMy fingers roll his body making him scream,вЂќ they sing. This all female band treats the guitar as a lover, a lover named Johnny Guitar. The Runaways tell us that the guitar is a sensuous thing. If people keep a-grinnin' I figure I'm a-winnin' my good old yakety sound.вЂќ Yakety Axe! Oh yeah! Some fine guitar picking finishes off this number. Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins tell us that they like to вЂњscatter a little bit of happiness around. The clip linked in the playlist tells a bit of backstory that adds to the beauty of the song.Д«ut itвЂ™s not just pathos the guitar evokes. The guitar crosses all genres of music and country star John Denver tells of the impact of This Old Guitar his grandma gave him, a 1910 Gibson. He called her Lucille and tells the story in a 10-minute tribute.В He even talks to her. And like many blues greats, BB King developed a personal relationship with his guitar. Its ability to вЂњweepвЂќ, to wring out a sound evoking pathos, sorrow and sadness led to its wide use in the blues.

GeorgeвЂ™s song is a philosophical one, but the title captures one of the instrumentвЂ™s great appeals. вЂњWith every mistake we must surely be learning, still my guitar gently weeps.вЂќ The Beatles version (one of four versions nominated) leads off our playlist.

The guitar forms a counterpoint to the world he sees. George Harrison was very much into eastern mysticism and While My Guitar Gently Weeps was inspired by his reading of the I Ching. Some of the songs had introductions to them that told another story or added depth to the story. Some mythical tales, and some true ones about guitars with a real history behind them. Stories about playerвЂ™s personal relationship with their guitars вЂ“ not merely an instrument, but virtual friend, confidante, even as a sensuous lover. What struck me in the many suggestions for this topic was the number of interesting stories that came out.

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