we drive past the offices of an ad agency every day, and to show their ingenuity they have a big space on their wall where they regularly put up ads - usually whimisical, but designed to make you think, “those guys are pretty smart and funny - i should hire them”.
A couple of weeks ago, they were showing an electric guitar, with the dates 1916-2009. That’s it - no other text.
Did the inventor of the electric guitar die recently, or something?
that’s probably it. I may easily have the date wrong - just saw it driving by. Thanks.
Homie!
I catch the bus at Albert and 15th every morning. The model of guitar shown on the billboard was a Gibson Les Paul so there was no ambiguity for people interested in guitars. Such people noted Paul’s passing for many reasons including him being the probable inventor of the solid body electric.
Here you can get a look and listen to Les Paul and his wife Mary Ford performing one of their hits, How High the Moon. It’s hard to choose just one song.
Does the gentleman on the left look familiar? Here’s a hint. He had a few masterpieces of his own.
Just occurred to me to take a look at the Brown Communications website. Here’s the billboard **Northern Piper **saw.
Nicely done. No wonder it got attention.
That’s a nice ad.
I knew about Les Paul the day he died. Then again, he’s from WI, so it was on the local news for a few days.
Alistair Cooke?