Help me remember this TV commercial

Factual Questions
1

I have two questions about it.

First, what I remember (I only saw it once):

It takes place in a small, quiet, dimly-lit music store.

Two or three 20ish people are playing a guitar. One of them is playing James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain”, not that well.

Another of them says, “No, like this”, but his attempt isn’t much better.

Then, they hear “Fire and Rain” played, flawlessly, from over in the corner.

They look over and see the player. He has his back to them. But when he turns his head towards them and smiles, they see that it’s James Taylor.

My questions:

  1. What was it a commercial for? (Possibly, a new James Taylor record?)

  2. Where I’ve gotten details wrong, please correct me – I found it a very appealing commercial, and wanted to remember it right.

2

It takes place in a music store, right? But instead of playing back “Fire and Rain” he does a few lines from “October Road”.

3

From here:

[quote]
Taylor’s label not only booked him on the “Today” show, “Entertainment Tonight” and “Access Hollywood,” it also fashioned a slick TV ad campaign that shows the star walking into a guitar store while a teen salesman happens to be strumming “Fire and Rain.” As the kid wallows in the past, 54-year-old Taylor performs the title track of his new album. The ad has been everywhere from CNN to the Home & Garden channel. As a result, “October Road,” has moved 400,000 copies in just four weeks, holding at No. 12 on Billboard’s Top Album list.

I can’t find what the commercial was for though.

4

Thank you, x-ray vision.

And howsabout cut me some slack on not remembering what the commercial was for – I’m pretty tuned out of current events in music, so I didn’t know he even had a new record out.

5

I just realized that your comment about not knowing what the ad was for may have been sincere? If so, my apologies for assuming it was sarcasm.

6

No prob. I really don’t remember.

7

Link to the ad.
Quicktime required.

8

:smack: I just realized this is the same link x-ray vision posted. I didn’t click on that one, and thought it was just an article about the ad.

Sorry