Thread: United Breaks Guitars

I stumbled across this video on Digg.

This is about a guy that flew United Airlines for his Country music tour and noticed the baggage handlers were throwing his $3500 Taylor guitar around and eventually broke it. The band also noticed the handlers were throwing around the bassists instrument as well.

In short, the guy never got it resolved so he made 3 songs about it and currently 1 video.

Here is the link to his website with the explanation.
United Breaks Guitars | Dave Carroll Music.com

Best video ever! Thanx.

He's lucky. It could have been much worse.

My buddy made his girlfriend a nice martin copy. Really nice one. She dropped it off a porch and broke the tuning head off. He fixed it for her, no prob. He told her....I make, you break, I feeex.

If someone broke my acoustic baby, I would be inconsolable/homicidal.

Writing songs is a better outlet than any options I would have considered.

This video just played on National TV. Too funny.

Did a little research and here's a video of a cnn news piece it did on the song. They say that United is now in talks with David Carroll., wonder why? lol

But was that guitar in one of those tank cases? or was it just a soft carry case?

Originally Posted by Bruno

But was that guitar in one of those tank cases? or was it just a soft carry case?

I cannot imagine anyone who owns a Taylor guitar putting it in the hold of an airplane in a softshell case. Much less a professional player who earns his living with it. That guitar was in the hardshell case it came with when it was bought, you can count on it.

goshawk

United is such a terrible airline anyway. The only positive thing about flying with them is that I made it to all of my destinations. In this day and age though, getting there should be assumed. If Dutch KLM flew everywhere, that's who I'd take.