Sérgio
Ambassador of CaliZilian Affairs
Back in '96 I saw an ad in a '95 Guitar World issue, it was a Dean Markley Blue Steel Strings ad, with a guy sort of waiting for a bus or a ride, with guitar case. The main color of the page was blue.
It was the nov '95 one, ACDC on the front cover.
The ad said
"Your father will curse
and your mother will weep ..
They keep wondering when you will grow up
and get your act together ..
But your dreams are not theirs ..
So string up and take it on the road ..
Becausein time
even parents will understand ..."
That ad actually made me dream of the day I'd be an electric guitar player myself (I was already a musician, but played classical guitar and was very frustrated. I fought a lot to become a gigging electric guitar player).
I lost that mag issue a couple of months later, and never found it again. Since then I had been looking all over the web for that Dean Markley ad, I even emailed Dean Markley and Guitar World but got no reply.
To my great joy, I just found an old issue for sale, and after 20 years + I saw it again.
It was the nov '95 one, ACDC on the front cover.
The ad said
"Your father will curse
and your mother will weep ..
They keep wondering when you will grow up
and get your act together ..
But your dreams are not theirs ..
So string up and take it on the road ..
Becausein time
even parents will understand ..."
That ad actually made me dream of the day I'd be an electric guitar player myself (I was already a musician, but played classical guitar and was very frustrated. I fought a lot to become a gigging electric guitar player).
I lost that mag issue a couple of months later, and never found it again. Since then I had been looking all over the web for that Dean Markley ad, I even emailed Dean Markley and Guitar World but got no reply.
To my great joy, I just found an old issue for sale, and after 20 years + I saw it again.
