Guitar adverts...

Hyster

guitars4you said:

The wear to the lower bout of my 80's strat now finally makes sense.

axisus

A pic with a guitarist I admire - although the guitar would have to tick all the boxes as well.

Back in the 90s all the guitarists I was into played Ibanez - Satriani, Vai, Petrucci etc. I really wanted an Ibanez!

Philly_Q

I thought this Charvel/Jackson ad was amazing when I saw it 30-something years ago.  But I have never bought a Charvel or Jackson.

idiotwindow

Philly_Q said:

I thought this Charvel/Jackson ad was amazing when I saw it 30-something years ago.  But I have never bought a Charvel or Jackson.

That ad just reinforces all my prejudices against guitar brands like Jackson and Charvel.

axisus

Philly_Q said:

I thought this Charvel/Jackson ad was amazing when I saw it 30-something years ago.  But I have never bought a Charvel or Jackson.

er ..... so I recognise Steve Vai ..... Vinnie Vincent in the middle?

No clue as to the rest ....

I could probably make out the names at the bottom if I tried but I don't recognise anyone.

Philly_Q

axisus said:

Philly_Q said:

I thought this Charvel/Jackson ad was amazing when I saw it 30-something years ago.  But I have never bought a Charvel or Jackson.

er ..... so I recognise Steve Vai ..... Vinnie Vincent in the middle?

No clue as to the rest ....

I could probably make out the names at the bottom if I tried but I don't recognise anyone.

Here's another version of the same picture, naming all the names.

For what it's worth, there are two people I couldn't name when I found it this afternoon - but I wouldn't have known who they were at the time, either.  I think I've got albums featuring all the other players in the picture.

grappagreen

And Vai still manages to look cool amongst that lot!

Bellycaster

guitars4you said:

Sassafras said:

The only adverts I remember from magazines are those Blues Saraceno ones with his tartan guitar.
Maybe tartan's the way forward.

2

2 well known adverts from the 70's and 80's 

Good job it wasn't a Parker Nitefly!

bencowling81

I'm a sucker for a guitar propped up against the front of a tweed amp

guitars4you

@Philly_Q - maybe this Charvel/Jackson ad would make you buy a guitar

Philly_Q

guitars4you said:

@Philly_Q - maybe this Charvel/Jackson ad would make you buy a guitar

Nope.  But I'm surprised that's as recent as 2003, the world has changed so much!

It's making me wonder what happened to the Guitar World annual Buyer's Guide with pictures of glamour models awkwardly holding guitars and sprawling over amps.  The 2021 edition probably has a scowling Frances McDormand on the cover, to make you feel guilty for being so frivolous.

Funkfingers

Judging by the finger positions of the model in the advert, Jackson has the measure of their customers.

donbot

Boobs. 

Logie

This'll do

https://i.imgur.com/baY1Jqz.jpg

Jetfire

https://www.collectors.com/entertainment-item/1994-vintage-8x11-print-ad-for-peavey-guitarsamps-dweezil-z/1043353968888466126

The 1990s had great adverts 

Funkfingers

The odd thing with the Peavey ad is that, while Dweezil Zappa certainly had signature Peavey amp (the Wiggy), I have no recall of him using their guitars.

Strat54

Everyone started on an Aria.....

Tannin

Who even sees ads these days? Hardly anyone buys print magazines or newspapers, no-one with a brain watches commercial TV, anyone with half a brain uses an ad-blocker on the computer, and most of us have got very, very good at not seeing or remembering stuff that sneaks through the ad-block. That leaves not much. Outdoor, I suppose, though my response to billboards big enough and obtrusive enough to catch my attention while driving is to curse the barstards who put the thing up and resolve never to buy anything from that mob. 

All that said, I do like pictures of the workshop or factory where the guitars are made, and I hate, hate, hate those ridiculous grainy black and white or sepia images of a romanticised workshop from the 1910s for guitars you know perfectly well are turned out in a big modern factory full of CNC machines, or an anonymous sweat-shop somewhere in China.

TLDR: forget the advertising. Just make good guitars. People will find them eventually.

carlos

Sassafras said:

A scantily clad slut draped over it.

"I'm very impulsive. I hardly give much thought at all before I do something."

richardhomer

Redlester said:

A money off coupon- the kind of thing with dotted lines around it with an image of a pair of scissors. 

Add a large finger/ hand with shirt-cuff image pointing to it. 

Details of where to post your cheque/postal order - and who it should be payable to - are always helpful as well.