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Never Mess With A Musician’s Gear!

In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling to Nebraska for a one-week tour and Dave Carroll’s Taylor guitar was witnessed being thrown by United Airlines baggage handlers in Chicago.

He discovered later that the $3,500 guitar was severely damaged. The airline didn’t deny the experience occurred but for nine months the various people Dave communicated with put the responsibility for dealing with the damage on everyone other than themselves and finally said they would do nothing to compensate him for his loss.

So, Dave promised the last person to finally say no to compensation (Ms. Irlweg) that he would write and produce three songs about his experience with United Airlines and make videos for each to be viewed online by anyone in the world.

  • United: Song 1 is the first of those songs.
  • United: Song 2 has been written and video production is underway.
  • United: Song 3 is coming.

Here’s the first of three:

Here’s the whole story with all the gory details »

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