HIGHLY PRESTIGIOUS MUSICAL CAREER FROM A MAGAZINE AD - LEARN TO PLAY THE CROSS CUT SAW
This magazine ad, from a 1948 Look magazine, is offering the opportunity to impress your friends by becoming an accomplished "RUSTY" Cross Cut Saw musician. Just imagine the possibilities. You could play at Carnegie Hall - SOLO!!! You could start your own musical group. It could be an opening band to accompany the percussion group STOMP. You could name it "SAW". People would say that they saw SAW, play a saw.
I would pay BIG BUCKS to see a concert with those groups. As an opening act you could play the saw and then when STOMP came on the stage, you could saw their props into smaller and smaller items. WHAT A GREAT IDEA.
I won't even charge you a fee for my million dollar idea.
What are you waiting for - ANSWER THE AD.
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I would pay BIG BUCKS to see a concert with those groups. As an opening act you could play the saw and then when STOMP came on the stage, you could saw their props into smaller and smaller items. WHAT A GREAT IDEA.
I won't even charge you a fee for my million dollar idea.
What are you waiting for - ANSWER THE AD.
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Posted by Ron D at 7/8/2010 9:14 AM 
Categories: Pop Culture, Advertisement, Humorous
Tags: nostalgic vintage advertising advertisements humor
Categories: Pop Culture, Advertisement, Humorous
Tags: nostalgic vintage advertising advertisements humor
You said that you would pay BIG BUCKS to see a concert with the musical saw in it. Well, actually you only need to pay $10 to see lots of people play the saw: every summer there is a musical saw festival in NYC: http://www.musicalsawfestival.org There is one coming up August 7th.
This is a video from last year's festival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuQp5WZY6fM
And, if you check the bio of the lady who organizes this festival - she has played the saw at Carnegie Hall!
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That is very interesting.
My main point was a concert with STOMP along with the saw musician. That is what I would pay BIG BUCKS to see.
As a side note, A Carnegie Hall duet with a saw musician and a harpist would be very interesting.
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