Bad Ads, cont.

Tiparello

The 1970s must have been very strange. Offering a menthol cigar to a nearly topless woman playing a string instrument — did this situation happen often?

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12 Responses to “Bad Ads, cont.”

  1. Skinny Dennis: February 1st, 2013 at 7:27 pm

    Ah, I see he prefers the good tips…

  2. Neil Clayton: February 1st, 2013 at 7:31 pm

    that’s a great pop art picture, despite the theme.

  3. zombie rotten mcdonald: February 1st, 2013 at 7:34 pm

    at least she wasn’t a flautist…

  4. Another Kiwi: February 1st, 2013 at 7:37 pm

    I grew up in the 70′s and don’t remember this ever happening in violin practice. Of course we were a classy music school, lord knows what went on elsewhere.

  5. Yastreblyansky: February 1st, 2013 at 7:54 pm

    AK has typically missed the bus. While it is not clear from the picture, you had to play viola. At least for the menthol Tip. English Ovals for oboists, and obviously Gauloises for the cor anglais.

  6. Skinny Dennis: February 1st, 2013 at 9:42 pm

    Oh wait, I heard about this, it’s Band Camp!

  7. zencomix: February 2nd, 2013 at 7:23 am

    “The 1970s must have been very strange.”

    This ad merely scratches the surface of 1970s weirdness.

  8. Mr618: February 2nd, 2013 at 7:38 am

    Aside from Charlotte Moorman (you youngsters can look her up on teh Googles), the only nearly-topless girls playing stringed instruments that *I* saw were all playing guitars. Lots of those, though, in the 60s and 70s.

  9. Mr618: February 2nd, 2013 at 7:39 am

    Oh, and there has never been a real violinist that cute. Also, too.

  10. Dimitrios: February 2nd, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    Fiddler’s brace their fiddle against their arm.

    Violinists tuck their violin under their chin.

    Judging by where the only topless violinist I ever saw tucked her instrument, I didn’t know what to call her.

  11. M. Bouffant: February 4th, 2013 at 12:22 am

    Menthol cigars? Yowtch. What the?

    Points for the Charlotte Moorman memory, also too.

  12. PWL: February 4th, 2013 at 9:58 am

    “Did the situation happen often?”…only on acid…