Song number two of a trilogy of songs by singer/songwriter Dave Carroll and his group 'Sons of Maxwell' was released today. It is the second one aimed at United Airlines for breaking his guitar.
A little over six weeks ago
Digital Journal reported on the adventure of Dave Carroll, a Halifax, Nova Scotia singer/songwriter and his group 'Sons of Maxwell' who had spent this past year attempting to get compensation from United Airlines for what he called “a vicious act of malice” at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago last spring (2008).
In an interview today with Mr. Carroll's "right hand man", Julian Marentette, he said,
In a conversation with United Airlines, Dave told them he was he was a singer/songwriter and that he would write three songs about the incident...I don't know why he said 'three' but he did, and today the video to song number two was released.
The first video released,
'United Breaks Guitars, Song 1" went viral on YouTube with almost 5 million views so far.
Marentette went on to say that
Dave is very sincere and as you know with Canada not being a litigious society he never sought legal action to be compensated.
After the release of the first video, United Airlines did offer him $1,200 in flight coupons and another $1,200 to help repair his guitar but by the time the offer was made it was a matter of "too little, too late" said Marentette.
According to
Dave Carroll's website he no longer wanted personal compensation for the incident but requested that United Airlines make a donation to charity.
Marentette went on to say,
Right now, he's just having fun with the whole thing.
United Airlines has made a donation of $3,000 to the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz in Mr. Carroll's name.
The
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, is a nonprofit education organization, founded in 1986 by the Monk family along with the late Maria Fisher, an opera singer and lifelong devotee of music. Its mission is to offer the world's most promising young musicians college level training by America's jazz masters and to present public school-based jazz education programs for young people around the world. All of these programs are offered free of charge to the students and schools says their website.
The single is also available on iTunes, Marentette said.
