Weird Dimarzio ad

Disturber · Feb 28, 2026

A bit weird this one. A big picture of a Dean. Then a small of Rick with a Standard, and the text is about Rick. The large pick should have been a Standard.

Jakeboy · Feb 28, 2026

I bet a non-guitar playing employee graphic designer type picked the Dean photo and thought it was the same brand.

cmatthes · Feb 28, 2026

It was probably easier to find a Dean Z than a Standard? Who knows - weird, because that guitar in the pic with Rick doesn't have DiMarzios in it.

mrjamiam · Feb 28, 2026

AI running amok?

kizanski · Feb 28, 2026

cmatthes said:
...that guitar in the pic with Rick doesn't have DiMarzios in it.

I was thinking the same thing.

cmatthes · Feb 28, 2026

mrjamiam said:
AI running amok?

Nope - that was a real ad.

mrjamiam · Feb 28, 2026

cmatthes said:
Nope - that was a real ad.

I was sorta more thinking about the producer of the ad "leveraging" AI and not evaluating the output hard enough, like college kids letting ChatGPT do their homework. The thought occurs to me after seeing this monstrosity this week:

alantig · Feb 28, 2026

Whoever is responsible for that monstrosity should be beaten to within an inch of their life.

Then Sebastian Janikowski called out of retirement to kick him the rest of the way.

LucSulla · Feb 28, 2026

mrjamiam said:
I was sorta more thinking about the producer of the ad "leveraging" AI and not evaluating the output hard enough, like college kids letting ChatGPT do their homework. The thought occurs to me after seeing this monstrosity this week:

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The Miller Lite beer coaster... of all things to hallucinate.

That moves this from basic tastelessness to pure absurdity.

scottcald · Mar 2, 2026

cmatthes said:
It was probably easier to find a Dean Z than a Standard? Who knows - weird, because that guitar in the pic with Rick doesn't have DiMarzios in it.

And Rick's 40 years younger

cmatthes · Mar 2, 2026

scottcald said:
And Rick's 40 years younger

At the time that ad came out, he was maybe a year younger than that pic.

Weird Dimarzio ad

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