Contest description: Our ad appearing in the February 2006* edition of Vintage Guitar Magazine (click on the above miniature ad to see a large version) was also a FREE T-shirt giveaway contest. The ad is built around a vintage (circa late 1950s) photograph of a girl watching a television set. We made a total of 47 alterations and additions to the original photo. Your mission was to find as many of these changes as you could, then list them in an email to us. If you were one of the first 50 to have the correct (or near correct) answers you have won a FREE Mercury Magnetics™ T-shirt (quality-made, 100% cotton).

*Note that this issue actually came out in the first week of December 2005!

Please Note: Winners have been notified by email and have been sent their Mercury Magnetics T-shirts.

Here's the list of all 47 alterations and additions to the photo –

Television:

Test pattern added to television screen

Text added to television screen

Marshall logo on television cabinet

Television cabinet is embossed with a Zig-Zag logo

Girl in photo:

Girl has a Mercury Magnetics logo on her shirt

Girl’s hand has two pinkies

Girl has a “thought bubble”

Amplifiers & Guitars:

Fender Bassman added

Bassman logo has a 3^rd “S” (reads: “Basssman”)

Les Paul Jr. added

LP Jr. has 2 control knobs on wrong side

LP Jr. has 3^rd fret has double dots

LP Jr. peghead has Fender logo

Tele added

Tele peghead has Gibson logo

Tele has extra tone knob

Tele is missing dot on 12^th fret

Tele has 7^th string tuning key

Pictures:

Picture: Sgt. Peppers

Picture: Ozzy

Picture: Angus Young

Picture: Billy Gibbons

Picture: Chuck Berry

Picture: Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck

Picture: Jimi Hendrix

Picture: Capt. Beefheart & Zappa

Picture: Elvis

Picture: SRV (hands)

Picture: EVH

Other Objects:

Object: 2 bottles of Jack Daniels

Object: G.I. Joe

Object: Hash Pipe on TV

Object: Album -- Bob Dylan

Object: CD set -- Beckology

Object: pack of Chesterfield Kings

Object: Keith Richards’ skull ring (in candy jar)

Object: Keith Richards’ guitar (in flower vase)

Object: Mr. Natural curio (clue for upcoming theme of Mercury Magnetics new T-shirt)

Book spine: How to Pick Up Girls

Video spine: Debbie Does Dallas

Magazine: Rolling Stone -- Keith Richards

Magazine: Rolling Stone -- Jimi Hendrix

Magazine: Guitar Player – SRV

Previous ad clues (for bonus T-shirt):

3-heads wearing hats hanging on wall (clue from first Mercury Magnetics VG ad)

Object: Gag teeth (clue from 2^nd Mercury Magnetics VG ad)

Object: X-Ray specs (clue from 2^nd Mercury Magnetics VG ad)

Object: Troll doll (clue from 2^nd Mercury Magnetics VG ad)

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