PPG Wave 2.3 Blow's 1985's Doors Off With Ad Designed By "McGruff the Crime Dog"
October 15, 2008
In the fine tradition of 1980's bold font anti-drug and anti-smoking ads, PPG decided it might be time to jump on the bandwagon. Evidently there is something undesirable about letting tanks anywhere near your PPG wave. According to the ad, tanks must actually be running rampant through the streets, seeking kindly little PPG Waves to corner in a dark alley.
Following this logic within the ad, it would seem that cornering a PPG in a dark alley would only lead to the "synthesizer vs. tank" equivalent of a badger attack. Of course, if it is in fact a monkey, I would suppose that the Wave would just sit there and throw its feces at the tank.
Jaime Endick: WTF?
Owen O'Malley: It's hilarious in the original German.
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no German Panzer tanks
no German Panzer tanks allowed? dunno if PPG ran out of the no wooden doors allowed royalty-free logos back in the 80s?
It's rather a mixed metaphor, isn't it?
I remember puzzling over this ad when I first saw it in Keyboard Magazine in 1985.
I'm with Owen, it must be a German thing.
Don't forget that this PPG model was an utter failure, due to its extremely high price, lack of flexibility and ease of use, and a poor MIDI implimentation that reviewers called "laughable".
Panzer
If I remember correctly, the Panzer also suffered from MIDI implementation problems.
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