A year or so I was at an airport and some network morning show had Mellencamp on playing "Pink Houses" (if my memory serves me correctly). The guitar he was playing was a scratched up Martin. I was walking to a terminal and the performance stopped me in my tracks. It sounded awful. Whoever the sound guy was needed reprimanded. I've heard more pleasing tone come out of a Wallmart Cars kid's guitar being recorded by a cell phone.