OH Well, May I slide in here for a moment.......
I sit here with my ole' Kalamazoo Epiphone Texan that I took to DaNang with me in the '60s. She's still showing the scares of when the rocket hit the hooch and cut through the metal wall locker and part of the hard shell case. Three U.S. Airman died that night next to her. I was out on the flight line at the time or who knows.......maybe I'd never gone on to be a history professor in one of my other lives to date. ..... I almost took the Guild F-212, but Epi went instead.
There is far more right about the United States than there is wrong that's for sure. We are the most giving and forgiving people in the history of the world...not just an opinion, there are facts to back that up.
We are also at times ego-centric, and there are other world opinions to back that up also. However, I compare it to a fighter pilot.....he has to have a healthy ego in order to do what he is tasked with responsibility to do. But, there is a fine line line between being self-assured and being over egotisitcal......With out self assurance you don't succeed, .....and there is usually no one behind you to get the job done more often than naught, if you don't succeed. We run that risk on the world stage. We didn't want it to be that way, it just evolved to be that way from the 40's on.
What ever name, what ever face tyranny puts on over the years in the name of politics or religion, the concept of a democratic republic or pure democracy anywhere in the world is usually one of the first targets it looks to address. We just need to know and feel that we don't stand alone in dealing with the Big "T" when its ugly head rears up and it sometimes takes more than a year, a decade, a lifetime to win over the big "T." Healthy discussion of how best to do that is always good as long as we all remember that sooner or later someone has to take timely action or it doesn't matter how much discussion you have, its for naught. And its always tough when you find you only have the choice of the lesser of two or three evils to counter a much greater evil. WWII took everyone in the fight to win it. The Cold War was no different. Today is no different.
I'll be glad to kid with you about Yanks and Mates, etc. I'll kid with you about almost anything and take no offense.......we just all need to know that if we all want to continue to play our Guilds in our own unique and sometimes different form of freedom, with the freedom to discuss it all on-line as we are doing now, then the focus needs to be on how to defend that freedom against the true evil of the Big "T," in any of its forms over time.
AND YES, ARE NOT GUILDS THE BEST GUITARS IN THE WORLD!......talk about singing to the choir and being egotisitcal about something!
(I are one!)
Beer! Did someone say Beer!..........my vote goes to a Pennsylvania local called Yingling Lauger....... and......now and then that Celtic dark one with a pingpong ball in the container. I even got used to drinking it warm while I was in Dublin! (But first it got the best of me......my cousin said at least I Was a happy over-indulger!) did you know that Guilds play better when one has beer?
