BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar

Subject: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: SharonA
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 06:05 PM

I'm sure most folks here have read about Resident Bush strumming while New Orleans flooded (akin to fiddling while Rome burned) last Tuesday August 30, when country singer Mark Wills presented a guitar to him backstage following his visit to Naval Base Coronado, California. It's a mighty purdy cutaway with the Residential Seal on it. Hard to read the headstock from this photo but I think it's a Collings.

In another Mudcat thread, PoppaGator said he left behind his 1969 Martin D-18 when he evacuated New Orleans last weekend. Lord knows when he'll be able to go back home and check on his house and that guitar. If it turns out that his Martin D-18 has been crushed in the hurricane and/or filled with toxic sludge by the flood, he could always present it to Resident Bush as well. Bush could hang it on a White House wall next to the Mark Wills guitar. Just as a reminder, since he couldn't seem to remember on that day that hundreds (thousands?) of American citizens were in the process of drowning -- the ones who hadn't died the previous day -- or that more were going to die over the following two days before he quit playing and started working.

As a matter of fact, wouldn't that make a great display on the Washington mall -- kinda like the AIDS quilt: line up every crunched-up, sludge-filled guitar dredged up from New Orleans, all in rows across the lawn, with that cutaway-with-the-Residential-Seal right in the middle of them all. I want to see the satellite photo of that.

Yeah, I know, it'll never happen. At least not till we get a non-Republican President. Hey, I can dream, can't I?

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 06:22 PM

That's a pretty strange chord the man is playing - it looks like a G fingering played one fret too high. It does not sound at all good, just try it...

No wonder that bloke standing behind him is looking so pained. But tin-ear Bush looks happy.

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: Peace
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 06:26 PM

"What Bush can do with his new guitar"

I have a suggestion . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: SharonA
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 06:43 PM

Which end first, Peace?

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 06:50 PM

Maybe Bush thought the guitar was tuned a half-step low.

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: Peace
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 06:51 PM

SharonA, I love the tile of this thread. Bush will do for guitar what Condi will do for shoes. There has to be a sense of priority in government--people expect that from their leaders. I am glad that neither of the above mentioned have let folks down.

Truthfully, I was thinking the head. That way, if he puts it in an open tuning, he'll be able to do a bar chord at the twelfth fret. At least that's what I envisioned. I would be willing to tune the guitar if there are any folks around who'd be willing to help with the insertion and sliding of the guitar back and forth so that with George's help we can do a reasonable rendition of of something lively like "Flight of the Bumblebee". Neat novelty act to take on the road.

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 06:52 PM

I really like that idea, Sharon!! All lost instruments, found, should be displayed! I still don't think he'd get it, though. He is completely disconnected from the world as it is.

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: Peace
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 06:53 PM

"Maybe Bush thought the guitar was tuned a half-step low."

LOL

In-joke for guitar players. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: Azizi
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 06:58 PM

I really like the idea of an interactive museum to commemorate this tragedy.

And in addition to the photos of people who lost their lives there wouldn't it be something to have a display of instruments that were found.

But then there should be musicians hired at good rates to play their instruments in that same hall to honor the dead and show that the music didn't die.

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: SharonA
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 07:01 PM

Alas, you're right about Bush's disconnect, Kat. And I knew that when I started this thread. Heck, we've all known that ever since the "My Pet Goat" incident. After all the criticism he took for that, he not only pulls the same trick almost exactly four years later (except this time he was still on his extended vacation, not just having come back from it like last time), but he extends those seven minutes into half a week.

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 07:17 PM

I wonder if it could fit sideways

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 07:25 PM

I think a lute would be more appropriate....

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 07:40 PM

Nope - a banjo. A very cold banjo.

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: Peace
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 07:57 PM

Hey, the banjo suggestion solves two problems at the same time. Good thinkin'.

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 08:27 PM

He should stick to pretzels. Preferably while playing a harmonica...

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: SharonA
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 09:17 PM

Jeez, how many instruments are we giving to this a$$hole? ;^)
(As many as will fit... and at least one more...)

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Peace, I loved GUEST's in-joke about the half-step too! Besides, if there's anybody who's half-steppin', it's Dubya!

Oh, yes, and as for your pegs-first, sliding-back-and-forth idea, I can only imagine the harmonics. I wanna hear him do "Mood For a Day."

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: Peace
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 09:24 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 10:10 PM

Azizi, that would be a very fitting and moving tribute; certainly we need some kind of memorial and that would be excellent, imo.

Personally, I think ya'll are talking about a waste of a good instrument...as I said he still wouldn't get it, no matter where ya put it!:-)

Better we should tie him in a wheelcahir while the waters rise and allow him one call per day to ask if Condi, Cheney, or Rummy are coming to get him...

kat

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: SharonA
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 10:45 PM

Exactly, Kat, we are talking about a waste of a good instrument: the waste of giving it to Dubya! Now that he's had his photo op, he'll never touch it again (much to the relief of anyone who had to listen to his "Gee, sharp!" chord). He's not going to sell it on eBay and donate the proceeds to the hurricane victims, either.

I agree that Azizi has a great idea for a living memorial. (I especially like that "hired at good rates" part!)

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 11:09 PM

Yep, auction the thing off and put the money in a fund to buy replacement instruments for all the New Orleans musicians that have lost theirs.

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: GUEST,Wesley S.
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 11:53 PM

The guitar doesn't resemble any Collings I've ever seen. Let's hope not. I've always thought of Collings as being a classy company. I suspect it's a Crafters.

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 06:03 AM

Might I respectfully suggest an automatic umbrella.

Insert.... Press button......Next Pres please!

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: What Bush can do with his new guitar
From: fat B****rd
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 02:03 PM

.....no question about it, Blair could bring over his Fender and.....