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Comment by Stephen Crandell on November 19, 2011 at 5:10pm

Hey, I wonder if we could get Martin to sponsor an ad design competition for the slogan "Music history, Martin history, American history" with the winner getting a new D-45.  Maybe Dick Boak could judge it.

Comment by Stephen Crandell on November 19, 2011 at 5:04pm

Yeah Edward, that's the ticket.  Did you design this or did you find it somewhere?  

Comment by Bob Crain on November 19, 2011 at 2:26pm

I'll buy that.

Comment by Edward Sparks on November 19, 2011 at 2:06pm

Great idea Stephen...

How's this...

 

Comment by Stephen Crandell on November 19, 2011 at 8:21am

We may have just written a new Martin ad for the back cover of Acoustic Guitar magazine.  "Music history, Martin history, American history".

Comment by Bob Crain on November 19, 2011 at 1:35am

I will steer away from the politics you don't want to get me started on the conspiracy of Public Education especially as it relates to the teaching and learning of history.Ginger, in regards to brains and using them well one thing I have found over the years is that commonsense is not all that common.

Yes, Martins have always been at the forefront if you get a chance to go through the museum at the Factory they have it laid out pretty good. They were home on the range, marched for civil rights, passed the hours during the great depression and protested the war in Viet Nam. If you watch the movie MASH the "theme song" is played on a Martin. What makes them special to me everything about them is special the simplicity, the headstock (it's been copied by many), the durability, the "Made In America" logo, but of course mainly it's the sound. I went to a friends house to play at the time my Martin was having the neck reset, I played all of his dozen guitars and it my songs just didn't sound right on any of them. Eventually I got to his little 00 and although a bit small it had the sound that was pleasing to my ears. The other guitars were good guitars....they just weren't Martins.

 

Stephen the song Find The Cost Of Freedom is a great song, a Stills classic. I think the version on Four Way Street is the best.

Comment by Ginger on November 18, 2011 at 6:47pm

LOL to Stephen! Ain't dat da troot? Suing these days is right up there with lying & frankly this is where it comes in handy to have a brain & use it! If we accept someone based solely on the big letter after their name rather than whether or not they have *our* best interests at heart, we may as well "fold our tents" & walk away right now.

Comment by Stephen Crandell on November 18, 2011 at 5:57pm

MJ, I think we're on the same page.  Martin in hand or not, if our history is rewritten and changed, our children will stick their hands back in the fire, get burned, then they'll write a song asking  "why didn't someone tell me that fire is hot?".  And they'll probably look for someone to sue.  

Comment by Michael S. Jackson on November 18, 2011 at 5:14pm

I'll have to look that song up and give it a listen.

Musical instruments are indeed a by product of, and an influence to, history - that cannot be denied. Almost as much as firearms.

And, as we said, history cannot be ignored if you want to survive. For example, if we stick our hand in the fire, we learn, through history, that it will burn. If we learn from this history, we will choose not to do that again. We base our lives on the lessons of the past.

What I ask is: What if what you have learned is wrong? Martin in hand or not?

Comment by Stephen Crandell on November 18, 2011 at 5:09pm

Hi all,

I've been preoccupied for a while.  I've started building a PG (Portugese Guitar).  But I thought I'd look in and see what's happening here.  You've taken an interesting turn.  In response to MJ's question about what does all this have to do with Martin guitars, I would turn that sentence around a bit and say, what did Martin guitars have to do with all this.  Well, I wish Martin guitars could talk.  If some of those old vintage flat-top boxes could talk, they would voice a lot of different opinions, viewed from all sides,  regarding the questions you have raised.  That's one very important thing I like about Martin guitars.  They've been there and done that.  They have been and still are an iconic tool of freedom of speech.  If you haven't listened to CSNY's Find the Cost of Freedom lately, I suggest you take a listen.  What a song!  Valid then and valid now, no matter what your political point of view.

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