GuitarAttack

Guitars - playing and building, and some other stuff thrown in.

[Bridgewater Police (Massachusetts) @BwtrPolice]

05/23/2026 10:40AM Caller from South/Pleasant Street reports male party wearing camo clothing and possibly carrying a bazooka in the area. Officer reports male is landscaper with leaf blower.

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

Linda Ronstadt performing “Silver Threads and Golden Needles” with her backing band… who just happened to be The Eagles before they were famous!
This is pure early ‘70s California magic — that voice, that band, that chemistry. What a moment in music history! 🔥

[GuitarAttack @guitarattack]

We all sat and watched this happen. Ross Perot was laughed at for bringing this up during his presidential campaign. I saw what they did to my hometown - probably no way back now.

[Anduril Appreciator @A1Anduril]

Anduril Founder @PalmerLuckey on the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing:

“I’m gonna sound like a conspiracy theorist… it wasn’t an accident or a failure, it was a decision by the elites.”

“The elites decided that they were going to reform the United States in the image of what they wanted.”

“They wanted us to move ‘higher on the value chain’… get away from the making and into the design, and become a service economy.”

“If you rely on your strongest geopolitical adversary for all the things that make the American way of life possible… how are you ever going to negotiate with them?”

“Reindustrialization is about recognizing your own destiny doesn’t have a value that can be measured in dollars.” 🇺🇸

[PRS Guitars @prsguitars]

What goes into making a fretboard you want to play all night long? Take a firsthand look at the process, from installation, to trimming, and finally sanding!

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

I would rather be friends with someone I disagree with politically who never talks about politics than someone I agree with who can never shut the fuck up about politics.

[GuitarAttack @guitarattack]

A great post and a walk down Memory Lane. The “Alcohol Deglamorization Program” didn’t stop drinking in the military; it just made it an individual sport.

[KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler @MCCCANM]

In the movie “Top Gun”, Maverick picks up Kelly McGillis by singing in the Officer’s Club.

The “O Club” – as it’s known – was a thing, but died a slow death. I missed most of it in my career.

In the day, Mom got pissed at the Nellis AFB O’ Club for “Lingerie Night” where models came in & showed off lingerie for sale. It was an early memory for me, seeing those women cross the hall…Mom was beyond pissed & went on a crusade w/ the other Officer’s wives, ending up in the General’s office. They won, but I wish they hadn’t.

Before 9/11, the Air Force allowed busses of women to come onto the base on weekend nights, headed to the O’ Club. My Dad was the commander of Security Forces at the time; it was a thing he allowed & for a reason. Seriously, busses full of women, all going to the O’ Club…it was a hot spot at any base.

The O’ Club could be a wild place.

Once, at Nellis, Dad got a call on a Saturday (I think, but definitely a weekend). It was “Red Flag”, with fighter pilots from all over the world attending to do simulated air war against each other…they’d gotten drunk in the O’ Club & started actually fighting, smashing things up. Shit show.

He told his troops to go get all the dogs…Nellis was a center for military dog training & he had turned the “Squadron” into a “Group”, then made “Silver Flag” in the desert, where SF got to play war. It was now not just a place SF could be stationed, it was the home of SF.

Anyway, he recalled all the troops, went to the club & locked all the doors except one. Then they let the dogs in…nobody escorting, just release the dog with the command to go fuck things up. One by one, the pilots came out in surrender. He loved that story…wish I could hear him tell it one more time.

Anyway, the Tailhook Scandal happened & that was the death signal. Now, Commanders counted the amount of drinks you had. Instead of being a place you could relax, you had to be on duty still.

You had to pay to be a member of the O’ Club. It became a place where your career was in jeopardy, so membership declined. The Officer & Enlisted Clubs eventually merged to try & survive, but I don’t think it has gone well. Some Commanders would hold mandatory meetings there, and you had to be a member to attend, which generated some memberships, but that was received poorly.

The Pilot Training Bases still have a decent club scene. They don’t allow civilians to come anymore, but it’s a bunch of young trainee pilots trying to flex on each other, playing a very physical game called “Crud”. You’ll have to google that.

I helped a Major refit the Club at Vance AFB around 2000. He knew what to do & it was great…he managed to get an ejection seat & a stick from the T-37 right at the bar. Then he wired it so that if you pulled the “Trigger” on the stick, it set off alarm lights & sirens in the club, and now our brand new, naive student who fancied himself a steely-eyed killer owed the whole club beers when the lights & alarms went off.

I had a few good nights at O’ Clubs. Vance AFB could get wild on Assignment Night. Randolph AFB was still kicking… the AF Nursing program was based nearby & it had a basement Crud room w/ sandbag walls, so things could get wild when the nurses showed up to have fun. My buddy may make General, but I remember him passing out on a General’s lawn as a Lieutenant after a good night at Randolph & being woken by the sprinklers.

We lost something. Some of it was worth discarding, but not all of it was & it built relationships in a way we lack today. The Clubs were good, and it makes me sad they are in such a bad state today.

[GuitarAttack @guitarattack]

Always liked Dokken and have never seen this video. A great find but would have liked it better with more George in the mix!

[Rock History Live! @KTrain939913]

Random Song of the Day

Breaking the Chains
Dokken
live -1982 (germany)

[GuitarAttack @guitarattack]

@DarrellCBassist Worked with Drew in Nashville..always knew he was awesome.

[Carson Bowen @CarsBow910]

Ted Turner spent 20 years making sure a kid in Montana could watch the Braves. MLB spent 20 years making sure a kid in Atlanta couldn’t

[GuitarAttack @guitarattack]

My favorite Seinfeld bit!

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

Regarded by many as one of the best written, best acted scenes in Sitcom history.

PHILIP BAKER HALL delivers an all-time performance as ‘Lt. Bookman’ —The Library Cop, a role that changed this hugely talented Actor’s life & career forever.

[GuitarAttack @guitarattack]

We need more of this. Timeless.

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

That low-rider groove is timeless.

Pure funk soul that still runs the streets.

[GuitarAttack @guitarattack]

@NickNehamas You lost me when you referred to “immigration experts”…actually before.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

I knew it.....

[GuitarAttack @guitarattack]

And in today’s episode of “Forgetting Your Core Business”

[Guitar World @GuitarWorld]

“Guitars haven’t changed that much in the last 50 years. We’re about to change that”: Guitar Center is setting up its own in-house guitar brand – and it’s asking players for their help https://t.co/0OM5fLki5m

[Waffle House @WaffleHouse]

nobody's been this far from a Waffle House before

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD 😂

[PeachProof @PeachProof23]

I am literally crying. Imagine calling the cops because you think gnomes are invading, and it turns out to be chickens in high-vis vests. 💀

​Which one are you: The neighbor or Daniel?

[GuitarAttack @guitarattack]

@AriFleischer NATO should have been held to account in 1999 during the Kosovo operation. The British Commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps refused a direct order from SACEUR GEN Wesley Clarke, and our president at the time backed the Brits and not the US. First combat failure of NATO.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

A mariachi band plays while David Lee Roth takes a drag off his heater and Eddie Van Halen laughs his ass off. This is why I’m here, my friends.

[GuitarAttack @guitarattack]

@TVConefive @TheKevinDalton You have to show an ID?