To help spread a peaceful social message, a musician in violence-wracked Colombia is making guitars out of guns. César López calls his creations escopetarras, a Spanish combination of "gun" and "guitar." While the escopetarra looks very cool, it sounds like pure hell. But hey, that could just be the guy's playing.
Music Thing has a page dedicated to the history of the gun-guitar; they go back quite a long ways.
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Posted by floridacracker at March 13, 2006 12:20 PM"Cobain Would Have Loved It"
::chuckles::
That is so so so very mean... hehe
Posted by: kyer at March 13, 2006 12:45 PMHe'd have said, alternating between mumbling and screaming, "Those guitar-guns are the coolest things ever. I MUST HAVE ONE. Is there a place inside it where I can stash my works? THAT'D MAKE IT PERFECT."
Posted by: Donnah at March 13, 2006 12:52 PM