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“He originally donated his skeleton to the local college and was medically prepared for the school,” Midnight says. “After 20 years, he ended up in a cemetery my family had to pay rent on. Like, literally in a wooden box. It’s a big problem in Greece because orthodoxy religion doesn’t want people cremated.”

Prince Midnight proceeded to contact the proper authorities, including the state department and state attorney’s office, in order to repatriate his uncle’s remains.

“So I got the box of bones from Greece and didn’t know what to do at first – bury them? Cremate them? Put them in the attic? All seemed like poor ways to memorialize someone who got me into heavy metal,” he continues.

And so Prince Midnight decided to turn his uncle into a guitar, which, he says unsurprisingly, “proved to be challenging.” After doing plenty of research – he even consulted with two people at Dean Guitars in Florida, who eventually “got cold feet,” Midnight built the guitar – dubbed the Filip Skelecaster – we see before us. As for the biggest challenge?

“Making sure it was actually playable,” Prince Midnight says. “The hardest part about building an instrument is constructing it a way that it will stay in tune.”

Regarding the skeleton guitar’s performance,” Midnight says that it “plays fine," though it also has its quirks.

“You have to strum inside the rib cage, so there are no sweeping chords like Pete Townshend of The Who. You can only strum as wide as the ribs will allow. There’s a certain unexplainable quality to it,” he says.

“I believe part of my uncle Filip is still there, literally and figuratively. Just a warm presence, maybe enjoying his next life as a totally metal guitar.”

He continues, “Now Uncle Filip can shred for all eternity. That’s how he would want it. I’m super-proud of the project and how it serves to honor him, his life and his influence on me.”


1 posted on 02/11/2021 8:46:21 PM PST by CtBigPat
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wat


2 posted on 02/11/2021 8:48:44 PM PST by dinodino ( )
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that stoner did NOT think this through. the guy is strumming his uncle’s pelvis.


3 posted on 02/11/2021 8:48:53 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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Hear it here: https://youtu.be/6xQD-MfOuQA
4 posted on 02/11/2021 8:49:05 PM PST by CtBigPat (The period of Crisis is ending. Now comes Normalization.)
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Well. It’s not like his uncle was using it anymore.


6 posted on 02/11/2021 8:53:39 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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That is resourceful, creative
and INCREDIBLY GHOULISH.
It sounds better as a theoretic idea, one you don’t wish to see in real life.

While I admire his ingenuity, I have a lot of problems with actually doing it. MORBID!!
If there is some museum of electric guitars, they may want it, for display purposes only.


8 posted on 02/11/2021 8:55:36 PM PST by lee martell
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Really should have stuck to playing a shovel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9-ltPsbw9g


9 posted on 02/11/2021 8:55:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Not humerus.


11 posted on 02/11/2021 8:57:04 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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degenerate.


13 posted on 02/11/2021 9:03:01 PM PST by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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The first thing he says to his audience... I have a bone to pick with you.


16 posted on 02/11/2021 9:08:07 PM PST by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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That blond ‘birdsnest’ is inspired by David Bowie Van Halen or Tina Turner.


18 posted on 02/11/2021 9:16:45 PM PST by lee martell
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Reminds me of a line from The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny:

“Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!”

19 posted on 02/11/2021 9:19:41 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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spinal tap needs this guitar


23 posted on 02/11/2021 9:37:37 PM PST by Bob434
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Does he play death metal?


28 posted on 02/11/2021 9:51:57 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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31 posted on 02/11/2021 9:54:01 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xQD-MfOuQA

something something whammy bar


33 posted on 02/11/2021 9:56:14 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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The descent into barbarism continues...


34 posted on 02/11/2021 10:14:07 PM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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How do we know this guy didn’t eat uncle Filip?


35 posted on 02/11/2021 10:15:34 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Ba dada da dum...bad to the bone...


37 posted on 02/11/2021 10:17:39 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan. )
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This guy is sick!!!!


41 posted on 02/11/2021 11:10:15 PM PST by tallyhoe
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He’d better hope he doesn’t have a nephew who resents what he did. The boy might get revenge by making an accordion out of him.


42 posted on 02/12/2021 12:05:49 AM PST by familyop
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