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11-15-2006, 07:42 AM
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A gallows guitar?
OK, I'll appologize up front for this one if the idea offends you, but the Anne Frank guitar idea got me to thinking. First of all I have a very inventive and sometime wacky mind. My father was an artist and cartoonist, my mother was a fine artist too, so I know where it came from. I can look at something and create a whole crazy scenerio for it. For example, while shopping with my wife in the drapery section of a store, she showed me a white mosquito netting that you could hang over a bed for romantic effect. I ask her if it came with a starter kit of mosquitos!
So here goes. It is pretty clear that Sadam Husein is going to meet his fate on the gallows. So, some guitar company buys the wooden gallows and turns in into guitars. If Taylor can make a pallet guitar this one could be made too. The headstock carries the coat of arms of all the military services (Army, Navy, Maries, & Air Force) participating in Iraq. The fret board inlay is a rope that has the large knott starting just above the 12th fret. The noose goes around the sound hole in place of a rosette. Offer them up on E-Bay for maximum sales. Profits from the sale of the "Limited Edition, Sadam Husein Gallows Guitar" go to a widows and orphans fund for US soldiers. OK, I'll wait here for the lynch mob to come get me. 
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11-15-2006, 07:52 AM
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Hmm, this could potentially turn nasty real quick ><
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11-15-2006, 08:25 AM
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And I would be the first purchaser for my LTC friend who is a plastic surgeon in the Army. I would pay an inflated price too since the funds go to a good cause. Win-win.
L.
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11-15-2006, 08:37 AM
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All though I appreciate the morbid humor I have to say that if this was something Taylor even considered doing in real life, I would NEVER touch one of their guitars ever again. There is absolutely nothing good about death penalty.
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11-16-2006, 05:47 AM
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Haven't a lot of Iraqi people died in this conflict ?
I must admit I found this post quite sad Regards Jerry
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11-16-2006, 06:44 AM
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I'm going to resist the urge to list the many reasons why that would be in incredibly poor taste. Somebody wanna shut this one down before it turns into a firestorm?
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11-16-2006, 05:38 PM
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Send it to the dock. Please.
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11-16-2006, 06:47 PM
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I say throw him back down the same spider hole where they found him, with nothing but MREs to eat and Fox News on 24/7. He'll find a way to hang himself sans gallows.
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11-17-2006, 07:58 AM
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Tough Call
Marginally offensive, but the heart's in the right place. And having the "evil" side (editorially-speaking) making repayments to the "good" side (again, editorially-speaking) has a certain made-for-TV Brady-style appeal.
I dunno. But I applaud you for having the courage to throw it out there. I also applaud the rest of the forum for offering reasonable responses and not starting a firestorm. Just my 2¢... Joe |
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11-17-2006, 10:18 AM
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A "gallows" guitar? Lots of guitars can be associated with death, darkness, the ominous. How about Johnny Cash with his black D35 as he sings Delia, with images of him carrying Kate Moss to her grave (all filmed in "black & white). Very dark, very sinister, very real. Cash was attacked by The National Organization of Women for doing that song. His reply was "I'm a singer of tales, and some of them are dark." Or how about the Martin that Barry McGuire used when he did Eve of Destruction? For its time, that song was very dark. Maybe even "gallows humor" in regard to the world situation at that time." Then there's The Mercy Seat, done by several people. You don't get much more "gallows" than that song. I don't think you need to specifically make a "gallows" guitar. For me, I can associate darkness, the forbidden, etc. with most any instrument, depending on the song content, the performer, and the atmosphere created by that particular artist's rendition. Likewise, you can find joyful feelings associated with Paul Stookey's The Wedding Song. I've seen him play that many times on his Classical/Folk guitar and it's the kind of sound I basically associate with that kind of guitar. Basically, I believe it's all relative to the situation, the song, the performer, and to some degree the guitar's appearance....Just my view. It doesn't necessarily make me right and someone else wrong.
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