there's a 'zombie guitarist' story in here somewhere...

October 19, 2011 10:57 PM

Seems that, if it's a Telecaster, you indeed cannot "take it with you"...
posted by flapjax at midnite (6 comments total)

This could be legitimised to provide a useful addendum to the Donor Card:
- heart
- eyes
- liver
- guitar neck
- kidneys

If Burke and Hare were still in business this would lucratively have widened their trade in bodies, without infringing trade desciptions. Cool. Or cold, I suppose.

More lame gags may follow. Unless I'm sent a large cheque.
posted by MajorDundee at 2:49 AM on October 20, 2011


Yeah, I actually think it's a terrible waste to be buried with a guitar. I realise that if you own a guitar, it's yours and you can do whatever you want with it. But a part of me dies inside every time I see a guitarist smash a guitar onstage. Beautiful instruments deserve to be played, not to rot and die.

If you want to be buried with your guitar, you're essentially saying you want it to be destroyed. I love my Yamaha SG to pieces and thinking of it being buried underground forever is upsetting. I want it to be loved after I die.

This is like when you read about ancient societies burying attendants with kings and stuff. I know guitars aren't actually alive but it's just not fair. Honestly, once you die, you're dead, and I promise you will have absolutely no use for a guitar. It just seems extraordinarily selfish to me.
posted by Put the kettle on at 11:54 AM on October 20, 2011


I'll rate burial-with-guitar above smashing-guitar-on-stage as defensible acts of wealth-destruction go, though it's got less flair. But part of this is a mind-reading thing: if I believe someone really loved that goddam guitar, by all means, bury it with you. I won't begrudge you the suit you're buried in, and you probably don't love that half as much.

That said, I'd like to think that given the opportunity to rid myself of a guitar I'd go the route of handing it to some kid who looks like he'd play it.
posted by cortex at 8:37 AM on October 21, 2011


That guitar got put away with an embalmed body in a sturdy wooden box, inside a crypt above ground. It was going to stay in pretty good shape for a long time - I like the idea of somebody opening that casket in a couple hundred years and finding that Tele. If he didn't know anybody he thought deserved that guitar, let him do what he wants with it.

I'm in the give it away camp too though - I plan on being burned, and that would be a terrible thing to do to a guitar. Let someone else have a chance to love it. In fact, I gave away an old guitar I had last week to a friend's son because his had really crappy action and terrible pups. He needed something decent to play.
posted by InfidelZombie at 11:01 AM on October 21, 2011


I like the idea of publicising the fact in the obit that I was a guitarist and I've insisted on being buried with a fender. And when some slimeball digs me up to get their mitts on it all they find is a rusting car part and a laminated photo of my arse.
posted by MajorDundee at 11:38 AM on October 21, 2011 [3 favorites]


I plan on being burned, and that would be a terrible thing to do to a guitar.

Worked well for Jimi that one time...

a laminated photo of my arse.

But Major, you'll be a corpse. Why not just request that your arse itself be laminated?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:50 PM on October 21, 2011


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