What is the coolest thing written on the surface of an instrument?

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I'm talking about user-generated content here. Please provide images. These are pretty cool:

Woody Guthrie:
http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/ross/archives/This_Machine_Kills_Fascists.gif

Pete Seeger's response:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/49/114357902_ee54f0c09f.jpg

Joe Strummer's sticker:
http://clashphotorockers.free.fr/images/scene/02scenestrummer04.jpg

dad a, Thursday, 13 November 2008 19:46 (seventeen years ago)

ihttp://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/9/93/Lefty2928_insert_003.jpg
it's just his name, but it's cool

people explosion, Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

karl hyde's guitar is great.

brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:25 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.nypress.com/images/underworld2.jpg

brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.bigsbyguitars.com/images/guitar_600.jpg

snoball, Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

I like how Ronald Mael covers up the large-print ROLAND logo on the back (audience-facing) panel of his keyboards, substituting the slightly scrambled "RONALD".

But I can't find a picture...

Paul in Santa Cruz, Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

Found a picture. It's big, so here's the link, and if anybody knows how to post it smaller, I'd be grateful for the assistance...
http://web.telia.com/~u13310518/sparks/P2238050.jpg

Paul in Santa Cruz, Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

yeah this is cool about 0% of the time

metametadata (n/a), Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

without regards to the music, i was pretty amused the first time i noticed that the woman from the dresden dolls had modified her kurzweil logo into "kurt weill"

CHARMING LMAO (John Justen), Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:42 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/2508805679_afe3450eeb.jpg?v=0

henry s, Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:42 (seventeen years ago)

it's about as cool as having a "don't blame me, i voted for the other guy" bumper sticker on your camry

metametadata (n/a), Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:42 (seventeen years ago)

oh man I wasn't even thinking about bass drum skins:
http://cache.idolator.com/assets/resources/2008/06/sgt_pepper.jpg

dad a, Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:47 (seventeen years ago)

Tell us how you really feel n/a.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:49 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.heroinesheiks.com/images/hs_4.jpg

can't really see it, but dude from heroine sheiks has LOL on his guitar

goole, Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:51 (seventeen years ago)

in case of rapture this stratocaster will be unmanned

'RAPPERS I WOULD NEVER DREAM OF PUNCHING IN THE FACE?' (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:54 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/06/16/isaak2_wideweb__470x362,0.jpg

L@OO@K WHOS AWAKE NOW (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 13 November 2008 21:01 (seventeen years ago)

This probably

http://www.vintagekramer.com/Sambora/yg1.jpg

kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 13 November 2008 21:10 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/inspirations/PicturesOfLilyKit.jpg

Sara Sara Sara, Thursday, 13 November 2008 21:47 (seventeen years ago)

Close-up of one of the panel designs:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/ThatEventuality/Art/keith_drumlogo.jpg

Sara Sara Sara, Thursday, 13 November 2008 21:48 (seventeen years ago)

I was torn between that kit and this:
http://www.thewho.info/images/MAWTSH-NLss-The_Who.jpg

dad a, Thursday, 13 November 2008 21:49 (seventeen years ago)

Sara Sara Sara wins.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 13 November 2008 21:52 (seventeen years ago)

looks like keith moon is also torn between two kits

x-post

L@OO@K WHOS AWAKE NOW (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 13 November 2008 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.kulick.net/photoalbum/message_nov06/MotleyBassDrum.jpg

Granny Dainger, Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

i bet tommy lee fucked both those holes

L@OO@K WHOS AWAKE NOW (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:15 (seventeen years ago)

This Machine Kills Fascists is kind of cool, but none of the subsequent riffs on that line have ever been cool.

Albert Jeans (Hurting 2), Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:18 (seventeen years ago)

Not an instrument per se, but GAY SPUNK has to be up there

Telephone thing, Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

not if you cleanse yourself properly

Granny Dainger, Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:46 (seventeen years ago)

My favorite Austin musician.

that song on a freebie compilation I got when I ordered a pizza. (Display Name), Friday, 14 November 2008 00:09 (seventeen years ago)

lets be real, nothing is going to beat Guthrie

mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Friday, 14 November 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

except complications of huntington's disease

metametadata (n/a), Friday, 14 November 2008 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

i like puns on synth names. the cutest is the "fairlite" sticker martin gore stuck on his vl-tone. i like the sparks one upthread.

my midi synth is made by evolution, and i wanted to prefix an 'r' but then decided on a 'tr' in honour of my friend trevor

rio (r1o natsume), Friday, 14 November 2008 01:13 (seventeen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Lasdrum.jpg

Mr. Snrub, Friday, 14 November 2008 01:17 (seventeen years ago)

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_1pIhehDL1Tw/R6RhRM-G6ZI/AAAAAAAAAWY/XV9Em9kJS3w/s576/watt%

MaresNest, Friday, 14 November 2008 09:52 (seventeen years ago)

It's hard to see on an image this small but Geezer has COCAINE written in the Coca Cola logo on his bass.

http://xrock1039.com/news/data/upimages/GeezerButler_LRG.jpg

Nate Carson, Friday, 14 November 2008 11:12 (seventeen years ago)

One time I wrote "this machine kills fat chicks" on a guitar before a show. No one got it.

monkey bonkers (╓abies), Friday, 14 November 2008 11:15 (seventeen years ago)

and you got nowt, right?

Mark G, Friday, 14 November 2008 11:18 (seventeen years ago)

what?

monkey bonkers (╓abies), Friday, 14 November 2008 11:21 (seventeen years ago)

Coolest thing written on the surface of cookware:

THIS TAGINE KILLS FASCISTS.

Albert Jeans (Hurting 2), Friday, 14 November 2008 12:35 (seventeen years ago)

I kind of agree with n/a.

The coolest thing written on the surface of an instrument is either "Rickenbacker" or "Buchla & Associates, Berkeley California".

Pashmina, Friday, 14 November 2008 12:47 (seventeen years ago)


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