A “heavy metal” musician from Tampa (west coast of Florida) named Prince Midnight decided to pay tribute to his beloved uncle Filip, who died in Greece more than 20 years ago. using his bones to build the first “Skelecaster” electric guitar.
A YouTube video, already seen by more than 200,000 users, shows the musician wearing a black leather jacket sitting on an amplifier while playing the guitar built with the remains of his uncle.
“The skeleton belonged to my beloved Uncle Filip, who died in the 1990s and, due to a series of events, his remains were repatriated to the United States from Greece and ended up in my possession,” Prince Midnight writes. on the channel page.
According to the rocker, his uncle was the person who introduced him to the “heavy metal” genre. his musical mentor now transformed into an electric guitar: a stick that appears to be from a Telecaster supports the ribs and extends with part of his uncle’s spine and hip bones, to which he holds the pickups and potentiometers.
Prince Midnight says he ruled out using Filip’s skull because it was damaged, but that his first intention was to crown the guitar stick with that part of the skeleton.
On his Facebook account, the musician assures that the guitar stays tuned, that all the pieces are level and a steel bar supports the backbone of the skeleton.
The guitar “is totally stable,” he says, and says goodbye to his uncle writing, “Uncle Filip RIP (Rock in Perdition).”
He acknowledges that his mother was shocked at first and told him that this was a sacrilege and devil’s work. “You know what moms are like,” he told the online newspaper HuffPost.
But she then asked her mother if she considered her uncle, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1996 in Greece, the world’s biggest “heavy metalhead,” to which she said yes.
“Where would you rather it be then, buried or spicy?” She asked, and she replied, “spicy”.
