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08 Jul 08 - 08:31 PM (#2384273) Subject: Guns inside guitars From: The Fooles Troupe "What was that terrible western film where the hero had a banjo with a hidden shotgun or such in the neck? There was also some bad chili-eating." From by Skivee... Actually I remember as a kid watching one of the famous TV cowboys who had a rifle hidden in a guitar. |
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08 Jul 08 - 08:34 PM (#2384278) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: Midchuck The Antonio Banderas film, "Desperado," carries this concept to extremes. Peter |
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08 Jul 08 - 08:41 PM (#2384285) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: GUEST,Gerry Part of Woody Guthrie's legend is the inscription on his guitar, "This machine kills fascists." I guess if you had a guitar like that, you wouldn't need to hide a weapon in it. I'm thinking of putting an inscription on my computer, "This machine kills time." |
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08 Jul 08 - 09:50 PM (#2384313) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: katlaughing I hated the kids on the schoolbus. I carried my violin back and forth to school every day. Every day one of them had to make some stupid joke about my case holding a machine gun ala La Cosa Nostra! Idjits! |
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08 Jul 08 - 09:56 PM (#2384317) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: John on the Sunset Coast The Supreme Court gave that bad-ass guitar player the right to have the gun. Or maybe he was just a bad guitar player, and needed a defense against his critics. Were the barrels of the shotgun the fret board? Well, I, for one, am not going to fret about it. |
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09 Jul 08 - 12:40 AM (#2384373) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: Melissa I would like to carry my fiddle in a gun case.. |
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09 Jul 08 - 02:29 AM (#2384394) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: Barry Finn I'd like to shoot the guy who recommended the piccolo player as a good choice who played off key at the church last Sunday, he was damned to hell by the pastor who hired him & was nearly lynched by the congregation. Devil's music he was playing, God awful. Barry |
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09 Jul 08 - 04:01 PM (#2385024) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: Skivee I would just like to note that I still have not found the film/ program that had the banjo with the gun. I should think that all the banjo players in the Mudcat braintrust would have this clip at their fingertips; at the very least as a balm aginst all the lame banjo jokes. |
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09 Jul 08 - 04:05 PM (#2385028) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: Banjiman "What was that terrible western film where the hero had a banjo with a hidden shotgun or such in the neck? There was also some bad chili-eating." Where can I get one (a banjo with a shotgun in the neck not a bad chili)? Very useful for dealing with banjo player abuse which is rife in the British folk clubs! Paul |
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09 Jul 08 - 04:08 PM (#2385036) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: katlaughing Skivee, I think it may have been part of the Sabata Trilogy with Lee van Cleef. I saw a reference to that when I did a google search, in a review of something else at amazon. |
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09 Jul 08 - 04:17 PM (#2385054) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: Genie I've seen that Western video, and it's definitely a banjo. I had it bookmarked, but it's in an old computer that I can't get into right now. |
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09 Jul 08 - 04:31 PM (#2385072) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: Skivee That was it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vQ-NhyctOho&feature=related That'll show folks for making fun of banjos |
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09 Jul 08 - 04:37 PM (#2385085) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: Genie Here it is, clickified: Badass Banjo! |
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09 Jul 08 - 07:49 PM (#2385248) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: GUEST,Roy's Horse In some cases, depending on the performer, the mere wielding of a guitar can cause people to run for the exits! |
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09 Jul 08 - 08:20 PM (#2385261) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: 12-stringer There's also The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967), which predates the "Sabata" films and features the legendary Roy Orbison as the guy who can pick a tune and shoot at Indians with the same instrument. Script is said to have been offered to Elvis, who took a pass, though it's still better than most of Elvis' late 60s pictures. The songs given to Orbison are, sadly, on a par with "Do the Clam." |
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09 Jul 08 - 09:23 PM (#2385294) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: katlaughing What a fun thread! Here is Roy singing "Pistolero from the above mentioned movie! |
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09 Jul 08 - 11:54 PM (#2385363) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: Escapee I think that was the instrument for which "Dueling Banjos" was written. |
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10 Jul 08 - 03:51 AM (#2385443) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: theleveller In my early years when I played the banjo (now there's the sort of confession you'd normally on get on the psychiatrist's couch)I spent hours trying to play Eric Wiseberg's Flop Eared Mule and ended up wanting to shoot myself. |
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10 Jul 08 - 04:14 AM (#2385449) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: Ross Wasn't it Son of Paleface with Bob Hope I think Roy Rogers & Trigger was in it And Roy shot Jane Russells bosoms with it The desert bit with the penguins was good - I think he sang that famous song - something & bows Then the umbrella escape from the chasing Indians Painless Potter |
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11 Jul 08 - 03:43 AM (#2386333) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: Genie That would be "Buttons & Bows." |
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11 Jul 08 - 03:46 AM (#2386335) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: GUEST,Volgadon Bad chili eating sounds like Blazing Saddles. |
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11 Jul 08 - 03:59 AM (#2386342) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: Genie Ross, that would be "Buttons & Bows." |
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11 Jul 08 - 04:02 AM (#2386344) Subject: RE: Gun inside banjo From: Genie BTW, Ross, there was a 1960s film called The Tenth Victim, in which Ursula Andress shot and killed a guy with guns disguised as her bikini bra. |
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11 Jul 08 - 11:01 AM (#2386589) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: Ross Wow - cheers for that I knew/my Mum said bras were dangerous & cheers for the buttons - it came to me later I see it has it's own thread now Of course Roy Rogers also sang that classic A four legged friend, a four legged friend He'll never let you down Must be a parody out there |
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11 Jul 08 - 11:18 AM (#2386602) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: bubblyrat I had a friend , ex-Royal Navy ( HMS Protector ) ,who lost a leg when a hawser snapped. I used to annoy him by singing ; "He's honest and faithful ,right up to the end, that wonderful four,three,two, one-legged friend ! " He didn't like it. |
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11 Jul 08 - 11:23 AM (#2386607) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: bubblyrat Getting back to the point of the thread (sorry)--- I believe there was /is a character called Piotr, in the Alastair Mclean novel " Force Ten From Navarone " ( as usual, Great book--Crap movie ),who has a gun concealed within a guitar. |
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11 Jul 08 - 12:03 PM (#2386645) Subject: RE: Guns inside guitars From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker guitars inside guns ????? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/M16-riffle-machine-gun-electric-guitar_W0QQitemZ130237258678QQihZ003QQcategoryZ68175QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksi |