The remains of Filip – are now a guitar!
COMBO Board Member Alex Teitz sent a few articles that deal with the entertainment business in Colorado and elsewhere. We felt the information contained in these articles is important to musicians and hope that you will take the time to read them.
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Bruce Springsteen charged with drunken driving; Jeep ad on pause
HIGHLANDS, N.J. (AP) — Bruce Springsteen is facing a drunken driving charge in New Jersey, prompting Jeep to put on pause the Super Bowl television commercial that features him.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bruce-springsteen-faces-drunken-driving-charge-in-new-jersey/
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Denver R&B and Hip-Hop Station The Drop Lands New Radio Dial Position
R&B and hip-hop station The Drop has a new position on the radio dial in Denver.
The Drop will begin broadcasting on 104.7 FM on Monday, Feb. 15.
One of the country’s first public media urban alternative radio stations, The Drop, which debuted in 2019, will continue to broadcast its existing HD2 live stream and on The Drop app, in addition to its brand new radio dial position.
https://www.9news.com/article/entertainment/music/colorado-music/the-drop-radio-denver/
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Guy Turns Dead Uncle’s Actual Skeleton into a guitar Called the ‘Skelecaster’
By Geordie Gray, The Brag | In truly bizarre news, a metalhead that goes under Prince Midnight has honored his late uncle by fashioning a guitar out of his rendered skeleton.
As MetalSucks report, Prince Midnight attached a guitar neck, pickups, volume knobs, a jack, strings and electronic to the skeletal torso of his uncle. It sounds a little freaky and fetishist, but upon understanding the context of the project it’s actually kind of wholesome.
Prince Midnight’s uncle, Filip, was a heavy metal enthusiast that tragically passed away prematurely in a car accident. In Midnight’s hometown of Greece, orthodox religion rejects cremation. Following Filip’s death, his body was donated to a local college to be medically prepared and rendered, and used to educate students for two decades.
Eventually, the remains of Filip were returned to the family, and Prince Midnight was struck with an unorthodox but ingenious idea. He would pay his respects to the man that inspired his love for heavy metal by turning him into a guitar.
“So, I got the box of bones from Greece and didn’t know what to do at first. Bury them? Cremate them? Put them in the attic? All seemed like poor ways to memorialize someone who got me into heavy metal,” he tells Metal Sucks.
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Read the rest of the story here:
https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/guy-turns-dead-uncles-actual-skeleton-into-a-guitar-called-the-skelecaster/