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Arm The Homeless is the custom-built guitar that Tom Morello used during his time with Rage Against The Machine (RATM). Morello has also used it when appearing with other bands as a solo artist, such as Jane's Addiction[1] Bruce Springsteen,[2][3] Ozzy Osbourne,[4] Serj Tankian of System of a Down[5]and Morello's current supergroup, Prophets of Rage.[6][7]Contrastingly, the guitar has sometimes been alternated with one with 'Soul power' scrawled on it.[8] 'Arm the homeless' is named for its political slogans and drawings covering the body. There are four hippos drawn in and painted on the guitar all facing the same direction. They are in white while the color of the guitar body is a light blue. There is also the slogan 'Arm The Homeless' in red ink scrawled on the guitar, thus giving its name.[9][10] He has stated that the guitar's slogan illustrates a desire to 'even it up' in a society he perceives as providing guns to the wrong people,[11] and live in 'a country where there are no homeless and without poverty.'[12]

Origin[edit]

In an interview with All-Star Gear, a series through MusicRadar Tom Morello stated the he first obtained Arm The Homeless in 1986, while jumping around in Hollywood, working some rough jobs and making $13,000 a year.[3] He then went to a store in Hollywood that custom builds guitars, there one can check off what woods and the such to build the guitar with. Morello was no "luthier" though and didn't know much about the differences in woods. The guitar that they built was the "shittiest guitar in the world" but it was would eventually become Arm The Homeless. Morello said in an interview that "Everything about it was bad: it looked bad, it sounded bad, it was grotesquely overpriced." Morello would change the parts of the guitar, except the body numerous times,[13] creating what he has called a 'Frankenstein guitar.'[14] He switched the pickups several times, replaced the neck around four times, tried all the different versions of Floyd Rose and Kahler Tremolo System, the internal electronics would be swapped, and because he didn't know how to build he took in in to a guitar shop every time he had something changed. All of this was to get the tone that Morello was searching for, something which proved difficult. Eventually Morello stumbled upon a graphite neck in a bin at a store called "Nadine's Music", it is similar to that of a Kramer but was only a cheap replica, a "knock-off."[3] After this he put some EMG Pickups into the guitar and put an Ibanez Edge in for the bridge.[14] After all of this Morello still couldn't find the tone he was searching for, but he decided that it would never hear like how he wanted, an decided to just play.[15][3] He attributes his sound to his guitar, stating that 'it wasn’t based on research and development with experiments' but rather, swapping parts and stopping tuning his 'G' string.[14]

Uses[edit]

Tom Morello used the guitar for all of his work with Rage Against The Machine, the tone of the guitar is very single-coil like which so it is has a focus on the higher rather than the lower end.[3] Morello also commonly used the neck or "front" pickup of the guitar, giving it a warmer softer tone. Arm The Homeless coupled with the Marshall JCM 800, Peavey cabinets, and pedals[3] that Morello uses would create some interesting sounds, very DJ-like a lot of the time, including use of a killswitch.'[16]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Jane's Addiction Joined By Tom Morello + Jimmy Chamberlin".
  2. ^ "Bob Dylan Honored at Incredible, All-Star MusicCares Tribute".
  3. ^ a b c d e f "All-Star Gear: Tom Morello's Arm The Homeless guitar and Marshall JCM800 amp".
  4. ^ "Ozzy Osbourne performs with Slash, Tom Morello and Geezer Butler at Voodoo Fest - watch - NME". 2 November 2015.
  5. ^ "Dimebag Darrell And Dio Tribute Brings Metal Elite To Hollywood - SPIN". 15 December 2011.
  6. ^ "Prophets of Rage Set Defiant Tone at Explosive L.A. Debut".
  7. ^ Post-Dispatch, Daniel Durchholz Special to the. "Prophets of Rage rock, rap and roar at the political machine".
  8. ^ "Prophets of Rage finds inspiration in discontent at Dallas' Gexa Energy Pavilion".
  9. ^ "Tom Morello's Guitars and Gear".
  10. ^ Sharp, Elliott. "Tom Morello's Guitarist Advice: Gear Don't Matter".
  11. ^ http://streetsense.org/article/washington-dc-public-enemy-rage-against-the-machine-cypress-hill-homelessness-poverty-street-papers/#.WCTBZCQxE5w 'y’know, soldiers are armed and commit war crimes; police officers are armed and murder Black people right and left everywhere; this would sort of… even it up.'
  12. ^ "Prophets Of Rage Pay Tribute To Kaepernick At Shoreline Concert".
  13. ^ "Tom Morello: Gear Does Not Matter 'At All - Ever'".
  14. ^ a b c "Tom Morello Interview".
  15. ^ "Tom Morello's Guitars and Gear".
  16. ^ "Today in Useful Guitar Gizmos: Meet the Power of Killswitch - Music News @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com".

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John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu KG (c.1431 – 14 April 1471) was, until his final years, a Yorkist leader in the Wars of the Roses, brother of Warwick the Kingmaker and perhaps best known for eliminating Lancastrian resistance in the north of England in the first three years of the reign of Edward IV of England.

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Of the 154 edits to his own talk page, only twenty-eight of them are by him He does not talk to others

Uncollegiate to say the least and hardly compatable with WP:Etiquette or WP:Civility. Whilst I'm not sure I would go as far as saying WP:NOTHERE (as much of his his work, e.g. on WP:AFC seems adequate), it could be argued that he is not here to collaborate, as that must involve discussion- and we're not seeing that. Warned about it before by [User:Liz]] in April. Has a previous block, which I am not raising specifically here as I don't beieve it touches on this specific issue; however, it does demonstrate that he is au fait with our disciplinary procedures generally and the consequences of breaching them. The incommunicado is not new either; he opened an account [ in February] and the behaviour began almost immediately (for example, EEng asks him a question in February, never to get an answer. More recently, WallyWyatt does too, with the same (lack of) response. It's not all bad news; I see he takes part in a recent AfD.


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