Guitars out of Guns
Street musician César López was playing in front of a Bogotá country club destroyed by a guerrilla car bomb when he noticed an army guard carrying his rifle the same way López plays his guitar.
”I saw that our body movements were the same,” López said. “He had his gun. I had my guitar. And BOF! It hit me.”
The first escopetarra — a combination of escopeta and guitarra, the Spanish words for rifle and guitar — was born a few months later.
The model was part Winchester, part Stratocaster, and all López. The 32-year-old musician has long been involved in efforts to use music to ease the pain of violence in this war-ravaged country.
”We found the worst human invention, which is the gun, and the most beautiful, which could be a guitar,” López said. “And in the end . . . the gun dies and the guitar is born.”
via: MiamiHerald.com | 03/07/2006 | Making music out of menace
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