Earlier this week, Prince Midnight told the Huffington Post he’d fashioned the recently-recovered bones of his uncle Filip, who died in a motorcycle accident in Greece in 1996, into a functioning guitar as a tribute to the relative who introduced him to heavy metal.
He told Guitar World that the bones were originally donated to a college in Greece, wound up in a grave where his family was paying rent, and that he’d finally been able to bring them to the U.S. after working with the Greek cemetery and the U.S. state department.
“At first, (my mother) said it was sacrilegious and the work of the devil ― you know how moms are, ” Prince Midnight told Huffington Post. “But I asked her, ‘Uncle Filip was the biggest metal head of anybody. Where would he rather be? In the ground or shredding?’”
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Since then Prince Midnight has been interviewed by the CBC Radio One show As It Happens, telling them a detailed story that included the admission that, yes, “It’s pretty metal to play a guitar made out of skeleton, I have to say.”
The story was later picked up by Australian TV news, Complex.com, Consequence of Sound, Metal Hammer and the AV Club, tweeted by Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement, published by newspapers in Canada and Pakistan and translated into at least seven different languages on international news sites. If it doesn’t show up on SNL’s Weekend Update on Saturday, nothing makes sense.
Man builds guitar out of his dead uncle’s skeleton, uses it to play black metal https://t.co/i5nWgIU32n— Jemaine Clement (@AJemaineClement) February 11, 2021
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Now some might say that a story about a guy turning his uncle’s bones into a guitar “because the Orthodox religion doesn’t want people cremated, ” sounds like an obvious hoax. But imagine the effort that would take?
It would require a man masquerading as Prince Midnight, real name supposedly Yaago Anax, making up a detailed backstory about his life as a longtime musician in the Tampa metal scene, and giving multiple interviews in character, going all the way back to a September episode of the local show Grand National Championships.
That would mean he was setting the stage for this for months, including recording an entire EP as Prince Midnight, and getting it on Spotify, and screen printing Prince Midnight merchandise that he posted photos of on Prince Midnight’s Instagram account, which has been actively posting for months — including photos of the cemetery he worked with to recover Uncle Filip — just like his Facebook and Twitter accounts. You’d have to be some kind of comedic savant, right?
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Almost finished building a guitar with my uncle Filip’s remains. May he NEVER Rest In Peace! Metal head in life and death! pic.twitter.com/QpzTWZybNr— Prince Midnight (@princemidnightx) February 7, 2021
On top of all that groundwork, this supposed prankster would still have to build an actual functioning guitar out of a skeleton. That can’t be easy. And he’d have to have the audacity to believe that journalists would not see his insane wig as a glaring red flag.
I mean, sure, there is one guy, Odilon Ozare, the Tampa resident who holds the Guinness world records for world’s tallest hat and longest acrylic nails. Ozare has been similarly accused of creating a fake persona as a dandy hatmaker to get on the news, and he bears a striking resemblance to Prince Midnight, who also bears a striking resemblance to Justin Arnold, the Tampa resident who once pranked tbt* newspaper into publishing a photo of a two-headed alligator on the cover.
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The Tampa Bay Times reached out to “Ozare” Thursday to ask if he knows his fellow Tampa artist, Prince Midnight, or had any thoughts on the craftsmanship of his guitar.
The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on desktop, mobile, and our app for subscribers only. To enjoy the e-Newspaper every day, please subscribe.That’s because Prince Midnight made his “Skelecaster” using both the remains of a leftover Fender Telecaster and the bones of his dearly departed Uncle Filip, the man who introduced him to the rock genre back in the 1990s.
Filip died in a motorcycle accident in Greece in 1996 at the age of 28, and his skeleton was donated to a local college.
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“After 20 years, he ended up in a cemetery my family had to pay rent on. Like, literally in a wooden box, ” Midnight told . “It’s a big problem in Greece because the Orthodox religion doesn’t want people cremated.”
The bones were in pieces, and after a few weeks of showing them to his friends, Prince Midnight decided that since Uncle Filip was a metal head “we’d turn him into a guitar.”
Friends familiar with making guitars from scratch warned him that a bone guitar wouldn’t sound as good as one made from wood, but Prince Midnight was undeterred.
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Turning Uncle Filip’s remains into a ghoulish guitar was a challenge. First, Prince Midnight had to weld a metal bar to the spine to attach the neck to the skeleton.
Friends familiar with making guitars from scratch warned him that a bone guitar wouldn’t sound as good as one made from wood, but Prince Midnight was undeterred.“I didn’t care, ” he said.
Although Filip’s skull was included in the remains, Prince Midnight said it was damaged and couldn’t be added to the head of the guitar.
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“At first, she said it was sacrilegious and the work of the devil ― you know how moms are, ” Prince Midnight said. “But I asked her, ‘Uncle Filip was the biggest metal head of anybody. Where would he rather be? In the ground or shredding?’”
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Florida musician Midnight Prince says he imported his uncle's medically prepared skeleton from Greece and turned it into a guitar. But local reporters are casting doubts on the story. (Submitted by Midnight Prince)
A Florida musician who claims to have built a guitar from his uncle's skeleton bears a striking resemblance to a known local prankster, say two reporters covering the story.
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Last week, a Tampa rocker calling himself Prince Midnight told As It Happens that he'd made a guitar using the medically prepared skeleton of his late Uncle Filip, a super metal head who died in a car accident in the mid-'90s.
Since then, two Tampa reporters — Christopher Spata at the Tampa Bay Times and Ray Roa at the alt-weekly Creative Loafing — have questioned the story's veracity, noting Midnight looks an awful lot like a local punk rocker/performance artist with a penchant for fooling newspapers.
I don't want to be the person that says Santa Claus isn't real, but I do believe you've been duped, Roa, editor-in-chief of Creative Loafing, told
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Do I want it to be true? One hundred per cent, no doubt. It's one of the greatest backstories and most metal things ever in the capital of death metal — Tampa, Florida.
Since his interview on Thursday, but said in an email that his story was not a hoax. Any reports insinuating otherwise, he said, are reckless and libelous.
He would not answer questions asking for information that could corroborate his account. When pressed further, he asked that cease contacting him because his lawyer agrees that these threats to publicly call me a liar, and otherwise defame me, constitute unpleasant harassment and an abuse of the freedom
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