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.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.
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)
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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.
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.
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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
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.
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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 of the press.
In the Tampa Bay Times, Spata reported that the man purporting to be Prince Midnight bears a striking resemblance to an eccentric Tampa hat maker who calls himself Odilon Ozare. Ray Roa, who has long been covering Ozare's media antics, agrees.
Since breaking the hat record in 2018, he has done a slew of interviews with media outlets around the world detailing his lifelong passion for hat making — something he said he picked up from his grandmother when he was just a boy.
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There's just one problem. According to an investigation by Spata for the Tampa Bay Times, there's no record of an Odilon Ozare ever existing in Florida.
Ozare claims to be a longtime Tampa resident who went to Hillsborough High School, but there is no voter registration, driver's license, phone or address records for anyone by that name. He said he doesn't vote, and property ownership is an 'imperialist system' in which he refuses to participate. He won't let me come to his home ... or see his work space, Spata reported.
Guinness World Records officials said record applicants are prompted to provide a full name on their application, but can give a stage name if they want. Ozare said it's his legal name.
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Reached out to Ozare on his Twitter account for comment, he said: No, I am not Prince Midnight, nor do I have any association with this person.
He also suggested that those involved with this story should go back to journalism school before excusing himself to make more hats.
Both Roa and Spata said Ozare himself bears a resemblance to a local musician named Justin Arnold, frontman of the punk band Feral Babies.
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Arnold tricked the Tampa Bay Times in 2014 into publishing a photo of a two-headed crocodile on its cover. The paper later reported the photograph was a total crock.
If you email Odilon, Odilon has no clue who Justin is, and vice-versa, he said. No one can confirm it, right? You'd have to do a DNA test.
Calling him a prankster seems cheap because he's a performance artist, a genius in a way. - Ray Roa, editor-in-chief of Creative Loafing
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Has sent several emails to Midnight asking for his full name, his uncle's full name, a copy of his uncle's obituary, and the names of the medical school and funeral home involved in storing his uncle's remains.
The musician recorded an entire EP under the Prince Midnight metal moniker. In September, he did an interview with the talk radio show Grand National Championships as Prince Midnight.
He also documented the process of building the bone guitar, which he dubbed the Skelecaster, on his Instagram page over the course of several months. 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.
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Filip died in a motorcycle accident in Greece in 1996 at the age of 28, and his skeleton was donated to a local college.
“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
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