User:Serial Number 54129/Sandbox III

    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 Bruce Springsteen, Ozzy Osbourne, Serj Tankian of System of a Down and Morello's current supergroup, Prophets of Rage. Contrastingly, the guitar has sometimes been alternated with one with 'Soul power' scrawled on it. '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. 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, and live in 'a country where there are no homeless and without poverty.'

Origin
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. 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, creating what he has called a 'Frankenstein guitar.' 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." After this he put some EMG Pickups into the guitar and put an Ibanez Edge in for the bridge. 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. 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.

Uses
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. 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 that Morello uses would create some interesting sounds, very DJ-like a lot of the time, including use of a killswitch.'

Career
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, asks him a question in February, never to get an answer. More recently,  does too, with the same (lack of) response. It's not all bad news; I see he takes part in  a recent AfD.