Activision and Red Bull have teamed up with a wide-ranging swath of artists toauctionoff customizedGuitar Hero IIguitars. The scratch earned from the auctions will go towards MusiCares, an organization set up in the late 80s as a monetary lifeline for people in the music industry who have fallen on hard times.
The artists range from the beloved Tenacious D to the why-won’t-someone-just-hand-him-a-razor-so-he-can-be-over-with-it, Dashboard Confessional and everyone in between. Even non-musicians have been tapped to customize guitars, including Tony Hawk, Missy Broome and the Suicide Girls.
Now don’t get me wrong, I like tattoed girls of loose moral values as much as the next guy, and, in fact, I’m friends with quite a few of the SGs, but what sort of artistry they represent is beyond me. I suppose there’s a certain amount of creativity behind paying to have a pictogram of Jhonen Vasquez’s life story tattooed on your junk only moments before stripping naked, and lying erotically in a bathtub filled with cows’ hearts, but if that’s all it took to be recognized as a serious artist, I certainly wouldn’t have spent all that time huffing ether on the Champs-Elysées
