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This machine kills fascists
Variations
Anti-Flag bassist "Chris #2" has the same phrase seeming-
ly written with a marker onto one of his Fender Precision
Basses.
Billy Bragg, who set previously unheard Guthrie
lyrics to music on the 1998 album Mermaid Avenue, has a
guitar stencilled "This machine kills time".
Art rapper Busdriver has a 2002 compilation titled
"This Machine Kills Fashion Tips".
As a tribute to both Guthrie and Seeger, Decemberists
guitarist Chris Funk has written "This Machine Kills
Thieves" on his banjo (which, in addition, is a reference
to a 2005 incident wherein the band had all of their in-
struments stolen).
Folk artist Donovan played a guitar with a sticker
reading simply "This Machine Kills".
Woody Guthrie in 1943 with guitar labeled "This machine kills Fallout: New Vegas, a video game by Obsidian Enter-
fascists" tainment, features a rifle named "This Machine". On the
side of the rifle is carved "Well This Machine Kills Com-
"This Machine Kills Fascists" is a sticker on Woody mies". Obsidian has confirmed it is a nod to Guthrie.
Guthrie’s guitar, that has inspired many artists. It is New York Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello parodied
based on inscriptions painted on the sides of airplanes the phrase on fan merchandise by depicting handlebar
used in the Spanish Civil War. mustached lead singer Eugene Hutz with the caption
Guitar manufacturer Gibson has replicated Guthrie’s "This Mustache Kills Fascists" above him.
1945 Southern Jumbo complete with sticker. In the video for the song "National Shite Day" by Half
Man Half Biscuit the band is shown with a guitar that has
"This Machine Kills Fascists" is the title of the phrase "This machine kills wasps" written on it.
• an Anti-Flag track on their 2001 album Nerd musician Hank Green performs with a guitar
"Underground Network" and on their 2004 DVD that says "This Machine Pwns Noobs." It is also the name
"Death of a Nation", and also seen on Chris Barker’s of his second album.
bass guitar. Pete Seeger’s banjo reads "This Machine Surrounds
• a Today Is the Day track from their 2004 album "Kiss Hate and Forces It to Surrender".
The Pig" Star Fucking Hipsters frontman Stza Crack, has a vari-
• an album by Ethan Daniel Davidson ation of this slogan on his current guitar that reads: "This
• the 2005 album by US jazz trumpeter Nate Wooley Non Gender-Specific Machine Kills Fascists"
• the 2005 film by Stephen Gammond Canadian band The Tragically Hip features the phrase
• the 2009 album by Beatnik on Rob Baker’s guitar in their 1998 video for "Bobcay-
• the 2010 album by D.O.A.. geon."
In the Bob Dylan biopic "I’m Not There", the character On the New Orleans-based TV series Treme, Harley
"Woody Guthrie", an 11-year old African American boy, (Steve Earle) plays a guitar with the message "This ma-
carries a guitar case with the same label. chine floats," a reference to Hurricane Katrina.
It is also the name of an effect pedal by TYM Guitars. Satirical Folk Guitarist Roy Zimmerman performs the
The title of French punk rock compilation "Cette Ma- song "This Machine" with the refrain "This machine dri-
chine Sert A Tuer Tous Les Fascistes" translates as "This ves neo-con, jingoistic, warmongering, xenophobic
Machine Is Used To Kill All The Fascists". crypto-fascists from the room."
Micah P. Hinson also adorns his guitars with this slo- In a line from Australian songwriter Duncan Gra-
gan. ham’s song "(I’m Through) Bein’ Born, he sings "When I
pick up my machine/It don’t kill fascists - that’s a whole
other scene"
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