00:00When music dies, five artists who took their sound to the grave.
00:05Guitar cases usually outlive their contents, but sometimes the relationship runs deeper than wooden strings.
00:11These burial traditions reveal something profound about artistic identity.
00:15When the best guitar becomes so intertwined with the musician's soul that separation feels impossible, even in death.
00:22The father of rock and roll couldn't let go of his 1978 Gibson ES-355.
00:28Chuck Berry's family faced an impossible choice in 2017.
00:32Bury the rock legend alone or honor his four-decade bond with his cherry red Gibson.
00:37ES-355
00:39The semi-hollow guitar that traveled the world and recorded his final songs was placed inside a custom casket.
00:46Berry's son revealed the brain-twisting task of fitting both man and guitar into their final resting place.
00:51That ES-355 witnessed countless performances of Johnny B. Goode and knew every nuance of Berry's revolutionary double-stop riffs.
01:01Separating them seemed like breaking up a 50-year marriage.
01:04Eddie Van Halen's personal gift honored Dimebag Daryl's legacy.
01:08When Pantera guitarist Dimebag Daryl was murdered on stage in 2004, the metal community grieved as one family.
01:15Eddie Van Halen's response transcended typical rock star condolences.
01:19He provided his original black and yellow bumblebee guitar, the very instrument built for Van Halen II, to accompany Daryl to his grave.
01:28The gesture spoke volumes about mutual respect between guitar heroes and the understanding that some bonds between artist and instrument deserve eternal recognition.
01:36Les Paul, Frank Zappa, and Johnny Cash reimagined death itself.
01:41Les Paul was interred in a guitar-shaped coffin in 2009, turning his final rest into one last innovation.
01:49Frank Zappa's ashes found their home in a guitar-shaped urn in 1993, perfectly matching his boundary-pushing philosophy.
01:57Johnny Cash's Gibson Acoustic sits in the mausoleum alongside his memorial, a permanent duet frozen in time.
02:02These weren't just sentimental gestures, they made identity eternal.
02:08Even in death, the artist's instruments became part of their spirit, proving some bonds outlast mortality.
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