The Custom "Arm The Homeless" Electric Guitar is a Custom electric guitar. Close alternatives include the Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster and the Fender Dave Murray Stratocaster. It pairs well with the EVH 5150 III and the PRS DG Custom 30 David Grissom Signature 30W Head.
Custom "Arm The Homeless" Electric Guitar
Custom · electric guitar
Tom Morello's guitar known as Arm the Homeless started as a light-blue, Stratocaster-style rear-loaded body reportedly sourced through Kramer connections, paired with a graphite Kramer-style knockoff neck he found in a bin at Nadine's Music, and grew into a genuine Frankenstein instrument he has continued modifying piece by piece for over three decades. It runs an EMG H, a single coil housed in a humbucker shell, in the neck position and an EMG 85 in the bridge, an original alder body, a Floyd Rose vibrato, and a Les Paul-style three-way toggle he repurposed entirely as a kill switch central to his percussive, sample-scratching playing style. The Arm the Homeless name and decal came from Morello himself, scrawled onto the guitar just before a soundcheck at the Whisky a Go Go, and it has remained his primary instrument across Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave's entire recorded catalog.
- rock
- modern
- low noise
- consistent
- pitch
- vibrato
- floyd rose
Genres the Custom "Arm The Homeless" Electric Guitar is commonly used in
- Rock
- Country Pop
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Inferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.
Amps that pair well with the Custom "Arm The Homeless" Electric Guitar
EVH 5150 III
Evh
10% matchEVH 5150 III leans toward crunchy, and that's a real, usable character to pair with
PRS DG Custom 30 David Grissom Signature 30W Head
PRS
10% matchPRS DG Custom 30 David Grissom Signature 30W Head's own dynamic character is the real reason this is worth trying
Bad Cat Cub
Bad Cat
10% matchBad Cat Cub leans toward harmonically rich, and that's a real, usable character to pair with
Pedals that stack with the Custom "Arm The Homeless" Electric Guitar
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Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster
Fender
91% similaritysimilar tone character
Fender Dave Murray Stratocaster
electric guitar
91% similaritysimilar tone character
ESP Tiger
Esp
90% similaritysimilar tone character
Epiphone Zakk Wylde Bullseye Les Paul Custom Plus
Epiphone
90% similaritysimilar tone character
Dean ML "Dean From Hell"
Dean
90% similaritysimilar tone character
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Questions people ask
What are good alternatives to the Custom "Arm The Homeless" Electric Guitar?+
The closest matches in character are the Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster, the Fender Dave Murray Stratocaster, the ESP Tiger.
What pairs well with the Custom "Arm The Homeless" Electric Guitar?+
Strong matches from rig and tone-complementarity evidence: EVH 5150 III, PRS DG Custom 30 David Grissom Signature 30W Head, Bad Cat Cub — EVH 5150 III leans toward crunchy, and that's a real, usable character to pair with.