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''Pawnshop Guitars'' is the 1994 debut solo album of Music/GunsNRoses guitarist Gilby Clarke.

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!! Tracklist:
# "Cure Me... Or Kill Me" - 4:56
# "Black" - 4:21
# "Tijuana Jail" - 5:08
# "Skin & Bones" - 3:17
# "Johanna's Chopper" - 4:08
# "Let's Get Lost" - 3:31
# "Pawnshop Guitars" - 3:51
# "Dead Flowers" - 4:13
# "Jail Guitar Doors" - 3:10
# "Hunting Dogs" - 3:15
# "Shut Up" - 3:58
# "West of the Sunset" - 3:17 (Japanese bonus track)

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!! "My best trope's a pawnshop guitar":
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: "Hunting Dogs":
--> ''Hunting dogs don't kill their own.''
* BigShutUp: "Shut Up"
* TheCameo: Along with appearances by everyone who was in [=GNR=] at the time (Axl Rose, Slash, Duff, Matt Sorum and Dizzy Reed), Frank Black (Music/ThePixies' Black Francis) appears as well.
* CoolBike: "Johanna's Chopper"
--> ''This heart gold is used, my motorcycle wants you.''
--> ''Johanna's chopper in the stars.''
--> ''Johanna's chopper in the stars.''
--> ''Johanna's chopper in the stars.''
--> ''Why am I everything to you?''
--> ''This love may never end, my motorcycle's best friend.''
* CoverVersion: Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "Dead Flowers" and Music/TheClash's "Jail Guitar Doors"
* CrystalBall: Mentioned in "Cure Me...Or Kill Me"
* DarkAndTroubledPast -> HeroicBSOD -> DespairEventHorizon: "Skin & Bones"
--> ''Keep the devil out of my soul\\
C'mon and save me\\
From a heart of stone\\
Tell the Lord, he can take me now\\
I'm a shell of a man\\
Just skin and bones''
* FaceOnTheCover: Gilby playing guitar, shown from a distance.
* TheGambler: "Tijuana Jail"
--> ''But I'm a gambler, and I'm not cashed in''
* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: It's not made clear why he is being sent to jail in "Tijuana Jail." He sticks a switchblade from his boot in someone's throat to make his escape.
* MurderBallad: "Tijuana Jail", where the protagonist murders a police officer for jailing him.
--> ''I pulled a switch blade from my boot''
--> ''And shoved it in his throat''
* [[NotInKansasAnymore Not In Texas Anymore]]: "Tijuana Jail":
--> ''He smiled and said 'Senor, you're not in Texas anymore''
* OneWordTitle: "Black"
* RecordProducer: Waddy Wachtel
* ShoutOut:
** "Cure Me...Or Kill Me" mentions "the [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family]] blood"
** "Johanna's Chopper" mentions "Franchise/{{Superman}}'s magic train"
* TheUnfairSex: Averted in "Black":
--> ''But woman who is unfaithful\\
Kills a man''
* VillainSong: "Pawn Shop Guitars":
--> ''Your Momma says I'm evil, and I cut like a knife\\
You cut a little deep, find the devil inside\\
Now burn little honey, I hypnotize\\
I'm so mean, so mean, so mean\\
I'm so mean, so mean, so mean\\
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I'm a motorcycle cowboy, a honky tonk junkie\\
Fallen shooting star.\\
Broken desperado on the wrong side of the barrel\\
My best friend's a pawnshop guitar.''
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: "Johanna's Chopper"
--> ''And I can't remember last night.''
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