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4''Pawnshop Guitars'' is the 1994 debut solo album of Music/GunsNRoses guitarist Gilby Clarke.
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7!! Tracklist:
8# "Cure Me... Or Kill Me" - 4:56
9# "Black" - 4:21
10# "Tijuana Jail" - 5:08
11# "Skin & Bones" - 3:17
12# "Johanna's Chopper" - 4:08
13# "Let's Get Lost" - 3:31
14# "Pawnshop Guitars" - 3:51
15# "Dead Flowers" - 4:13
16# "Jail Guitar Doors" - 3:10
17# "Hunting Dogs" - 3:15
18# "Shut Up" - 3:58
19# "West of the Sunset" - 3:17 (Japanese bonus track)
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23!! "My best trope's a pawnshop guitar":
24* ApeShallNeverKillApe: "Hunting Dogs":
25--> ''Hunting dogs don't kill their own.''
26* BigShutUp: "Shut Up"
27* 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.
28* CoolBike: "Johanna's Chopper"
29--> ''This heart gold is used, my motorcycle wants you.''
30--> ''Johanna's chopper in the stars.''
31--> ''Johanna's chopper in the stars.''
32--> ''Johanna's chopper in the stars.''
33--> ''Why am I everything to you?''
34--> ''This love may never end, my motorcycle's best friend.''
35* CoverVersion: Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "Dead Flowers" and Music/TheClash's "Jail Guitar Doors"
36* CrystalBall: Mentioned in "Cure Me...Or Kill Me"
37* DarkAndTroubledPast -> HeroicBSOD -> DespairEventHorizon: "Skin & Bones"
38--> ''Keep the devil out of my soul\
39 C'mon and save me\
40 From a heart of stone\
41 Tell the Lord, he can take me now\
42 I'm a shell of a man\
43 Just skin and bones''
44* FaceOnTheCover: Gilby playing guitar, shown from a distance.
45* TheGambler: "Tijuana Jail"
46--> ''But I'm a gambler, and I'm not cashed in''
47* 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.
48* MurderBallad: "Tijuana Jail", where the protagonist murders a police officer for jailing him.
49--> ''I pulled a switch blade from my boot''
50--> ''And shoved it in his throat''
51* [[NotInKansasAnymore Not In Texas Anymore]]: "Tijuana Jail":
52--> ''He smiled and said 'Senor, you're not in Texas anymore''
53* OneWordTitle: "Black"
54* RecordProducer: Waddy Wachtel
55* ShoutOut:
56** "Cure Me...Or Kill Me" mentions "the [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family]] blood"
57** "Johanna's Chopper" mentions "Franchise/{{Superman}}'s magic train"
58* TheUnfairSex: Averted in "Black":
59--> ''But woman who is unfaithful\
60 Kills a man''
61* VillainSong: "Pawn Shop Guitars":
62--> ''Your Momma says I'm evil, and I cut like a knife\
63 You cut a little deep, find the devil inside\
64 Now burn little honey, I hypnotize\
65 I'm so mean, so mean, so mean\
66 I'm so mean, so mean, so mean\
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68 I'm a motorcycle cowboy, a honky tonk junkie\
69 Fallen shooting star.\
70 Broken desperado on the wrong side of the barrel\
71 My best friend's a pawnshop guitar.''
72* WhatDidIDoLastNight: "Johanna's Chopper"
73--> ''And I can't remember last night.''

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