This is Bill Monroe, the inventor of bluegrass music and the reason most people pick up a mandolin (including me).
See the headstock of his Gibson Loar F-5? It’s supposed to say The Gibson, but Monroe gouged out the Gibson part when he wasn’t satisfied with repair work the company had done on his mandolin.
Reminds me of something my father did back in Herring Cove, N.S. Somehow, he got a lime green ball cap that said PEPSI in black on the front. He didn’t think the company deserved free advertising, so he wrote SUCKS in black marker below the PEPSI.
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