is smashing a guitar cliche?

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Blackmore vrs ELO

In the 70's my brother and I saw Deep Purple. Richie Blackmore would beat the crap out of 3 strats every show in those days. Electric Light Orchestra was sharing the bill on that tour and they one upped Blackmore by blowing up both their cellos. I mean blowed up real good. That was so cool.
 
VomitHatSteve said:
Most of the times that I've seen a band smash their instruments, this has happened to the bassist.

It's hilarious. The guitarist has long since busted his guitar and is busy helping the drummer kick over his set. And there's the bassist, flailing away and failing to break his instrument.
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A friend of mine saw Motley Crue once, and he told me that Nikki Sixx threw his bass way up in the air. Unfortunately for Mr. Sixx, the bass hit the lighting rig, lost its momentum, and came right back down on him and whacked him in the head.

Hilarious is right.
 
my apple 2 GS computer was pretty useful in 1988, but when i found it in my attic circa 1994 I... wait for it...

brought it out to the street and smashed the fuck out of it.

everyone please keep in mind that this will only happen if john mccain wins. i feel like if i don't sacrifice a guitar after the maverick takes over i'm going to start sacrificing small mammals. chipmunks are way cuter than epiphone sgs.

plus they're harder to catch.
 
starbuck26 said:
everyone please keep in mind that this will only happen if john mccain wins. i feel like if i don't sacrifice a guitar after the maverick takes over i'm going to start sacrificing small mammals. chipmunks are way cuter than epiphone sgs.

plus they're harder to catch.
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Hey, you can come over to my neighborhood and round up some feral cats for sacrifice if you like. :) And there's way too many squirrels around here - always chewing on the phone lines.

Come on down! :D
 
starbuck26 said:
my apple 2 GS computer was pretty useful in 1988, but when i found it in my attic circa 1994 I... wait for it...

brought it out to the street and smashed the fuck out of it.

everyone please keep in mind that this will only happen if john mccain wins. i feel like if i don't sacrifice a guitar after the maverick takes over i'm going to start sacrificing small mammals. chipmunks are way cuter than epiphone sgs.

plus they're harder to catch.
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If you're going to smash a guitar you have to do it right.

I used to mess around with a bunch of friends in the 80's doing Bonzo dog stuff with an anything goes acoustic sort of vibe. We had one guy in the band who was musically retarded. He couldn't sing or play a note in tune or in time. He was funny as hell though and came up with what he called the "Gaelic synthesiser", basically an old tea chest with all those percussion instruments and novelty whistles etc in there. He'd reach in while we were playing and just mess around with whatever he had. Anyway he wanted to play guitar too so me having an endless supply of beaters took the back of one and rigged it up with a few fireworks and firecrackers set to a simple fuse and trigger in a foot switch. Testing went well and it went with a safe and controlled bang with a few sparks and some smoke.

Well, on the the production model for the gig I over cooked the explosive recipe a bit. As he hit the switch the resulting explosion blew the soundboard into a million bits and knocked him sideways off his stool and took half his hair with it. He was deaf for at least a fortnight.

Best thing of all there was two cute girls in front wearing tight white cotton dresses both with a pint of Guinness in their hands. The bang scared them shitless and resulted in them tipping the beverage all over themselves. We got a free wet T shirt show into the bargain. We never repeated the exploding guitar episode but when we meet we still laugh about it.:D

Trashing a guitar can be cool you just have to think it through.:cool:
 
muttley600 said:
If you're going to smash a guitar you have to do it right.

I used to mess around with a bunch of friends in the 80's doing Bonzo dog stuff with an anything goes acoustic sort of vibe. We had one guy in the band who was musically retarded. He couldn't sing or play a note in tune or in time. He was funny as hell though and came up with what he called the "Gaelic synthesiser", basically an old tea chest with all those percussion instruments and novelty whistles etc in there. He'd reach in while we were playing and just mess around with whatever he had. Anyway he wanted to play guitar too so me having an endless supply of beaters took the back of one and rigged it up with a few fireworks and firecrackers set to a simple fuse and trigger in a foot switch. Testing went well and it went with a safe and controlled bang with a few sparks and some smoke.

Well, on the the production model for the gig I over cooked the explosive recipe a bit. As he hit the switch the resulting explosion blew the soundboard into a million bits and knocked him sideways off his stool and took half his hair with it. He was deaf for at least a fortnight.

Best thing of all there was two cute girls in front wearing tight white cotton dresses both with a pint of Guinness in their hands. The bang scared them shitless and resulted in them tipping the beverage all over themselves. We got a free wet T shirt show into the bargain. We never repeated the exploding guitar episode but when we meet we still laugh about it.:D

Trashing a guitar can be cool you just have to think it through.:cool:
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is it on youtube by any chance?
 
starbuck26 said:
is it on youtube by any chance?
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This was early 1980 something. Over here we were still impressed with digital watches and CB radio. The interwebs were the stuff of James Bond movies, so sadly not even on cine8 I'm afraid.
 
It's kind of been done before. And in a manner that's pretty tuff to beat (save for Muttley's recounting). Check out the clip of the WHO on the Smothers Brothers show in the late 60s (it's on the Kids are Alright DVD). Moon apparently paid a roadie to overdo the explosives in his drums. As a result there was a bit more of a bang than expected (I understand that Townshend blames this, at least in part, for his hearing problems). The program ends with Townshend grabbing Tommy Smother's guitar from him and destroying it as well (looked rather unscripted).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr81olQ1ibk&feature=related

Ends a bit prematurely on Youtube, but you get the idea.
 
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do it.. destroy it !!!!

but if it was me, it be sods law that i blind some helpless female in the audience with some random splinter:eek:
 
pohaku said:
It's kind of been done before. And in a manner that's pretty tuff to beat (save for Muttley's recounting). Check out the clip of the WHO on the Smothers Brothers show in the late 60s (it's on the Kids are Alright DVD). Moon apparently paid a roadie to overdo the explosives in his drums. As a result there was a bit more of a bang than expected (I understand that Townshend blames this, at least in part, for his hearing problems). The program ends with Townshend grabbing Tommy Smother's guitar from him and destroying it as well (looked rather unscripted).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr81olQ1ibk&feature=related

Ends a bit prematurely on Youtube, but you get the idea.
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The story I heard was that two roadies/stagehands each loaded the explosives in the kik drum without knowing the other was going to do it so it got a double load. I doubt that Pete smashing "Tommy's" guitar was unscripted, though no doubt they wanted it to look that way.
 
The fact the The Who went on mainstream TV and had arranged the explosions etc says it all. It had long been passe before they got to the USA and they ought to have resisted the temptation & requests to be "outrageous" in that particular form.
I have the facts & figures for the 1st 12 months of guitar busting by Townsend from the 1st honestly impassioned bounce to the end of a financially woeful year - but it was, as Stamp knew, a good investment.
 
Elvis

Elvis smashed a guitar in his movie 'Jailhouse Rock'. Don't forget El Kabong!
 
Or use a chainsaw ala Wendy O. Williams...
 

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FYI...

Fender will be selling SMASHED RELIC VINTAGE guitars this Christmas. Some of the signature guitars, its rumored, will also have puke on them, too add to the guitars value.
 
ggunn said:
The story I heard was that two roadies/stagehands each loaded the explosives in the kik drum without knowing the other was going to do it so it got a double load. I doubt that Pete smashing "Tommy's" guitar was unscripted, though no doubt they wanted it to look that way.
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i know roadies are thick but a kickdrum isnt a huge space...surely the second roadie must have considered the explosives that where there beforehand??
 
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