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im sure he was thinking...oh no pete townsend has done this before ..what to do what to do????
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It's been done.
To do it again would require a new reason for doing it.
Townsend did it when he was cranky and then because he was expected to.
Hendrix did it as part of a pyrotechnical show that doesn't seem to have been done before him and he got passed doing it pretty quickly.
Since then has anyone advanced to a new way or reason.
I guess it's exciting for some strange solo isolated singular person who's not seen/heard/known of it before but like it's been aisd - if it's not a decent, real expensive instrument then it's a hollow pastiche - to that end why not use a nice papier mache' jobbie or go the whole hog and develop the guitar piniat solo that ends up with lollies for everyone.
It's also not good for the world, what with repair, reuse, recycle et al.
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.
ELO had the most awesome stage show...the flying Hamburger was classic...lol.
I also saw Parlament Funkadelic do a similer thing with their light truss...but they would come down to the stage as if they were on a UFO and a door would come down and the band would come on stage that way.
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im sure he was thinking...oh no pete townsend has done this before ..what to do what to do????
I know that in instances where the star in question was expected to smash a guitar, the guitars were made specifically to smash. They were useless as a guitar, they were just show props.it breaks my heart to see those stars
smashing a perfectly good guitar
G G Allen beat you to it.here's an original Idea...versus stealing the old tired smashing guitar idea...
someone should just shit on their guitar...see what the crowd thinks.
please report back with pics.
Good tactic by the who. Screw encoresIn the interviews I saw...it was so they could leave after a set and not have to worry about playing encores...but they also rashed the amps drums and everything else.
Fun fact; Led Zep had the same deal with Gibson to only have thier pictures taken with gibson guitars...but Jimmy Page prefered a Telecaster to a les paul.
yeah. he's definitely thinking: "I'm totally unoriginal, a walking cliche. This is so foolish." You can see it in his posture.
I didn't smash my guitar the other night, but I did throw it off the stage and kick it around on the floor. It got positive reviews.
I remember that Nugent used to take a flaming bow and arrow and shoot his guitar with that.
It just occurred to me that we have a definitive answer to the original question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9JYq-mXprw&eurl=http://gizmodo.com/5061738/josh-pykes-guitar-boat-floats-on-an-ocean-of-rock
seen it a million times. still funny.
Funniest guitar smashing moment ever. Unless anyone has a better one??
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Funniest guitar smashing moment ever. Unless anyone has a better one??
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Funniest guitar smashing moment ever. Unless anyone has a better one??
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If you must smash it, smash it on JordanD.