What an Idiot.

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Well, theres an art to proper guitar smashing. Pete Townsend didn't smash guitars, he tortured them to death over a 6 minute or so period, so you could hear their dying screams. Also, after the 3rd encore or so, when you leave a pile of guitar pieces and smoldering amps on stage, nobody asks for another encore. It's a clue that the show is over.

As far as this wanker and his temper tantrum, I don't care if it's a vintage piece or not. There are millions of poor guitarists worldwide who can't afford a decent axe. Tell the dickhead to go do an 80 city tour- in Afghanistan.-Richie
 
mikemorgan said:
No offense to the UK meant there Legion, he was just dissing American audiences. He's right, we don't appreciate wankers here either.
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No offense taken. The guy's clearly a twat. Anyone who disses their fans, wherever they come from, is a self centred dick who's lost sight of who got them where they are.
 
That band sucks. Deal with the sound prick and go on. I can see the justification of smashing a guitar for being in the moment with the crowd and music, but not for crying over the sound in the venue.

"i pissed ..so i am going to destroy my on guitar" what a idiot ....
 
Sorry, but a 1972 ES-325 is not a "vintage" guitar. It's a POS. A 1962 I might give a shit.



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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
It's not really so much about whether the guitar is that special. It's that he was being a dickhead. :p
 
Who gives a F.

What a sad, sorry day it will be when a rock musician smashing a guitar gets a rise out of me.

That was controversial 45 years ago. That's four and a half decades. That's eleven US presidential elections. That's an entire career from age 20 to 65.

What's next? Black people playing basketball?
 
mikemorgan said:
No offense to the UK meant there Legion, he was just dissing American audiences.
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That's the part I found funny. This is the band who's vocalist has meowed out the most asinine lyrics of any popular "serious" song I can remember.

"Meooooooooooooooow, your sex is on fire." When I finally realized what he was saying, I was flabberghasted. I wouldn't let that crap go at a rehearsal as filler lyrics, for a song in progress, let alone the fucking chorus of a major label release. This shit makes Bathroom Wall by Faster Pussycat seem like Eleanor Rigby. They should all smash their instruments, then each other.
 
what a tosser !!

anyway if you want me i'll be in my trailer (que slam door stomp feet and tantrum):D
 
Tough crowd. So Pete Townsand, Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore, Kurt Cobain or any one who has had an angry moment when their performance or sound didn't meet their expectation must be hacks as well. I think he was right about American crowds. Americans have abandoned rock music and are spoiled. There is to much digital music everywhere and no one wants to seek out art anymore. It's all being given away and the value is gone. I miss the days when you could go to a seedy bar and see a punk trio bash the hell out of their gear, themselves and the crowd.
 
dogonjon said:
I miss the days when you could go to a seedy bar and see a punk trio bash the hell out of their gear, themselves and the crowd.
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Well, that's part of the performance.

OTOH, who wants to see some prima donna throw a snit?
 
I think it's juvenile to destroy things out of anger. It doesn't matter if you call it performance, or punk, or whatever. Look at it this way: would you invite a jackass like that into your home? You'd be waiting to see what he tore up first. He sure as hell wouldn't get his hands on any of my guitars or basses.

Even my cat is housebroken.
 
Zaphod B said:
Well, that's part of the performance.

OTOH, who wants to see some prima donna throw a snit?
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It amused the fuck out of me when Axl Rose threw a snit at a gig I was at a few years ago. But then it's probably because I was expecting it.
 
ermghoti said:
That's the part I found funny. This is the band who's vocalist has meowed out the most asinine lyrics of any popular "serious" song I can remember.

"Meooooooooooooooow, your sex is on fire." When I finally realized what he was saying, I was flabberghasted. I wouldn't let that crap go at a rehearsal as filler lyrics, for a song in progress, let alone the fucking chorus of a major label release. This shit makes Bathroom Wall by Faster Pussycat seem like Eleanor Rigby. They should all smash their instruments, then each other.
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You're obviously not aware how retarded the average listener is in the UK. Over here, these fucks fall hook line and sinker for these stupid asinine lyrics. Oasis is another example of that. It's all geared at a bunch of paraletically drunk beer-boys and ladettes. Of which we have many.
 
ermghoti said:
That's the part I found funny. This is the band who's vocalist has meowed out the most asinine lyrics of any popular "serious" song I can remember.

"Meooooooooooooooow, your sex is on fire." When I finally realized what he was saying, I was flabberghasted. I wouldn't let that crap go at a rehearsal as filler lyrics, for a song in progress, let alone the fucking chorus of a major label release. This shit makes Bathroom Wall by Faster Pussycat seem like Eleanor Rigby. They should all smash their instruments, then each other.
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Monster Magnet always had crazy lyrics like that.. I knew all the words individually, but they put em together into sentences that made no sense whatsoever.. I swear they musta got baked, and did madlibs for a few hours in the studio... They're the ones who made me realize you can write music where the lyrics don't matter. Which good for me, me no too good grammar and words writing..
 
legionserial said:
You're obviously not aware how retarded the average listener is in the UK. Over here, these fucks fall hook line and sinker for these stupid asinine lyrics. Oasis is another example of that. It's all geared at a bunch of paraletically drunk beer-boys and ladettes. Of which we have many.
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Actually, I find it mostly geared toward 12 year old girls.
 
suprstar said:
Monster Magnet always had crazy lyrics like that.. I knew all the words individually, but they put em together into sentences that made no sense whatsoever.. I swear they musta got baked, and did madlibs for a few hours in the studio... They're the ones who made me realize you can write music where the lyrics don't matter. Which good for me, me no too good grammar and words writing..
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You have to go back to Paul McCartney for that. I saw an interview with him where he stated that the lyrics don't matter in the least. When you listen to anything he did in Wings, you fully understand that he meant that. I lost all respect for him at that point. John was an artist with something to say, Paul was simply a musician that wanted to make money. Paul put out great productions that made him a ton of money, while John put out poor productions that moved the world.
Lyrics do matter.
 
Yeah, I agree with that too.. I just said you 'can'. And you'll notice they were never very big either - If I went and interviewed 1000 random ppl, I bet 50% of em never heard of MM, and 49% couldn't name more than 2 MM songs. Change 'MM' to 'Beatles', and those numbers drop to 0% and 0% respectively.
 
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