I am totally against doing any kind of damage to guitar and that goes for relicing too which is the biggest joke in the music industry-after all would you relic your new car?I don't think so.In the 60s when famous guitarists were involved in one-up-man-ship it was considered cool if Jimi or Pete destroyed or incinerated a guitar but luckily that fad has hopefully run it's course.The recent incident where one of the Kings of Leon wrecked his guitar in a tantrum like a spoiled child turned me from ever listening to them,I wouldn't be interested in what someone so immature and self-absorbed would have to say in song.To make matters worse he had it repaired only to do it again shortly after-that spells first class tool to me. BTW His equipment manager Eric Barrett said Jimi would draw the line somewhere and wouldn't"sacrifice"an old guitar and Pete started the whole destruction thing when he accidently hit the neck of his SG off a very low ceiling while doing one of his patented jumps and being the showman he was he proceeded to reduce it to splinters as if he had planned it.The papers went wild with the story and then at every concert people were yelling"Smash yer guitar."and Pete was more than happy to oblige his audience.

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I do not care for artists destroying their guitars; however, they are their property so they can do what they want with them. I do not like watching, nor do I get pleasure watching instruments being destroyed.

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Arjay,
She is probably the one I told if she dug around in my arm with the needle I got to do it right back.. I tend to scare the medical folks here because I tell them if I feel pain from what you are doing then you will feel pain from what I will do to you LMAO...then I tell them I am just busting their chops..
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Some folks say that the guitar smashing thing is part of their "art". I think that's BS. They're just being spoiled brats. Destruction of a perfectly good instrument just doesn't make any kind of sense to me.

Doesn't bother me a bit ...





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i don't mind it.... but I m biased



Paul Stanley plays Rock n Roll All Nite with his good guitar, then switches to a cheap entry level of his signature and smashes it. It then becomes a souvenir. The one I caught broke into three pieces. I would rather have the whole guitar intact obviously, but then again, at least three fans from that show has an awesome story and souvenir from the show.

Well some guitars wouldn't be legendary if they weren't smashed... like the Monterey Pop one.

HOWEVER, I totally agree with you 100%. I came from a high school where the music program was short on instruments and a lot of students that wanted to play couldn't! If artists donated their old instruments, or sold it for charity to someone who will play it and love it, we'd make more productive use of our instruments.

Okay, but the smashing of a few guitars here and there is not preventing this type of artist donation. To me, because the numbers are so small, one has really nothing to do with the other ...

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I agree..... couldn't you make the same case for guitar hoarding. I am sure there are are plenty of people who have guitars they never play, sitting in acases for years where other people could be playing them

just cause you like destroting your instrument after a show doesn't make you any more or less a musician. its not like there going to give there guitar to charity, i mean, they payed for its theirs.

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also, in the case of nirvana, or soundgarden, or really any grunge or punk band, it really comes from the energy and emotion of the song they played... "IM SO ****ING PUMPED I WANT TO ****ING DONATE THIS DAMN GUITAR!!!!!!!".... yea, smashing works a bit better...

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Seeing this happen to any guitar always gets me really angry. I remember seeing Pete Townsend when I was very young do this to a perfectly nice gibson guitar and it broke my heart as I could only ever dream of owning a guitar like that. We were very poor at that time and I worked in warehouse depot earning pittance. I have had a real downer on Townsend ever since. In my opinion he is an egotistical twa*t who actually can't play guitar that well anyway - but the sad thing is, he thinks he can! I now realise that the only reason he did this was to get over his frustration at being such a cr*p guitarist. Rant over.

It's definitely the right of the owner to do whatever he/she wants to it, but I still think it's pretty retarded. I didn't mind, however, Nikki Sixx setting his Firebird ablaze since it didn't utterly destroy the instrument, at least not at first. When Gibson released the Epiphone Nikki Sixx Blackbird bass I thought that was just the coolest looking thing ever (yea I was young at the time, still like the look now though). I got to play one though, and it was just awful in every way. I think I'll go search youtube now for a vid of Nikki torching the old axe...

errr.. I wouldn't dare T_T

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Do what you want with your own property. I couldn't care less.

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