Mike Duncan Staff member. Messages 7, I have never done it, nor would I I had a bass student a while back who met the bass player from Dave Mathews Band his favorite band he talked and had lunch with the guy.
He took my students info and a couple months later his back up touring bass shows up on my students doorstep, with a note saying how it was cool meeting him and thought he could put it to good use!
It's a shame you don't hear stories like that more often than seeing some idiot trying to be "theatrical". PBC said:. NewLeaf09 Member. At least with Hendrix and Townshend it was a Dionysian thing like intoxicated revelers smashing plates when the spirit is too intense to be contained. Then it became a schtick. Sounds like in this case it was just a handy projectile.
Messages 17, This reminds me of a plan i. I was going to call him up was confident they'd put my call right through to Pete and suggest that just once, like next Wednesday night, he refrain from the guitar smashup and instead send me the intact guitar and call it a wash.
Never made the call, but I cringe now to think of what Pete might have said to me had I managed to make my plea. To answer the OP's question: smashing guitars seems stupid and wasteful to me, but for many working pro's guitars are like hammers are for carpenter's; just tools to be employed in their work.
And tools wear out Sometimes you just have to DrumBob Platinum Supporting Member. Messages 18, Like it or not, audiences love to see stuff like this. I think it goes back to the old gladiator mentality of watching someone killed in public. It's a fascination with violence. Most of us claim we hate violence, but inside, I think most people secretly like it, as long as it happens to someone else. Better to smash an inanimate object than a human being or animal.
Smashing guitars is a great release, as long as it's not contrived. It got tiring watching Townshend. I do agree that it would be better to give a guitar to a kid instead of breaking it up. I saw a video of Billy Sheehan's Who tribute band a while ago, and it was the worst example of instrument smashing I have ever seen. The guitarist had a sheet of plywood on the floor so he wouldn't damage the stage.
They smashed the guitar on the plywood, the drummer, the putz who plays with Dream Theatre, toppled the drumset after the music stopped, which looked totally stupid, and Sheehan eventually threw his bass on the floor.
The Who used to obliterate you with a cacaphony of sound and destruction all at once. It was short, violent and over with quickly, but Sheehan and his friends presented the most contrived and ridiculous example of smashing I ever saw. Guitar Super System instructor Tyler Larson demonstrates a good technique here, an overhead swing almost like one would do with an actual axe, but hitting the ground flat, more like a shovel as similarly demonstrated by Trent Reznor :.
Larson points out in the video description that the guitar was already broken. The traditional rockstar idea is dying, if not dead, as a new generation of artists push back against these stereotypes and want to do different things with their platform. The modern rock landscape is a progressive, generous, inclusive place , with a generation of politically and socially engaged musicians genuinely striving to improve things.
Smashing stuff up looks incredibly cool, and will always look cooler than being earnest and working hard. Mike Rampton is a freelance writer who lives in London. He enjoys making aggressively difficult puns, drinking on trains and pretending to be smarter than he is. He would like to own a boat one day but accepts that he probably won't. Remembering a performance art piece he had seen in in which artist Robin Page kicked a guitar into pieces, he decides to double down by smashing it up.
All I know is im glad. At a redced price. And anyways now I laugh as my guitar just became super rare! I love it still. I would never ever sell mine! Home Information For Musicians. August 1, There are easier and better ways to destroy things.
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