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so you don't have to play an encore
Because it's cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqgZ3oJF_xE
what do you mean why?
http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-The-Clash-London-Calling.jpg
If Trail of Dead did it
It's cool.
Didn't they do that after every gig? Even on talk shows and the like?
And their label footed the bill every time?
THIS
ToD's instrument destruction was a fine art.
The first thing that came in to my head
when I saw this thread was "it's only cool when it's ...Trail Of Dead". Although I think they have certain pieces of kit which they can and can't smash. I remembered seeing a very worried face at one point which I took to mean "Oh balls, that was expensive"
They would just play Squiers and smash em up.
yet
when the vines did it on jools holland it was quite embarrasing - that and all the old farts proclaiming "the flame of rock still burns" type shite afterwards. Around the time of Nirvana I think even Garth Brooks was smashing guitars...
It's really painful to watch rich musicians smash expensive gear...
While it is painful sometimes
to watch rich musicians smash expensive gear, I'm sure I read or watched something about Nirvana once along the lines of them smashing equipment every night even when they were sleeping in their van and had to try and fix the instruments afterwards or something. I might not be remembering correctly though.
Yeah, I remember reading about this
It was a European tour in 1990ish, Cobain would smash his guitar every night and then spend the bus ride to the next show rebuilding it, only to smash it again. It totally gave out after the penultimate show, so Sub Pop wired him $severalhundred for a new one. He smashed that one up as well.
Because everyone is STILL trying
to be like Hendrix.
think you'll find The Who were the first...
even though they're total piss ants
Who?
The
Who
via
Pete Townsend's inner-paedo rage
Because it's fucking cool.
because it's really cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHrxOk-BKf4
I saw
Wolfmother do it Live on MTV2 or some shit. First I was confused as to why Wolfmother we're even doing it, then I realised they were even bigger dicks and I moved on with my life. It was really embarrassing to be honest.
the trail of dead do this impressively.
the consequences? they're poor now.
I don't like it.
But I quite liked when the guy from A Place To Bury Strangers was swinging his guitar around by a broken string. He didn't smash it, so this was good.
It hurts me inside when people chuck their guitars on the floor
Smashing stuff is too much. It just makes me sad.
My favourite one
Was the Manics' Millenium gig one where Nicky Wire pathetically tries to break his bass for several minutes but the instrument just won't submit. Eventually does and the smile on his face is a priceless one of drunken, tired accomplishment.
Otherwise it's fairly boring and annoying.
They had a really contrived thing going on for a while of 'trashing' the stage
Usually involving Bradfield & Moore skulking off sheepishly whilst Wire tamely pushed a few amps over
didn't Wire almost break some bouncer's neck at Reading one year with his guitar?
tit.
As a guitar nerd
it makes me sad.
As a guitar non-nerd
it makes me sad.
As an employee for Fender
it makes me happy.
as a nerd, it makes you complain about it
I'm enjoying the image at the bottom of the page
I bought a guitar for £2.25
at my local charidee shop, looks like someone's had a good go to smash it, it's only got five tuners but the neck action's quite nice!
I thought I could fix the wiring and *then* smash it [JAG] when my band plays as Smashing Pumpkins THIS Saturday at the Brixton Windmill as a part of 4 or 5 Magicians' Reading 92 retrospective [/JAG] but I quite like it. Sounds fucking awful when plugged in though...
I like it when it's accidental.
Such as when, say, something goes wrong with a guitar and the player is so in the moment (man) that his only impulse is to destroy the guitar for daring to fuck him about like that.
Otherwise, I prefer guitar "abuse", you know, choking guitars and swinging them about and torturing strings in order to make crazy noise.
I imagine watching Nirvana trash everything on stage would've been extremely tedious.
^ this, except for the last sentence
Accidents are fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ojx4PfmgoE&feature=player_detailpage#t=190s
I saw Add (n) To X smash their....
THERAMIN!!!
It was their last ever gig - did it right into the ceiling of the Highbury Garage
would've loved
to see that
One of the funniest things I've ever seen live
was watching one of the guitarists in Mono (I forget which) get over excited during a freakout at the end of "Yearning." It was the first time I'd even seen one of those dudes so much as stand up whilst playing as they're usually happy to do a sit down headbanging thing. But out of nowehere he sprung to his feet and starting flailing his guitar around, knocking over amps, the drums and smashing his guitar for a few minutes, while the rest of the band looked on surprised.
Once he'd recovered from his instrument smashing reverie he very slowly and dilligently picked the drums and the amps back up, moved the remains of the guitar of stage and plugged a another one in, all the while loooking slightly sheepish and apologetic to his band mates. They then played another 3 or 4 songs.
haha
those crazy japanese. they're still polite even when smashing shit up
:D
^lulz
considering how quiet and shy Mono appear offstage that must have been a hell of a shock!
It's actually more entertaining to watch a small band trash their stuff, then have to come back and clear up two mins after they've finished...
It's definitely better to watch if the band look like they can't replace the stuff easily!
NIN's first gig at the Astoria was my fave...
...drummer in a cage, god knows how many guitars they got through. More impressive was the spraying of water all over everything. Can't be very...safe. So, like 2 weeks later I got home from being out and waiting for me was one of the smashed NIN guitars. My dad's cousin's daughter (or something) had been doing the lighting and she got it for me. It's now in my loft.
From what I understand
the young Pete Townsend genuinely conceived it as a piece of performance art, but obviously it was pretty swiftly turned into a big of a testosterone-drenched cliche. By Pete Townsend.
Yes
Saw this on a Who doc on BBC4 the other day. He was copying some famous artist he went to art school with who smashed things up as a protest against nuclear weapons. The rest of the band thought he was a pretentious tosser and wished he wouldn't do it.
I remember reading that Tom DeLonge of Blink 182 would hand his guitar to a roadie at the end and be handed a replacement
entirely for the purposes of smashing it, because he couldn't bear to smash his own.
When a guitarist from Linkin Park was on the cover of Total Guitar holding a smashed guitar, he refused to smash it, so the photographer did it for him and then got him to hold him. Apparently he got a splinter and whinged about it massively to the guy interviewing him.
Baseball (or cricket) with guitars
I really enjoyed Nirvana doing that at the Astoria in 89 on the Lame Fest tour. Kurt chucking his guitar across the stage at Kris who then whacked it with his bass. It all seemed very deranged and glorious at the time. Birdland were all up for a bit of guitar trashing too (wonder what they're up to these days???). I'd happily trash one.....or maybe a piano.....or Joanna Newsoms harp (not that I hate her or anything, quite the opposite in fact)
I saw Kinesis suport the Manics at Brixton Academy towards the end of 2001
one of the band used a single guitar throughout the set except for the very last one, where he changed to a new one, which he then smashed. suuuuuuubtle.
I wonder if he's the one who posts here...
I saw conor oberst smash a trumpet once
I remember thinking that's probably not your trumpet
I once saw Richard Keys smash a......
oh wait.
would you smash
it?
At my 10th anniversary gig I managed to smash half my gear before even playing
I looked down at my 64-knob midi controlller and discovered that the only 4 knobs i was even using had snapped off so I threw it across the room.
Used to end most sets by flinging my mixer on the floor.
Then again most of my gear is Behringer.
I do it quite often
Its mega fun and gets people talking
I'm ALWAYS asked if "can i have the guitar ?"
and well it depends how cute she is!!!!
on a more serious note
I buy crappy guitars from maltreated homes
bring them upto playable spec, fully customise with a UV paint job
and then...
you wanna try it, it really is a rush
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you really wouldn't believe how much I'm laughing right now
That's a leftfield JAG
Actually smashing even a cheap electric guitar is HARD WORK
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/02/24/smash-electric-guitar-made-just-to-get-destroyed-then-recycled/
I've seen so many bands been handed a crappier guitar
subtley at the end to smash, doesn't really follow the right sentiments.
Saw Conor Oberst push a grand piano off a stage though which was full on, and rented...
Now thats hardcore, the noise that musta made would have been incredible
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I would like none of those things in my life.
Smashing guitars is so tired
Smashing pianos is where it's at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE9mT4JaW_0
Seems they do it every year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpTImsD-H1g
Warning: dropping a piano off a very large building isn't as spectacular on impact as you'd imagine.
The cover of the new Tim Hecker record
http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2011/01/Tim-Hecker-Ravedeath-1972.jpg
Pressed Enter too soon
Meant to say is that going all Bullingdon Club on your instruments can be cool, but at least go all out on it. Nine Inch Nails were pretty full on when it came to trashing their gear.
^this Tim Hecker one is from the MIT annual piano drop as mentioned above:
http://pitchfork.com/news/41245-take-cover-tim-hecker-iravedeath-1972i/
i've screenprinted the "relevant artist tagging"
to make me chuckle when i'm next feeling down
Symposium vs Reading Festival is fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecO0uK6RytQ
Placebo at Reading in '06
After a set full of technical hiccups, Stefan Olsdal terminates a Flying V bass - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn8PsFoTFRA
i only manage to get on DiS every couple of months
so i was surprised to see this thread had popped up again !
the problem i have with it is that it's a waste of money. if you're a musician with no money, it makes no sense. if you're a musician who does have money... then why not spend money on making your guitar sound good. if you like using cheap shit guitars and buying new ones, then that's fine but a musicians instrument is like an porn stars nob. if i was a porn star i wouldn't get a girl to bite down hard with teeth and the end of a filming session. treat your equipment with respect. it's always a good idea.
I bet you sleep cuddling a guitar
i'm a trombone player :)
I would rather see the instrument donated to a nearby Children's Home
With the relevant paperwork and presentation carried out on stage.
It's just a tired format now
I'm not even offended by it, it's just been done over and over by other bands since the 60s it just seems cliche if bands do it. The reason it was cool is that those instruments were individual to that gig, so you have been given something truly unique in terms of the sound of the show itself. If I saw a band doing it nowadays I would probably laugh at them.
I smashed up an old encore guitar once, it felt amazing.