Smashing guitars during a set?

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Accepted practice?
Or sick and wrong?

I did it once. It was a First Act. It hurt. A lot. :cry: I felt pretty guilty, even though it was a junk guitar...

Anyone who hasn't, just find yourself a wooden baseball bat, grip it firmly and hit a tree with it...... then picture the bat with a 5-8 pound weight on the end and parts that can break off and stab your eyes out. Actually, ya know what? Don't. I like you guys and I wouldn't want you to hurt yourselves! lol
 

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I've never done it.
Never had the Money to waste a guitar, even a cheap one.

Hendrix, Townsend, that was their thing.
Had to find my own.
 

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had some friends play a basement show at the bassist's house once. the singer had bought a crappy $20 acoustic from the pawn shop just to smash outside afterwards. i think it took him a lot more effort than he had planned on and it ended up just looking ridiculous instead of "cool". anyways... i'm not a fan of gear abuse. i work hard for the money to buy my guitars, and i baby my Affinity just as much as i baby my MIA or MIM teles.
 

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Done it. Wouldnt do it again.

Did it with a ukulele, too. Would like to do this every day.
 

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It's pretty cliche at this point.. Almost seems more rock n roll not to do it, y'know?
 

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It's pretty cliche at this point.. Almost seems more rock n roll not to do it, y'know?

Oh yeah, I know.
Plus, if you think of it this way, it looks even less enticing:
Cheap guitar: $40.
Chiropractor (needed for after you've overexerted and injured yourself over it): $3,000.
:eek:
 

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Well... that's what I would have done, too ;)

I gnawed through a copper beaver dam sculpture to get the left-over scallops from his fretboard from his luthiers dumpster. They cover my jama-bod on top of the covers at night, like glorious sprinkles of shred:)
 

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Chambered body, one neck screw in the neck, red cape, and nitrile gloves. Magic.
 

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Back in the early years of rock when people were easily impressed, it was cool… it would be pretty lame these days I would imagine…

Ripping pieces of wood off the stage floor and making a guitar out of it just in time for the lead break… THAT I'll pay to see!!
 

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I gnawed through a copper beaver dam sculpture to get the left-over scallops from his fretboard from his luthiers dumpster. They cover my jama-bod on top of the covers at night, like glorious sprinkles of shred:)

1955, I'll have one of whatever it is you're drinking...ha!

But please tell me you wouldn't really smash another poor little defenseless Uke! :eek: :lol:
 

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1955, I'll have one of whatever it is you're drinking...ha!

But please tell me you wouldn't really smash another poor little defenseless Uke! :eek: :lol:

Nowadays I drink (no lie) a blendered smoothie of ginger, celery, carrots, apple/oj, snap beans, kale, strawberries, bananas, and broccoli. That, and, (separately,) black coffee, green & black tea, and diet mountain generic soda. And water at night. I'm on the water part of the day now.

And when I smashed the uke, Taylor Swift wasn't even born yet. And I was wearing something that was illegal.
 

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Well, Taylor had been born, but was just a kid.
 

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.. In before the John Hiatt "Perfectly Good Guitar" postings begin. That tune is tongue-in-cheek folks.
 

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I'm glad the John Hiatt song hasn't been brought up, that song makes me WANT to smash a guitar.

Anyway, while Townshend and artists like Kurt Cobain smashed guitars for the statement they were making by doing so, they always left their stayed plugged in because of the sound that a dying guitar makes.

But people tend to forget that a guitar is actually very hard to break Townshend got injured a couple of times doing so and for a while employed "smashers" guitars that already had been destroyed before that he glued back together and used for the last song of the set to be destroyed.
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Paul Stanley of Kiss takes that concept a step further, his "Smashers"have their necks cut right through, so they will snap on impact, he usually swings them a round a couple of times, doing a couple of side bounces before turning the guitar sideways and breaking it, but even then, it's not certain if it will break in the right way.
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I guess the writing on the box says everything: "For breaking only"
 
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