Top 3 Guitar Smashers
After reading ALHP’s post about the fake guitar smasher I thought it would be appropriate to offer all the budding guitar smashers who might read this site some help so they don’t make a fool of themselves like the joker in Weave. So I offer my top 3 guitar smashers of all time. It would serve you well to do your research and learn from the best. Now, the list:
1. Pete Townsend - The Who: This guy was smashing guitars when he couldn’t afford to smash guitars. So then he would ask his friends to “borrow” their equipment and promise that he wouldn’t smash their stuff. Of course he smashed the fuck out of it. The God of guitar smashing.
2. Jimi Hendrix: Who can forget his 67 Monterey Pop Festival performance where he not only smashed the shit out of his guitar but lit it on fire and performed felatio on the damn thing. My private parts still tingle when I watch it.
3. Sid Vicious: The true mark of an artist is the ability to learn from art history but move the field forward. Sid Vicious was such an artist. He wouldn’t waste time smashing a guitar on stage. He loved to smash his guitar on your fucking melon. Then he would spit on you and kick you in the crotch. Yes indeed Sid, it is better to burn-out than fade away.
Dharma Bum
November 7th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Hilarious. FYI Weave boy might have actually been trying to accomplish a Pete Townsend-esque smash down but the guy was in a yellow scarf. God does not let boys in yellow scarves accomplish manly tasks.
November 7th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
thank you chris, your post takes me back… pete was my hero as a teenager as he was the orignal “punk”. if i might add, the first instance of his smashing a guitar came when he accidentally put his guitar neck through the ceiling in some tiny box of a club the who were playing in. pissed off that he broke the neck, pete slammed his guitar on the stage, the audience went nuts, and the rest is history.
November 7th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Fabulous!
This is how it is done. No reservations, just slam the MFn’ thing down!
Perhaps Yellow Scarf wasn’t on the right type of drugs… Watch and learn Yellow Scarf, watch and learn.
November 8th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Hofinator..I am so with you man…..Townsend was/is the main man for smashing stuff….
although he gathered his skills from the gents you listed above…I think the most modern smasher from the most current era would be, Kurdt Cobain…I saw them smash all of their instruments and it was incredible and sad at the same time because the instruments they were smashing were vintage Fender Jazzmasters or Jaguars….much too nice to smash, but I guess that’s the point…..fuck it!
November 8th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Trail of Dead are playing Thursday. Not only do they smash guitars…drum kits, keyboards, roadies, and people in the front row are also at risk. We should go!! (y’know, and hang out in the back *ahem*)
December 3rd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I can’t believe Nigel Tufnel’s Air Force Base triumph doesn’t even rate a mention.
That’s closer to where I was at mentally when the infraction went down.
The problem with critics? . . . “It was a just a two-word review: ‘Shit Sandwich.’”
I rest my case.
March 5th, 2009 at 6:53 am
What about good ol’ Kurt Cobain? He filled his guiatr smashing with emotion!
March 12th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Well he threw one down from the top of the stairs
Beautiful women were standing everywhere
They all got wet when he smashed that thing
But off in the dark you could hear somebody sing
Chorus:
Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars
Smashing a perfectly good guitar
I dont know who they think they are
Smashing a perfectly good guitar
It started back in 1963
His momma wouldnt buy him
That new red harmony
He settled fgor a sunburt with a crack
But he’s still trying to break his mommas back
Chorus
He loved that guitar just like a girlfriend
But ever good thing comes to an end
Now he just sits in his room all day
Whistling every note he used to play
There out to be a law with no bail
Smash a guitar and you go to jail
With no chance for early parole
You dont get out tIll you get some soul
Chorus
Late at night the end of the road
He wished he stIll had the old guitar to hold
He’d rock it like a baby in his arms
Never let it come ot any harm
June 1st, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Please don’t forget Paul Simonon of The Clash. The London Calling album cover is an iconic punk image.