I have just witnessed the death of an iconic guitar

randomhandclaps

It can't have been his actual white LPC anyhow, that's for sale in Music Ground.

thermionic

A friend who was watching on tv reckoned it was the bass as well. In my defence, I was very far away!

thermionic

I enjoyed the gig, on good form musically, in good humour and with predictable but poignant tributes to Richey. James's attempt at the national anthem went down well! The sound was poor though, high frequencies drifting and fading badly - people with me reckoned it was due to the stiff breeze, but I'm not sure.

Also amazing how many people I know I managed to bump into in a dark field of 10,000 people!

randomhandclaps

thermionic said:

A friend who was watching on tv reckoned it was the bass as well. In my defence, I was very far away!

How far? You do know that failing to correctly identify a guitar at 50 yards is an automatic fail on your guitar player's licence, don't you?

RocknRollDave

Yeah, if you were far back at an outdoor gig the wind will have messed up the sound good and proper. Pretty sure JDB has been using Mesa combos this tour. Sounded so good even our drummer commented on the guitar tone

CloudNine

 He probably just heard about the: Gibson Giveaway on Tuesday 9th June

breakstuff

That's pathetic.What a loser.

Everyone knows if you want to be proper Rock n Roll you've got to saw half way through the neck before even attempting to smash it.

Deadman

I love the Manics, one band I've never seen unfortunately. Hope you enjoyed it.

benecol

Nunogilberto said:

I saw him smash Nicky's bass at the end, but didn't see any LPC being smashed..

Arr. Took him a good few goes, even prompting him to make his last words on stage: "Get a Maranello - they're fucking well made".

strtdv

breakstuff;660282" said:

That's pathetic.What a loser.

Everyone knows if you want to be proper Rock n Roll you've got to saw half way through the neck before even attempting to smash it.

The maple neck gives it away as one of their £100 "Baldwin" SGs

Chalky

Sounds like the act of a complete tosser to me. What next? Biting the head of a live chicken?

ICBM

strtdv said:

The maple neck gives it away as one of their £100 "Baldwin" SGs

He should have used a real Gibson - much less robust. Even an Epiphone would have been easier...

monquixote

Smashing a guitar is the most contrived, grotesque and un rock and roll thing you can do.

impmann

monquixote;660375" said:

Smashing a guitar is the most contrived, grotesque and un rock and roll thing you can do.

I can think of a lot worse things to do that are "un rock n roll". But each to their own...

usedtobe

breakstuff;660282" said:

That's pathetic.What a loser.

Everyone knows if you want to be proper Rock n Roll you've got to saw half way through the neck before even attempting to smash it.

He's let himself go a bit!

johnonguitar

God are people still smashing shit up?

To be fair it would have been cool if he smashed THE custom and then just retired

But anything less is just cringey

johnonguitar

Unless they blew it up with mortar fire and or a landmine or something

EdGrip

There's a very fine line between creating an immersive, cathartic and profound Artaudian mass-hysteria experience for the audience, and being an embarrassing twat enacting a hackneyed and contrived cliche - just as there's a very fine line between clever and stupid.

TBF, I thought, "Manic Street Preachers. What a total cock he is." But then I remembered I was actually thinking of Primal Scream and that I have no beef with the Manics or even know anything about them at all.

mellowsun

At least he's smashing his own kit. When my band supported them in 1990 in Cambridge they tried to smash up the PA, but the heavies from Criterion hire piled in and stopped them!