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they got Guinness down, kerrang came down, the sun etc etc etc.
they asked punters to bring old guitars to the show so they could smash them...
they did five in total
I saw Rainbow at the Capital Cinema in Cardiff, probably in 1976/77.
He played the whole show and then in the last number he went behind his onstage stack and took off his guitar and put on a shitty strat copy, came back on and smashed it up. Twat head.
Not only that, but the neck didn't have a truss rod, as it snapped when he bashed it on the monitor that was actually just a black metal box. They toured with a metal box so that he wouldn't damage anyone's (or the band's) monitors. Tits.
I was in the balcony. Saw the whole manoeuvre. What a wuss.
And whether audiences thought it a hoot, or complete egotistical idiocy.
My band, Red For Dissent
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/auto-destructive-art
Alan Rogan was busy in the 70s and beyond... http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/smashed.html
My Eros Mk2 les Paul copy bit the dust many years ago after accidentally falling over losing the headstock, the job was finished...one time only though
I stopped playing altogether for around 9 years and haven't owned another acoustic guitar. (I don't drink much either!)
£10 million pounds worth of smashed guitars (using some very liberal/made up numbers).
The original teenage rebellion music, rock & roll, had lasted only a few years before being stifled by the establishment to be replaced by watered down pop made to appease the younger generation.
Then along came bands like the Stones playing their interpretation of blues standards in clubs like the Crawdaddy to mainly student audiences.
Then the mods and rockers period arrived with regular large-scale violent clashes. When The Who began performing at the Marquee club the audience was entirely made up of pill-popping, strutting mods. The Who were the first band to use high powered Marshall amps and stacks for instruments and pa. No bands had ever played at that volume level before. Nor had any played with such high energy. The mod audiences loved it. It was two fingers up to the establishment.
The Who completely represented their audience. They too popped indecent quantities of pills and got more high as the evening went on. The chanting crowd, the high energy performance and ear-splitting volume built to a climax where Townshend smashing his guitar into Marshall stacks and Moon crashing his drums across the stage was completely inevitable for all those present. There was no other way they could have left the stage.
Townshend also mastered the control of high-volume feedback long before others, including Hendrix, adopted it. So no, he wasn't a skilled player but he was a great innovator and pioneered many of the techniques later claimed by others as theirs.