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I like songs of the Who, they were a great band. But I think it is sick to destroy an instrument, any musician should think that ... There are many other things that could be smashed, but not a guitar IMO!

YMMV but I am just a frustrated, dud musician, never mind! Hopefully for the rest of the world I will soon be belowground. 😉

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Guitars can also abuse humans. I had a 1960's guild acoustic for about 30 years, got it when I was a kid, I played everywhere with that thing and it didn't like people who tried to break us up or who abused it. Once it was stolen and I gave the cops the serial number when I reported it, a couple of weeks later, the cops phoned me that they had found the guitar in a truckload of instruments that had been stolen in Adelaide on route to Melbourne. It had crashed and the driver was killed and the passenger was badly injured but the guitar in it's hard case was fine.

Then I was playing at an open gig at a house, when I walked in, there was about 20 guitar cases in the hallway. Everyone took turns singing some songs. I let some guy play my guitar but he was a bit heavy handed with it so I took it off him. I went inside, came back, and he and my guitar were gone. I ran out the front and caught him. A scuffle ensued and I got my guitar back, I went back to the party and about 5 minutes later he was run down by a car while walking home, he was a bit drunk. He survived with a bit of brain damage.

I would leave my guitar in it's stand in my bedroom and once when I was in a share house, a painter came in while I was at work and he must have knocked the guitar over because when I came home, the neck was broken, he denied it at first, I think what happened was that he opened the windows and the curtain blew in knocking the guitar on to the floor at an angle, headstock first. He relented eventually and agreed to pay for it to be fixed, it had to have a steel rod inserted in the neck and be glued and painted. 2 weeks later, he was bashed outside the casino, it was in the papers and he was in a coma for a while, with neck and head injuries.

There were other instances. It seemed anyone who abused the guitar ended up in the shit.

 

 

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On 6/22/2021 at 9:52 PM, kennywtelejazz said:

Destruction is every bit as important in the creative process as is the incubation of a creative idea that is seeking creative expression .🤗

 

I heard that stuff from a guy named Kenfucius

 

Naaah, they do crazy things so people talk about them, create a buzz and get some free publicity.

You sell more that way.  

 

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