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5 Ways to Destroy a Guitar: Hendrix, Townshend, Cobain, Blackmore & SRV Show You How

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/smashing-guitars-0303

Punk and hard rock guitarists of the ‘60s and ’70ssometimes expressed their fury and passion by annihilating instruments on-stage. The cover of The Clash’s 1979 album London Calling depictsthe phenomenon perfectly. Paul Simonon is captured mid-swing as he is about to pummel the stage with his bass. “The show had gone quite well,” Simonon said of the moment, “but for me inside, it just wasn’t working well, so I suppose I took it out on the bass.”

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