Get ready to rock because we are going through the history of guitar smashing! Who was the first rocker to smash a guitar? And how did destroying instruments onstage become a rock 'n' roll rite of ...
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If you’re gonna smash a guitar, don’t do it over your friend’s head… unless you’re filming. This is what happens when smashing guitars goes wrong. Acoustic guitars may seem like they’d break easily, ...
Back in 1993, the great John Hiatt sang, “Oh, it breaks my heart to see those stars/Smashing a perfectly good guitar.” Whether allegorical or not, Hiatt – in his song, Perfectly Good Guitar, from his ...
Big Band purveyor, Rockin’ Rocky Rockwell, can be credited for initiating the first guitar smash. While delivering a tongue-in-cheek rendition of “Hound Dog” on The Lawrence Welk Show, Rockwell broke ...
Smashing your instrument is a Western rock n’ roll tradition since the 1960s. Other places maybe not so much. Indo-Canadian rapper AP Dhillon smashed a gold ESP LTD Kirk Hammett V guitar during his ...
As a solo artist, Roger Daltrey produced hits like “Walking the Dog”, “Written on the Wind”, and “Giving It All Away.” While classic songs, that was just a taste of Daltrey’s promising career as he ...
Phoebe Bridgers seems to be well-liked by fans, critics, and her peers, so perhaps she’s not the first person you’d expect to get involved in a music feud. Then again, she’s not one to hold back when ...
The grand opening celebration of the new $300 million Hard Rock Northern Indiana Casino in Gary on Friday was more than a star-studded, guitar-smashing, rock ‘n’ roll event to the city’s music royalty ...