Pete Townsend impaled a low roof in a small club and received racous applause. It may have been a mistake on his part but the crowd loved it and he was probably a bit pissed about damaging an expensive guitar but an art form of sorts was invented: guitar smashing. Pete will go on to name this an act of auto destruction, a concept taught to him by an instructor at Art College. Frustration, angst, Art, crowd pleaser, the video below shows you some other fellows who got in on the act of guitar abuse including Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore, Kiss’ Paul Stanley and Jimi Hendrix who sprayed his axe with lighter fluid and barbequed the six-stringer. To each his own method of destruction!
