bang bang rock’n'roll
October 7, 2008 16 Comments
I spoke before about my dead Ibanez. It sat, headless and broken, in the corner of the room waiting for the return of the king or something, gathering dust (but not cobwebs, spiders would not dare). I finally laid it to rest, by beating the townshend out of it, and here you can see how it was done:
I’ve never destroyed a guitar like that before. It felt pretty good. I taught that chair a lesson too. That was the last day of moving out of our old apartment. Incidentally the soundtrack was made with this guitar’s shiny electric replacement.
Next week: pete destroys a moleskine.
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Looks like guitars are harder to destroy than I’d have thought they would be! Do you feel cleansed?
You are pretty funny, Pete.
I always wanted to throw a bunch of lead crystal I’d been given as a wedding present at my first marriage at a wall. I never got the chance but it seems like it would have been pretty cathartic.
I once had an Ibanez. I loved it. I sold it in a yard sale when I left massachusetts. I regret it now.
more solid than i would have expected. Neat little video.
Dude, that was harsh. Some of us still do have that Ibanez!
Still, at least I now know if I ever slip and batter my guitar over a chair it will take a surprising amount of punishment.
nice, i feel like doing that to some of my old sculptures…
You know, the funny thing is it was so easy to break in the first place – and yet pretty hard to destroy. The back seemed to be made not of wood, but of solid rock (appropriately). Can’t say I feel cleansed, but it was a laugh.
The replacement Ibanez rests in its heavy case. Unfortunately this means I don’t get it out as often. But now I have a guitar-loving baby, it’s probably for the best. My trusty old Hohner, bought in Charing Cross Road in 1997, is the one I pick up the most.
My husband works for a guitar manufacturor. I’ll bet he feels like doing that from time to time. : )
That was kinda tough to watch. I can’t think of one guitar I have I’d relish destroying like that! Before you took the hammer to it, I was thinking, “But maybe there’s a guitar tech out there who could fix it.” But then as pieces started flying off…Oh well.
Ooooh …I wanna smash something up too!
Great tune in the background ;)
An artist in so many mediums (media?). I like the soundtrack.
It doesn´t look as if you hit the guitar really hard on the chair.
“pete destroys a moleskine.”
What???? Poor Moleskine!
well i broke it eventually, didn’t i?
cheers, i like the soundtrack too
I think maybe next time a sturdier chair may in order. That was so un-rock’n'roll that it almost becomes rock’n'roll again, like something off the onion: ‘Mild-mannered cartoonist snaps, fails to trash hollow-bodied guitar’.
dude i’m pretty sure you’re the last person to call anyone mild-mannered. Sorry it’s not rock n roll enough for you, but the members of Kiss were helping someone else move out of their apartment that day.
It’s the very lack of supposed rock’n'rollness about it that makes it work. It would have just looked silly otherwise. And that what makes it rock’n'roll.
Punk is an attitude, not a rulebook.
ah, i get it. Point taken, apologies.
I think the common phrase is, “it’s not irony, it’s not rock’n'roll, we’re just talking to the kids (but definitely not sketching them in the park)”
Oh no! Say it ain’t so–NOT A MOLESKINE!
Lisa
:-)