{"id":41537,"date":"2015-12-02T06:19:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T11:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=41537"},"modified":"2015-11-27T12:20:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:20:11","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-who-smashed-the-first-guitar-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-who-smashed-the-first-guitar-on-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Who Smashed the First Guitar on Stage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/smashing-a-perfectly-good-guitar-pendant?source=blog_uk120215\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41541 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/uk_40161.jpg\" alt=\"Smashing a Perfectly Good Guitar Pendant | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Who<\/em> smashed the first guitar? Yes, they did.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Townshend, legendary guitarist of the classic British band first destroyed his instrument on stage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewho.net\/whotabs\/gear\/guitar\/smashed.html\" target=\"_blank\">in 1964\u2026by accident.<\/a> Soon, the Who was known for the instrument-smashing melees that punctuated their exuberant live shows, including Keith Moon&#8217;s exploding drum kit, live on the Smothers Brothers Show. Since then, the annals of rock history have been full of violent instrumental sacrifice, with other performers getting more and more inventive with their destructive showmanship: Jimi Hendrix <a href=\"http:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/jimi-hendrix-guitar-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\">set his Strat on fire<\/a> at the Monterey Pop Festival, Keith Emerson <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xggFzkyd288\" target=\"_blank\">abused his Hammond organ<\/a> with a dagger he carried for just that purpose, and Kurt Cobain made an art form of reviving Townshend-style guitar sacrifice. Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/marcoonthebass.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/the-story-behind-paul-simonon-his.html\" target=\"_blank\">busted-up basses<\/a> and six strings are mostly relegated to museum collections, but in the classic rock era, no axe was truly safe in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Smashing a Perfectly Good Guitar Pendant | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/smashing-a-perfectly-good-guitar-pendant?source=blog_uk120215\" target=\"_blank\">Smashing a Perfectly Good Guitar Pendant<\/a> | $75<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of Uncommon Knowledge that goes up to 11? Smashing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":41543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[73,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41546,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41537\/revisions\/41546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}