smashing an instrument

[knumbskull]

Singer from Muse apparently holds the Guinness world record for smashing 140 guitars on a single tour.

Seems... unnecessary.

 

[lz4005]

I was never one to smash stuff..but once when I was a teenager in high school me and my friends had a wild keg party and once we were all drunk we took turns trying to smash the picture tube out of an old television..I gotta say, those things are tough as rocks. It wasn't as if we were little kids and we were using stuff to ram into it, like a big metal coat rack, hammer, kicking it, punching it, throwing bottles at it etc..we tried everything..but at the end of the night that television picture tube was left standing almost as if we hadn't even done a thing to it...I never thought those things would be so tough..

I tried to do that as a teenager once too. Hit the damn thing repeatedly with a cinder block. The block broke before the tube did. I was shocked. It's undoubtedly better for our health that we both failed. There's some bad stuff inside those.

As for smashing instruments, it's fun. I've broken several guitars and basses. Most that were beyond repair before I did so. Most.

My favorite was stomping my foot through a ukulele for a photo shoot, then burning the pieces.