I saw someone else, a girl, walking out with the neck. A few days later we sold it to a guy in Richmond called McCarty who made Maxim amps and guitars (often to copy the sound of Chuck Berry and other famous musicians). My friend and I bought the scratchplate with pickups and knobs intact from a guy near the front for A$20. The blue and white Stratocaster first had the neck detached from the body and was taken backstage, then in the closing song (I thought it was I Can See For Miles) it was definitely completely smashed. I’d loosen the neck and try to get it ready, and hope that Pete could just drop it so that it fell in half, and didn’t smash it completely, because we couldn’t replace the bits.įender Stratocaster, requiring “Emergency guitar replacement” the following day, causing one-hour delay of the show.ĭuring Shakin’ All Over, the neck snapped off of Pete’s Fender Stratocaster, blue with white scratchplate, then borrowed Steve Marriott’s black Gibson Les Paul but didn’t break it. I was out there trying to find guitars every day from guitar shops. Shawnee Mission South High School Gymnasium, Overland Park, Kansas, USA Concert File: “Pete had a faulty guitar cord which gave him problems during the second show and, out of frustration, he eventually smashed the guitar to pieces.” They would always cost me an incredible amount of money to find - they’d cost, like, road manager’s time and my time to look through pawn shops, local music stores and things like that. I used to break a guitar every performance - if not two sometimes - and they would always cost around $150. Unknown, smashed when the curtain is mistakenly lowered during The Who’s set. I said to my mate - that’s half of the guitar I saw him play! Then a few weeks later they were on Top of the Pops (to premiere “ I Can See For Miles”) with the guitar rebuilt with the necks V’d rather than parallel. His frilly yellow satin shirt front was splattered with blood. It was splintered straight across the factory-glued join and Pete’s right-hand fingers were bleeding from the constant catching on the splinters. I can verify adamantly that when The Who played Dunfermline Kinema on Sunday 8th October ’67 he was playing the remaining bottom half of the double neck SG. Playing remaining half of the Gibson SG EDS-1275 double-neck. ( Craig Folkes)ĬBS Television Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA Pete played the Gibson SG EDS-1275 double-neck through most of the show, then exchanged it for a white Stratocaster for destruction. White Fender Stratocaster and Fender Precision Bass guitar (by John), parts of which would eventually comprise “ Frankenstein.” However, Lambert had been waylaid in the bar with the journalists when this grand spectacle occurred and was reportedly horrified to find he had been taken at his word.įender Stratocaster, sunburst, rosewood neckĪnaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, USA This he duly did, and Keith joined in by smashing his drums. Kit Lambert invited Virginia Ironside ( Daily Mail) and writer Nik Cohn along to this gig and briefed Pete to create an impression by smashing his £400 Rickenbacker, despite the expense. I bounced all over the stage with it and I threw the bits on the stage and I picked up my spare guitar and carried on as though I really had meant to do it. I proceeded to make a big thing of breaking the guitar. And determined to get this precious event noticed by the audience. Pete: (After cracking the headstock) I was expecting everybody to go, “Wow, he’s broken his guitar, he’s broken his guitar,” but nobody did anything, which made me kind of angry in a way. The next gig at the Railway, the crowd expected him to smash a guitar again.
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His first public guitar smashing, where he cracked the headstock of his guitar on a low ceiling, pulling it out and realizing the damage, he smashed the remainder in disgust, then turned to pick up his Rick 12 and continued playing. The Railway Tavern, Harrow and Wealdstone, London, England
Smashed guitars, by date/venue (incomplete) And most importantly, your eyewitness accounts! This information has been compiled from various resources, primarily including The Who Concert File, by Joe McMichael and “Irish” Jack Lyons, and Anyway Anyhow Anywhere, by Andy Neill and Matt Kent. A very incomplete list of documented guitar smashes by Pete Townshend.
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