Will you smash your guitar? - Page 2

**elcid** · #16 02-10-2009, 10:29 AM

Such a final word? It's a poll about smashing a guitar, not giving a kidney to a dying child.

I never saw the attraction to smashing gear, especially when guys do it every night as part of their set.

shreddersymphony · #17 02-10-2009, 11:22 AM

A buddy of mine bought an 80 dollar Strat copy to smash at a relatively big show. That's one thing. But I would never smash my guitars, simply because theyre all custom made and it would take many Benjamins and a lota time to get something similar built again, and even then it won't be the same. Similarly considering this is JEMsite I assume many people will continue answering no, seeing as how a lota people here own Jems that also cost in the 2000-ish range and none of us are in the Who or make that kinda money per show

kotornut · #18 02-10-2009, 11:40 AM

I'm just not into the smashing, even considering the endorsements. If I have to get rid of things that bad then I'll just give them to people who need a guitar.

HeavyMetal4Ever · #19 02-10-2009, 12:06 PM

Hells no!

If I won the lottery I wouldn't start wiping my arse with $50's either.

Rock on!

IbanezFreak777 · #20 02-10-2009, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by elcid

Such a final word? It's a poll about smashing a guitar, not giving a kidney to a dying child.

I never saw the attraction to smashing gear, especially when guys do it every night as part of their set.

Yeah it is a final word, you said no you would never smash a guitar, that kinda finalises your life, in terms of smashing guitars. Who knows maybe one day you will change your mind, and want to smash a guitar, but then you realised that you selected no......

kidneys to children or being able to smash a guitar in the future, both options I would like to have in my future, so I will stick with maybe...

**jim777** · #21 02-10-2009, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Pursuit

Heck No!

If I was gonna get rid of a guitar used at a concert, I'd just hand it to some random in the audience lol.

Exactly

**elcid** · #22 02-10-2009, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by IbanezFreak777

Yeah it is a final word, you said no you would never smash a guitar, that kinda finalises your life, in terms of smashing guitars. Who knows maybe one day you will change your mind, and want to smash a guitar, but then you realised that you selected no......

I guess I'll just have to live with knowing I foolishly made such an important decision. 14 year old kids will never talk about how cool I was for smashing a guitar

AxeHappy · #23 02-10-2009, 02:52 PM

Or he could just do it anyways? Changing your mind means just that...you changed your mind. Just because somebody said no (or yes) to something 20 years ago (or 2 weeks ago) doesn't mean they can't still do it.

callen3615 · #24 02-10-2009, 04:10 PM

Id throw em in the crowd....but kill em na

smooth55 · #25 02-10-2009, 05:04 PM

I once grabbed a junker in the garbage that had a busted neck (it was a set neck guitar) and some friends of mine decided to do the Jimi and flame it up. Even doing that to a busted unusable junker that someone else threw out was hard. I'd never do it to one of my own.

Robstar · #26 02-10-2009, 05:22 PM

Next time you feel like smashing your guitar on stage grab the back of your head and smash it against the stage . At this point it would be more interesting, not so played out.

Highwaystar · #27 02-10-2009, 09:46 PM

NO!!!!! I'm not Pete Townshend and make bank. Plus I have never had any desire to do so.

DEADTUNES666 · #28 02-11-2009, 01:07 AM

Real quick funny story...

We were doing a showcase for Atlantic, maybe 1995, and at the end of the set we went into the obligatory long drawn out finale. We're all doing stupid leads on top of each other and just trying to show how good we were. The other guitarist had just gotten a prototype Kramer Pro Axe II about a week prior to this, and was in love with it! He's on the side of me smoking a cigarette, wailing away, when all of a sudden he pulls the guitar off of himself and tosses it down to the stage as if to say "fvck it" the second it hits the stage we all end the song perfectly. He then takes the cigarette out of his mouth and flicks it onto the guitar to further reiterate his unknown point. He turns and walks off stage. Lights go down, and we all start walking off, when he runs back on to the stage frantic to get his guitar in disbelief that he did such a thing. To see his face was the funnest thing ever!!!

He never did anything like that again, but I have to admit...It was ballsy and quite cool. Until he came running back up there like a pansy!

**jemaholic** · #29 02-11-2009, 08:00 AM

Instead of smashing a perfectly good instrument, I'd probably work with Jemsite to create a contest so some newbie on the site winds up with a cool guitar. Personally, I'd get more out of it that way too.

~j