Thinking of british bands of the time like The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Troggs who used to smash their instruments on stage. Brian Jones and Keith Richards were pretty wild in the 60's but they never copied this behaviour, or did they?

I hope not.

Can't remember them ever doing that.

Keith respects his instruments.

Ronnie as well I think.

They have some great vintage guitars.

Sometimes the audience did it for them.

yes--right after they heard chuck leavell play piano on THAT version of MR....

Not in the way the Who, Move,Hendrix,etc did it as a stageact. But I remember Keith beating his guitar and throwing it to the stagefloor on some 73 gigs . .

In later years, Keith Richards in interviews has occasionally criticized Pete Townshend for wrecking equipment, bemoaning the destruction of "all those beautiful guitars." Townshend was the first to smash equipment onstage, back in their club days before they even had a record out. The Who were onstage in a club with a low ceiling and Pete was bouncing the end of the tuning head of his guitar against the ceiling for sound effects. At one point his Rickenbacker, which has a notoriously weak fretboard, broke when it accidentally poked through the ceiling. Then he desiced to just finish it off. He did it again the next weekend, only this time Keith Moon joined in by demolishing his drum kit. Thus, a widely imitated stage gimmick was born. For Pete, this represented his take on the "autodestructive art" movement started by Gustav Metzger, a demonstration of whose Pete witnessed while a student at Ealing Art College.

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Thinking of british bands of the time like The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Troggs who used to smash their instruments on stage. Brian Jones and Keith Richards were pretty wild in the 60's but they never copied this behaviour, or did they?

Keith smashed a guitar on some guy's head in '81

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Thinking of british bands of the time like The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Troggs who used to smash their instruments on stage. Brian Jones and Keith Richards were pretty wild in the 60's but they never copied this behaviour, or did they?

Keith smashed a guitar on some guy's head in '81

Great job......compare what the The Who and Hendrix did...................

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I think Keith also smashed a guitar over Harold Pendleton's head: the promoter at the Marquee Club in 1971.

....neck fell off the Maton after Gimmie Shelter...



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Thinking of british bands of the time like The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Troggs who used to smash their instruments on stage. Brian Jones and Keith Richards were pretty wild in the 60's but they never copied this behaviour, or did they?

Keith smashed a guitar on some guy's head in '81

No, actually, he smashed some guy's head with his guitar, then resumed playing.

I don't mind The Who and Hendrix doing it that was part of who they were at the time. I don't think I've ever read about the Stones breaking equipment on stage. Now Keith may have broken one over Mick's head at somepoint but who knows?? I read a quote from Keith saying its a true friendship when you can bash a guy over the head one day and still be friend's the next day but who knows coming from Keith.

Then there's Richie Blackmore....whom I've seen take parts of Ian Paice's drums and throw them off stage.

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I don't mind The Who and Hendrix doing it that was part of who they were at the time. I don't think I've ever read about the Stones breaking equipment on stage. Now Keith may have broken one over Mick's head at somepoint but who knows?? I read a quote from Keith saying its a true friendship when you can bash a guy over the head one day and still be friend's the next day but who knows coming from Keith.

I thought Keith was more a show-em-the-blade type when it comes to that sort of thing. If he broke a guitar and had to part with it, he'd mourn it like the loss of an old friend.

Hendrix did it only two times.

Mathijs

KEITH SHOT MICK'S GUITAR.

According to Jo Woods brother Paul Karslake.

It's a funny story but I think Paul has removed his celeb story videos from YouTube.

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Hendrix did it only two times.

Mathijs

London Club Gig '67, Monterey '67, Miami '68, Royal Albert Hall 69 and many more.

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Hendrix did it only two times.

Mathijs

London Club Gig '67, Monterey '67, Miami '68, Royal Albert Hall 69 and many more.

I only thought London and Monterey, or was that the setting fire to the guitar?

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Hendrix did it only two times.

Mathijs

London Club Gig '67, Monterey '67, Miami '68, Royal Albert Hall 69 and many more.

I only thought London and Monterey, or was that the setting fire to the guitar?

Mathijs

good point, the London guitar is still intact, albeit very burnt.

The Monterey strat got burnt and smashed.

The Miami one got burnt and smashed but the body survived and was given to Frank Zappa by one of the Hendrix road crew. It is now in the possession of his son Dweezil.

The Royal Albert Hall guitar wasn't burnt, just smashed. Possibly an un-planned outburst?



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Stupid behaviour. Glad the Stones never really took it up.

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Hendrix did it only two times.

Mathijs

London Club Gig '67, Monterey '67, Miami '68, Royal Albert Hall 69 and many more.

I only thought London and Monterey, or was that the setting fire to the guitar?

Mathijs

He smashed up lots of guitars, only lit a couple or so on fire though.

I heard that Chuck Leavell smashed his grand piano, which is why he plays that digital thing now.

Would Brian be considered an instrument?