He famously burned two guitars at three shows, most notably the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Jimi Hendrix was also known for destroying his guitars and amps. Jeff Beck, then a member of the Yardbirds, reluctantly destroyed a guitar in the 1966 film Blowup after being told to emulate the Who by director Michelangelo Antonioni.
VH1 later placed this event at number ten on their list of the twenty Greatest Rock and Roll Moments on Television. Moon was also injured in the explosion when shrapnel from the cymbals cut his arm. Moon overloaded his bass drum with explosive charges which were detonated during the finale of the song, "My Generation." The explosion caused guest Bette Davis to faint, set Pete Townshend's hair on fire and, according to legend, contributed to his later partial deafness and tinnitus. television on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967. The most famous episode of this occurred during the Who's debut on U.S. Keith Moon, the Who's drummer, was also known for destroying his drum set. A student of Gustav Metzger, Townshend saw his guitar smashing as a kind of auto-destructive art. Rolling Stone Magazine included his smashing of a Rickenbacker guitar at the Railway Tavern in Harrow and Wealdstone in September 1964 in their list of "50 Moments That Changed Rock & Roll". This piece of performance art inspired guitarist Pete Townshend of the Who, who was the first guitar-smashing rock artist. Page threw his guitar off stage and kicked it out of the ICA’s front door and down Dover Street until it broke totally apart. The artists who gathered around this art movement and its development were opposed to the senseless destruction of human life and landscapes engendered by the Vietnam war.ĭuring the Festival of Misfits in 1962, Fluxus-artist Robin Page performed his event named "Guitar Piece".
Two years later, New York City hosted the second Destruction in Art Symposium at Judson Church in Greenwich Village.
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During the course of the symposium, Raphael Montañez Ortiz performed a series of seven public destruction events, including his piano destruction concerts, which were filmed by both American Broadcasting Company and the BBC. According to the event's press release, the principal objective of DIAS was "to focus attention on the element of destruction in Happenings and other art forms, and to relate this destruction in society." Two events were scheduled to occur throughout London. In London, 1966, a group of artists from around the world came together to participate in the first Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS). Nam June Paik's "One for Violin Solo", performed on 16 June 1962, featured Paik very slowly and intently lifting a violin, then smashing it with one blow on a table. Jazz musician Charles Mingus, known for his fiery temper, reportedly smashed his $20,000 bass onstage in response to audience hecklers at New York's Five Spot. Several contemporary musicians, including Annea Lockwood, Yōsuke Yamashita, and Diego Stocco, have incorporated piano burning in their compositions. Jerry Lee Lewis may be the first rock artist to have destroyed his equipment on stage, with several, possibly erroneous, stories of him destroying and burning pianos in the 1950s. US country musician Ira Louvin was famous for smashing mandolins that he deemed out-of-tune. In 1956, on the Lawrence Welk Show, a zoot-suited performer billed as "Rockin' Rocky Rockwell" did a mocking rendition of Elvis Presley's hit song "Hound Dog." At the conclusion of the song he smashed an acoustic guitar over his knee. The destruction of musical instruments is an act performed by a few pop, rock and other musicians during live performances, particularly at the end of the gig.
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