Kids started shouting out, ‘Smash your guitar Pete!’ And getting quite annoyed ... hollowed-bodied Rickenbacker - Townshend’s favorite choice of guitar. The first guitar to feel Townshend ...

Pete Townshend goes about his business at the ... The episode occurred when he raised his 1964 Rickenbacker Rose Morris 1998 too high and hit the low ceiling during a performance at the Railway ...

Pete Townshend with a Rickenbacker Rose Morris model 1998 “Hendrix was a great player,” he says, “but he wasn't really creative. He was dealing in other people's ideas, old blues things and ...

The Who guitarist Pete Townshend used to smash guitars ... It was like being on a chain gang.' In 2015, a Rickenbacker smashed by Townshend during The Who's 25th anniversary tour in 1989 was ...

The Beatles revolutionised pop music with John Lennon's Rickenbacker, while The Who's Pete Townshend infamously smashed his to bits on stage. Mancunian rockers Oasis split up after Liam and Noel ...

Pete Townshend, guitarist and principle songwriter ... and 19-year-old Townshend is making an unholy noise on his Rickenbacker when he “feel[s] a terrible shudder as the sound goes from a ...

But that did not stop one music fan shelling out more than £50,000 for this battered guitar – which was smashed on stage by Pete Townshend himself. The Rickenbacker fell victim to the veteran ...

It's June 1964, and Pete Townshend, the son of a big-band clarinetist ... the stage until he’s standing over the wreckage of his Rickenbacker. One more sacrifice to the rock gods.

"Truancy: The Very Best Of Pete Townshend," a new collection of reissued ... then Gretsch and Rickenbacker 12-string guitars and John Entwistle's hybrid Thunderbird-Fender Precision bass.

They’ve been playing songs from throughout their 50-year career on the road, but the audiences, by Pete Townshend‘s estimation ... Well, I do have an identical Rickenbacker.