Smashing guitars on stage became one of rock’s most rebellious acts. This video explores how legends like Pete Townshend, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain turned guitar destruction into an art form.

Included in that price tag are two double-exposure chromogenic prints by photographer Johny Baltimore of Cobain playing and smashing the guitar. Krist Novoselic and Kurt Cobain onstage during a ...

Back in 1991, Kurt Cobain (pictured ... You can view snippets of the concert and the guitar smashing in the video above. You can watch Chris Brady and Janet Jarosz talk about the history and ...

Singer Courtney Love said that she wrote the song with Erlandson and Smashing ... exciting. Kurt Cobain was attempting to write the “ultimate pop song” when he came up with the guitar riff.

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Filmed in London, the song’s video is rendered in black and white apart from a brief glimpse of Gallagher’s guitar ... anarchist cheerleaders and Kurt Cobain’s raw performance inciting ...

On Jan. 18, 1991, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana took a hammer to a cheap Japanese-made guitar at the end of a concert at Evergreen ...

A smashed guitar once owned by late Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain sold at auction last week for more than $157,000 at a ...

UPDATE: A guitar destroyed by a then-relatively unknown Kurt Cobain during a 1991 concert sold for $157,773 during a recent auction, Hakes Auctions reported. The guitar, a relatively inexpensive ...