Smashed, Bashed, and Trashed

Rock and Roll is always a bit dangerous. The energy can get out of control and cause some colatteral damage. That damage usually ends up on our instruments. Over time, some of these instruments may become almost unrecognizable as the original guitar they started out as.  I wanted to highlight these battle worn instruments.

I am calling out to the readers of rockguitarlife.com to send me a phono and the story of your smashed, bashed, or trashed guitar.  I will post the picture and the story on the site and even link to your MySpace or Face book page if you like. Just email me at the address on the Contact tab.

Today I am starting with my own personal instrument. This guitar started life as an off the shelf import Charvel model 275.  When I acquired it 20 years ago I changed out the pick ups to EMG”s and that was about it.  This was my main guitar for 5 or 6 years. It was played relentlessly.  I can’t count how many times it was dropped, thrown, and in the last fit of rage resulting in the third replacement neck, I even jumped straight up into the air landing on it with all my force.   

The fist neck was a casualty of my stupidity.  I left the guitar in my car in July.  When I got to rehearsal that night after work I noticed that the fret board started warping and separating at the first fret.  The second neck was a result of it being thrown across the room.  The third and final neck was actually a performance guitar neck that my friend had for years. I tried to get him to sell it to me for various  reasons and when I pleaded my case the last time he finally caved.

 

You would think I hated this guitar but it is quite the opposite. This is a great guitar which I love playing.  Like I said, rock and roll has collateral damage and it just happened to have landed on my guitar. The guitar has paint missing, cracks in the body,stripped out screw holes and a few war stories to tell.