{"id":2403,"date":"2007-11-26T01:38:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T07:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/smashing-guitars\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T03:06:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T09:06:57","slug":"smashing-guitars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/smashing-guitars\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing Guitars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had posted a YouTube video of a banned Mastercard commercial where a kid smashes a guitar. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iHBNcSsmU44\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for YouTube Video<\/a>). Just for the record, I did in fact once have a comedian in the recording studio who did a video taping of himself smashing a brand new electric guitar just for the fun of it. He bought the guitar (I think it was a Made in Mexico Fender Strat electric) and took it right out to the parking lot to smash.<\/p>\n<p>He almost broke his hand. Those guitars are very solid. I don&#8217;t know how they do it for stage dramatics, but in the real world don&#8217;t try it if you care about keeping your hands.<\/p>\n<p>It looks cool when Garth Brooks does it on stage with acoustic guitars &#8211; anyone have any info on the prep they do for that? After the comedian made about fifteen jabs into the cement, and still didn&#8217;t get the explosive effect he wanted &#8211; concensus was it was kind of lame and he wasted his money.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good guitar smashing story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had posted a YouTube video of a banned Mastercard commercial where a kid smashes a guitar. (Click Here for YouTube Video). Just for the record, I did in fact once have a comedian in the recording studio who did a video taping of himself smashing a brand new electric guitar just for the fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-CL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}