re: #226 Barefoot Grin

My recollection about The Who was that Pete accidentally broke his guitar swinging it over his head one night in a club with a low ceiling and the news got out. Then he felt pressured to keep doing it, so he had to buy cheap guitars for the last song, then Keith wanted to get in on the act and blew up everyone’s ear drums.

Pete smashed real Gibsons. He could get those SGs for (relatively) cheap and he’d go through a lot of them, but it wasn’t like Blackmore who would get 50 dollar Strat copies to smash.

This guy caught one of Pete’s SGs, way back when. Binky’s a New York legend and has a wild guitar collection. He’s actually go a Grail, a ‘59 Les Paul Burst. He takes it on the subway to his gigs. The guitar’s worth a quarter million. Binky’s a crazy cat.