“That was like killing the spouse”

The Who‘s Roger Daltrey has opened up in regards to the one time he smashed a guitar and in contrast it to “killing his spouse”.

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The rock icon has shared that he has solely damaged certainly one of his devices in his life which he regrets and likened the second to the thought of murdering his spouse. Whereas showing as a visitor on Shawn Keaveny’s Daily Grind podcast, the 80-year-old musician stated: “[Fans] by no means got here to listen to the music, they got here to see the guitar being damaged.”

He continued: “The difficulty is the guitar was value 50 gigs. I’ve solely ever smashed one guitar and I’m actually sorry I did it. I don’t know why, simply this factor came to visit me. I’ve at all times regretted it – I assumed ‘I shouldn’t have performed that, that was like killing the spouse.’ ”

In his 2018 memoir, Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite: My Story, Daltrey spoke about his bandmate and The Who frontman Pete Townshend‘s ardour for destroying guitars and admitted that he hates seeing Towshend smash such costly devices.

“It was heartbreaking. After I remembered how a lot I’d struggled to get my first guitars, it was like watching an animal being slaughtered. An costly animal that we’d have to switch with one other costly animal earlier than the subsequent gig,” he wrote in his guide.

He continued: “And we needed to pay for the opening within the ceiling … from then on, the viewers anticipated us to interrupt our devices. It was our factor.”

Daltrey additionally revealed that Townshend would truly fastidiously break the neck of his guitars in order that he would be capable of glue the instrument again collectively after their gigs.

“It was expensive in glue as a result of as quick as we have been smashing it — we had 4 units of drugs — it then acquired glued and by the point we acquired to smash it once more the glue had set,” he advised the The way to Wow podcast in 2020 (per Music News).

He continued: “They weren’t prop guitars, they have been actual guitars, however we labored out very cleverly, very hardly ever did the neck break, so long as the neck didn’t break you could possibly glue the physique again. Even with holes in it, it didn’t matter, so long as the gap between the bridge and the nut of the guitar [where the strings are supported] was the identical you could possibly make it work.”

In different information, Daltrey just lately opened up about the way forward for The Who, saying that he’s “blissful” that “that a part of my life is over”.