OFF: Monster Magnet

[CWarburton at OAG.COM]

Having seen MM a couple of times lately, with DaveW doing his guitar smashing "we all have to make sacrifices" routine, I can ease your pangs - he does it with a basic bog-standard Squier Affinity Strat (c.£125) which is obviously bought for the purpose!

ChrisW

> The music of Hawkwind is eternal..
> ...about the fender....
> I can only think of all the guitar players out their in the
> world with cheap shitty guitars who can't afford fenders
> watching with a tear in their eyes....
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Filip Vanhuyse" <Filip.Vanhuyse at PANDORA.BE>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 7:23 PM
> Subject: Monster Magnet/Hawkwind
>
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > Dave wyndorf of Monster Magnet smashed his Fender guitar during the
> > openingsong "The Right Stuff" after 5 min. into the gig while 70.000
> people
> > went bananas and out of their skull yesterday at the Rock Wechter
> festival.
> >
> > I wasn't there but a friend of mine was and he said it was an AWSOME
> sight.
> >
> > Now isn't that a good plug for our beloved hawks.
> >
> > greetings
> > filip
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Mon, 5 Jul 2004 00:26:17 +0930
> From:    "Michael \"AlIeN dReAm\" Blackman"
> <michael_1968 at OZEMAIL.COM.AU>
> Subject: Re: Monster Magnet/Hawkwind
>
> I would love watching them smash cheap guitars because I've
> smashed cheap guitars before and that was fun because they
> were so awful.  But smashing a good quality guitar has to be
> a sin. I still have yet to buy a good les paul but I'll get
> there.  However I do have a nice esp at the moment.