Whats the point of destroying instruments in rock?

[zoki]

I couldnt imagine Glenn Gould destroying his Stainway while playing Bach

[I]

Well Glen Gould was a brilliant musician who loved his Bach and had respect for his piano. The Who were a bunch of pilled up White City slum kids who could barely play their instruments but had the dim idea that if they smashed them up they would receive the attention the thugs craved.

Considering that the British public had little taste and no culture, The Who got what they wanted: fame through petulance.

Observer

[lol]

Auto destruction, man. Hope I die before I get old etc.

[rockstone]

I thought The Who were middle class kids slumming it.

[I]

Isn't that Keith Moon? I think Roger Daltry was working class. Didn't Townshend base his pilled up mod on the short man?

Reel

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Still harping on about class, jeez! Freakin obsessed with it. Don't you know its about who you are, not what some idiot thinks you are, because of where you were born, or what daddy did?

[I]

Try telling that to the controllers of the BBC, 98% of whose participants are from the middle classes. Or the Tory government with 21 millionaires in its cabinet. I am quite prepared to ignore my class origins but they are not. It is the middle classes and the money men who declared war on the working class not the other way round.

Take, for example, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, the incumbent Mayor of London. He is the son of Stanley Johnson, a former Conservative Member of the European Parliament and employee of the European Commission and World Bank, and the painter Charlotte Johnson Wahl, the daughter of Sir James Fawcett, a barrister

Johnson's maternal great-grandparents were palaeographer Elias Avery Lowe and translator H. T. Lowe-Porter. On his father's side, Johnson is a great-grandson of Ali Kemal Bey, a liberal Turkish journalist and the Interior Minister in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, who was killed during the Turkish War of Independence. His father's maternal grandmother, Marie Louise de Pfeffel, was a granddaughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg through his relationship with a German actress. Through Prince Paul, Johnson is a descendant of King George II and, through George's great-great-great grandfather James I/VI, a descendant of all of the previous British royal houses. Johnson is also an 8th cousin of David Cameron.

Observer

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Yeah, I watched the BBC programme about him on Monday night as well.

If somebody lets these people tell them that they are inferior then they will be.