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Location: Michigan | SlipKid I expect the correct answer from you.
Did Gibson Guitar Company and all of the other musical equipment makers of what the WHO band used to play just keep giving them stuff to destroy or did the band make so much money back then that they just could afford to do it like a millionaire lighting his Cuban Cigars with $100.00 dollar bills? If the Who destroyed equipment at most of their concerts back then I would think that the equipment companies would pull the plug on them after a very short while.I think that having the WHO destroy all that equipment every concert that it would have cost them bigger money advertising the equipment then getting it back in sales back then.
HOW MANY $$$DOLLARS$$$ DO YOU FIGURE THEY BROKE ON THE SET WHEN THEY BROKE THE GUITARS ,THE AMPS,THE DRUM SETS ,THE MIKES ..... WOW .GWB |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | As I understand it, the Who had to pay for their own stuff. Pete Townshend broke the first one by accident (jumping off an amp and hit the head on a low ceiling) and the crowd loved it so much they kept demanding it. I think they were in major financial problems with the expense until they made it big time. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | I heard only a couple of days ago that after the second or third guitar Townshend kept a broken one that he could appear to smash every night.
Welcome Richard...good to see another Aussie here. There's a couple more floating around....also Queenslanders. Hope you stick around |
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Location: south east Michigan | As far as the WHO, they hustled what they could a paid for what they had to. |
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DID THE BAND WHO HAVE TO PAY FOR THE EQUIPMENT THEY DESTROYED IN CONCERTS?
