Nigel Admin
Registered: 06/01/98
Posts: 6484
Loc: Ventura CA USA
I hate the destruction of musical instruments. There are so many players who would love to have them. The worst case I have heard of recently was Tarantino making the movie "The Hateful Eight". The Martin guitar museum loaned him a 145 year old Martin acoustic guitar that was priceless. There was a scene where Kurt Russel smashes the guitar so Martin also gave him copies of the guitar to smash. Tarantino being the jerk he is didn't call cut before the smashing to have the guitar changed for one of the copies and allowed Russell to simply smash the priceless antique. It was reported that Tarantino smirked as it happened. What an a****** He allowed it to happen for the shock value and publicity. I will never watch one of his movies. Martin now refuse to loan their museum guitars to Hollywood sets now.