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A rock star gets so into the hardness of the music, that he/she actually destroys instruments. Typically this is smashing a guitar (hence the trope name) on the stage as hard as possible, pounding it to fragments with a few whacks. Some rock bands take it Up to Eleven and set their instruments on fire. And these aren't fictional works trying to make rock seem bad. This is Truth in Television. Although it was a few decades ago, so this is now more played with in fiction than showing up in Real Life bands. Compare Great Balls of Fire, Can-Crushing Cranium, Dramatic Shattering.

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  • A rock star gets so into the hardness of the music, that he/she actually destroys instruments. Typically this is smashing a guitar (hence the trope name) on the stage as hard as possible, pounding it to fragments with a few whacks. Some rock bands take it Up to Eleven and set their instruments on fire. And these aren't fictional works trying to make rock seem bad. This is Truth in Television. Although it was a few decades ago, so this is now more played with in fiction than showing up in Real Life bands. Compare Great Balls of Fire, Can-Crushing Cranium, Dramatic Shattering.
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  • A rock star gets so into the hardness of the music, that he/she actually destroys instruments. Typically this is smashing a guitar (hence the trope name) on the stage as hard as possible, pounding it to fragments with a few whacks. Some rock bands take it Up to Eleven and set their instruments on fire. And these aren't fictional works trying to make rock seem bad. This is Truth in Television. Now this might seem like a waste of a perfectly good instrument, and sometimes it was, but smashing a guitar is much harder than you'd expect from seeing this trope in fiction. Many a young guitarist have gotten frustrated with their instrument in the middle of the show and decided to smash it, only to find out that their instrument is Made of Iron (or plywood). Bands where the instrument destruction is more planned and theatrical will often rig an instrument to smash apart easily in order to please the audience. Although it was a few decades ago, so this is now more played with in fiction than showing up in Real Life bands. Compare Great Balls of Fire, Can-Crushing Cranium, Dramatic Shattering. Examples of Rockers Smash Guitars include:
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