Pete Townshend of The Who was the first documented guitarist to smash a guitar on stage at the Railway Hotel in September 1964. The guitar was a Rickenbacker. That said, Jerry Lee Lewis was the first to destroy a musical instrument on stage when he allegedly burned/destroyed pianos in the 1950s.
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