The Who’s lead singer Roger Daltrey explained in the latest episode of the AXS TV series, “A Life on the Road,” the English rock band’s penchant for smashing their guitars on stage.

Daltrey told AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson that The Who guitarist Pete Townshend used to smash his guitar for sonic effect.

“It used to give this surreal kind of in-tune but out-of-tune, in-rhythm but out-of-rhythm sound. And no one ever wrote up about the noise it made,” Daltrey said.

“When Pete used to break those guitars it was like a ritual slaughter of some mythological animal. The thing used to scream,” he added. “Every whack of it somewhere would create a different noise, and that never got written up.”

Daltrey said The Who were made up of “four completely different people with huge egos,” leading to incredible volatility and the sense that it was “the third World War every time we got on stage.”

Source: RTT News