Sentence examples for smashed instruments from inspiring English sources

The March 17th eviction of Zuccotti Park was really traumatizing, and the six-month anniversary of the movement — when the cops came in and forced people to leave and smashed instruments — was also traumatic.

The video backdrops often returned to images of the Who in its prime, its members posing like mates or smashing instruments onstage in bygone days.

In the end, after smashing instruments, screaming, tearing down the curtain ringing the space, stalking offstage, and reëmerging angrily back through the audience, he succeeded in destroying the music that he'd had a hand in bringing to life.

In 1921, when Prince Max Egon zu Fürstenberg agreed to finance a festival of contemporary music in the German town of Donaueschingen, he might not have guessed that the series would still be going strong nearly a century later, much less that it would be playing host to onstage provocations involving young composers smashing instruments and pretending to smear themselves with excrement.

Brett: Are you against musicians smashing instruments?

Because of the Who's early stage act's reliance on smashing instruments and Moon's enthusiasm for damaging hotels, the group were in debt for much of the 1960s; Entwistle estimated they lost about £150,000.

Only a generation ago, the police would have smashed her instruments, and Salem would have been arrested for singing in this way, because she was daring to sing maloya, the banned, African-influenced music of the Creole descendants of the slaves who worked the island's sugar plantations.

We had been just a few feet from The Who, while they smashed their instruments for America.

A radical government dominated by Sudanese of Arab descent seized power in 1989, and started breaking up wedding parties with tear gas, smashing instruments used to play secular music, and paying students to inform on insufficiently devout classmates.

The pilot, armed with a hammer that he kept for such situations, smashed the instrument panel, the radio, and the other classified fixtures inside the cockpit.

Townshend would eventually tower over rock music, which he helped to create, successful in no small part because he smashed his instrument in an act of "auto-destructive art," a concept championed by his former teacher, Gustav Metzger.