Arcade Fire Guitar-Smashing

17 seconds of SNL.

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  Music

[themellowmello]

are you kidding me? arcade fire is one of the great bands out there who doesn't make much money but keeps making great music purely for the sake of great music. win butler in my opinion is an incredible lyricist and composer

[flaredfullyfinally]

yeah you and wayne coyne can go and hate on radiohead, arcade fire, beck, and any other band that is bigger than him.

[schmetterlink]

You can say Arcade Fire make great music and that they're total dorks. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

[NucularTheArtist]

I like arcade fire, but win butler seriously can't smash an acoustic guitar?

[Vincent Lagrange]

Have you noticed how the smashing fit exactly with the rythm of the song. Just a perfect guitar smash! :)

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

@dallowsaratoga my fav bands money is split 49/50, 49 to Haiti, 50 to Darfur, and 1 to the band itself. They definitely don't do it for the money, they do it for the love. What kind of artist would do something for the money?

[pytko3]

I read an online interview that Win had with a reporter. Win said that he smashed the guitar because that particular guitar was old, he'd been using it a long time and it was giving him problems, the strings would snap in the middle of a performance forcing him to mimic guitar playing for the rest of the performance. So Win decided that he would put it out of it's misery on SNL in a very dynamic sort of way, I might add. I got say, Win certainly has a flare for the dramatic!

[thehappiestcamper]

A string broke :P

[GraceMccThe1st]

The guitar strings broke right before that happened. And honestly, he could have gone and ripped the violins and drum kit up if he wanted, he's WIN BUTLER.

[7399me]

People, does it really matter if he breaks a guitar on stage for whatever reason? People are passionate when they play their music. Ok, he may have broken a couple of strings and decided to break it. No big deal. It's not like he's hurting anyone. And to those of you who say that The Who and Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain break guitars better should just go crawl into a little hole and die. Lastly, what does it matter if it's an acoustic guitar or not? IT DOESN'T MATTER. Stop bitching about it.

[7399me]

FUCK. YOU.

[7399me]

FUCK YES!!! GO WIN!!!