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A 1969 cherry-red Gibson SG Special guitar, famously smashed by Pete Townshend during a Who concert at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House on June 7, 1970, is set to be displayed and played at Matt’s Guitar Shop in Paris. The instrument was caught by fan Binky Philips after Townshend threw it into the crowd following a performance of ‘Shakin’ All Over’, during which the guitar hit a Hiwatt cabinet and went out of tune.
The guitar, with two P90 pickups, was repaired by luthier Charles LoBue and kept by Philips for over 50 years before being entrusted to Matthieu Lucas’s shop. Lucas, who previously recovered Eric Clapton’s ‘Summersburst’ Les Paul, intends for the SG to be played by musicians rather than treated as a museum piece.
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