mc2 Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 This is crazy....and sad. https://reverb.com/blog/the-hateful-eight-hates-on-six-strings?_aid=newsletter&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=175502ea04-rn160203_legacypedals&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5889ed6702-175502ea04-57058941
geoff_hartwell Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 Yeah, I saw that and it makes me sick. i love Tarantino, and I used to dig Kurt Russel...
tbonesullivan Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 It sounds like it was an accident. I mean I'm sure they didn't really intend to destroy it, right? Sad.
Steve Haynie Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 12 minutes ago, tbonesullivan said: It sounds like it was an accident. I mean I'm sure they didn't really intend to destroy it, right? Sad. They got a little more publicity and another point of trivia for promotional use.
sixesandsevens Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 19 minutes ago, tbonesullivan said: It sounds like it was an accident. I mean I'm sure they didn't really intend to destroy it, right? Sad. Yeah, it says they didn't communicate to Kurt Russell that he was supposed to stop mid-scene and switch guitars.
LordsoftheJungle Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 Note to self: Never lend anything to Kurt again,,,
Ting Ho Dung Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 I watched the movie a couple weeks ago. Frankly, don't remember it at all.
killerteddybear Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 Since we're going for unintended realism, how about some live bullets? That will get someone's attention!
HSB0531 Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 I'm sure that QT deliberately kept the info from Kurt. For realism's sake of course. Somebody please drive an authentic 1870's railroad spike into QT's head........Please! For realism's sake of course.
Ting Ho Dung Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 28 minutes ago, killerteddybear said: Since we're going for unintended realism, how about some live bullets? That will get someone's attention! That happened already.
crunchee Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 It's been done before, though not necessarily with a valuable guitar. So, Tarantino's ripping off Animal House now? Or is Kurt Russell's character named 'El Kabong'? I hope the guitar was insured...
anotherfreak Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 sounds funny to me, I appreciate a cool guitar collection, and it's nice to see stuff like that in a museum, but there are so many examples out there, one less makes the rest go up in $$$ I bet the Martin guys wanna fix it and put it back on display I bet they are happy somebody played it, I bet they are happy that someone played it in a movie, I bet they will be REALLY thrilled when the "unveil" it again in the museum.
HSB0531 Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 https://www.martinguitar.com/1833-shop/#!/c79/new/search/1870%20guitar%20splinter%20toothpicks ^^^^^^^^^^^Just keep clicking on it. It'll show up eventually
Biz Prof Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 1 hour ago, HSB0531 said: Somebody please drive an authentic 1870's railroad spike into QT's head........Please! For realism's sake of course. ^^^^This^^^^ Cinematic genius, my ass.
django49 Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 So, the guy's been spending a bit too much time watching old Pete Townshend videos?
Jakeboy Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 That sucks.....,but at least it wasn't intentional.
Studio Custom Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 It begs the question, why have it on set at all instead of a replica?
mc2 Posted February 4, 2016 Author Posted February 4, 2016 Just cannot imagne them talking Martin into loaning them the guitar from their MUSEUM....and then smashing it to bits. Then having to explain....
JohnnyB Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 Rare as this Martin is, its accidental destruction doesn't compare with the error resulting in the death of Brandon Lee.
Armitage Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 Jon-Erik Hexum of the TV show Voyagers! did the same thing...
tbonesullivan Posted February 5, 2016 Posted February 5, 2016 There has been an update to the story. Apparently the real story of how it had been broken had not been communicated to the Museum, until they read the article. They had thought something fell on it, not that it was smashed on camera. https://reverb.com/blog/cf-martin-responds-to-the-destruction-of-145-year-old-guitar-on-hateful-eight-set
Jeff R Posted February 5, 2016 Posted February 5, 2016 On 2/4/2016 at 7:28 PM, Studio Custom said: It begs the question, why have it on set at all instead of a replica? This. I still can't believe the museum let it off their property. Maybe the curators were watching the vintage market sag and figured they'd better move it before it tanked? LOL Seriously, the Reverb article indicated or at least led me to believe the instrument was insured and would be covered, which I don't get either. I could understand the museum burns down or waxed by a tornado or flood, hell, even the guitar eaten by termites on the curators' watches, and a claim be honored. But you let a Hollywood film crew take it, and to film an old western at that? Are you high on the lacquer? The old newsroom skeptic in me makes me wonder if this was just a publicity stunt for BOTH sides. It won't surprise me at all if and when that "irreplaceable" instrument is somehow miraculously replaced by a "recently-unearthed and similar" instrument. Odd shit like that happens ... when a business that's been making guitars and owned and tended to by the same family for 180-something years starts checking under the beds, in the closets and attics. The national media got some TMZ action, Tarantino and his flick got some more buzz, and Martin added arrows to the Stradivarius-of-American-guitars quiver. And an insurance claim. Betcha Henry's wishing they smashed an old Gibson flattop.
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