It’s one of the most exciting moments in music. Few things say “rock and roll” quite like smashing a guitar at the end of a show. Always at the end of a show. You can’t do it at the beginning, even if you want, because the show’s over. Even if you have another guitar, it’s just going to be downhill from there. Everyone’s going to expect you to smash another one at the end, and smashing two guitars in one show? That’s just silly.

So, we’ve collected some of the greatest guitar deaths of all time. The famous, the infamous, the funny, and the irrelevant. It’s the 11 Greatest Guitar Smashers of All Time.