Anthony Freddura joined Epsilon in Wakefield, Massachusetts, as product owner and lead business systems analyst in 2013. When he is not managing various delivery teams that support the Agility Harmony software as a service (SaaS) platform, Anthony Freddura enjoys listening to music and playing the guitar.
Rock bands (and particularly guitarists) smashing their instruments following live performances is a popular rock and roll vignette. While it is impossible to determine the very first person to destroy their instrument on stage, popular culture generally attributes the act to Pete Townshend, lead guitarist of British rock band The Who. Townshend’s initial spree of instrument destruction was purely by chance, as an unusually low-ceilinged venue cracked the headstock on his iconic Rickenbacker. Townshend decided to complete the guitar’s demolition, and the crowd’s enthusiastic response led to Townshend taking apart a new axe after almost every show. The guitarist estimated he shattered 35 instruments in 1967 alone, though he was always carefully to refrain from damaging instruments he had a sentimental attachment to. A number of high-profile musicians have since taken up the tradition, including Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, who often included amplifiers as part of his mayhem, and King of Leon’s Caleb Followill, who accidentally smashed a vintage Gibson ES-325 that was both financially and emotionally valuable. Gibson later reached out and helped repair the guitar.
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AuthorServing as an Information Systems Quality Analyst, Anthony Freddura held responsibility for testing and supporting a client/server transaction processing system. Archives
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