“I had never done that before. I thought Jimmy was going to go, ‘Nice one’ – he looks at me and goes, ‘Don’t you ever do that again’”: That time Chrissie Hynde enraged one of her Pretenders bandmates because she stopped playing mid-gig

Chrissie Hynde.

Chrissie Hynde has recalled the time she spontaneously decided to shake up her stage act and stop playing her electric guitar mid-gig in order to fully embrace her role as a vocalist – and it ended up enraging one of her Pretenders bandmates.

In interviews, the Fender signature artist regularly downplays her role as a guitarist, and in the latest issue of Guitarist, Hynde reflects that she sees it as her responsibility “to shine a light on the guitar player”.