NAMM 2024: One of the most striking guitars on display at NAMM 2024 isn't a shiny new model, or a feature-laden iteration of a big-name line. It's, essentially, a pile of broken wood. This is the vintage Martin acoustic that Kurt Russell destroyed during the filiming of Quentin Tarantino's 2015 western epic, The Hateful Eight.
It wasn't supposed to happen, and it's fair to say Martin Guitars, who had loaned the 145-year old instrument to Tarantino's production wasn't best pleased. "We were informed that it was an accident on set," a spokesman said when the acoustic met its if not untimely, then definitely uncalled for end.
