It’s fair to say that playing a museum-grade Martin guitar is a bucket list experience for any avid acoustic guitar fan, but when Chris Buck picked up a 1928 0-42 for the latest issue of Guitarist, flashbacks to a high-profile Hollywood six-string scandal played heavy on the mind.
The story of Kurt Russell’s on-set guitar smash during the filming of The Hateful Eight – in which the actor unwittingly destroyed a priceless 145-year-old Martin on loan from the firm’s museum – is, by now, common knowledge.
