Location of compoments.

Yep @yoyoyaya, Townshend was playing a 6-sting Rickenbacker in ’68, but I seem to recall him taking it of for the last song, smashing a cheaper guitar instead. He rammed the headstock into the speaker cabinet, which if memory serves me was a Hi Watt. The speaker cabinet may have been a dummy, no drivers inside. The guitar made quite a racket, though.

John Entwistle was still playing a Fender bass, and proved himself to be an amazing player. Massive tone too, the best electric bass I’ve ever heard live. And then there was Keith Moon. A possessed madman I tells ya!

The show in '69 was them performing the whole Tommy album, no smashing of instruments.

@yoyoyaya: Townshend played a Tele in the 60's? That I did not know. I saw The Who in '68 and '69 (fantastic!), and neither time was he playing a Tele. In '68 he was still smashing his guitar to end the set, and there is no way to break a Fender guitar.

@whart: We’re suppose to listen to your opinion on hi-fi sound when you have a Marshall amp rather than a Fender? Just kidding, unless you have a Charvel guitar plugged into your amp. A Les Paul is marginal, but since I love AC/DC I guess I have to accept a Gibson SG. One combination I've never seen or heard is a Telecaster (my favorite electric guitar) paired with a Marshall. But I can imagine Brad Paisley playing that combo.

As for racks, I prefer a 34C, pear shaped please. And capped with puffies.