Break Stuff

I Will Lay Down My Bones and Burdens Amongst the Rocks and Roots and Desire to Be In Denial of the Allure of History's Desire of Me, Pts. 1 & 2, 2024, video (embedded above), from Break Stuff, Other Plans, New Orleans, LA

…there’s the legend of Charles Mingus as one of the first figures to smash a bass on stage angrily. Either the crowd wasn't listening enough, or he deemed the crowd to not be paying the right kind of attention, so he broke the bass. How does that act of breaking take on a sort of larger-than-life effect?