They say records are meant to be broken. So when
1,730 guitarists gathered in Shillong, India last year to strum Dylan’s “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” and secure themselves a place with the Guinness World Records folks as the world’s largest guitar ensemble, we knew it was a standard that wouldn’t stand long. Sure enough, just a few months later
1,802 German pickers rallied to play “Smoke on the Water” in unison. But on the first of July, the German mark was in turn bested by Country Joe McDonald and
2,051 other players at the 2008 Concordstock music festival, where they congregated in a city park to strum along on Pete Seeger’s evergreen American folk song, “This Land is Your Land.”