David Bowie Performs an Ethereal Acoustic Model of “Heroes,” with a Bottle Cap Strapped to His Shoe, Protecting the Beat (1996)

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Not way back I stum­bled upon this pret­ty received­der­ful video of David Bowie play­ing an acoustic ver­sion of “Heroes,” considered one of my favourite songs, and I believed I’d fast­ly share it at this time. Why wait? Seem­ing at Neil Younger’s annu­al Bridge College Ben­e­match con­cert in Octo­ber 1996, Bowie offers us a stripped-down ver­sion of…

B.B. King Modifications a Damaged Guitar String Mid-Track at Farm Assist, and Would not Miss a Beat (1985)

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The scene is Farm Assist, 1985, attend­ed by a crowd of 80,000 peo­ple. The music is “How Blue Can You Get.” And the important thing second comes on the 3:10 mark, when the blues leg­finish B.B. King breaks a gui­tar string, then man­ages to exchange it earlier than the music fin­ish­es min­utes lat­er. All of…