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…

Jimi Hendrix Unplugged: Two Nice Recordings of Hendrix Enjoying Acoustic Guitar

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As a younger gui­tar play­er, per­haps nobody impressed me as a lot as Jimi Hen­drix, although I nev­er dreamed I’d attain even a frac­tion of his ability. However what appeal to­ed me to him was his near-total lack of ritual—he didn’t learn music, wasn’t educated in any clas­si­cal sense, performed an upside-down right-hand­ed gui­tar as…