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

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…