Of all the ways to recover from a broken string...

Panama_Jack666

... this is the best!



Just watiching Knebworth 1990 music concert and Eric has just broken one in before you accuse me and it made me think of that SRV clip. Eric just appears later in the same song with six strings. Not quite as cool as the way SRV and his roadie dealt with the situation!



Incidently I had a string break at me at a gig a while ago. I just swapped guitars mid song and let mate carry on the solo. That exact moment is what is in my profile pic.

Alnico

Wow, SRV is slick as hell.

It's how unphased he is that's impressive and how he takes to the new guitar like nothing's happened.

Brilliant

TinLip

He didn't even look down at the strings once. True pro.

not_the_dj

Love that Austin City Limits set they did. I had the VHS copy with that performance and the earlier one where he was sweating like a pig. I really should upgrade to the DVD.

digitalscream

Wow...that Eric clip just reminds me how off my ear was back in those days. I thought he was awesome...but that performance strikes me as pretty terrible, even taking the string break into account.

Anyway, here's how to handle it if you don't have a roadie...

digitalscream

Actually, it reminds me of the time I was playing a gig about 5 months ago - my lead crapped out during our second song. I'd got it figured out so I could stand on it and it'd work, but from where I was standing I couldn't reach my pedalboard. One of the guys in my old band (my replacement, as it happens) saw what was going on and ran out to his car to grab a spare lead. In that particular song, there's a 12 second break where the other guitarist plays on his own - cue a little bit of telepathy and the fastest lead change in history, and I managed to come back in bang on time for my solo.

Never been so pleased with myself.

IanSavage

Less than ten seconds. That's good going.

richardhomer

I've seen EC play live three times.

He broke a string on each occasion.

He dealt with it exactly the same way - he carried on to the end of the song and then changed guitars.

Definitely a good reason for not having a floating trem.

impmann

That Clapton clip reminds me *exactly* why I can't stand anything he's done since Cream. Pedestrian, going-through-the-motion, whiney, white-boy blues... more fire in an extinguisher.

digitalscream

impmann said:

That Clapton clip reminds me *exactly* why I can't stand anything he's done since Cream. Pedestrian, going-through-the-motion, whiney, white-boy blues... more fire in an extinguisher.

So many wisdoms for this.

xSkarloey

I don't want this to turn into a 'stick the boot into EC thread' but WTF has he got on? 

Couldn't he have changed the coral pink suit as well as his string? 

:-S

ThePrettyDamned

SRV is just the most astonishing player, and partly why I don't play blues.

What hope have I got at sounding even fractionally as good as him?!

jd0272

Not to mention Double Trouble being as tight as the proverbial.

fnpt

Why didn't his guitar get out of tune? His strat had a floating trem, right?

richardhomer

fnpt said:

Why didn't his guitar get out of tune? His strat had a floating trem, right?

Probably whatever it was that made it audible before his tech plugged the lead into his replacement guitar....

fnpt

richardhomer said:

fnpt said:

Why didn't his guitar get out of tune? His strat had a floating trem, right?

Probably whatever it was that made it audible before his tech plugged the lead into his replacement guitar....

I see, studio trickery... :-)

richardhomer

fnpt said:

richardhomer said:

fnpt said:

Why didn't his guitar get out of tune? His strat had a floating trem, right?

Probably whatever it was that made it audible before his tech plugged the lead into his replacement guitar....

I see, studio trickery... :-)

'Post production' I believe it's called. Not even SRV was 'that' good....

monquixote

impmann said:

That Clapton clip reminds me *exactly* why I can't stand anything he's done since Cream. Pedestrian, going-through-the-motion, whiney, white-boy blues... more fire in an extinguisher.

I was going to post this, but you saved me the bother. 

shaunm

That clip of Clapton really shows up just how bad that period was for his tone. That being said, I'm going to take they stand for clapton and say that I don't think his playing post Cream is all bad. His recorded stuff with the exception of the unplugged and riding with the king albums hasn't been great but I've seen some good live stuff. This obviously isn't a good example! 

SRV- wow! I'm not a fan of all his songs but his playing always floors me

digitalscream

shaunm said:

That clip of Clapton really shows up just how bad that period was for his tone. That being said, I'm going to take they stand for clapton and say that I don't think his playing post Cream is all bad. His recorded stuff with the exception of the unplugged and riding with the king albums hasn't been great but I've seen some good live stuff. This obviously isn't a good example! 

Agreed. The Soldano really didn't suit him...or, probably more accurately, he didn't do a particularly good job of setting it up.

richardhomer

He used a Soldano on some tracks on 'From The Cradle' - his 335 on 'Someday After A While' never sounded better.