B.B. King Adjustments a Damaged Guitar String Mid-Music at Farm Support, and Does not Omit a Beat (1985)

The scene is Farm Support, 1985, attend­ed via a crowd of 80,000 peo­ple. The tune 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 guy­ages to exchange it ahead of the tune fin­ish­es min­utes lat­er. All of the whilst, he helps to keep the tune going, nev­er pass over­ing a beat and making a song the blues. Revel in.

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