This is how a PRO gets it done - Guthrie!

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He goes for that huge bend up top,and it pops! So he just grabs a slide and keeps going. Gotta love that.
 
Rezamatix":b11lo4h3 said:
well....going back to a slide is the easy choice...
how about just playing the rest of the song without the string??

here is how the Master did it.

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SRV doesn't have a floating bridge.

Give credit where credit is due, the remaining strings went sharp when the E broke. I didn't hear any bad notes afterwards.
 
Playing slide with an out of tune guitar because of a floating bridge is MUCH harder than the alternative.
Ears only. No eyes.

Rookie.

By the way, SRV's tech is a bad mofo. That was awesome!

Doesn't hurt having Tommy Shannon in your band either.
 
Way harder to play a guitar with a Floyd when a string breaks. A flattened out Fender trem with a broken string is like breaking a string on a hardtail. Govan wins this one easily, but SRV wins the seamless guitar swap.
 
I think the thing to remember is when a string breaks on a Floyd, all strings don't necessarily go perfectly sharp. If they did it would be easy to recover. Problem is they don't.

I have a Strat with the old Fender mini Floyd. Similar idea and I love it. Stays in tune like a full locking but I can tune it without needing Allen keys.
 
When Hendrix broke a string at Woodstock during Red House, he let the other guitarist, Larry Lee solo, while he played rhythm. His Road Manager changed the string while Jimi played.

 
bog70":2o6lf2gz said:
When Hendrix broke a string at Woodstock during Red House, he let the other guitarist, Larry Lee solo, while he played rhythm. His Road Manager changed the string while Jimi played.

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Good lord, that's a time when men were men!
Who shows up to Woodstock with only one guitar! :rock:

Nowadays you see a bar band guitarist playing to 20 people break a string and he goes and cries in the corner.
 
I remember timing the span between SRV breaking that string and being plugged into the next guitar. I can't remember the number but it wasn't that long (prob seemed like an eternity for SRV). As far as who did it better? IMO they both dealt with their particular situation appropriately and executed it like pros.

I'll give SRV and tech credit for teamwork but lots of people (average listeners) wouldn't have even noticed GG broke a string so props to him for that.
 
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