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  • Some time you just HAVE to hate predictive text ehh

  • I am a guitar tech, and this is a video to show how a professional tech does it! Kept out of Veiw the while time AMAZING!!

  • I mis-posted...Rene Martinez is very much alive and well and is John Mayer's tech. Ceasar Diaz is the one that passed away...he was Stevie's amp tech. Sorry 'bout that!

  • @TheVO74 and charlie warz died

  • The crazy thing here is -

    From the time the plug goes into the jack and he starts playing is the same time it takes me to go from the 1 to the 4.

    . . . and he's holding the guitar up with his right forearm while he's sliding down the neck with his left hand and also turns the volume up -

    Crazy man!!!

  • OH MY GOD DID HE REALLY JUST DO THAT THAT WAS SO FUCKING COOL. I'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO DO THAT WOW

  • I saw Stevie at the Toledo Zoo Amphitheater in July of 1990 and he broke 2 strings during a song and did this swap, never missed a lick. A true guitar God.

  • Just amazing.

  • The only musician I ever cried for when he left.

  • @billville111 I know the feeling. Same here.

  • Impressive but pointless. I believe wireless existed back then, I'm not sure, but anyway, today you'd just switch guitars and switch the channels, and have a strap on every guitar. Stevie liked to keep the same strap through the show for some reason. I don't know, maybe they liked the excitement of doing it the hard way, ha.

  • Not by chance Rene Martinez is now John Mayer's guitar tech

  • @The9metalhead Rene Martinez is dead your fool. What rock have you been living under?

  • @TheVO74 He is John Mayer's guitar tech now. I tried to find information on his death after I read your comment but can't find anything but interviews with him and his own personal web site. Where did you hear/read he died? I'm not disputing it I'm just interested to know. There is also a video on Youtube with John Mayer talking about his guitars and Rene Martinez talks about Lenny and working for Stevie Ray Vaughan as in the video John gets the Custom shop repro of Lenny.

  • @TheVO74 Wtf? He's actually Mayer's guitar tech faggot.

  • That was Nascar fast!

  • That was as smooth as a baby's bottom. True professionals.

  • THATS FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!

  • Exactly why i want to become a roadie.

  • That was bad ass!

  • damn i'm not even that good. Damn. what was wrong with the guitar anyway?

  • @Metal8Lover if you look close enough, one of the strings on number 1 broke

  • @guitarhal96 but still wow. i wouldn't have done a switch in the middle of a song. >_<

  • A great switch. Got it done on the stop. The most impressive part was SRV himself. He plugged that thing in fast fast. As a strat player, I know how smooth that was. The angle of the output can be a hindrance to getting plugged in quickly. Wish that guy was working for me, but I also wish I was getting SRV's work!

  • Long live the roadies...specially the ones that worked with S.R.V & Double Trouble...

  • Great roadie!!!

    Believe it or not, I had to do the same thing except I had to run 100 feet from behind my PA console when one of the bands I was working with had their lead guitar players strap break. I grabbed a spare out of my utility suitcase, ran up while he was playing on his knee, pulled off the old torn strap and put on mine to finish out their show.

    The other band members & their friends stood around with their thumbs up their butts as usual.

    KUDOS to the ROADIES OF THE WORLD!!

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  • Damn, Stevie. You had no business leaving us that early. Rest In Peace, bud. Thanks for the inspiration.....

  • The only thing that hurts here is where he places N° 1...hope it wasn´t placed very hard on the floor...but seeing such ability I am sure nothing happened to it.

  • What a class act, the guy even goes to the extreme of staying behind Stevie all the time, to avoid interrupting the show. This was very nice, SRV was one in a million years.

  • @lalbruiz  YES to all you've written!!!

  • hmm you would think he could afford a second guitar strap

  • @bulletv1

    It's easier to keep the strap. That way he can keep on playing without having to take it over his head

  • @badass005 Not to mention the strap might knock his hat off in the process of changing guitars quickly. Go to love this change though. Only SRV could pull this off without missing a beat.

  • kinda hard to break his strings considering he used 13's

  • That's John Mayer's guitar tech now, isn't that awesome!

  • @homelife14 John mayer is a faggot

  • @lkkjhg45 are you speaking from personal experience?

  • @lkkjhg45 someone's jealous

  • @lkkjhg45 You're 30 yet still act like a angsty 15 year old?

  • I wonder why they didn't had a strap on that backup guitar ready to go?

    That way the swap had gone much faster!

  • looooooooool!!! love Stevie for ever

  • omg. that is the most amazing swap ever. not a lick missed. srv didn't even have to open his eyes! is there an oscar for roadies? i know who i'd nominate...

  • So smooth

  • Consummate pros both of them.

  • @mmsun44 cosummate mate well said

  • Just like Eddie Riggs said. The roadie appears to fix a problem & before we notice it he's gone. Amazing.

  • That was cool but I remember seeing Buddy Guy in the mid 8os break ten strings during one show.He didnt have a roadie to deal with his guitar so he changed his own string on the fly.He could change a string within 12 bars ,that was absofuckinloutly off the hook cool!!!

  • now that is a great fucking guitar technician!!!

  • bless roadies...

    

  • Rene Martinez is the man!

  • @ICouldNever Who, the techie? :D

  • Props to the roadie!!! And Stevie Ray....wow, didn't miss a beat.

  • its because he broke the e string

  • There's a video of him doing the same thing during a benefit show in Canada...if you closed your eyes, you'd have no idea he broke a string...and those are 13s!!! Consumate professional. BB King once said about SRV, "flawless". So true.

  • lol thats fuckin awsome.

  • Yes this is look at little sister

  • Roadies RULE XD

    Amazing coordenation here!

  • Not as good as Keef riffhard smashing his tele over the head of a fan on stage in 81

  • amazing ..i didnt even noticed the rodie..i thought Stevie had 4 arms..

  • I wish I could draw the "thumbs up comment" guy, but anyway:

    PROPS TO ROADIES!!!!!

  • by the way wt is this song?

  • @gavincfc Look At Little Sister

  • @niamhorourke cheers mate

  • holy crap, that was flawless. I've seen the same thing happen to Angus Young before on a whole lotta rosie video, but he was headbanging and everything and the roadie strapped on the guitar while he was playing it.

  • Awesome!

  • That was cool

  • !!! how did he snap those heavy gauge strings!!! omg

  • Probably rehearsed got to be professional and plan for the unexpected, though strings do break. Watching Santana in concert once, the jack to the amp dropped out, the roadie slid across the stage picking up the jack, plugged it into the Guitar all in one movement.

  • holy... pit crew roadie....lol

  • It isn't accurate to refer to René Martínez as a roadie - after Charley Wirz pasted away in 1985, Mr. Martínez became the go to guitar tech for Stevie Ray Vaughan. SRV was a notorious string breaker, so by the time of this incident in 1989, they probably had done this kind of in the middle of a performance switch many times.

  • @711ATOM I think that's an interesting and apt point. Give credit where credit is due.

  • thats cool! it all looked so natural

  • Saw the same thing happen when he played Boise in 1989. The crowd went crazy and Stevie just pointed to the roadie . He is still my favorite guitar player and Blues singer .

  • It looks so smooth, almost like it was planned.

  • saw this on the box set dvd .he kept singing and didnt miss a note !now thats an artist ,and thats a guitar tech whos on his a game!D.

  • @bamadan69 Rene Martinez is always on his A game, I met him a couple weeks ago he is a super nice guy.

  • lol. that was friggin awesome. rodies are so underrated. i saw at a def leppard show viv campbell screwin with one draggin his guitar across the stage as the rodie chased him lol. the rodie was so pissed and everyone was crackin up at the kid. haha. dont ever become one.

  • lmfao thats funny dude he had to chase him around id be pissed lol

  • no kiddin bro.

  • René Martínez... of course!

  • only stevie!

  • Lo voglio anch'io il roadie che mi cambia la chitarra!!!

  • GOOD JOB !!!

  • Funny what people dig. I broke a string in mid solo and changed guitars myself as the band kept playin and damn near got a standing ovation.

  • Did he pop his thumb up his ass? Stevie looked shocked

  • thats just so funny!!

    btw that other guitar's name is "scotch", it was stevie's favorite guitar to use when Number One was being repaired.

  • They say he mainly used Scotch on In Step since Number 1 was having neck problems at the time

  • i'm pretty sure that was Number One. did scotch have the custom sticker as well under the bridge?

  • i thought that was butter??

  • nobody knows for sure, but it has been called "butter", "scotch", and "butterscotch"

  • anybody know if thats rene martinez...????

  • That is in fact Rene Martinez!

  • sure is. greatest roadie/equipment guy known to man. roadied with the greats.

  • That's one roadie who got a bonus that day.

  • how did he break 0.13s

  • he's superman! plus he had super strong hands, how else would he be able to play them !

  • When you get paid to play like stevie did you start showing less mercy on your strings. Plus that man had to get his necks re fretted all of the time.

  • Those are not 13s. At the end of his career he switched to 11s.

  • That was pretty smooth.

    Wonder if they practiced for such an occurance.

    Like an Indy pit crew:

    "Ok, we need to get Stevie six new strings and a fresh pick. Let's get it under five seconds."

    I hope this guy got paid really well.

  • I saw him live once at the old Starplex theater back in 1987 just after he recovered from his drug crash.

    He started into a solo and for some reason his connection to the amp went completely dead, you couldn't hear anything, not even the amp itself (I was really close to the stage, so I should have been able to hear it).

    He wasn't four notes into the solo when a roadie came scrambling out at him. Very humorously, his connection restored itself on its own.

  • Stevie just used his godly powers of guitar to fix it.

  • this is just amazing, you know your god when you can improvise a live solo without an e string.

  • hendrix probably was, then.

  • Now that, sirs and madams, is a freaking roadie!!!!

    -Arroyo-

  • our Stevie just had magic all around him all the time

  • Amazing roadie.

  • I saw Stevie in a little club in Dallas back in '81 and the roadie was handing him another guitar after each song because he had at least one and sometimes two broken strings after each song. He played hard. After Rene Martinez became his guitar tech he put strips of plastic insulation around the strings at the bridge and he didn't break as many strings.

  • Awesome trivia mate!

    I have a SRV/Satriani tribute and my strat brakes strings more often than I change my underwear,lol, because of the heavy gage I use to try to get "his" tone (12s and sometimes even 13s, but those brake way too often and it gets expensive, you know) and trying to play hard like Stevie did. That's the only way, you know...

    How does that "strips of plastic" trick works? Can you give me more info please? Fell free to contact me on my channel.

    Peace

  • this is from the outtakes of the ACL show. SRV broke the B string (2nd from bottom) during a bend. He finished the lead on the other strings and looks to Rene on the side of the stage. Then what you see here occurs. It is an AMAZING feat, perfectly timed to the song and SRV never misses a beat. But, Im sure it happened often as he was HELL on strings!

  • The B string is actually the second from the top!

  • @berniedexter2

    That depend on how you  look at it Spatially!

  • Actually, the B string is the second string from the top unless you play left-handed and upside-down!

  • @berniedexter2

    ...No it's not, assclown...

  • Is too

  • Is too 

  • @berniedexter2 second from the bottom

  • @Bon0 people usually describe strings in reference to pitch. So the B string would the the second highest string.

  • @ih8thishit Does look like a B string. clearly the E or A maybe D

  • @joeyjoef maybe the other e or g.

  • Holy shit....thas a good roadie.

  • Hes so dam cool

  • All part of the show .

  • Yea,you would immediatly think:

    Oh boy,my low E string popped,what will I do! Fuck a new guitar,I'll go Hendrix and play without it!!

    The blues he was playing was a E5 and a G#5 shuffle,so he needed that low E string.

    Smart-ass

  • Holy shit....smooth move.

    I bet SRV was a fuckin' great guy to lug stuff around for. Seems like he carried himself like a workin' dude just like the rest of us.

  • In the same show his strap pops off during Mary Had A little Lamb and it stumbles him up for a split second. The roadie flies out and fixes him up, Stevie Smiles and salutes the roadie.

    The man had class!

  • Not during this show, unless you're talking about something else. Type in "Stevie Ray Vaughan Amarillo" and look for Voodoo Chile, at the beginning the strap pops off and Stevie almost drops the guitar, but it doesn't affect him, he repositions himself and keeps going. Rene comes out, puts the strap back on, Stevie makes a sigh of relief, salutes Rene and then goes back to killing Number 1, it's really some sick stuff

  • All bow down to Rene Martinez, King of Guitar Techs.

    I just saw him with working with John Mayer and he's still going strong, night after night.

  • 0:08 !!

  • sick gnarly

  • haha wtf. thats cool

  • Its actualy not that out-of-sync, what you are hearing at 0:12 is the bass starting the riff, and if you are a musician, u can clearly hear when Stevie joins.

  • Then you must be one sucky musician cause it is out of sync.

  • dramatube really must be a fag, a fag that knows nothing when it comes to music. its not out of sync

  • its out of sync to all those who say 'his hand is not in the right place'

  • it is not out of sync, you asshole, it is playing G# and then he goes to the root (Eb).

    Don't be assholes.

  • Jeez dude calm down, i just thought it was out of sync, no need to get pissed off about it!

  • sorry 'bout it dude.

  • Na its cool, i just didnt get y u had to be so rude about it

  • Look at 12 seconds there is a blues shuffle is played but his hands are not in the right place!!!

  • Yup that's what I said! Maybe it's just the sync?

  • Yep out of sync.

  • I would love to have been that roadie, being able to hold a legend's guitar only for a couple of seconds would be awesome

  • Listen and then pause at :12 theres a common blues shuffle but look where his hand is no where close!

  • slick with a capital S

  • that was kewl,....one look then he closes his eyes again doesn't even have to open them again lmao he's my hero

  • Daaaaaamn that was well done.

  • thats hilarious Stevie was so awsome.

  • Buy THAt guy a beer.

  • what a G! r.i.p. the good die young

  • i like how everyone in the audience is like 'yeah guitar switch yeah' and then the guitar players are like 'he broke a string dipshit'

  • a guitar player? A GUITAR PLAYER?! just so you know that so called guitar players name is Stevie Ray Vaughn dont forget it he is known as one of the best in the world right in front of jimi hendrix. oh yeah im a bassist so tommy shannon the bassist in this clip is one of my heros.

  • read my comment again...slowly. i know that is SRV he is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. what i was trying to get at, is that the audience is all applauding b/c he switches guitars and they think its some 'trick' but he really broke a string and only the guitarists are able to tell that.

  • as he said pause it at 6 seconds and look at the guitar that is how hard he beat that guitar

  • @fallonatorrrr , I'm pretty sure most people (even the non guitar players) in the the audience knew what happend and werent cheering because they thought he had just pulled off some gay stunt, they were cheering because the music didnt stop.

  • If you are gonig to lord it up over someone at least spell Stevie's name right.

    The guy was simply saying maybe only guitarists realise that SRV broke a string, while I don't agree either there's no need to be so hostile...

  • haha, yea... give the audience some credit, maybe they did see the broken string and applauded his skill at being able to keep the song as opposed to just stopping and going out to get another one... don't really know, but this is some real badass stuff

  • @fallonatorrrr - I was in that audience and I don't play guitar! It was clear to me and the people around me that he broke a string. Maybe living in a city like Austin where live music rules makes for smarter than average audiences?? No offense meant, but we aren't all idiots! If you're a guitarist in a band, please remember that it's the power of the "audience" that can make or break you.

  • good roadies are hard to find! of course..i think the term'guitar tech' is better hee hee!

  • fuckin smooth!!

  • slick!

  • Look at little sister, I think...

  • What song is this?

  • Look At Little Sister

  • I have some video (boot) when Stevie breaks a string in a solo, finishes the solo and switches guitar in the middle just like that. I swear if you were listeneing on the radio you would not have known. When I find out how to get it from VHS to my pc I will try to put it up if anyone is intersted.

  • are you sure this aint it.

  • I could had gladly supplanted this roadie and when he handled me N° 1 just had ran away with it, ha, ha...just kidding. Amazing how he doesn´t loose the rhytm, very nice.

  • How about in English next time moron.

  • Go fuck yourself, go honor your user name, fag.

  • Ignorance is responding with a run-on sentence.

  • man who gave him second strat is now John Mayer guitar tech

  • how can you tell, you couldn't even see his face?

  • no I see partially, besides you can read even on wikipedia that Rene Martinez made this guitar and he was Vaughan guitar tech, there is video on youtube about John Mayer continuum tour and there is Rene Martinez as John;s guitar tech. Sorry for my english.

  • it'd be better if you'd uploaded the whole vid. i cant seem to find it anywhere.

    either way this just cracks me up every time. its almost as good as the video of les paul and mary ford thats like 9 minutes long, and he breaks a string when he's doing his awesome one handed solo lmao

  • haha thats awesome!! so natural :)

    my fav guitarist ever !

  • Stevie was such a good multi-tasker, he could make Lenny have an orgasm, pour pure unadulterated blues out of his pores and plan what he's going to eat two years from now.

  • LOL!