Crazy saddles


Jimmy is always poised on the brink of disaster. In My Time of Dying flirts with catastrophe when they come out of the second solo, through the triplets, and into the "I just wanted to have some fun" sequence. At that point his low E string (really a D string for that number) jumps out of its saddle at the bridge. Problem is, that ES-350 doesn't have a fixed bridge and might have gone seriously out of tune. But it goes without saying that Jim keeps on rolling, as ever.

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I thought I saw something going on there too, I was assuming the string had broke. But like you say, he didn't seem too bothered.

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Just look at the alignment of the strings near the end and you'll see that the E is pinched over towards the A.

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