Originally Posted by
pauln
It is not clear if or how much he had access to the guitar before the performance. My interpretation of the "prelude or introduction or whatever" is that he was getting to know the guitar, testing its response to the boundaries of his own extraordinary playing ability. I agree that section might have had some "sound of the noodle" to it, but that was not really for us. He successfully inhibited playing the intro to Stairway To Heaven. How dare anyone here second guess what he did, how he did it, or why. I think that was just between him and this particular guitar - the unique opportunity of an exploratory kind of test drive (maybe like in the way that you would test drive a car by doing some things that you might never do in ordinary daily driving traffic).
The other side of the coin is that he might have had to accept that guitar without being allowed to modify it to suit him much other than a new set of strings. The "prelude or introduction or whatever" may well have served as a warm-up and accommodation period for his hands. Or maybe he just wanted to cherish some time playing the damn thing for the brief time he had it in his hands. During the "prelude or introduction or whatever" he may well have been riding a personal "life moment" of oblivious ecstasy. Maybe he needed some time to come down before he was ready to engage the band and play a tune.
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