A Conversation with Rene´ Martinez - Tales from the Road | PRS Guitars

[@johnstevens9264]

Exactly, so cool to hear the behind the scenes stories of Stevie! I still remember hearing him for the first time on the radio in 1983 as a senior in high school saying, "who the hell is this!!" What a breath of fresh air Stevie was after most of the 70's BS music! Saw him live many times and actually got to meet him once after a show. Imagine all the music he had left inside him. He left us all to soon😞!

[@baird5776mullet]

I could listen to Rene tell stories for hrs on end,2 thumbs up!

[@prsguitars]

We could too, Kenny!

[@ClassicK1rk]

I just watched this video for the third time. Haha. I just love how happy Rene gets while talking about SRV! 🤘🤠🤘

[@csi2448]

Being a diehard SRV fan, I can listen to Rene talk about Stevie all day. Stevie definitely played loud. I bet the show at Merriweather sounded pretty damn good, being outside! Stevie's tone is and always will be stuff of legend, just like his playing. Thank goodness he had someone like Rene to take care of his guitars. Number One took a lot of abuse and needed a lot of care to stay in tip top shape, that's for sure! Being from MD, I've always been a big PRS and Paul fan too. So damn cool to see both of them doing these interviews! Is Rene playing the 'Pride and Joy' sounding song at the end??

[@petehernandez1476]

I've stood close enough to JM's rig during Continuum World Tour at The Gorge Amphitheater to hear RENE's magic come through those amps and it was absolutely tangible. I'm certain it made John play even better. I could be wrong but I'm not.

[@craigpaulson3503]

The key to success is doing the things no one else wants to do. Who knew that listening when someone is teaching could lead to such a rewarding and successful career?!

[@guitartec]

Rene', I need to say that I use your "SRV breaks a string" video as a teaching aid when showing "how it's done right" to my guitar repair customers. Every time I watch it, it brings a tear to my eye knowing you worked it out precisely with Stevie to make it seamless. It's the definition of a well-oiled machine, and back when I was teching regularly, if I could just get any of my guitar-wielding bosses to work the most likely problems out like that video shows, I would have been in heaven. That's probably why none of them made it big! Thanks for visually defining the reason guitar techs are so important!

[@shable1436]

You talking about the little rubber sleeves over the saddle bottom angles? Then he takes the string and one post wrap then under and over the string then thru the post hole or slot, then wind it up 3 revs around post? I always ended up with a knot from the over under cross then wind, i learned to wrap three winds by hand and jam the string through the hole at the end, never slipped, but in dark bars, it was not fun, i was only one who did it like that, and my techs were my students, and i hated to show them that i don't like the traditional wind, but they were advanced players and knew i was an oddball. My super strats and fattys were never locked down, i just put Ts on them and removed the lock screws and used the Floyd or kahler trems or whatever, tossed those stupid Allen keys in trash where they belong, as i grew out of dive bombing and whammy acrobatics those locks are useless

[@cesilio]

Love these kind of stories

[@prsguitars]

So do we!

[@VibhasPatil]

This was a fantastic video. Rene is a legend!

[@AlbertoMartinezDelRio]

Great René! Thanks for share.

[@joseca7509]

PRS & JOHN MAYER? now , that's something I wanna watch immediately !

[@nicolasayastuy]

11 - 15 - 19 - 28 - 38 - 58 Said no string company ever. The only way to get this combo of strings is really to go for a 7 or 8 string set, and two different sets of 10's and 11's and mix them. Want SRV set? Hey @Elixir ! you can keep the fees for the idea. kiss kiss.

[@thorengebretsen5132]

Google search: GHS 1300.... your welcome

[@thorengebretsen5132]

SRV used GHS nickel rockers, GHS 1300

[@shable1436]

I always bought the dozen single packs of each gauge and used them because of string breakage before graphtech was a thing, i practically bought stock in "rogue strings" and "juststrings" saved tons of money and always had 3 gigging guitars on the road, broke at least 2 strings per gig, this was after we used the buffing saddle and greased nut tricks even ink pen cartridges, cut the ink tubes and sleeve them on strings to stop pinch angles, you can't help the breakage when your into the song and sometimes you can feel the string getting tighter or looser each bend and you know its going to snap if your playing and attack is that aggresive. Playing with broken strings and finishing songs and solos in various ways makes you better anyways, crowds always love that and cheer when they would catch it, or ppl will walk up after and compliment the way you hold it together after that happens. Its a three peice nightmare performing in front of a crowd, and one breaks at the beginning and your tech is talking to some hanger on and doesn't catch it until you get their attention abruptly but subtilty, anyone whos been there knows that look 😑

[@pabloperez4063]

​@@thorengebretsen5132 are they good ones?

[@thorengebretsen5132]

@@pabloperez4063 i actually stopped using these, and startes using ernie ball power slinky, and bought size 52/54 singles for the low E. These are nicer sounding for modern guitars. Then you have 11-14-18-28-38-54. Also better for tuning standard E. Try then out and let me know! 👍

[@ivanwan5511]

René, toda un leyenda!

[@bw5453]

Some players are legends and then there are the "LEGENDS" behind the players... Cheers!

[@shable1436]

Rene is one hell of a nice guy

[@RobertWMann]

Hey Rene!

[@delano1901]

This is REALLY cool.

[@mynameis8574]

So he broke the golden rule ..never touch another persons rig. He did and it paid off! Only Rene can do that. No one else 😂

[@f7viivvgiv]

Great video

[@xavierg5523]

Wat string gauge does the PRS silver sky come with?🤔

[@ClassicK1rk]

Xavier G They come with 10 gauge strings on them. And they also come set up perfectly 👌 🤘🤠🤘

[@pitis2flie]

This man definitely helped John’s career. I don’t really like his guitar tone on his first two studio albums, although there are some great songs on those albums.

[@BlackmountriseChOfficial]

the roll!

[@itzed]

Seems like great guy.

[@ikigai47]

"I'm setting this up for YOU, not for ME, why would I get frustrated with you instructing me how you want it?" fast fwd "They told me not to touch it, but it sounded awful so I changed his sound for him"

[@stevenrivas477]

I was thinking the same thing... lol

[@olympiabats4512]

👍👍

[@avielkharrat5788]

These are big strings!

[@Lucaboninimusic]

i just kept staring at the silver sky...

[@Burnwash]

Hideous, ain't it?

[@BlasterJunos]

@@Burnwash More like Beautiful

[@LetzBeaFranque]

I like to feel the wind go through my pants but my co-workers don't.

[@lupuscorvidae]

This video sucked...too short!

[@ClassicK1rk]

Mississippi_Kid Hahaha. I love this comment!