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From | "Barry S." <BarryS@lernerweisslaw.com> |
Subject | Re: Two lefts don't make a right |
Date | Wed, 3 May 2006 14:24:27 -0700 |
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Sorry, but Jimi did NOT play that way. Jimi played with conventional
high-E-nearest-the-floor stringing. (The misconception is common because
he played a right-handed Strat left-handed.)
--- Barry Schlom
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> [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of garypig@aim.com
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:55 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Two lefts don't make a right
>
>
> << So Dick Dale played that way also? I've run into a few
> guitarists who play this way - for one, Tam of The General
> Store. I've heard Hendrix played like this sometimes, but
> I've never bothered to check into it. >>
>
>
> Not only DID Jimi play that way,
> but legend has it he was quite the Dick Dale fan to boot
>
> (while on leave from paratrooping duty
> in California during the very early sixties,
> Jimmy used to, legend has it,
> haunt the King of the Surf Guitar's residency
> at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa
>
> .....and, come to think of it,
> both of 'em liked playing white Strats back in the daze too,
> with amps routinely set on TWELVE... )
>
>
> P.S.,
> on a semi-related very distorted note,
>
> that infamous "you'll never hear surf music again"
> from the Experience's "Third Stone From The Sun,"
> far from being a wisecrack,
> was in fact Jimi's lament over his ol' mentor Dick
> (who, in '67,
> had just been diagnosed with what was thought to be
> inoperable cancer).
>
>
> so, Scuse me while I,
>
> Gary "and Speaking of Building up Buttercups, have many of
> you checked
> into Bubblegum University yet??!" Pig
>
>
>
>
>
>
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