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| From | Career Records <eldeluxe@bridgeband.com> |
| Subject | Re: Two lefts don't make a right |
| Date | Wed, 03 May 2006 15:48:48 -0600 |
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Barry
Jimi didn't play reversed strung, but he COULD. There is a story of him
picking up Mick Taylor's guitar and jamming with him back stage at a gig.
rs
"Barry S." wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: audities-owner@smoe.org
> > [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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