Jimi Hendrix

Re: Jimi the Lefty

southernbythegraceofmama — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:26:46 GMT

. Hendrix taught himself how to play the electric guitar and usually played a Fender Stratocaster. Because he was left-handed, he would play the guitar upside down with the strings attached in reverse order. He was named Greatest Guitarist of all Time by Rolling Stone

This clear up any misconeptions! The man played a mean AXE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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PBYlover — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:54:59 GMT

Just to throw a wrench into this old topic... I have a pictur of Jimi writing... with his RIGHT hand... in fact he was right handed but played left handed

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NYK — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:09:06 GMT

Hi guys,

Nice article, Its NYK from Canada. It is a pretty popular misconception that Jimi played an upside down guitar. In fact he used a right handed guitar but strung it correctly. Thanks

NYK
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Re: Jimi the Lefty // Dizzy's trumpet?!?

Bear549 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:27:28 GMT

Now when do we start talking about Dizzy's trumpet?!?

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mreyus — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:43:45 GMT

who cares how it was strung. how the notes were pulled. where the pickups were.

what his heritage was.

all i know is...there was only one jimi.

never ever will be another even remotely close.

not only the worlds greatest rock guitarist, but an equally brilliant composer and arranger.

"if i dont see you no more in this world, i see ya in the next one and dont be late"

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swalsip — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:21:28 GMT

The great Albert King played the guitar as strung ... lefty.

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benjarrad — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:37:04 GMT

seriously....dude do you even play guitar or are you just one of those losers who likes to speculate on guitar playing?

First of all, this whole conversation is retarded.

Yes, Jimi did play his guitar strung correctly for a right-handed guitarist....if he was right handed, but he's not.

The term upside down comes from the fact that he played with a high "E" string as his low "E"

Finally, I liked to finish with some ROOTS

Why doesn't anyone talk about ALBERT KING !!!

HE PLAYED HIS GUITAR STRUNG THE SAME WAY
In Fact, JIMI was Influenced by KING!!!!

Alright, screw this i'm wasting my life arguing with u about this

I'm gonna go do something much more fulfilling like listening to Hendrix or playin' guitar

Re: Jimi the Lefty

Olompali — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:40:27 GMT

Jimi's mother was not Native American...his great grandmother was.

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mad_south_rapid — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:25:53 GMT

Somebody is selling pickups with "reversed pole pieces"? Um, why not just take the original pickup and flip it around 180 degrees?

On the serious side, I've always wondered if the reverse pole pieces were part of Jimi's sound. Or did he flip his pickups?

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Charles Brutus Oldest Boy. — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:35:38 GMT

Sideways, in gravey.

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freakjoy — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:58:29 GMT

mtm105:

Also his mother was native American and because his father was black, he had self-esteem issues due to the complexity of his heritage.

Man, you should have just left it at the first paragraph. Please don't get into what, if any, self-esteem issues Jimi might have had, or anyone else for that matter, because you are not inside anyone else's head. OK? There were alot of pressures from alot of sources that Jimi had to deal with, but NO ONE is in the position to comment on the man's psychological situation. Even those close to him at the time merely speculate about his various issues. What matters is the incredible music he created while he was here, and I'm sure that's all he'd want us to be talking about.

"He had self-esteem issues due to the complexity of his heritage." PLEASE! So then, "pure-bred" white people don't ever have self-esteem issues? Riiiight...

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Westx — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:09:34 GMT

I saw Hendrix 3 times in concert, and 1 time in a late night jam after a concert. In concert he used a right handed guitar strung for the left hand. One night in San Antonio, after a concert, I was at a club with the band Sweet Smoke playing. About 20 people were there. Hendrix and Mitch Mitchell came in. Jimi took the bass player's right hand bass, flipped it and played it. He then took the guitar player's right handed guitar, flipped it and played for about an hour. Much later in life I had a dream where we were at a lake house, and Hendrix was there. He played along to Secret Agent Man on an acoustic. I asked him, "When you're playing, do you even know if the guitar is strung for right or left?" He replied,"All I know is it has 19 strings and I play it."

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fortyneck — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:42:38 GMT

Hey smartie pants, if you ever new a lefty that learned to play guitar on his own, you would know that they usually borrow a friends righty guitar and learn to play upside down. When a lefty gets their own guitar then he decides righty lefty upsidowny rightsidupsy........ this being said i think jimmy could have F%*Ked IT UP any ol' way.

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mrdude — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:44:53 GMT

yes but the cat sure could play it man

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Tcg — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:54:52 GMT

Jimi was the master. I used to waver in my mind as to who is the greatest guitarist ever. After watching live fotage of Jimi especially from the Montery Pop Fetival, to me he is clearly the greatest. He and later Stevie Ray Vaughn tuned down all the strings down a half step, the E stings for instance went from E to E flat. I'm not sure that it was only to allow them to bend the strings easier though.