--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mark Landau <m@...> wrote: > > This was a new guitar I had just purchased. It was strung in the usual way. > It didn't phase him. But because it wasn't live, we didn't hear that much. > We just saw the amazing play of his fingers. I didn't even know he was left > handed or even that left-handed people string their guitars differently. > Also, like I said, he seemed pretty stoned. The whole thing lasted about 5 > minutes. >
Jimi turned a regular guitar upside down and strung it the "right" way with bass stings on the top. Guys like Albert King and Dr. Issiah Ross played it actually upside down which required Albert to pull bent strings DOWN. But a guy like Jimi could play the usual style of guitar that he had handled a million times before much better than I could play a left handed guitar. But if you put one in my hands somewhere between the second and third bourbon, I'm gunna rock the house with an upside down guitar and that's a natural fact. We may not be geniuses with the other handed guitar, but we can entertain. That is what we do. > On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:21 PM, Rick Archer wrote: > > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > > On Behalf Of Mark Landau > > Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 4:36 PM > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Good by Amy, you will be missed > > > > > > > > > > > > When I went into Manny's in NY to get my stratocaster in '69, Jimi was > > there stoned out of his gourd. > > When the guitar came up from the basement, he asked if he could play it. > > (Gawd, are you kidding?) > > So a few of us stood around while he did, with no amp. > > The dance of his fingers in the mid-range of the fret board seen up close > > like that was a revelation, like his fingers were Vedic gods. > > > > Are you left-handed? Otherwise how could he have played your guitar? > > > > > > >
