OFF: University of Errors last night

Ted Jackson tojackso at LIBRARY.SYR.EDU
Fri Feb 14 07:33:39 EST 2003


On 14 Feb 2003 at 14:16, Henderson Keith wrote:

> I think this is true!  Because I took notice of his guitar and I
> was certain that he uses a righty-guitar flipped upside down (he
> is, of course, then left-handed)...which isn't so unusual, but
> then I was sure that the strings were not reordered to put the high
> ones on the bottom where they should be.  This *should* make the thing
> completely unplayable unless for some reason you learned growing up to
> play the thing completely bassackward.  So I guess there's no wonder
> that Pollock has such a peculiar sound.  :)
>
Yeah, well Albert King was playing like that about 60 years ago, and countless other
lefties have also done it.  Not a big deal at all...

theo



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