Great Bassists and lefties

[Paul Mather]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 06:11:31PM +0200, Henderson Keith wrote:

=> Well, these two bits of dialogue reminded me of the following...
=> Earlier, I mentioned something about being astounded by seeing
=> Josh Pollock (of U. of Errors, and now the Acid Mothers-Gong band)
=> play left-handed with a right-handed guitar flipped over...but
=> without inverting the strings.  Which to me, who's never really
=> ever tried to play a guitar (remotely seriously), seemed like a
=> crazy idea.  But I was told by much more knowledgeable folks here,
=> that quite a few lefties have learned it this way over the years.

I believe the legendary blues musician Albert King played guitar like
this.

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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