It's the way Hendrix used to play. There were no left handed guitars back in those days, so he had to play a conventional one upside down.
**** knows how he managed it, it's difficult enough the right way around.
I could put a word to your posts on the subject , but I'll spare you .
You used to pray to them then set them on fire - apparently that helped...

The mere thought of me rattles you, doesn't it, Commie?
I really have got deep under your skin, haven't I?
It's the way Hendrix used to play. There were no left handed guitars back in those days, so he had to play a conventional one upside down.
**** knows how he managed it, it's difficult enough the right way around.
It's a wonder he didn't put his hand through the wammy bar, given how he used to play it.
Didn't Pete Townsend do that once ?
We should have one HAIG thread and one PISKIE and they are not allowed to go into each other's threads no matter what.
What do you mean by the last sentence, out of interest? They clearly had left handed guitars before Hendrix - McCartney's Bass for example? Left Hookers is not a term I know - is it more specific than just left handed guitars?He might have tried. I know I had a go at it just to see if I could do it. I think you need to retrain your brain to do it!..
But, as I said, at the time, Hendrix had no choice. It wasn't until a couple of years later that they started making left hookers.
what does this even mean? Accept?
What do you mean by the last sentence, out of interest? They clearly had left handed guitars before Hendrix - McCartney's Bass for example? Left Hookers is not a term I know - is it more specific than just left handed guitars?
Yeah accept, on my phone predictive text ****ed it up. Not accept sorry it was agree.what does this even mean? Accept?
You were funny once...
We should have one HAIG thread and one PISKIE and they are not allowed to go into each other's threads no matter what.
Just found this. Wow.
Jimi Hendrix was naturally left-handed but his father tried to force him to play right-handed because he believed playing left handed was a sign of the devil. Hendrix took right-handed guitars and restrung them for playing left-handed (Cross 2005:55). Hendrix did continue to write right-handed. Hendrix did learn to play right-handed as mandated by his father, he had to play right-handed any time his father was around (and left-handed, upside down, when his father was not around) or risked losing the guitar forever. Once he started making modifications that allowed him to play left handed with the strings in the proper order, he still had to play right-handed with his father nearby, so he also learned to play right-handed with the strings upside down. His brother Leon's testimony confirms this in Sharon Lawrence's biography Jimi Hendrix: the man, the magic, the truth and in quotations from guitar players such as Mike Bloomfield in Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age by Dave Henderson.
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