I could put a word to your posts on the subject , but I'll spare you . I answer posts , not posters ....it keeps me on the right track toward being unbiased
Yeah, it was a bit of a hype, I agree. But you have to remember that he was stoned out of his box most of the time Phenomenal guitarist, though. Unbelievable the sounds he could extract from them. Never been another like him, closest would be Eddie Van Halen, I guess.
You couldnt rattle my foreskin you boring yid ****. I dont blame you soley. You were funny once. But ****ing hell. Yes Piskie is to blame aswell. Although he has ****ed you over on everything. But please. This has to end. Its ****e now.
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.
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 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?
There were no left handed six strings that I know of before the late 60's. Left hooker was just an expression for them - same as an LHD car.
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.
For my thread, it could only work if, not only Pixie, but all of his segments are banned from it, too. Otherwise, what would be the point?
Didn't know that. I only ever saw him play with the whole guitar upside down, he played the chords and everything that way!.... Being a guitarist myself, I wondered how he got some of the sounds that he did, so I used to watch closely. He had absolutely huge hands, which meant he could wrap his thumb around the top of the neck and play one riff, while using his fingers to play something else!...
