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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2012 at 18:28
*sigh* why don't people read the OP - Jimi Hendrix did not just flip a right-handed guitar over, he also restrung it for left-hand playing, as did Paul McCartney for both bass and 6-string guitars, as shown in this pic:
 
also Tony Iommi, Kurt Cobain and most other left-handed players.
 
 
Whereas, as Alan correctly asserts, Doyle Bramhall II plays a normally strung right-handed guitar upside down:
 
 
Other backwards guitar players include Dick Dale and Dan Swano (Edge of Sanity, Katatonia etc)


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Points: 925 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2012 at 18:18
Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

I believe Jimi himself did something like that ... along with Paul McCartney. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Hendrix was playing with a right handed guitar but he changed the strings to make an "home made" left-handed guitar
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Points: 925 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2012 at 18:17
Originally posted by colorofmoney91 colorofmoney91 wrote:

Doyle Bramhall II plays guitar like that.

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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2012 at 18:02
What about upright guitar?
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Points: 22774 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2012 at 17:59
Doyle Bramhall II plays guitar like that.
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2012 at 17:55
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

When I saw the thread title here, I thought it was about guitars played backwards as in flipped over like Syd Barret did on his first solo album. Somehow he could pan out how it would end up sounding, which I find pretty interesting. It certainly had Gilmour a bit bamboozled...

LOL . Albert King, huh? I know Jimi was influenced by King.
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2012 at 17:48
When I saw the thread title here, I thought it was about guitars played backwards as in flipped over like Syd Barret did on his first solo album. Somehow he could pan out how it would end up sounding, which I find pretty interesting. It certainly had Gilmour a bit bamboozled...
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Points: 7851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2012 at 17:34
Albert King comes to mind.
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2012 at 17:29
I believe Jimi himself did something like that ... along with Paul McCartney. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Points: 3167 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2012 at 17:27
So, I play guitar backwards. Right handed guitars are just flipped upsidedown by me, and they are not restrung. It allows me to play "weird" chords that other guitarists can't play. It also puts me at a disadvantage when learning other people's music, but I have well over 120 compositions between myself and my band so that is not a problem either.
 
One thing though, WHAT OTHER GUITARISTS PLAY THIS WAY?
 
I am having trouble searching for anyone. I try googling different things but no one is going to use the same terminology.
 

Also, sorry if this is in the wrong thread, I wasn't sure which thread to put it in.
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