Living with Jimi Hendrix, by a Rolling Stone

[rze99]

A little memory lane here from a Ronnie Wood on Jimi.

 

[dkmw]

That’s cool

 

[rze99]

It’s funny. What he says about Jimi playing upside down or whatever. And it being annoying

I’m a bit ambidextrous. I’m right handed. I mostly play drums leading with my left for whatever reason and I can play right handed. So that’s odd.

But I can’t play guitar upside down. Or left handed. Not at all.

I suppose lefties learned both way because there was no option back in the day with mostly right handed guitars. Look at Macca too. All right handed instruments. Maybe it just added to their genius.

 

[trancedental]

Jimi wrote with his right hand. It's well documented by those that knew him including Eddie Kramer who took this photo.

Being totally left or right handed is rare, many people will often try other tasks using either hand as being dominant.

I boxed Southpaw / left handed, play guitar right handed, drums left leading. Write right handed but can write with left, but looks like an 8 years old for neatness!

Playing some sports is often a disadvantage if you don't have much ambidextrous ability, especially Goalkeepers in many games.

 

[brookdalebill]

It’s funny. What he says about Jimi playing upside down or whatever. And it being annoying

I’m a bit ambidextrous. I’m right handed. I mostly play drums leading with my left for whatever reason and I can play right handed. So that’s odd.

But I can’t play guitar upside down. Or left handed. Not at all.

I suppose lefties learned both way because there was no option back in the day with mostly right handed guitars. Look at Macca too. All right handed instruments. Maybe it just added to their genius.

I assume Ronnie meant it was annoying because he was good at playing guitar righty or lefty.
My lefty friend Carl leaned to play on a family members righty guitar.
When he left the nest, he bought his own lefty instruments.
He did play slightly better guitar on a lefty.
That said, he was/is a good musician, either way.
Wicked bass player, and singer, too.
He is actually the best male singer I ever worked with.

 

[bumnote]

Jimi wrote with his right hand. It's well documented by those that knew him including Eddie Kramer who took this photo.

Being totally left or right handed is rare, many people will often try other tasks using either hand as being dominant.

I boxed Southpaw / left handed, play guitar right handed, drums left leading. Write right handed but can write with left, but looks like an 8 years old for neatness!

Playing some sports is often a disadvantage if you don't have much ambidextrous ability, especially Goalkeepers in many games.

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It wasn't uncommon for left handed kids to be forced to learn to write with their right hand back when Jimi would have been in school.

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

A little memory lane here from a Ronnie Wood on Jimi.

oh no! is this the start of another round of memorota regarding the deceased heroes from our recent past? Elvis has been done to death as it were, you'll notice Ronnie isn't telling all about Kieth or the Jaguar. So when does Sammy or Dave unearth remembrances of Eddy for G.Q or Dust magazine?

Oh!, there I go thinking about something with no importance to my health education or welfare. Thinking about media celebrities in driven by advertising media that I don't care about at all.
Old age is setting in, I used to do better than this. oh well, at least I can admit shamelessly abut being a sucker for media hooks and face up to being the fool that I always have been without making vapid
excuses....

 

[Rufus]

It wasn't uncommon for left handed kids to be forced to learn to write with their right hand back when Jimi would have been in school.

This..."right" here...there was a HUGE stigma against doing things lefthanded.
Also known as the "Devil's Hand"
Ever had a Catholic Nun whack your hand with a ruler???

One of the definitions of the word Sinister is "left handed".

Also Jimi's father did not like him playing guitar lefthanded as a kid, so according to brother Leon, Jimi would play lefty when Dad was not home and switch to righty when Dad WAS home.

 

[Rufus]

Lots of great stuff on Youtube.

Ernie Isley describes Jimi living in the Isley Bros' house in Teaneck, NJ in Feb 1964, sitting next to Jimi on the couch the night the Beatles first played the Ed Sullivan show.
They called Jimi "the Creeper" because he was so quiet and unassuming...offstage.
Also...he drank quite a bit of orange juice.

 

[saltyseadog]

Jimi wrote with his right hand. It's well documented by those that knew him including Eddie Kramer who took this photo.

Being totally left or right handed is rare, many people will often try other tasks using either hand as being dominant.

I boxed Southpaw / left handed, play guitar right handed, drums left leading. Write right handed but can write with left, but looks like an 8 years old for neatness!

Playing some sports is often a disadvantage if you don't have much ambidextrous ability, especially Goalkeepers in many games.

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I agree, like you I am right handed but when my father taught me to box he said I was a southpaw. Playing proper football what you call soccer I was a naturally left footed player but could use my right a bit as well. cannot make head nor tail of an upside down guitar as it just feels wrong to my hands but played in a band in Denmark once where the other guitarist was completely ambidextrous and had a swivel thing strap made years before ZZ Top and in mid solo would swing the guitar around and continue playing without missing a beat, amazing things people.

 

[Flaneur]

 

[Flaneur]

 

[buster poser]

oh no! is this the start of another round of memorota regarding the deceased heroes from our recent past?

Probably not, the clip is from 2013

 

[archetype]

This..."right" here...there was a HUGE stigma against doing things lefthanded.
Also known as the "Devil's Hand"
Ever had a Catholic Nun whack your hand with a ruler???

One of the definitions of the word Sinister is "left handed".

Also Jimi's father did not like him playing guitar lefthanded as a kid, so according to brother Leon, Jimi would play lefty when Dad was not home and switch to righty when Dad WAS home.

It's Latin.

• Dexter = right = good. Used for the root for English words like dexterity and dexterous.
  
• Sinister = left = bad. Used as-is for the English word sinister.

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

Probably not, the clip is from 2013

thank you, the fear/disdain of this type of media mythical reverence and manipulation of the deceased of pop culture icons for fiscal gain and sailable circulation stats, weave a false narrative into the present consensus reality which holds both what history was and is, yielding a falsification of that which is actual in our collective experience.
This is a hard concept for me to explain.
If I may assert that "Woodstock" was not an authentic cultural event but a co option of certain aspects of "the youth culture " created as a marketing stratagem of a marketing scheme to exploit the youth culture by selling a myth of what members of the targeted market believed to be authentically theirs, when in fact is only the co option of manufactured myths....to further marketability to the targeted group..... huh?
maybe
or try this: if you believe that the telecaster as an icon is part of your heritage with your cultural identification , I will be more likely to buy the telecaster. maybe.
It was true then Woodstock, it is still true now.
obviously I don't have a doctorate in psychology and marketing, and lack a clear model or vocabulary to discribe how it works I'm just riffing on a mirky concept .

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

THANKS A LOT i REALLY LIKE THIS CHAP. HE'S SO VERY DIRECT AS A FORMER NATIONAL PLAYER /
i HAVE A DEEP APPRECIATION FOR THE TONE OF A RESOPHONIC PLAYED SLIDE STYLE , AGAIN MY DEEPST THANKS. whoops sorry for shouting. I just get so excited by national steel slide guitar , I almost wet me self !

 

[Tonetele]

Amazing that Ronnie says he could play both handed.
It's amazing what humans are capable of. Take Chet, Tommy Emmanuel, Eddie van Halen and Joe Robinson as examples.

My best mate at school had a Dad who was left handed but played the guitar right handed with all notes and chords inverted ( so to speak) i.e. right handed strung but played as a lefty. Highly sophisticated classical guitar at that!
My party trick , and I can only do it completely drunk, is playing Chuck Berry's " Little Queenie" with the guitar behind my head and upside down. Never had the confidence to do it sober, but p....d, I'm your man. Usually gets a laugh and more beers.

 

[Tonetele]

BTW my twin brother is a lefty but plays drums right handed. He was taught by a guy named Billy Ross, a peer of Buddy Rich, they and a negro could play single handed rolls. He was recognized ( Billy) by a drummer when touring Vietnam to entertain the troops and my brother played Billy's gigs when he double booked himself ( which was often).
I also taught a lot of guitar students as I have a good grasp of theory but the best student was my bro-in-law, a lefty who played right handed. He progressed far faster than any of my students in the 1980s.

There's a lot to be said for lefties. I'm a specialist in Engineering Maths and the average leftie scores 3 points higher in all types of IQ tests ( yet they die, on average, three years earlier) Strange thing . Mark Knopfler is a great guitarist and once I saw him write. He's a lefty. So too many other greats on the guitar.

 

[Telecastoff1]

Interesting video.

 

[Fiesta Red]

My drummer is left-handed...his drums are “backwards” to a right-handed player.

He writes, paints (commercial artist by trade) and eats left-handed.

However, he plays guitar and bass right-handed.

He’s a dichotomy wrapped in confusion.