Lefty Bassists - The Doves

[bruiser1964]

Ok just got home from watching the Doves at Rockness... He is a lefty bass player - or so it would seem - he actually plays a standard right hander upside down - no change whatsoever - is this normal???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iohR4MYggY

Look, its clear as day at 1.53

Ps Im a righty so just asking

[Mayers]

Yeah it is. In the old day Lefty who play lefty didn't have any choice. So, reverse a right-handed bass and obviously he didn't change the ordre of the strings.

The bass player of Yellowjackets learn that way too. But now he has a left-handed bass strung right-handed.

I'm sure there is some other bass players who did that

[iamthebassman]

Not uncommon in the lefty world, me for instance!

[danomite64]

I started off with an upside-down righty Hondo, but I did reverse the strings. I was too broke to buy a Fender then, but got lucky when I found a lefty Hondo in a pawn shop and got the owner to agree to trade me straight up for my righty.

[The Mock Turtle Regulator]

Doves' former incarnation was as dance act Sub sub-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLLVQn5w8so
note the very same lefty bassist playing a righty bass upside-down.
on the recorded version of that song there's some slapping too, unfortunately he wasn't doing that in the live clip, which would be interesting to see how he did it.

[Asylum-49]

I'm a lefty bass player. I learnt on a standard left hand bass, but after a stint as a sales person in a guitar store I learnt to play upside down when demonstrating right hand basses / jamming with the other sales guys. (there was a lack of left hand basses in store.) It's amazing how quickly & easily I picked it up! Maybe it's my messed up left sided brain!!!

[FritoBandito]

That style didn't seem to bother Jimi Hendrix.

[iamthebassman]

Originally Posted by FritoBandito

That style didn't seem to bother Jimi Hendrix.

You're both correct AND incorrect at the same time!!