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MrRiff

MrRiff

Jun 6, 2001
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Seems many great guitarist have at the least a curiosity about bass. In this case BB looks completely lost to quote Wood Allens cello teacher
“He has no concept of the instrument in fact he blew into it"
 

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Maybe I'm just traumatized from living with young children, but the first thing I noticed was the guitar lying on the floor where someone could just step on it.

And I'd be willing to bet BB King was, at minimum, competent on the bass, or at least could have been given 30 minutes to figure it out.
 
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Michedelic said:
Johnny had this other guy as well…
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I was hoping someone would post this photo. Take a close look. Hendrix has flipped over a right handed Fender without reversing the strings. He is playing with the strings in reverse order.

I had a guitarist friend who was probably Jimi's biggest fan. He mentioned a couple of things that I have not been able to corroborate:

Hendrix was a pretty wicked bassist. A number of the bass tracks from the original Experience are dubbed in by him.

Hendrix could play guitar right handed. He just thought he was better playing leftie.
 
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averagejoe53 said:
I was hoping someone would post this photo. Take a close look. Hendrix has flipped over a right handed Fender without reversing the strings. He is playing with the strings in reverse order.

I had a guitarist friend who was probably Jimi's biggest fan. He mentioned a couple of things that I have not been able to corroborate:

Hendrix was a pretty wicked bassist. A number of the bass tracks from the original Experience are dubbed in by him.

Hendrix could play guitar right handed. He just thought he was better playing leftie.
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He's not the only person I've seen play a flipped over RH bass, with string order reversed as a result. MonoNeon does it, as does Scott Reeder of Kyuss and Bent Sæther of Motorpsycho. Though the latter two now have custom made LH instruments with reversed nuts, I imagine they both got started just like Jimi here by flipping a RH instrument over.

Any other bassists I'm missing who do this?
 
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averagejoe53 said:
I was hoping someone would post this photo. Take a close look. Hendrix has flipped over a right handed Fender without reversing the strings. He is playing with the strings in reverse order.

I had a guitarist friend who was probably Jimi's biggest fan. He mentioned a couple of things that I have not been able to corroborate:

Hendrix was a pretty wicked bassist. A number of the bass tracks from the original Experience are dubbed in by him.

Hendrix could play guitar right handed. He just thought he was better playing leftie.
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He actually wrote right-handed.
Yes, he played bass all over Electric Ladyland, most notably on “Watchtower”; Redding would never have played those kinds of lines. Even “1983” with, ironically, a sort of bass solo deep in it.
Earlier on, he played guitar and bass on this…
 
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Johnny and Edgar Winter are from my hometown of Beaumont, Texas, and I grew up 6 or 7 years behind them, we went to the same high school. Edgar was always the broader ranged of the two, could play real Jazz, a lot more influences. And of course, Edgar had his big White Trash show band with horns. JW was singularly focused on hard blues.

Johnny signed a HUGE deal with Columbia in the late 60's, great big bunche$ of money. Edgar went on to later have radio hits with his Edgar Winter Group with Ronnie Montrose and Dan Hartmann.

His parents were well-respected around town, and of course, what with their Albinism, they cut quite the figure. One Saturday morning, I was downtown waiting for my dad to close the store at noon, and I went walking around. Well down the sidewalk, here comes Mrs. Winter and Johnny, who had a pony tail down to his waist, and dressed in tye-dye coveralls. This was QUITE the sight in a one-horse, RED neck
oil business town, and people were almost jumping off the sidewalk to get by !


Here's Johnny at Crossroads 2007, fronting Trucks Tedeschi on the Dylan classic 'Hwy 61 Revisited'. He was fond of single pickup FIrebirds, and his slide tone always sounded more 'mic'd National' than 'slide pushing a Marshall'. Watch Derek's expressions, a slide master himself certainly.

Edgar Winter on the Dan Hartmann-penned 'Easy Street', who's playing bass on this track. EW was always into broader musics, loved horns, and he's playing the sax solo here besides the all the keyboard parts.
 
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Isaac_James said:
He's not the only person I've seen play a flipped over RH bass, with string order reversed as a result. MonoNeon does it, as does Scott Reeder of Kyuss and Bent Sæther of Motorpsycho. Though the latter two now have custom made LH instruments with reversed nuts, I imagine they both got started just like Jimi here by flipping a RH instrument over.

Any other bassists I'm missing who do this?
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A guy I know from way back is a lefty who can play a righty bass as well (perhaps, better) than many righties.

The bass as being modeled by a righty. (Note that both basses are 4005WBs).
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Here is John playing it like it's nobody's business.
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He doesn't even have to look at the fingerboard!
 
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averagejoe53 said:
I was hoping someone would post this photo. Take a close look. Hendrix has flipped over a right handed Fender without reversing the strings. He is playing with the strings in reverse order.

I had a guitarist friend who was probably Jimi's biggest fan. He mentioned a couple of things that I have not been able to corroborate:

Hendrix was a pretty wicked bassist. A number of the bass tracks from the original Experience are dubbed in by him.

Hendrix could play guitar right handed. He just thought he was better playing leftie.
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I wonder how many lefty players do the same. I love 60s music. I've noticed on videos of Marmalade that the lead guitar played left handed but didn't reverse the strings.
 

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