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June 25, 2006 at 7:57 pm #23339Gordy SmiffParticipant
Firstly, may I say what a great site, although it usually seems a bit quiet when I visit.
Been playing guitar for over twenty years, rock bands, soul bands, even a blues duo. These days I just play for my own enjoyment.
I currently own a Gordon Smith G60. Great to play but very battered.
Epiphone Sheraton. Sexy looking and schmoove.
Yamaha Pacifica 112. Very good for a budget plank.
Ozark Resonator. Loadsa fun with open E tuning.
Yamaha FG420 acoustic. Enjoys a good BBQ.
Fender Jazz Bass. Mmmm.
My first guitar was a Zenta Telecaster bass. Anybody remember those?
Horrible thing, but it got me into my first band. -
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July 24, 2006 at 11:07 am #732031bassleftParticipant
I remember the early 90s “Shoegazer” bands were wall-to-wall Ricky 360s and Fender Jazzmasters. Hefty number of Musicman Stingray basses, too.
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July 14, 2006 at 3:55 am #73214TimParticipant
We really should keep our exotic Bass player language; ‘ineebreeated’ and Blah-blah’ in the bass forum, don’t want to confuse those with the smaller instruments.
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July 13, 2006 at 7:25 am #732391bassleftParticipant
Good spot on the ’72 TeleCus, Lee (eg, Snow Patrol – exactly matches your descn, also “Editors” vox/rhythm player). One cool looking – and, indeed, sounding, guitar, though. The 4001 is just an iconic bass. I’d love one; except I’m mostly 5-string (the short lived 4003 5-string has a 33.5″ scale – hmmm) and I’m too cheapskate to pay lefty Rickky or Stingray prices. Snow Patrol have a lefty bass player, BTW (I might have mentioned that. Nearly as ineeebreeated as my chum Tim right now).
Have you seen the frightening price of Flying V basses right now? $2400+ on Fleeb. Yowza 😯 Still, despite owning one of those “exotic wood, thru-neck” blah blah basses, I’m all for a return to a bit of Lake Placid Blue and a scratchplate. Call me old-fashioned… 🙂
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July 12, 2006 at 9:46 pm #73236lee_UKParticipant
no, its because they look weird anyway.
anyone see ‘T in the Park’ over the weekend?
Guitars that new bands play for looks, rather than sound, top fashion guitars this year.6 string
1) Telecaster ’72 custom, must be black, with either 1 or 2 humbuckers.4 string
1) Rickenbacker 4001/4003 in black.any others?
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July 11, 2006 at 9:43 am #732301bassleftParticipant
Lefties just look weird anyway (no offence: I am one) so they always catch my eye in a “looks weird” way. Assymettric guitar shapes don’t help, though. If I were a lefty trying to keep it quiet I’d go for the Gibson SG guitar or EB bass. For some reason, Rick 4001 basses always look OK in lefty guise. Is it the Macca influence?
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July 9, 2006 at 6:03 am #73197glwParticipant
Playing a Flying V sitting down you have to stick the lower “wing” between your legs and play it in an almost classical guitar position.
It’s quite comfortable actually, and not the impossibiity that people often claim it to be.
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July 8, 2006 at 5:12 am #73200TimParticipant
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By the way have you noticed how very very odd some guitars look left handed? The Strat, and Les Paul just dont look right?
do they look unusual to lefties?[/quote]I was on the train to work reading ‘Bass Guitar Blah Blah’ magazine and they had a lefty special with millions (maybe five) of my nearest and dearest flipped wrong-ways…made me feel all funny, just looks wrong!
I may have still been ineebreehated tho?…from Wednesday…which was weird, to say the least (which is probably a good idea!)Love as ever to y’all, I’ve been lurking for a while as I’m not that tech-savvy but just know I’m here, and watching…bwah-hah-har
Peace,
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July 8, 2006 at 1:08 am #73215lee_UKParticipant
no but i once tried using one as a cricket bat, very aerodynamic.
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July 8, 2006 at 12:10 am #73235Gordy SmiffParticipant
By the way have you noticed how very very odd some guitars look left handed? The Strat, and Les Paul just dont look right?
do they look unusual to lefties?[/quote]Yes and yes. Apart from the Flying V. 😀 Ever tried playing one of those sat down?
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July 7, 2006 at 7:10 am #73199lee_UKParticipant
Quite right Mike, they are banned from joining many Internet Forums because the amount of Usernames with the word ‘Left’ in them, they always vote to the left, look to left when crossing a busy road (bad move) drive on the left but always assume they are right.
Im sure there is a cure, and i think if they tried hard enough they could become full members of society, but they choose to be different and then moan about the extra charge on a Left handed Strat. 😆By the way have you noticed how very very odd some guitars look left handed? The Strat, and Les Paul just dont look right?
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July 7, 2006 at 6:17 am #73209MichaelParticipant
[quote=”lee_UK”]Of course in Tudor times Lefties were thought to be Witches, and were often burned on a right handed stake, and rightly so.
[/quote]lol
In most first world countries, it’s still quite normal for lefties in the armed forces to be considered mentally ill.
In line battles, lefties would often lift there gun and knock out the right handed normy beside them.
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July 7, 2006 at 12:33 am #73207Gordy SmiffParticipant
Some people can be so cruel.
I may as well sell all my kit to the nearest witch I can find and state that Jimi Hendrix never existed. 😯 -
July 6, 2006 at 5:21 pm #73225lee_UKParticipant
Leftism. 😆
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July 6, 2006 at 8:04 am #732061bassleftParticipant
I have the same problem finding the prawns in “Morrisons” but, strangely, failed to mention this interesting nugget of information, Lee. Learn something new about Lefties every day 😆
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July 6, 2006 at 4:39 am #73194lee_UKParticipant
Of course in Tudor times Lefties were thought to be Witches, and were often burned on a right handed stake, and rightly so.
Also lefties were never allowed on ships sailing to the new world, after a left handed Spanish captain sailed around the Canary Islands for 2 months on a constant left hand curve, he eventualy ship wrecked his vessel into a rocky outcrop south of Fuerta Ventura, and his name was Jose Jonah, hence the term ‘Jonah’ or bringer of bad luck to sailing vessels. -
July 4, 2006 at 8:36 pm #732231bassleftParticipant
Coupla other things. Don’t worry about Lee, he’s trying to get a response from me. He wants to play “Devil’s Advocate” but it’s got more than three chords so he has to settle for playing “Devil’s Legal Secretary” 🙂
You can get left-handed control pots, btw. My cheap backup 5-string (a Cort) has righty pots so they have to be turned in the wrong direction. Still, I’m a bass player. What do I want a tone knob for?
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July 4, 2006 at 8:29 pm #732371bassleftParticipant
Lefties-playing-righty include Robert Fripp and (bloke I mentioned in your “over-rated” thread) Mark Knoppfler. I play electric guitar lefty but with the strings upside down. This is because all the guitarists I knew were righties so I just got used to learning it that way. My basses are lefties strung lefty. Another upside-downer was the rhythm guitarist in early Whitesnake.
Doves’ bass player (whose name has escaped me) plays an upside-down Precision which he hasn’t restrung. That just weirds me out when I see it.
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July 1, 2006 at 12:02 am #73195Gordy SmiffParticipant
“Moaners Corner”? Our own forum?
Do I detect a hint of anti-leftism here?
Or am I being a bit paranoid, ooh Tony Iommi, he’s another one, and he wears false fingertips! How about that for overcoming adversity.
Noel Gallagher is left handed, plays the guitar right handed, and boy cant you tell, he looks so uncomfortable. I’d rather stay being a lefty than look as though I’m reading straight from the Beatles Complete chord book. 😆 -
June 30, 2006 at 8:09 pm #73213lee_UKParticipant
Leftyism just isnt normal is it? but i think it’s great the way we accept them into society and allow them to go to ‘normal’ schools, and they even get charged the same amount to travel on right handed buses.
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June 30, 2006 at 6:37 pm #73238glwParticipant
Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals is one such lefty who plays a righty-strung guitar upside-down.
I believe that Dick Dale is another guy who does this trick, hence this is why on the Fender Dick Dale sig Strat the bridge pickup is angled in the other direction so you can obtain a more accurate representation of his sound.
Wasn’t it Guitarist magazine who once ran an April Fool’s article about left-handed strings (wound in the opposite direction)?
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June 30, 2006 at 3:55 pm #73196lee_UKParticipant
I think you ‘Leftys’ should have your own forum, you could call it ‘Moaners Corner’ , if you ask me, its just not natural playing guitar left handed, next you’ll be asking for left handed picks, and upside down inside out volume pots (incidently, that thing with rolling the volume off accidently, it happens to us Right Handed – Normal – players too, you cant hijack that one on your crusade) 😆
Also i bought some equipment from a guitar player in South London, he played left handed with a right handed guitar turned upsided down – Hendrix style- but with the strings upside down too. as a right handed player i could play his guitar without adjustment.
So if you dont want to pay premium prices, then why not re-learn to play guitar in this unorthadox style? 😉 -
June 30, 2006 at 12:47 am #73231Gordy SmiffParticipant
There’s no feeling quite like playing your first proper lefty 8)
I know exactly what you mean about eBay, the only problem is you need to trawl through an awful lot of rubbish. Bit like kissing frogs to find your prince(ess) I suppose. 😉
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June 29, 2006 at 8:52 am #731911bassleftParticipant
😆 , and that little-finger-on-vol-pot can be a struggle. Upper fret access is a real drag with a righty Stratty swap, too. If anything, buying a lefty guitar in the 80s or 90s was even more of a nightmare. First time I went on eBay, I nearly wet my knicks at all the instruments I could buy. Had to restrain myself…
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June 27, 2006 at 11:30 pm #73202Gordy SmiffParticipant
Hi guys, and thanks for the warm welcome.
Yup I went through the “using a righty” experience.
An Eros Blackbird acoustic *shudders*.
It’s taken me a long time to get my collection together, and it still boils my piss that leftys have to pay a premium for the priveledge.
Strat style guitars are a problem for me due to my playing style, I’ve got a bad habit of hitting the pick-up selector. If you watch Gary Moore his picking hand looks very similar, pick between forefinger and thumb, other three fingers splayed out. I should add that we neither sound or look alike! -
June 27, 2006 at 7:50 am #732201bassleftParticipant
Gordy, fellow Lefty, hello and welcome 🙂
The great thing about the ‘net is finding out that we don’t all play the Squiers hanging on the local music shop wall. Did you ever go through that “started out on a righty” experience? That was no fun. It amazes me how many lefty instruments I’ve bought have been hacked by a righty? Couldn’t they find a genuine righty in the shop ❓ 😕
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June 26, 2006 at 8:37 pm #73212lee_UKParticipant
This is the man who has soft toy ‘Crazy Frog’ on his PC.
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June 26, 2006 at 6:38 am #73071MichaelParticipant
Welcome aboard, or to a-board.
Urrrg, you know your losing it when forum humour gets that crap.
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June 26, 2006 at 4:33 am #73064lee_UKParticipant
Welcome aboard Gordy, Nice collection of guitars you have there,
Funny how most people have a ‘BBQ’ guitar, usualy gets thrown around in a soft case, few dents, strings are the originals thay have been on there for 12 yrs, and an action like a cheese cutter.
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