Songs I Am Listening To

[Stubby]

2 hours ago, Macpherson said:

 

I also find the which handed argument intriguing as essentially when you start you can't use either hand... so as a righty I've spent 52 years trying to get my left hand into line while my dominant right was lazily very much taken for granted, and totally wrongly as I've recently found.

 

In reflection if I was to start again knowing what I know now... would I choose to use my dominant hand for picking or working the neck.. I'm actually not sure, and although all this time that has passed in which as a practical engineering repair guy and would be musician I find myself increasingly more and more ambidextrous, which may be a more balanced natural state if we weren't pigeon holed L or H at an early age.

To test this I'm fairly interested in getting hold of a decent LH acoustic of the same ilk of my RH usual's just to see  if learning to play the other way is in any way terribly hard..  bearing in mind that now I know what I want the fingers to do

 

To me, regardless of what your led to believe at the early learning stage in life it can all be corrected with intelligent practice of anything.

 

Seems we are similar opposites in that I have a full size Korg electric piano which I would love a solid left hand for but I feel liked a complete novice with... although my right is  boogie central with no probs, but  I suppose that that's one of the challenges of everyday life when trying to get a grip with music,  cheers.

I have a friend ( tree surgeon as i happens ) who shoots left handed ( left cast off on the stock ) and plays squash right handed . He also has one green eye and one blue . Don't know if that has any bearing on it .

[Billhook]

I think a lot is to do with how strongly your brain is wired at birth.  I am totally left handed,  left footed, left eyed which they say is right brained. I was never told which way to hold a guitar,  I wanted a guitar one Christmas aged about ten  (please mummy and daddy!) went off to a music shop and the owner told me I was holding the guitar the wrong way round, but I insisted to hold it left handed so they had to change the strings .

At school there were no left handed instruments so violins, cellos, saxophones, trombones, oboes clarinets and many more were not for me although nowadays I think they are available.

Don't start me off on chainsaws!

I shoot left handed with left leading eye, bow and arrow the same, snooker, I mount a bike from the right side although ambidextrous with the fairer sex!

[Macpherson]

4 hours ago, Billhook said:

I mount a bike from the right side

 

So do I.. strangely enough, anytime I had to bumpstart a bike, which was many, I always did it from the right side whereas I did notice that most folk were the opposite👍

[Billhook]

2 hours ago, Macpherson said:

 

So do I.. strangely enough, anytime I had to bumpstart a bike, which was many, I always did it from the right side whereas I did notice that most folk were the opposite👍

I do not ride horses but we were in South Africa at a beach resort and they had these horse rides.  Had a few beers so I thought what could possibly go wrong.  Well for a start the horse made it clear that it was not going to let me mount from the right side!

My wife and I followed the guide on his horse down the beach.  The horses know the routine and walked very steadily behind the guide.  But the kept stopping and wanted to turn back as I believe they had already done a morning stint and felt that two stints was unfair

However the guide insisted that we reach the turning point at which my horse set off like Silver in the Lone Ranger.  Nothing seemed the slow him down, pulled hard on the reins but no effect.  We reached a steep sand dune by the farm and my horse  bounded up and just as steep the other side I ended up with my legs either side of his ears!  But I didn’t fall off.   I am sure this was all a punishment for trying to mount from the wrong side!

[Billhook]

I see also that Randy Hansen plays a left handed guitar right handed, though I am not sure which way it is strung

[Billhook]

1 minute ago, Billhook said:

I see also that Randy Hansen plays a left handed guitar right handed, though I am not sure which way it is strung

just had a closer look at the Are you experienced video and it is strung for a right hander

[Macpherson]

1 hour ago, Billhook said:

just had a closer look at the Are you experienced video and it is strung for a right hander

 

Aye, it would never sound right [ correct 🙄 ] if it wasn't, he seems a really straight up guy also from Seattle and he's been playing Hendrix stuff since the man was alive.

 

He has an American band  and a German band.. both good but the latter being imo the closest with Ufowalter on bass and Manni Von Bohr on drums, both excellent in their own right and they've been together for years and are probably tighter and definitely more practiced than Jimi's set ups.

There's also good poor footage of Randy and Ufo with Buddy Miles drumming.

 

I remember getting off the school bus and hearing of Jimi's death, so I've a lifelong connection to his music... but you can go and see Randy and not for silly money either, he was recently touring parts of the EU and the ticket price was a mere £25 and in small intimate venues with probably only a few hundred folk attending.

 

Ufo on bass is amazing himself, apparently when they first met he had a band where he performed Jimi's songs on bass with no guitar present, very interesting to watch.

 

 

And I'll put this up as well as an intro to Ufo who seems post all their stuff and anytime I've left a comment he replies quickly and a short conversation can be had.

I find it very hard not to watch them and just tonight looking for these links I've watched a full gig and a lot of other stuff👍hope you enjoy.

 

 

[Billhook]

8 hours ago, Macpherson said:

 

Aye, it would never sound right [ correct 🙄 ] if it wasn't, he seems a really straight up guy also from Seattle and he's been playing Hendrix stuff since the man was alive.

 

He has an American band  and a German band.. both good but the latter being imo the closest with Ufowalter on bass and Manni Von Bohr on drums, both excellent in their own right and they've been together for years and are probably tighter and definitely more practiced than Jimi's set ups.

There's also good poor footage of Randy and Ufo with Buddy Miles drumming.

 

I remember getting off the school bus and hearing of Jimi's death, so I've a lifelong connection to his music... but you can go and see Randy and not for silly money either, he was recently touring parts of the EU and the ticket price was a mere £25 and in small intimate venues with probably only a few hundred folk attending.

 

Ufo on bass is amazing himself, apparently when they first met he had a band where he performed Jimi's songs on bass with no guitar present, very interesting to watch.

 

 

And I'll put this up as well as an intro to Ufo who seems post all their stuff and anytime I've left a comment he replies quickly and a short conversation can be had.

I find it very hard not to watch them and just tonight looking for these links I've watched a full gig and a lot of other stuff👍hope you enjoy.

 

 

Thank you for those links

It is almost like I did not need to see Hendrix live as he is so like the man.  Reincarnation???

Certainly has the teeth to play with them!

Back in 1995 Gregg Wright started a band called Gregg Wright's Left Hook and the bass player lived in our village.  Gregg ended up staying with me for three months and it also was like having Hendrix in the house.  He is left handed but plays with the strings strung right handed.  At one point in his life he told me he was having trouble being asked to play Hendrix tributes that he began to question his own identity

 

 

and many years earlier with Michael Jackson

 

 

I am afraid not much of his great talent rubbed off on me!!

[Billhook]

 

[Macpherson]

13 hours ago, Billhook said:

Thank you for those links

It is almost like I did not need to see Hendrix live as he is so like the man.  Reincarnation???

Certainly has the teeth to play with them!

Back in 1995 Gregg Wright started a band called Gregg Wright's Left Hook and the bass player lived in our village.  Gregg ended up staying with me for three months and it also was like having Hendrix in the house.  He is left handed but plays with the strings strung right handed.  At one point in his life he told me he was having trouble being asked to play Hendrix tributes that he began to question his own identity

 

 

and many years earlier with Michael Jackson

 

 

I am afraid not much of his great talent rubbed off on me!!

 

Great story, and ok I take back my comment  ' that how could it sound right with the strings on upside  down ' ... I've obviously heard Gregg Wright many times but never heard his name before.

I guess you can learn any way you want if you start at aged 4, and he's got it nailed.👍

 

I'm glad you like Randy Hansen, welcome to a new rabbit hole...and no, it can't be reincarnation as they were both alive at the same time. but I wouldn't rule out possession, cheers.