Left-handed guitarists

[bathseagull]

I'm trying to win an argument with my Dad that there are loads of left-handed guitarists.
I'm losing
Care to give me some names to shut him up?

got Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, McCartney

Mark Knopfler?

 

[Wardy]

Martin Kemp was left handed iirc

 

[Lammy]

How many do you need to win the argument?

 

[bathseagull]

He wants 20
He named 40 right-handed, he wants at least half

 

[Biscuit]

I'm trying to win an argument with my Dad that there are loads of left-handed guitarists.
I'm losing
Care to give me some names to shut him up?

got Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, McCartney

Mark Knopfler?

I don't think Knopfler is left handed.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Kurt Cobain.

 

[bathseagull]

Re: Re: Left-handed guitarists

I don't think Knopfler is left handed.

No, i wasn't sure - just gonna find a picture of him on the net

 

[REDLAND]

The bloke from The Ataris plays left handed,

ALSO Paul Simon taught him self to play right handed but was a left handed player

Tim Armstrong (RANCID) also plays left handed

 

[Mr Popkins]

Jimmy White
oh ,sorry he,s a left handed snooker player
will that do?

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Tony Iomi
Bob Geldof
Bobby Womack

 

[bathseagull]

Tony Iomi
Bob Geldof
Bobby Womack

you just found the same website as me, didn't you?
everything left handed or somethin?

 

[bathseagull]

I'm crashing and burning

 

[Tom Bombadil]

you just found the same website as me, didn't you?
everything left handed or somethin?

Go on proof it

 

[aftershavedave]

i wouldn't say that bobby womack was particularly, if at all, known for his guitar work!

 

[METALMICKY]

Jimi Hendrix
Paul McCartney
Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath)
Elliot Easton (Cars)
Ceasar Rosas (Los Lobos)
Dick Dale (The King of Surf Guitar!)
John Flansburgh (They Might Be Giants)
Karl Wallinger (World Party)
Dave Wakeling (English Beat, General Public)
Kurt Cobain
Robbie Merril (Bass-Godsmack)
Doug Pinnick (Bass-King's X)
Matt Beck (Matchbox 20, Lisa Loeb)
Raphael Saadiq (Bass-Lucy Pearl, Tony, Toni, Tone)
Seal
Elizabeth Cotten
Albert King
Otis Rush
Lefty Dizz
CoCo Montoya
Little Jimmy King (Albert's Grandson)
Eddie Clearwater
Chris Chew (Bass-North Mississippi Allstars)
Doyle Bramhall II
Billy Mackel
Billy Ray Cyrus

Left handed but they play guitar right handed:
David Byrne
The Everly Brothers
Steve Morse
Ric Emmit
Charo
Mark Knopfler
Paul Simon

And of course Hendrix played a right handed guitar.
I've also seen Steve Vai with a heart shaped double necked guitar with necks going opposite ways (ie. not normal double neck like Jimmy Page). Vai generated the sustained the notes with effects and then fretted on both necks with L &R hands

That should satisfy your Dad!

 

[Dave the OAP]

just take a picture from the net, get photoshop...invert it and hey presto

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Ziggy Stardust, does that count?

 

[cheeseroll]

take your pick from some of these, they may have picked up a guitar..

and dont forget august the 13th is international left handers day.


Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer
David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Glen Campbell
Vicki Carr
Natale Cole
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Phil Collins (Genesis)
Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
Dick Dale (guitarist)
Don Everly (The Everly Brothers)
Phil Everly (The Everly Brothers)
Bela Fleck, jazz musician
Glenn Frey (the Eagles)
Eric Gale, guitarist
Noel Gallagher (Oasis) (?)
Errol Garner, jazz pianist
Judy Garland
Crysal Gayle
Kevin Griffin, guitarist & lead singer (Better than Ezra)
Thomas Hedley, vocalist/musician
Jimi Hendrix
Isaac Hayes
Tony Iommi, guitarist (Black Sabbath)
Albert King, guitarist
Melissa Manchester
Chuck Mangione, trumpet
Martina McBride ?, country music singer
Paul McCartney (the Beatles; Wings)
Christie Marie Melonson (opera)
George Michael (Wham!)
Peter Nero, conductor
Joe Perry ? (Aerosmith)
Robert Plant (Led Zepplin)
Cole Porter, song-writer
Sergei Rachmaninoff ?, composer
Maurice Ravel ?, composer
Lou Rawls
John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols / Public Image Ltd.)
Rich Szabo, trumpeter
Seal
Ringo Starr (?) (the Beatles)
Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)
Tiny Tim
Rudy Valee
Lenny White, drummer
Paul Williams, song-writer

 

[South Yarra Seagull]

The long summer evening must be flying by.....