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Left-Handed
Guitar Players
&
Drummers
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Left-handed people play guitar or
electric bass in one of three ways:
(1) Play a right-handed guitar right-handed. (eg. Chris Rea)
(2) Play a true left-handed instrument or a right-handed instrument that
has been altered to play left-handed. (eg. Tony Iommi)
(3) Turn a right-handed guitar upside down, pick with the left hand, but
leave the strings as they were - which makes them reversed from the normal
order for a left-handed player. (eg. Gus Isidore)
Any style of picking with the left hand (flatpicking or fingerstyle guitar)
is considered playing left-handed.
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GUITAR
PLAYERS
JIMI HENDRIX: American
guitarist, singer and songwriter; considered one of the greatest and most
influential guitarists in rock music history.After initial success in
Europe, he achieved fame in the USA following his 1967 performance at
the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock
Festival.
AL McKAY:
American
guitarist; winner of 5 Grammy Awards and multi-platinum songwriter, veteran
session player, sideman on stage and studio with Earth, Wind & Fire,
Tina Turner, The Emotions, Deniece Williams, many
more
and his own Alstar Band.
ALAIN PEWZNER:
French lefty guitarist-arranger-producer and co-founder of the seminal
French pop group Martin Circus.
ALBERT KING: American blues guitarist and singer; one of the "Three
Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with B.B. King and Freddie King),
he stood at least 6' 4", weighed in at least 260 lbs and was known
as "The Velvet Bulldozer".
BABYFACE:
aka Kenneth Brian Edmonds, American R&B and pop singer, songwriter,
guitarist, keyboardist, record producer, film producer, and entrepreneur.
BARBARA
LYNN:
American rare female lefty, has toured with such soul music greats as
Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Dionne Warwick, Jackie
Wilson, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, James Brown, Al Green, Carla Thomas,
Marvin Gaye, Ike and Tina Turner, The Temptations, and B.B. King.
BILLY RAY CYRUS:
American country singer-songwriter, musician and actor;
A multi-platinum selling recording artist
best known for his hit single "Achy Breaky Heart".
BOB GELDOF:
Irish singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and political activist; came
to fame in 1978 with The Boomtown Rats band having their first No. 1 in
the UK with "Rat Trap", which was the first New Wave chart-topper
in that country.
CALOGERO MAURICI:
French lead singer, bass guitarist and song-writer for the band Les Charts,
then embarked on a solo career in year 2000. His moving lyrics and frail,
tender voice have made him one of France's top pop/rock singers.
CESAR
ROSAS: Mexican singer, songwriter and guitarist for Los Lobos.
He also participates in the Latin supergroup Los Super Seven, and has
a successful solo career with the release of his debut album Soul Disguise.
CHARLES WRIGHT: American guitarist has spent his
life making music, famous for his Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd
Street Rhythm Band, the pioneering American soul and funk band.
CHRIS REA: British singer-songwriter and guitarist, a left
hander, but learnt to play with his right hand, instantly recognisable
for his distinctive, raspy voice. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide.
DAVID
COOK: American
lead singer-songwriter and guitarist of the band Axium from 1999 until
2006. On May 21st 2008, he won the seventh season of the reality television
show American Idol.
DICK DALE:
Lebanon guitarist Dick Dale of The Del-Tones is a player of surf rock.
He experimented with reverberation and made use of specially custom made
Fender amplifiers, including the first ever 100 watt amp.
DJAMEL LAROUSSID:
Algerian guitarist & world-music phenomenon who excels at combining
his Arab-Kabyl roots with an in-depth understanding of Western sounds
ranging from jazz and rock to Latin rhythms.
EDDY CLEARWATER:
aka
The Cheif, American upside-down lefty on the Chicago blues scene with
country blues, rock 'n' roll and high energy music, nominated for a Grammy
Award with Los Straitjackets for their collaboration, Rock 'N' Roll City.
ELLIOT
EASTON:
US lead guitarist and sang background vocals for The Cars, played with
the Creedence Clearwater Revisited band, released a solo album and is
presently a member of The New Cars.
GRAHAM
RUSSELL:
British guitarist and vocalist
with
the soft rock duo Air
Supply who had a succession of hits worldwide through the late 1970s and
early 1980s.
GUS ISIDORE: British composer, songriter and lefty upside down
guitar player; has strummed his fretboard for the likes of Mark Bolan,
Seal, Peter Green, Peter Gabriel, Phil Lynott
amongst
many others in his long career. His
many composing and songwriting credits include co-writing the Seal 2 Album.
JEFFREY STEELE:
US lead singer and bass guitarist in the country music band Boy Howdy
before his very successful solo career. Named Songwriter of the Year by
the BMI and twice by the Nashville Songwriters Association International.
KRIS ROE:
American singer, guitarist and songwriter in the alternative rock band
The Ataris, known for playing an upside-down, right-handed guitar.
KURT COBAIN: American musician, best known for his
roles as lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the Seattle-based
rock band Nirvana.
LEFTY DIZZ: American guitarist fronting his band, Shock Treatment,
playing and singing with an unbridled enthusiasm, perhaps
the most flamboyant
blues man.
NICK BOWCOTT: UK guitarist, he founded the Grim Reaper
in 1979,
a British heavy metal band from the NWOBHM style and era, still going
strong today.
OLLIE HALSALL: One of Britian's most under-rated
guitarists, with
incredable virtuosity, inventor
of the fluid 4-finger 'hammer-on' runs taken up by everyone today.
Best known for his role in the bands Patto
and Boxer, and for his work with Kevin Ayers. If
the world made any sense he would have been up there with the guitar heroes.
OTIS RUSH: Influencual US blues
guitarist
and singer; his distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound,
jazz-style arpeggios and long bent notes.
PAUL McCARTNEY: Grammy Award-winning English rock singer, songwriter
and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the
founding members of The Beatles.
SLIM WHITMAN: American country singer, guitarist
and songwriter;
one of the best-selling and most influential artists in country music
history and yet at the same time is one of the most unrecognized by the
American public at large.
TIM ARMSTRONG: American
guitarist and songwriter best known for his work with punk rock bands
Rancid, Operation Ivy, and Transplants. He is also the owner and operator
of Hellcat Records.
TINY TIM: American singer, ukulele player,
and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of “Tiptoe
Through The Tulips” sung in his distinctive high falsetto / vibrato
voice.
TONY IOMMI: British guitarist best known for his tenure
in the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He is the only person to have remained
in Black Sabbath throughout the band's entire lifespan.
WILLIE DUNCAN: British leftie played
in bands such as Claymore, Duncan-Smith and the Machine, Duncan Ford Band,
and Buzzard, before joining the German band The Spider Murphy Gang.
YOMO TORO: Latin guitarist and one of Puerto Rico's most famous
cuatro players; probably best known for performing the opening theme song
to the 1971 Woody Allen film Bananas, and various Willie Colón
and Héctor Lavoe's albums.
ZACKY VENGEANCE: US guitarist, co-founder of the hard rock band
Avenged Sevenfold , started as rhythm guitarist but now a featured guitarist
along side 1st guitarist Synyster
Gates.
He learnt on his dad's guitar which he played upside-down.
DRUMMERS
AL SOBRANTE: also known as
John Kiffmeyer, American drummer and founder member of the punk rock band
Green Day.
BUN E. CARLOS: US drummer for American rock
band Cheap Trick, he alternates between left-handed and right-handed playing.
CARTER BEAUFORD: American drummer, percussionist, and founding
member of the Dave Matthews Band (DMB). He is known for his ability to
mix together countless percussion styles with his ambidextrous approach
to playing.
DOMINIC HOWARD: UK
drummer for the English rock band Muse, inspired by drummers like Stewart
Copeland, Roger Taylor, Buddy Rich, Nick Mason, Tre Cool, Tim Alexander,
Dave Grohl, and many more.
FRAN CHRISTINA: US lefty who plays a right
handed drum kit.
A former member of Roomful of Blues, he
joined the Fabulous Thunderbirds in 1981 replacing original drummer Mike
Buck.
IAN PAICE: English drummer, made
his name with seminal heavy rock band Deep Purple. As of Jon Lord's departure
in 2002, he is the only founding member of the band still performing with
the group.
LENNY WHITE 3rd: American self-taught, left-handed
drummer on a right-handed kit, one of the forerunners of jazz-rock/funk.
MIKE
BORDIN: Scottish drummer; he was a co-founder of Faith No More
playing for the duration of the band's career and now plays with Ozzy
Osbourne.
PHIL COLLINS: UK musician best known as the lead singer and drummer
of progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy and Academy Award-winning
solo artist. He is also an actor, having starred in numerous films.
ROD MORGENSTEIN: US lefty, he has drummed with heavy metal band
Winger, the jazz fusion band Dixie Dregs, Fiona, Platypus and Jelly Jam,
he has also sessioned with many others including
Jordan Rudess.
ZACHARY HANSON: American drummer and youngest member in the band
Hanson with his brothers with Clarke Isaac and Jordan Taylor.
JUST
A 'BY THE WAY' ... CHARLIE CHAPLIN WAS A LEFTY VIOLIN PLAYER
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