You guys know he played his guitar upside down and under his bandana, he usually had 3 hits of acid (on his forehead).
LOL he didnt play his guitar upside down , he had a right handed guitar with the strings switched over because he was left handed
Sorry, but you're wrong. Hence the headstock being upside down.
Sorry but im not , the guitar is upside down with the strings flipped , he does not play the guitar upside down he plays an upside down guitar with the strings switched as he was a left handed palyer and there was not many left handed guitars about when he started playing
LOL he didnt play his guitar upside down , he had a right handed guitar with the strings switched over because he was left handed
Sorry, but you're wrong. Hence the headstock being upside down.
Sorry but im not , the guitar is upside down with the strings flipped , he does not play the guitar upside down he plays an upside down guitar with the strings switched as he was a left handed palyer and there was not many left handed guitars about when he started playing
Technically the guitar IS upside down whether it was restrung or not (and he could play a right-handed guitar strung for right-handed players, sort of like Mozart playing piano while on his back etc, obviously he couldn't play a fraction of what he could with a restrung rightie or native leftie).
EDIT: I bet he could play the guitar upside down and I think he even did it with his teeth (depending on how you define upside down), but afaik he never stood on his head playing guitar.
I never said the guitar wasnt upside down i originally corrected syco when he said he PLAYED the guitar upside down, people read before replying please
Because he PLAYED the guitar upside down FFS! AND switched the strings. You take a standard guitar (strat of course), turn it upside down and switch the strings upside down. Unlike, say, Kurt Cobain who didn't switch strings (or he used a lefty guitar)
So basically you're repeating what Syco already wrote (except the strings part).
And i quote you once again : "people read before replying please" - maybe you should comply to that?
I never said the guitar wasnt upside down i originally corrected syco when he said he PLAYED the guitar upside down, people read before replying please
He did, watch a documentary about him or rather, a biography. There's a channel for it. Called the BIOGRAPHY CHANNEL. And the hits of acid shit is true. Woodstock he was fucked outta his tree.
At the beginning, he wasn't into it all but when we started getting big and what not he started into drugs and by the height of his career, he was always trippin on acid...especially when he preformed.
As for the guitar thing, its already been said cuz its widly known he did. Ask anyone who listened to his music in the 60's (ala my dad and my uncle, WHO WENT TO WOODSTOCK) or anyone who's read or watched a biography of the man.
Why is it your always trying to correct me specifically, yet 9 times outta 10, your wrong? Wtf? I don't even know you, you hardly post except for when you TRY and correct me....do you think I pull shit outta the air? I'm not going to say something regarding say, a musician or history that I haven't seen or read about from a respectable source.
I dunno where you live, but you must not have libraries or decent television.
Fuck...
If your trying to copy AM, atleast AM is usually right cuz he's a smart dude...doesn't work for you tho.
he was always trippin on acid...especially when he preformed.
That's just a myth and a lie. I've been a Hendrix fan since my late teens (we're talking early 90'ies), I have two different biographies, tons of albums (I even managed to find 'Nine to the Universe' on original vinyl) and movies etc.
While the man did a lot of drugs (like most rock stars in the mid-late 60'ies) he didn't drop acid when going on stage. He may have smoked weed and stuff like that before a gig, but he wouldn't have been able to perform properly if he had dropped LSD, and he was very particular about his shows. He didn't need hallucinogens to perform outrageously awesome, that was his natural state when it came to performing.
I like many of Jimi's songs but "Purple Haze" and "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" are my faves. "Hey, Joe" and "All Along The Watchtower" are also excellent but they're cover songs - different category.
Jeez cant u people understand something simple , playing a guitar upside down is different to playing a guitar turned upside down and the strings inverted , he did not just flip a guitar upside down and play it , he flipped it over inverted the stings making it a left handed guitar , yes the guitar is phsyically upside down but the stings are not when he inverted them, he did not play his guitar upside down, only the body was.
"Hendrix used right-handed guitars, turned upside-down for left-hand playing, and re-strung so that the heavier strings were in their standard position at the top of the neck."
Toby.. man.. we've already reached the conclusion that we've all been saying the same thing (well, except for yourself). The guy played rightie guitars turned upside down and restrung, he played leftie guitars, strung normally and sometimes he played rightie guitars upside down that weren't restrung (difficult to restring a guitar while you're backstage and borrow someone else's guitar).
If that aint clear to you then i cant help you anymore , and syco, i dont pick your posts to correct you " 9 times out of ten " just this one, so as you said " you dont know me " so i dont know why u had to resort to flaming me when i didnt flame you , was just correcting a mistake you made YA KNOW?
o dear god , i give up , carry on thinking what u like , i tried my best
Lol, dimwit. Didn't you see that I agree with you? That your explanation is true? The only reason I said "(well, except for yourself)" is because you go on argue a point we already knew is right since page 1. You're fighting windmills man.
Tobycoaster - so Jimi had two "E" bass strings, eh? If you really want to prove something, at least pay attention. Difference between "e" and "E" is big enough. Especially when you are trying to tell someone that he is wrong.
he was always trippin on acid...especially when he preformed.
That's just a myth and a lie. I've been a Hendrix fan since my late teens (we're talking early 90'ies), I have two different biographies, tons of albums (I even managed to find 'Nine to the Universe' on original vinyl) and movies etc.
While the man did a lot of drugs (like most rock stars in the mid-late 60'ies) he didn't drop acid when going on stage. He may have smoked weed and stuff like that before a gig, but he wouldn't have been able to perform properly if he had dropped LSD, and he was very particular about his shows. He didn't need hallucinogens to perform outrageously awesome, that was his natural state when it came to performing.
I'm not debating this with you. During is preformance at woodstock, he was on acid while preforming. Watch or read a documentary...simple.
Tobycoaster - so Jimi had two "E" bass strings, eh? If you really want to prove something, at least pay attention. Difference between "e" and "E" is big enough. Especially when you are trying to tell someone that he is wrong.
nevermind...he'd rather look on Wiki than read a historical bio or watch a bio of the man....give up on him...I have
I'm not debating this with you. During is preformance at woodstock, he was on acid while preforming. Watch or read a documentary...simple.
The only known gig where Hendrix was wasted on acid was in Madison Square Garden January 28, 1970.
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The second and final Band of Gypsys appearance occurred on (January 28, 1970) at a twelve-act show in Madison Square Garden a benefit for the massively popular anti Vietnam war Moratorium Committee, titled the "Winter Festival for Peace". Similar to Woodstock, set delays forced Hendrix to take the stage at an inopportune 3 a.m., only this time he was obviously in no shape to play. He played a dismal rendition of "Who Knows" before snapping a vulgar response at a woman who shouted a request for "Foxy Lady". He lasted halfway through a second song, then simply stopped playing, telling the audience: "That's what happens when earth fucks with space—never forget that". He then sat down on the drum riser for a minute and then walked off stage. Various unverifiable assertions have been proffered to explain this bizarre scene. Buddy Miles claimed that manager Michael Jeffery dosed Hendrix with LSD in an effort to sabotage the current band and bring about the return of the Experience lineup
Buddy Miles was Hendrix' bass player that he'd known a long time before he went to England (they met while in the army).
You see, at Woodstock Hendrix had no problems playing (except the whole band was freezing their asses off before finally entering the stage early in the morning to close the festival), and you just can't play while tripping on acid. I've been a Hendrix nut for nearly 20 years now, and the guy did a lot of drugs, but when he had a performance ahead of him he pretty much stuck with smoking a joint and/or having some beer/wine. The performance would suffer too much if he was totally wasted or spaced out.
The intro is just amazing. When I learned how to play this song I realized my left hand just wasn't big enough to play everything Jimi-style (ie. use thumb as another picking finger during full-bar playing).
I'm not debating this with you. During is preformance at woodstock, he was on acid while preforming. Watch or read a documentary...simple.
The only known gig where Hendrix was wasted on acid was in Madison Square Garden January 28, 1970.
Quote:
The second and final Band of Gypsys appearance occurred on (January 28, 1970) at a twelve-act show in Madison Square Garden a benefit for the massively popular anti Vietnam war Moratorium Committee, titled the "Winter Festival for Peace". Similar to Woodstock, set delays forced Hendrix to take the stage at an inopportune 3 a.m., only this time he was obviously in no shape to play. He played a dismal rendition of "Who Knows" before snapping a vulgar response at a woman who shouted a request for "Foxy Lady". He lasted halfway through a second song, then simply stopped playing, telling the audience: "That's what happens when earth fucks with space—never forget that". He then sat down on the drum riser for a minute and then walked off stage. Various unverifiable assertions have been proffered to explain this bizarre scene. Buddy Miles claimed that manager Michael Jeffery dosed Hendrix with LSD in an effort to sabotage the current band and bring about the return of the Experience lineup
Buddy Miles was Hendrix' bass player that he'd known a long time before he went to England (they met while in the army).
You see, at Woodstock Hendrix had no problems playing (except the whole band was freezing their asses off before finally entering the stage early in the morning to close the festival), and you just can't play while tripping on acid. I've been a Hendrix nut for nearly 20 years now, and the guy did a lot of drugs, but when he had a performance ahead of him he pretty much stuck with smoking a joint and/or having some beer/wine. The performance would suffer too much if he was totally wasted or spaced out.
Yes, once, and he played one and a half songs before he had to quit.
It's not so much the specifics I'm arguing about, it's the perpetuating myth that Jimi lived on acid when performing:
sycoshaman wrote:
under his bandana, he usually had 3 hits of acid (on his forehead).
It's not that it was bad of him to do acid (hey, people have their preferred ways of recreation), it's just that I know it's basically impossible to perform while totally zonked out since it takes so much focus and clarity to do a performance at the level he was at.
Yes, once, and he played one and a half songs before he had to quit.
It's not so much the specifics I'm arguing about, it's the perpetuating myth that Jimi lived on acid when performing:
sycoshaman wrote:
under his bandana, he usually had 3 hits of acid (on his forehead).
It's not that it was bad of him to do acid (hey, people have their preferred ways of recreation), it's just that I know it's basically impossible to perform while totally zonked out since it takes so much focus and clarity to do a performance at the level he was at.
Dude, I know guitarists who are awesome (not Hendrix awesome obviously, he's one of the greatest) who play on acid or shrooms all the time. They say it lets them "feel" the music.
And again, I was just relaying what I saw in a bio and read in a bio. Could be wrong, dunno, but thats what I saw and read and it was official/legit stuff (not some amateur stuff u know?)
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