.Ernie Isley

That's not true, he could play a guitar either strung right or left handed, but he never played guitar right handed.

Ernie Isley is ambidextrous .

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Tony Houston

I thought that Jimi not reading/writing music was pretty much common knowledge. I'm surprised that anyone would even be slightly surprised by that. Reading music has nothing to do with someone's musical abililty. A good storyteller could be illiterate.

As far as Jimi's middle name goes, I'm pretty sure that an early issue of Guitar Player magazine reported that his middle name was Maurice. I suspect that was a mistake but who knows.

I've read that he could play both left and right handed, that his father believed being left-handed was the devils work, so young Jimi would get a hell of a beating if his father caught him playing leftie, therefore Jimi learned to immediately flip the guitar and keep playing when he heard the door

But you know, if he did once, a book will make it sound like common practice

i did not know this. thanks!

Yeah, some author wrote that, but his dad did try to Jimi to play right-handed, one reason was that they weren't many left-handed guitars. Jimi was naturally left-handed and preferred to play that way (pg 38 of Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy http://tinyurl.com/kkkctp).

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Tony Houston

I think most left-handed guitarists learn to a play a right-handed guitar upside down at least to a small degree. Think about it. If you are left-handed and you pick up someone else's guitar, chances are it will be a right-handed guitar. Are you going to put it down or will you hang in there and work out a few chords?

What book was that, because the author was wrong. Jimi was fired many, many, times because he would be late (missing the bus), not have a guitar, from pawning it and hoping that the others would get it out of pawn, too loud, but he did hate band uniforms.

Please, I'm not disputing what you wrote, or claim that I know everything about Jimi, but I've collected Hendix 'stuff' for many years. I have just about every book on Jimi, I also have an extensive reference folder given to me by the late Tony Brown http://tinyurl.com/lxbugg

I did spend about 30mins talking to Jimi's father Al Hendrix back '90. I've had several conversations with Billy Cox. Mitch Mitchell talked quite abit about Jimi to me when he was on tour with Ramatam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramatam.

And I know Eddie Karmer

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Tony Houston

Here's another one, Jimi invited Larry Coryell to play on Voodoo Chile, Coryell refused. He told me that he felt that he didn't anything to add at that time.

Me & Larry


I have a bootleg of the Voodoo Chile sessions, Jimi, Stevie, Mitch and Jack Casady did five takes, the last take served as the 'master track'.

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Tony Houston

Yeah, I also have 'Electric Gypsy', I've never met the author Caesar Glebbeek but I've exchanged emails with him about Jimi. Glebbeek publishes a magazine on Jimi UniVibes http://www.univibes.com/.

Cornell Dupree played with Jimi in King Curtis' band and he talks about Jimi's lack of discipline in his instructional book/CD 'Rhythm and Blues Guitar' http://tinyurl.com/ldy43k, this is a great book for learning R&B guitar.

There is a site that traces Jimi early career 'EarlyHendrix' http://www.earlyhendrix.com/timeline.html.

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Tony Houston

Ooops right ... I was probably thinking of Little Richard. In checking some histories, it seems that Jimi played with a modest number of people back at the time, but JB was not one of them.

Yngwie Malmsteen could not read music too, but look at his guitar work, it will be pretty complicated to learn his solo through music notes

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Chet,thanks I did'nt really think about Jimi and reading or writing music, but, the late Louis Prima has a line in one of his songs "I can read music but not enough to hurt me none", I always thought that explained the idea from a musicians point of view.

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