Guitar Dudes (and Dudesses, because why not?)

Murrmurr

Murrmurr

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It's impossible to play Misirlou exactly the way Dick Dale did in 1963 unless you are exceptionally well-practiced at playing your guitar upside down without changing the order of the strings, so that the E string is on top, and so on. Dick Dale was left-handed, so he just flipped his first guitar over, left the strings where they were, and learned to play it that way.

 

Aunt Marg said:
Are you familiar with Tommy Emmanuel, Mur?

I just love his version of Classical gas originally played by Mason Williams.

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I don't think I've ever heard him play (until your video) but I remember he was close to Chet Atkins toward the end of Atkins' life, I think. They recorded something together, which I believe was Chet Atkins' last recording. I remember watching an interview about it some years ago.
 
Murrmurr said:
What prompted me to start this thread was finding some CDs that I haven't seen in years, Pink Floyd's Dark Side, Best of Dick Dale, and Santana's Guitar Heaven.
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I have a modernized turntable that I forgot to have my handyman put out for me so I could listen to some of my old albums I have stashed in a closet. Been wanting to listen to some old Quicksilver Messenger Service, Beatles, and Boz Scaggs. I miss hearing them!
 
Murrmurr said:
It's impossible to play Misirlou exactly the way Dick Dale did in 1963 unless you are exceptionally well-practiced at playing your guitar upside down without changing the order of the strings, so that the E string is on top, and so on. Dick Dale was left-handed, so he just flipped his first guitar over, left the strings where they were, and learned to play it that way.
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Jimi Hendrix could play superb that way. He also played left handed with the normal order.


Rolling Stone names Hendrix best guitarist ever
 
Murrmurr said:
It's impossible to play Misirlou exactly the way Dick Dale did in 1963 unless you are exceptionally well-practiced at playing your guitar upside down without changing the order of the strings, so that the E string is on top, and so on. Dick Dale was left-handed, so he just flipped his first guitar over, left the strings where they were, and learned to play it that way.

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I think Dick Dale used an open tuning so he could play chords, but yeah, he kept it strung like a right-handed guitar, as did Otis Rush, Albert King, and a few other blues guitarists of the '50s and '60s.
 
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