Danny......."synchronized guitar moves" you mean banging head stocks while doing choreography? Just kidding.....yeah i play next to a rightie in another group that i work with and we have a problem sometimes if we're on a small stage and i gotta play sideways, or avoid him somehow, or i get "stink eye" cause he's the lead guy. I'm tripping a little cause there's only two guys here that play lefty? I thought there would be more....and there probably are, but they're just not speaking up. I was being interviewed by a San Francisco paper at a gig once and the writer wanted to get a shot of me with a guitar but i didn't have one (i was drumming on that gig) so i borrowed a guitar but it was right handed so i "posed" (and what a poser i am!!) for the photo holding the guitar right handed playing a G chord and asked him if he could, and would, turn the negative over so it would look like i was playing left handed..."yeah, sure i'll do that for ya" and i didn't think he would, but he did, and when the article came out, there i was playing the guitar left handed!! I was really happy he did that!!
Surfabilly.....my brain is diminished so.....but i was sought after too in Little league for first base dutties and relief pitching for the Ben Lomand Yankees in the Santa Cruz hills. I think people that are ambidextrous are pretty cool.

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Of course i LOVE that photo!!! AND he's a much better "poser" but i'm having a hell of a time trying to figure out that chord he's.....playing? That looks like a Gibson 'Hummingbird"? NICE. I also loved that movie. Davie Allan's "Theme From The Wild Angels" was one of my favorite songs then and Bruce Dern was fantastic too! THANKS --fd.
R.

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nah, i don't think so Danny. I'm sitting here w / my guitar and.....i don't think he's playin anything!! but......if he moved up a couple frets it would look like my open G chord. I think he's showing off for Nancy......and who wouldn't!! In the TO's i stand to the right of our bass player who's a rightie and we don't crash bash gnash or clash but if i'm on the left of a rightie in close quarters......well, it's war!! Ballgame's on.....see ya.

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Here's my Blondie:

I'm a righty but learned alot growing up watching Ron play upside down and surf with the wrong foot forward, dislexia would have come in handy for the guitar part.

Rick

I'm a lefty, but due to a broken right arm (can't reach around to fret) I play guitar right handed. I drum left handed and set up left handed. I have never played out on drums and always wonder if it's that much of a pain to switch a small kit around when using a backline.
When I stared to play, I was told by drummers to just learn the "normal" way meaning right handed. But I could instantly play much better left handed and had to work at playing right handed. I still play left-handed air guitar!

Aloha Southpaws and the idle curious.
A few years since anybody has checked this thread, I don't know
How I missed it! Here I go rambling...

I talked to Ron Rhoads on Kauai a few years ago, I still look
forward to meeting him. My friends on his island moved to my island Hawaii.
I haven't been back to Kauai since.
So, two Lefty Surf Guitarists moved to Hawaii! Good move.
Jimi Hendrix loved hawaii, he recorded an instrumental from his experience here,
it's called "Pali Gap" (a mountain feature). Curiously, it begins with a Beautiful Pipelinesque Glissando. I'm going to add this song to
our song list! In fact, he did a movie on Maui, called Rainbow Bridge,
recorded at a concert IN the Pali Gap.It had several references to surfing,
like a guy arrives on the island with a surfboard and they cut it open and it's made from hashish.
My left-handed mentors/influences, Dick Dale, Jimi Hendrix and Albert King.
Of course, Dick Dale was my first.
I did not have my own guitar, a man at my church loaned me his guitar when he found out I wanted to learn. This was 1961 or so. I was around 13 years old. Of course I couldn't reverse the strings on someone elses guitar. I just picked it up and started learning by myself, held it left-handed, and
took off. I didn;t realize it wasn;t like everybody else. Easy. Fireside Beach Guitar. La Bamba, Maleguena, Kumbaya, Green Onions, then I heard SURF! Wild Weekend, Walk Don't Run, Pipeline.
There was no turning back!
Notes on some previous posts:
Peter Fonda - it looks about like I play an Em. Two fingers are in the right area, just below the third dot. the easiest and pettiest chord, two.
But, you've gotta remember, he could be just acting! Now I gotta go watch the movie to see if he's really playing. Davie Allen had the corner on the Biker Movie Market. I'll report back. It's twelve-string too!
Ron Rhoads - great story about flipping the negative! have you found that article on line?
Danny Snyder - his thumb is resting in the D7 area. Spud, you got it!
B-Zilla - I finally own a real left handed guitar! it's like starting over! Very difficult, so far.
BlazinSaddle - Beautiful guitar!
Rick Rhoads - Is that Danny's foot on your guitar? That photo is priceless.
it is totally PUNK, naturally. especially the devil's horns.

Well, I'm off to go watch "The Wild Angels".....again.

Mr. Backwards

"To do, is to be" Aristotle ~ "To be, is to do" Socrates ~ "Doobie, doobie- doo" Sinatra

Good advice. the rhythm is strongest in the left hand.

"To do, is to be" Aristotle ~ "To be, is to do" Socrates ~ "Doobie, doobie- doo" Sinatra