Talk:Early life of Jimi Hendrix

Should this article be merged with "Jimi Hendrix" perhaps? It seems too short and specific to be an article in it's own right.

Agreed, this article is kinda pointless.

idk, it could be of better organization, as the jimi hendrix article is long enough, right?

I put in a move proposal. -Violask81976 02:21, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge Pointless in its own right. And if relevant, the stuff should in the main article.--HJensen, talk 07:52, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Was Jimi Hendrix playing a right handed guitar up side down
I am a lefty - play a guitar left handed. Most because that is what felt best when I first picked it up. I have always wondered about other left handed player, Hendrix and Paul McCartney are the two most famous, yes you could add Kurt Cobain but he was not half the talent of Jim.

I have a theory about Hendrix. He was able to play a guitar any way he wanted. A right handed guitar upside down, which I've done more then once but not well, and a guitar re-strung properly for left handed player. I've looked at old footage, and in one where he is with the Rolling Stone in a dressing room he is fooling around with a guitar - upside down. Not really playing it. But in a video of Purple Haze you can clearly see he is playing a re-strung guitar.


 * Jimi played a right-hand guitar, but restrung (lower E at the top). I read that he liked playing a right-hand Strat because he then had the knobs and whammy above the strings, which he felt more natural. Also, by restringing, he unintentionally (according to manufatures of Strats) created a unique sound as the pick-ups were asymemetrically built. I.e., the part intented to pick the high E now picked up a low E and vice versa. I'll check for the source.--HJensen, talk 07:52, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Anyone care to comment?

Some of this information is wrong
Particularly the information about his first guitar. The liner notes for The Essential Jimi Hendrix, held in front of me, states that his father traded in a sax to buy him his first acoustic guitar. I added this to the main article, not noticing the Main article link. The liner notes also have a couple other points where this article is inconsistant. What to do? -Violask81976 21:47, 25 July 2007 (UTC)