Why does he string his bass upside-down?
Why does he string his bass upside-down?
Some lefty players do that for various reasons. One being, you can always grab a righty guitar/bass and just flip it over. Jimmy Haslip (ex-Yellowjackets) does the same.
^^As does Mono Neon, of Ghost Note, and he is an absolute monster.
neil
Ive seen this before, but didnt notice the strings... cool, but yeah, seems like a lot of extra practice required.
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So nobody else will touch his bass!
If I were to guess, as a lefty he simply learned to play by flipping over a right handed instrument. Since that's how he learned, he now strings his lefty instruments that way. But that just my guess, I have no idea. I've never seen anyone else do this.
Bill
Yeah, we actually discussed this a little bit when Dick Dale died.
I thought he does it to be "more prog".
He should have made it easy on himself and learned to play in standard position. I'll never understand why so many left-handed guitarists/bassists think they need to use a backwards instrument. Other instrumentalists don't do that. Lefty violinists don't bow with the left hand; there are no backwards pianos or saxophones with reversed keywork for southpaws. There's no particular advantage in having your dominant hand doing the picking and your weak hand doing the fretting. Some even think that if anything, it should be the other way around--that certainly worked out for Mr. Fripp and Mr. Wetton, both lefties.
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Turns out there actually are left-handed violins, and at least one left-handed saxophone and a left-handed piano.
But I take your point.![]()
Its interesting because it shows that you can play great bass lines and achieve the same result with the strings the other way around. When I first saw Lee with Wakeman years ago I was amazed by this. I still struggle to play it the right way up!
This Danish jazz-blues guitarist Uffe Steen is a lefty with the strings mounted 'upside down'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov5P4XIXY3w
Lee is an awesome musician. He played with Hackett for several tours as the “Michael Rutherford,’ playing lots of 12/4 double-check. His version of "The Fish" on the first ARW tourwasingenius. He used his Kemper Profiler to loop/overdub each bass part just like the album version. Does he play in any bands playing original music?
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He was in the John Mitchell version of It Bites. I don't know much about them, he might have been with them earlier?
When here with Three Friends, he took the 64 Precision I had, said "no problem", flipped it around, and played the gig
With ELO
Does everyone realise Lee is the long time bass player in Take That?
He played at the Queens 92nd birthday party too!
Dave Sr.
I prefer Nature to Human Nature
He is also in the band Headspace With Damian Wilson they have had 2 albums on the inside out label. I have seen Lee many times in small venues with bands like it bites and also with Jem Godfrey of Frost, so it’s always amusing when he appears on mainstream tv with take that or ELO (which happens often In the uk). My wife is well tired of my ‘I saw him when’ comments.
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