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Post by beatled on Oct 12, 2005 22:30:49 GMT
Anyone notice something odd about the cover? http://*banned link*/Shoebox/Rolling_Stone_10_20_05/RScover.jpg[/img] OK, I don't know much about guitars, but a left handed guitar is supposed to look like the ones depicted here, correct? (going by the placement of the pick guard) One other thing, the blackbird makes an appearance.. http://*banned link*/Shoebox/Rolling_Stone_10_20_05/RS_Blackbird.jpg[/img]
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Post by AuroraLucy on Oct 12, 2005 23:59:11 GMT
That guitar is a left-handed guitar, I believe. You can't always go by the placement of the pick guard, but looking at the alignment of the strings, they go in the right order, from high E on the bottom to low E on the top. The guitar was a right-handed guitar to begin with, but it looks like it was converted to a left-handed one.
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Post by Perplexed on Oct 13, 2005 0:07:20 GMT
That guitar is a left-handed guitar, I believe. You can't always go by the placement of the pick guard, but looking at the alignment of the strings, they go in the right order, from high E on the bottom to low E on the top. The guitar was a right-handed guitar to begin with, but it looks like it was converted to a left-handed one. Which is exactly the arrangement that JPM used with when he learned the guitar in the first place. I think.
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Post by defhermit on Oct 13, 2005 0:42:19 GMT
that is a right handed guitar strung upside down... most left-handed players do that because there are a whole hell of a lot more guitars designed for righties than for lefties... nothing unusual about that at all... don't bother saying "he can afford a left-handed one", it's not about that... guitar players pick up all kinds of guitars and experiment with ones they like, finally settling on ones they like... why would left-handers deprive themselves of the vast majority of guitars out there when they can just restring the righties upside down? the pick guard is just there so you don't scratch the finish below the strings, and millionaires like Faul can just buy 10 of each guitar they want and not worry about the scratches...
is that an aerosmith logo on the guitar under his arm?
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Post by byrdsmaniac on Oct 13, 2005 1:36:21 GMT
I think it's supposed to be a "wings" emblem in this case. ;D
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Post by beatled on Oct 13, 2005 1:42:53 GMT
That's the Detroit Red Wings logo, as I found out from someone at Nothing Is Real.
Perplexed is correct, that was the way JPM managed his left handed issues in the early days. In a thread at the official Bill forum, someone noted he used a right handed acoustic in concert, and felt that it was the same one from one of the Sullivan appearances.
I get what you're saying about availablility of right handed guitars vs. left handed, and I may be forced to recant this statement, but I don't think Bill appears too often in publicity stills with a right handed guitar, so at the very least it's unusual. As a matter of fact, when it does happen, the folks here and at Nothing Is Real all all ever it, witness the stills from the Anthology video with the right handed guitar, and all the discussion that it generated.
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Post by defhermit on Oct 13, 2005 2:21:13 GMT
I don't care how much discussion it generated, it doesn't make it more unusual... it's not unusual at all. Jimi Hendrix did it, Kurt Cobain did it. Every left handed guitar player I can think of does/did it.
That post sounds ruder than I meant it to be.
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Post by defhermit on Oct 13, 2005 2:23:36 GMT
OH yeah, wings... duh.... although it does look a lot like a detroit red wings logo too... can anyone confirm which it is? I'm sure if it's a red wings logo it's there because of it's similarity to the wings logo...
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Post by beatled on Oct 13, 2005 2:29:05 GMT
I don't care how much discussion it generated, it doesn't make it more unusual... it's not unusual at all. Jimi Hendrix did it, Kurt Cobain did it. Every left handed guitar player I can think of does/did it. That post sounds ruder than I meant it to be. Heh, well there is the modify button. Shouldn't the point be whether Bill does it?
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Post by defhermit on Oct 13, 2005 2:35:40 GMT
<looks at the pic above>
Yeah, yeah he does!
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Post by byrdsmaniac on Oct 13, 2005 4:25:25 GMT
But what's odd about the cover are the words "MUST BLEED" next to Bill's head. Since I have not one, but two copies of said issue (and haven't had time to read even one yet), I know that those words are part of a headline for another article, but still, was the lay-out person drinking that day? Or is this some sort of subliminal programming? We report; you decide.
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Post by TheDZ on Oct 13, 2005 5:33:46 GMT
Didn't Bill have a right handed Martin in India/1968? Maybe this is the same one.. It is relatively common for lefties to restring righty guitars.. Martin made few or no left handed in the old days AFAIK.. Good Martin guitars are highly prized, strung either way.. btw that scan was from a 1984 video booklet with a blurb about Bill's videos yes offtopic, but there ya go..
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Post by plastic paul on Oct 13, 2005 11:53:09 GMT
I've noticed on the Rolling Stone Cover it says about Faul "and nothing left to prove"
HA HA, they can't get rid of us that easily.
Plus "Rape, Murder and Mutilation"
Well I haven't heard the story that JPM was raped, but the rest sounds like the story as we know it!
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