I think he also hated the sharp jagged headstocks on those Charvels, Jacksons and B.C. He was doing it strictly for image, and that’s one thing my old guitar teacher hated about it. wasn’t doing it to gain any string-bending advantage. It wasn’t always players with the calibre of Oliva playing these hockey sticks. Incidentally, the character of McCracken inspired Marvel’s Wolverine.
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Hook” McCracken from the movie Slap Shot. When those young righties grew up and signed to big labels themselves, they popularized the flipped headstock for righties - the “hockey stick” neck! You can see it, can’t you? Look at this photo below, of Criss Oliva from the band Savatage, and Tim “Dr. With tuning pegs facing down, young righties were envious of this cool new look. The iconic image of Jimi playing the upside down Strat became world famous. This arrangement also had the effect of making Jimi look even cooler. Since the high E was shorter it didn’t have to be as tight, and this made it easier to bend.
The long strings - the highest - were now the shortest strings. In this new orientation, the strings were now over the pickups in unusual locations, and had different tension than intended. He simply flipped a right-handed Fender Stratocaster over, restrung it for a lefty, and played it.įlipping the guitar not only enabled Jimi to play a Strat, but also gave him some unique advantages in his quest for new sounds.
Ned Flanders’ Leftorium store was still decades in the future, so what was a young Jimi to do? Like many things in his life, he got inventive. In the 1960s, it was difficult for Hendrix to find good guitars for a lefty like him. Though Jimi Hendrix is responsible for the invention of the “hockey stick” guitar, it was my old guitar instructor Gary Mertz who coined the phrase.
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