Maybe being a rockstar is the dream of some teenagers today. How not, a rock star charm can make many women crazy. Moreover, a guitarist. Charisma of a guitarist is not lost with the vocalist in a band. Not even a little in a band, frontman position held by the guitar player, not a singer.
This of course makes the position of the guitar players have always payed more. However, what about the left-handed guitarist? It seems this has become a unique. 'Excess' is increasingly adding exotic guitar player. Anyone curious about the world guitarist who plays the guitar in 'reverse' is? Check out the following review.
1. Kurt Cobain
Yes, of course. Kurt Cobain. Nirvana frontman's band play the guitar like no other guitarist in general. He plays guitar with his right hand fingers and plays his guitar distortion tones with the left hand.
Together Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, Kurt is able to electrify the world through song Smells Like Teen Spirit is legendary. Unfortunately Kurt had to end his own life at a young age. Wonderful memory of the left-handed guitarist will never be forgotten.
2. Albert King
Blues guitar playing of music is always alluring. Moreover, if the play is a left-handed guitarist. Certainly will increasingly make eye flabbergasted made. Albert King is one of them. Interestingly he did not use a special guitar left-handed guitarist. It uses the guitar in general and just behind it when using it.
The man who died at the age of 69 years is so respected by Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Besides, he also has aligned between music R & B and blues. 'King' is known to have a strong soul blues style music city of Memphis. He also was the first blues guitarist who performed at the legendary venue Fillmore West in 1968.
3. Toni Iommi
Toni Iommi is the guitarist for the band Black Sabbath. He is known as the guitarist who managed to find a pattern guitar for heavy-metal music. Maestro is capable of finding a dark guitar, an unusual pattern and mixed with a typical solo guitar tone blues.
Heavy metal music always seem difficult to play. This musical relied guitarist finger speed. Study it with the left hand alone is difficult, how Iommi managed to find it with your right hand?
4. Jimi Hendrix
Rock music is complete. Loud music that can be generated with the perfect mix between all the instruments in the band. But others argue Jimi Hendrix.
often playing as a one man show, Hendrix was able to create the feel of a rock just his guitar playing. Basically the key is to mix Hendrix Wild beat the blues riffs that always neat of jazz music, and the result was outstanding. And it should be noted that a man born in Seatlle, Washington is also one of the left-handed guitarist.
5. Tim Armstrong
Some punk musicians successfully mixing different styles of music. One of them is Tim Armstrong. Frontman famous punk, Rancid has also managed to be the center of many other punk musicians in the world.
Making the Ramones as musical benchmarks, this versatile musician has managed to blend ska, punk, hardcore, hip-hop up into his music. Although not too great in terms of guitar playing skill, in fact, Armstrong also made it into the ranks of the best left-handed guitarist. It seems to be a reference work that is more valuable than skill.
6. Paul McCartney
Indeed Paul is the bass player in The Beatles. But not infrequently he also plays guitar on many Beatles songs. He is also well known as the most melodic bass player in the history of rock music. With the left hand of course.
His guitar playing was no less capable. He gave a classic touch that is so beautiful on the song Yesterday and Blackbird. He showed as if playing a song with the same left-handed and easy.
7. Iggy Pop
Iggy is actually more widely known as the vocalist of the proto-punk band, The Stooges. But in his solo project, Iggy has always played his own guitar.
In addition to playing guitar, the man who is now 65-year-old is also capable of playing the keyboard and drums as well. One of the multi-talented musician. Iggy Pop also has managed to enter the name of The Stooges in the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame in 2010.
8. Zacky Vengeance
The last of the top ranks of left-handed rock guitarist is Zacky Vengeance. Zacky is the lead guitarist of the metal band Avenged Sevenfold. Duet with Synyster Gates, Zack is able to provide treats complex guitar playing. Certainly it is difficult when it is played with the left hand.
Zack initially learned to play guitar with his right hand. His father gave the guitar in general as a birthday gift. But apparently Zack trouble playing with the right hand. The game does not develop. After that Zack decided to buy a guitar and got the hang of left-handed players.
