Lefty Rockers

Most people know Jimi Hendrix was a lefty, but not that many know the back story of how he played, or all the other left handed musicians out there playing guitar or drumming right handed instruments with a dominant left hand....Hendrix's dad, who was a military man, thought that being left handed was associated with the devil, and wouldn't let Jimi play lefty....Jimi restrung his right handed guitar, so he could play it lefty when his dad wasn't around and righty when he was...there's David Bowie, who's lefty, but had no access to left handed guitars in post war England...Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who couldn't afford lefty instruments when he was young, but bought them after he got rich and famous...here's more on a bunch of lefty rock stars, including Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland of the Police, Duane Allman, and more.