Is Mark Knopfler a left handed guitarist a la Paul MacCartney?
I have Knopfler's and Dire Straits' entire CD collections and haven't
noticed him playing backwards on any photos in the sleeve notes.
Likewise on the Knopfler / Chet Atkins album he doesn't look to be playing
left handed.
Strange !
John Hudson ............. sou'paw
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Moore" <paddy@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:26 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: This Day The Music Died
>
> * On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:16:51PM +0000, Ian Nichols said:
>>
>> On 04/02/2008, Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > As a guitarist, however, I always have found left-handed guitarists to
>> > be pretentious for some odd reason (not because they are left-handed
>> > but because they won't learn to play the guitar properly -- it's not
>> > a tennis racket for godsakes!).
>>
>> Er, where does Gary Moore fit into your scheme of things?
>
> And Mark Knopfler. actually, in his case, his technique is very much down
> to his lefthandedness.
>
> paddy
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