On Feb 4, 2008 10:26 AM, Patrick Moore <paddy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * 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
Or Sir Paul perhaps?
The idea that technique could be attributable to lefthandedness is
indeed pretentious. Does Knopfler actually claim that?
Joel W.
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