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Influence on Santana

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In Carlos Santana's book (The Universal Tone), he talks a lot about how much of an influence Otis Rush was for him. He loved his sound, saw him play as a young man and got to know him as well. Possibly Santana could be included in the first paragraph along with Green, Bloomfield and Clapton. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:6840:4FB0:DD7B:20C4:6D10:8AB (talk) 15:51, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

left-handed

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The article says "Rush is left-handed and, unlike many left-handed guitarists, plays a right-handed instrument upside-down without restringing it." That is probably true in general, but the photo of him shows a left-handed guitar with the strings like a right-handed guitar, not an upside-down right-handed guitar (although the strings are the same). Bubba73 (talk), 04:55, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you're right. I'd say the most important point is that he plays guitars strung for the right-handed holding them upside down.(with the low strings down and the high strings up)
Sometimes he plays right-handed guitars, and other times left-handed ones, and I don't think that's really all that important. It doesn't affects his playing as far as I can tell. If you think the description is misleading, maybe you can rewrite it, but I personally don't feel the necessity to do so. What do you think? --Sumori (talk) 10:39, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the important factors for a lefty are (1) which hand he picks with, and (2) if he picks with the left hand, which way he has the strings. So my comment is relatively unimportant.
Incidentally, Otis Rush is listed in the article List of musicians who play left handed, which is currently nominated for deletion. Bubba73 (talk), 14:09, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I think the point is interesting, especially to someone researching guitar-playing techniques and setups. Can we sure the guitar he's playing in the photo is left-handed? It's easy to mount a left-handed pick guard. I have always thought of those double-cutaway Gibsons as being ambidexterous. He is definitely bending the high-E string by pulling down, like Albert King used to do. Rainbow-five (talk) 18:40, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]


The guitar in the color photo is definitely a left-handed guitar, evidenced by the placement of the knobs. A right-handed guitar flipped over would have the knobs placed differently.

Jimi Hendrix reference

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Hendrix played guitars strung for left handed players. I removed him from the list of upside-down and backwards players. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.30.54.16 (talk) 20:22, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]