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PH20PH20 Posts: 466
edited July 2013 in The Porch
Ed said it...not me.
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,724
    PH20 wrote:
    Ed said it...not me.
    yep..he is lefty
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  • STAYSEASTAYSEA Posts: 3,814
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    PH20 wrote:
    Ed said it...not me.
    yep..he is lefty


    Seriously?!


    I'm an idiot. I never noticed! I see it in my head and he always played right handed. My little brother will be excited.


    Why doesn't he play left handed? That is my question! I haven't seen this EVER?!

    Please use the YouTube for examples. I am clueless. :shock:
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  • kasedougkasedoug The Golden State Posts: 3,010
    I'm somewhat similar, in that I'm left handed, writing with my left hand while I do most things athletically right handed (except for shoot a basketball). When I attempt to play a guitar, my instinct is to play left handed.
  • AzWickerAzWicker Posts: 1,162
    edited July 2013
    He learned playing guitar right handed, probably due to their being more right handed guitars out there and really when playing guitar, when you first start out, being right or left handed has no bearing because of the lack of cordination when playing. I know quite a few guitar players who are lefties, but play righty.
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    Ed: 2011-07-09 2012-11-04
    PJ: 2011-09-03 2011-09-04
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,724
    STAYSEA wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    PH20 wrote:
    Ed said it...not me.
    yep..he is lefty


    Seriously?!


    I'm an idiot. I never noticed! I see it in my head and he always played right handed. My little brother will be excited.


    Why doesn't he play left handed? That is my question! I haven't seen this EVER?!

    Please use the YouTube for examples. I am clueless. :shock:
    he is lefty...not played lefty at guitar,but he is lefty,yes..
    sigm my bootleg with left hand.. ;)
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  • Paul AndrewsPaul Andrews Posts: 2,489
    My stepson writes left handed but does everything else - guitar, sports etc right handed. Just a freak of nature I guess.
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  • foriginalsinforiginalsin Posts: 713
    STAYSEA wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    PH20 wrote:
    Ed said it...not me.
    yep..he is lefty


    Seriously?!


    I'm an idiot. I never noticed! I see it in my head and he always played right handed. My little brother will be excited.


    Why doesn't he play left handed? That is my question! I haven't seen this EVER?!

    Please use the YouTube for examples. I am clueless. :shock:

    Never new he was left handed until now also. "Why doesn't he play left handed?" So I'm left handed also and when I started playing guitar, (I started late like in high school), my guitar teacher basically told me it'll be easier if I played righty. The reason being is the hand that plays the fret board has a little more dexterity involved. I tried both ways and found that playing righty was way easier for me. One of the few lefty advantages.
  • fox_mulderXfox_mulderX Posts: 1,134
    Left handed people are born evil and are going to Hell. That's why Michael is trying to turn his life around in a positive way.
  • pulling69pulling69 KBTL Posts: 1,005
    Mike is left handed and learned to play guitar right handed....In an even odder twist he played some of the Hendrix show right handed on a left handed guitar:

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  • october22october22 Posts: 2,533
    For some reason I've known this for awhile. I think I saw him sign something years ago.

    At least Ed finally learned this about Mike. Now if he could only learn how to pronounced Jeff's last name properly. I mean they've only been friends for over twenty years...
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,724
    october22 wrote:
    For some reason I've known this for awhile. I think I saw him sign something years ago.

    At least Ed finally learned this about Mike. Now if he could only learn how to pronounced Jeff's last name properly. I mean they've only been friends for over twenty years...
    :lol::lol::lol:
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  • AdamcadoAdamcado Posts: 74
    I'm even more impressed now...
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  • StoneGardenStoneGarden Posts: 270
    If he isn't left handed or is left handed... he once played with Left Hand Smoke at the Flight to Mars gig, back in '06... and so he should at least be called thus... Mike Mc"Left Hand Smoke"Fuckin'Cready... :D

    Left Hand Smoke (w/Mike McCready) - Sympathy for the Devil ... Mike's solo starts around 4minutes-ish...

    I love this guy, and Everything he does with his left hand!

    Wait ... whut? :o

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  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    Hey another thing I have in common with Mike... we're both left handed and .... we both have Crohn's Disease... :!:
  • KimmiebyromKimmiebyrom Posts: 1,832
    Mike just tore the show up! What a freaking master. I bow to his greatness.
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  • iamicaiamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    My friend heard this during the show and asked me, "Why doesn't he play guitar left handed?" I'm a lefty too, and when you play right handed guitar your left hand is doing most of the work, so it just made more sense to me.
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  • 2-feign-reluctance2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,458
    Missed that..
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  • LloydXmasLloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    fox_mulderX wrote:
    Left handed people are born evil and are going to Hell. That's why Michael is trying to turn his life around in a positive way.

    Hahaha. This is a fact. My old man writes lefty but does everything else right handed
  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    iamica wrote:
    My friend heard this during the show and asked me, "Why doesn't he play guitar left handed?" I'm a lefty too, and when you play right handed guitar your left hand is doing most of the work, so it just made more sense to me.

    I keep telling myself that too.. I am right handed, but play guitar left handed. :fp:
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  • 2-feign-reluctance2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,458
    JonnyPistachio wrote:
    iamica wrote:
    My friend heard this during the show and asked me, "Why doesn't he play guitar left handed?" I'm a lefty too, and when you play right handed guitar your left hand is doing most of the work, so it just made more sense to me.

    I keep telling myself that too.. I am right handed, but play guitar left handed. :fp:


    Same here. I also hold my 2 month old like a guitar. Can't hold her head on my right side. :lol:
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  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 17,828
    I think Mike is right handed but doesn't know it yet...have you seen what his signature looks like when he signs with his left?? :mrgreen:
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  • nooramnooram Posts: 392
    Stephen Flow wrote:
    Hey another thing I have in common with Mike... we're both left handed and .... we both have Crohn's Disease... :!:

    Four balls, too?
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  • lockedlocked Boston Posts: 4,048
    he is lefty...not played lefty at guitar,but he is lefty,yes..
    sigm my bootleg with left hand.. ;)[/quote]

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  • pistol3pistol3 CO Posts: 195
    This is an interesting debate. Why do people want to claim left handed if they do one thing with their left hand? Because its different? If you do things with both hands you're not exclusively one or the other, you're mixed. Mike isn't exclusively left handed because he writes with his left. Its like people who are 1/4 minority, 3/4 white. They claim the minority because its different. Wow, I am coming off way to serious here, take this with ease!
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  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    nooram wrote:
    Stephen Flow wrote:
    Hey another thing I have in common with Mike... we're both left handed and .... we both have Crohn's Disease... :!:

    Four balls, too?

    :oops:
  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    pistol3 wrote:
    This is an interesting debate. Why do people want to claim left handed if they do one thing with their left hand? Because its different? If you do things with both hands you're not exclusively one or the other, you're mixed. Mike isn't exclusively left handed because he writes with his left. Its like people who are 1/4 minority, 3/4 white. They claim the minority because its different. Wow, I am coming off way to serious here, take this with ease!

    I agree, sort of. Guitar requires a lot of dexterity in both hands. it should be labeled an ambidextrous instrument. Even something such as a baseball swing requires a lot from both sides.
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    AzWicker wrote:
    He learned playing guitar right handed, probably due to their being more right handed guitars out there and really when playing guitar, when you first start out, being right or left handed has no bearing because of the lack of cordination when playing. I know quite a few guitar players who are lefties, but play righty.
    ...
    That is true. The first time I met him, I noticed he was signing stuff with his left hand. i talked to him about it later and he said that he learned how to play on a regular guitar. I told him that was the right choice because I went with trying to play a regular guitar, upside down and eventually got a lefty beginner guitar... bad decision. There are never any of the Martins or Taylors on display at the guitar shops to try out... only the 99 dollar Fenders or Yamahas or the Squires. Plus, everyone else has regular guitars.
    He also throws right handed, like me... because we both only had access to right hander's gloves when we were little.
    ...
    Also, Chris Shiflett of the Foo Fighters writes with his left and plays right handed for the same reason... access to regular guitars as a kid.
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    i played little league softball for a long time but it wasn't until i was 10 that my coach found out that i throw better with my right hand. i do 99% of everything left-handed but i would throw/pitch/catch like a righty and it was much more powerful. we tried batting righty but it wasn't very comfortable haha. i guess that makes me ambidextrous but i still refer to myself as a lefty since throwing is all i do better right-handed.
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,597
    october22 wrote:
    For some reason I've known this for awhile. I think I saw him sign something years ago.

    At least Ed finally learned this about Mike. Now if he could only learn how to pronounced Jeff's last name properly. I mean they've only been friends for over twenty years...
    :lol: That drives me nuts! .... I have to assume he is just doing it to get under Jeff's skin. I've actually heard him say it properly, and then corrected himself to say it the wrong way. :lol:
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