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Gary Fletcher of The Blues Band is another upside down bassist ( and guitarist). Coco Montoya is another thick strings nearest the feet guitarist, he was Albert King's drummer, IIRC, before picking up the guitar so I guess that's the explanation. Otis Rush as well - the upside down thing seen as part of the explanation for his bending and vibrato being so well developed on heavy strings.
Less of an argument for this approach might be Sir Bob Geldof.
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I think he picked up the habit from his brother Dafydd, who also played that way. He once lent me his Maya Strat copy when my guitar broke when I was in a rock workshop type thing when I was a youngster. I remember being confused, because although he played a right handed guitar upside down, I always thought people swopped the strings round, like Hendrix did.
Hendrix could do it too, although I'm not sure if there is any footage of him playing upside down with the guitar strung RH as well.
I can play songs that I know well on a RH guitar turned upside down and strung RH, but only stuff I'm really familiar with.
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