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Quiz about Lefties and Digitally Impaired Musicians
Quiz about Lefties and Digitally Impaired Musicians

Lefties and Digitally Impaired Musicians Quiz


Oye! This here quizzical's all about musicians that are either southpaws or.... let's say lacking when it comes to digits (either entirely or partially). Warning: having a slight sense of humor helps if'n y'all's are taking one of my quizzes.

A multiple-choice quiz by UglyPancake. Estimated time: 8 mins.
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Author
UglyPancake
Time
8 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
397,304
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
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Avg Score
6 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. This leftie (would that make him a leftist?) was born in November of 1942 in the Pacific Northwest. As a young teenager he found a ukulele - his first instrument - while working for his father. When he was a little older he was caught riding in stolen vehicles and was given the choice between going to prison or joining the army. He chose the army. After being honorably discharged from the Army he started to play electric guitar in various soul and R&B bands including Ike & Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett and Jackie Wilson. He started recording in 1964 and in 1965 appeared on television in Nashville for the first time. In 1966 he moved to New York and formed his own band. His career began in earnest on September 24, 1966. He then moved to Europe where he became world famous, threw up and died. What was the name of this leftie? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. This left handed god of doom pretty much started what we now call Heavy Metal (even if the correct term for what his band did back then would have been "Hard Rock". This band is (nowadays) as much known for their singer as they are for this man's signature sound. They were once labeled as a satanic rock band. They are a world famous band that originated in Birmingham, England in the late sixties. When they first appeared on the scene they sounded like NOBODY else, and that is in large part due to this guitar player who lost the tips of some of his fingers in an accident and had his father make him metallic fingertips so he would still be able to play guitar and boy did that ever pay off! Who is this, literally, 'more metal than you'll ever be' guitarist? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Continuing on the theme about lefties that are 'digitally challenged', let's talk about this guy: known for his deep love of black t shirts, playing Bob Dylan covers and prodigious use of cocaine, this non-right handed guitar player did NOT have a false fingertip for his partial finger, which was basically not able to be used whilst playing. It begs the question: did he ever get (or use) a four finger discount? Which San Franciscan am I going on about here? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. This famous man played his guitar left handed and upside down. He was of Lebanese and Polish descent and his birthname was Richard Anthony Monsour. He could also play piano, ukulele, trumpet. His family moved to El Segundo in California in 1964. Here he started playing in Country & Western bars, employing non-western scales and was highly partial to using a reverb effect on his guitar. He was also known for favoring heavy gauge guitar strings. MOST of his songs and hits were instrumentals. When he played live his audience was so noisy that he always turned his amplifiers as high as they would go (so he could drown out their noise). It is because of this man that Leo Fender invented the JBL D130F model Single Showman Amp. He has been called "The Father Of Heavy Metal". He gained a whole new audience when one of his best known hits was prominently featured in an extremely famous and influential movie in the nineties. It is very difficult to give you more clues without making this one too easy. He died not too long ago and with that act he sadly ceased playing live. What name is this leftie known under? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Alreety alrighty... now for a change of pace we're gonna pick on the drummers with limbic difficulties. This man is world famous. As anybody can tell you drum manufacturers do not manufacture a "Left Handed Drumkit". Which could possibly make it difficult for aspiring left handed youth to decide "I wanna be a drummer, man". Or trumpet player for that matter. BUT with a smidgen of imagination it CAN be done. Just ask this guy. He stared playing in Great Britain a really long time ago. He played with a number of local bands when some guys who needed somebody new to slap the skins decided to give him a try out, as their current drummer was too pretty or something like that. After this man joined their rise to fame became unstoppable and they ruled the decade. He eventually married an actress (Don't they all? Hey: at least give him credit for not marrying a model. Surely for the conversation...). One of the members of his band died by gun and now he is more known for touring and singing than drumming. Oh yeah: he's left handed. What is his moniker? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Whaddaya call somebody who likes to hang out with musicians? A bass player! And in the spirit of that query now I'm gonna pick on them. This successful left handed plucker of strings is known for hanging out with vegetarians, people missing limbs (don't go do a tango with them there!) and playing one of the ugliest electric bass guitars ever designed. He once played for a massively popular band, left them, did some solo work and then became wildly successful again with his own band. And then he went solo again. Apparently no one band can have room enough for this man's talents. Many of his solo albums feature him playing every instrument on the records. To kinda paraphrase the name of one of his old band's early foreign singles: "Wer Ist Er?" Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Back to the "poverty box". Some players are just plain royalty by name or association. This man has a preference for calling his guitars "Lucy". This is another left handed man who learned guitar simply by turning his right handed guitar upside down! He built his first guitar. He is known for playing a very specific brand of guitar, the Gibson Flying V. He once played a show with a symphony orchestra. Eventually he died (I should mention that he did so sadly, shouldn't I?). He was a VERY influential player. Who is it? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. This tummy toucher (verified as being one via an early video) of renown is one of the great tambourine players. Some might say he's the Jeff Beck of tambourine players (ESPECIALLY left handed tambourine players!) and they would not be lyin'! He does things with the tambourine that people like Jimi Hendrix did for the guitar (which is ironic as he is mainly a guitar player and great singer). I cannot verify if he ever set his tambourine on fire but, he should've! It's been said he's a bit of a leech and he once was a mother. He was once in a massively popular hit making machine that put out many an amazing record. Shake a tailfeather and gimme his name. Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. This player of the mouth organ was once a very influential band leader of great talent. He played at least one gigantic '60s music festival. He issued a bunch of records before he died quite a while back. He started out as a classical flautist before turning to the harmonica. As with many great musicians he one day decided to go die of a heroin overdose. Which was a tragic idiot move to make as this guy was actually really talented and had a great knack for discovering good players and giving them their first widespread exposure. This man was actually a highly respected harmonica player. Blow your harmonica son and tell me who he be? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. This man was truly one of my idols. While some might argue his musical importance in the grand scheme of things, to me the man is truly a giant. Some people would have called his primary job as being a comedian. He himself much preferred to be looked at as an entertainer. His first widespread exposure as a bongo/conga player was on the TV show "Saturday Night Live", a show which gave many a musician their first widespread exposure. He was known for trying his (left) hand at many things. He died of lung cancer in 1984 - or did he? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. This leftie (would that make him a leftist?) was born in November of 1942 in the Pacific Northwest. As a young teenager he found a ukulele - his first instrument - while working for his father. When he was a little older he was caught riding in stolen vehicles and was given the choice between going to prison or joining the army. He chose the army. After being honorably discharged from the Army he started to play electric guitar in various soul and R&B bands including Ike & Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett and Jackie Wilson. He started recording in 1964 and in 1965 appeared on television in Nashville for the first time. In 1966 he moved to New York and formed his own band. His career began in earnest on September 24, 1966. He then moved to Europe where he became world famous, threw up and died. What was the name of this leftie?

Answer: James Marshall Hendrix

James Marshall (Jimi) Hendrix was an ungodly gifted electric guitar player from Seattle. Put simply he took the electric guitar to places people like Les Paul never thought of going (or even knew they could go). He's considered one of the architects of psychedelic music. In the earlier parts of his career he played with Little Richard, the Isley Brothers and Curtis Knight. He was discovered by Linda Keith, who introduced him to Chas Chandler (of the Animals) shortly after he decided to try a solo career as opposed to being an R&B sideman. Chas brought him to England where he formed a band around Jimi, who very quickly became the mus-see guitar player in the UK, attracting fans such as Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend. He was quickly signed and played a number of prestigious live shows and very quickly became one of the most important and influential guitar players in rock music. In 1969 he split up his band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and formed a new band called Band Of Gypsies. This band (very) soon split up. For his Woodstock Festival performance he formed a band called Gypsy Suns and Rainbows (by all accounts a truly terrible band). He soon reformed the Experience for a European tour. This band lasted extremely briefly when original bass player Noel Redding was replaced by Band Of Gypsies' bass player Billy Cox. This line up eventually became known as the "Cry Of Love" band. Whilst on said tour he died of substance abuse which resulted in his choking on his own vomit on September 17, 1970.

James Alan Hetfield is the singer and guitar player of Metallica. James Robert Williamson is the highly gifted guitar player featured on the extremely great Iggy & The Stooges "Raw Power" album. James Patrick Page played in some UK band called, I think, Led Zeppelin that some people considered to be pretty good.
2. This left handed god of doom pretty much started what we now call Heavy Metal (even if the correct term for what his band did back then would have been "Hard Rock". This band is (nowadays) as much known for their singer as they are for this man's signature sound. They were once labeled as a satanic rock band. They are a world famous band that originated in Birmingham, England in the late sixties. When they first appeared on the scene they sounded like NOBODY else, and that is in large part due to this guitar player who lost the tips of some of his fingers in an accident and had his father make him metallic fingertips so he would still be able to play guitar and boy did that ever pay off! Who is this, literally, 'more metal than you'll ever be' guitarist?

Answer: Tony Iommi

Tony Iommi IS Black Sabbath for all intents and purposes. His distinct guitar sound and style of playing can to a large degree be considered the true beginning of heavy metal. Part of what gave him such a unique guitar tone was that as a teenager, he lost the tips of the middle and ring fingers of his right hand in an accident at the sheet metal factory where he worked. Tony thought his guitar playing days were forever gone until his foreman at the factory played him some recording of Django Reinhart, who was also missing two fingers, which encouraged Tony to continue as a musician. After deciding to continue playing guitar left handed he fitted homemade thimbles to his injured fingers to extend and protect them.

Andres Segovia was born in 1893 and was considered by many to be the greatest guitar player who ever lived. Look him up as I could go on forever about him and his work. Paul Kossoff was the great guitar player of the band Free (and later Back Street Crawler) who died on March 19, 1976 from a pulmonary embolism after a blood clot in his leg moved to his lung. Angus Young is the guitar player of AC/DC.
3. Continuing on the theme about lefties that are 'digitally challenged', let's talk about this guy: known for his deep love of black t shirts, playing Bob Dylan covers and prodigious use of cocaine, this non-right handed guitar player did NOT have a false fingertip for his partial finger, which was basically not able to be used whilst playing. It begs the question: did he ever get (or use) a four finger discount? Which San Franciscan am I going on about here?

Answer: Jerry Garcia

Multi instrumentalist Jerry Garcia was one of the most famous musicians of just about any musical genre ever. As a guitar player alone he was considered to have tremendous musical and technical ability. Not only was he left handed but as a very young child his right middle finger was accidentally cut off. He was generally considered to be the "leader" of the Grateful Dead (if it can be said that the band ever actually HAD a leader), who for many of their final years with him were one of the biggest grossing live acts in music. He was also diabetic (ironically a very popular ice cream was named after him: Cherry Garcia), and a prodigious abuser of cocaine. He died whilst in rehab of a heart attack on August 9, 1995. Amazingly the Dead continue without him.

Rick Allen is the one armed drummer of Def Leppard, Django Reinhart was a tremendously gifted acoustic guitar player of the jazz and swing band Quintet du Hot Club de France, who was also missing two fingers which had to be amputated following him being badly burned. John Martyn was an amazing guitar player from England who was diabetic (both his legs had to be amputated). Do yourself a favor: check him out (Pro tip: start with "Solid Air").
4. This famous man played his guitar left handed and upside down. He was of Lebanese and Polish descent and his birthname was Richard Anthony Monsour. He could also play piano, ukulele, trumpet. His family moved to El Segundo in California in 1964. Here he started playing in Country & Western bars, employing non-western scales and was highly partial to using a reverb effect on his guitar. He was also known for favoring heavy gauge guitar strings. MOST of his songs and hits were instrumentals. When he played live his audience was so noisy that he always turned his amplifiers as high as they would go (so he could drown out their noise). It is because of this man that Leo Fender invented the JBL D130F model Single Showman Amp. He has been called "The Father Of Heavy Metal". He gained a whole new audience when one of his best known hits was prominently featured in an extremely famous and influential movie in the nineties. It is very difficult to give you more clues without making this one too easy. He died not too long ago and with that act he sadly ceased playing live. What name is this leftie known under?

Answer: Dick Dale

Dick Dale is rightfully considered the king of surf guitar and the original heavy metal guitar player by more than some. He had one of the most unique guitar tones out there ever. His career received a huge boost in the eighties when Quentin Tarantino used his song "Miserlou" very prominently in his film "Pulp Fiction" in 1994. Dick died on March 16, 2019. He had many health issues and claimed that the only reason he kept touring ceaselessly throughout his life was so he could afford to pay his medical bills! :-(

Ry Cooder is known for his extremely authentic explorations into different styles of world music and music in general, Richard Thompson is one of the most underrated guitar players in the world and still going strong. Ali Farka Toure is a Malian singer and multi-instrumentalist of great renown.
5. Alreety alrighty... now for a change of pace we're gonna pick on the drummers with limbic difficulties. This man is world famous. As anybody can tell you drum manufacturers do not manufacture a "Left Handed Drumkit". Which could possibly make it difficult for aspiring left handed youth to decide "I wanna be a drummer, man". Or trumpet player for that matter. BUT with a smidgen of imagination it CAN be done. Just ask this guy. He stared playing in Great Britain a really long time ago. He played with a number of local bands when some guys who needed somebody new to slap the skins decided to give him a try out, as their current drummer was too pretty or something like that. After this man joined their rise to fame became unstoppable and they ruled the decade. He eventually married an actress (Don't they all? Hey: at least give him credit for not marrying a model. Surely for the conversation...). One of the members of his band died by gun and now he is more known for touring and singing than drumming. Oh yeah: he's left handed. What is his moniker?

Answer: Richard Starkey

Richard Starkey (aka Ringo Starr) replaced Pete Best in a little local Liverpool band called the Beatles and wound up at the toppermost of the poppermost with that band. If you do not know anything about the Beatles WHY are you even playing music quizzes on this site? Seriously.

David Grohl was the drummar for Nirvana and is now the singer and guitar player of the Foo Fighters. Danny Seraphine was the original great drummer for the band Chicago and Lars Ulrich... I'll just say he is the drummer of Metallica and leave it at that as it is impolite to pick on short people.
6. Whaddaya call somebody who likes to hang out with musicians? A bass player! And in the spirit of that query now I'm gonna pick on them. This successful left handed plucker of strings is known for hanging out with vegetarians, people missing limbs (don't go do a tango with them there!) and playing one of the ugliest electric bass guitars ever designed. He once played for a massively popular band, left them, did some solo work and then became wildly successful again with his own band. And then he went solo again. Apparently no one band can have room enough for this man's talents. Many of his solo albums feature him playing every instrument on the records. To kinda paraphrase the name of one of his old band's early foreign singles: "Wer Ist Er?"

Answer: Paul McCartney

If there is an uglier electric bass guitar than the Hofner 500/1 I'd like to see and play it (actually I wouldn't as I was once forced to play one on a radio broadcast of my old band when all of my equipment got stolen at a show the night before). Paul was married to vegetarian Linda McCartney and when she died he married the one legged model Heather Mills. On March 11, 1997, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Oh yeah: he was also a member of some band called the Beatles, but I really don't know anything about those guys.

Jack Bruce was the phenomenally gifted bass player of Cream (and who I wanted to be when I grew up, as a child). John Entistle... Who? Mike Rutherford is one of the few remaining original members of Genesis.
7. Back to the "poverty box". Some players are just plain royalty by name or association. This man has a preference for calling his guitars "Lucy". This is another left handed man who learned guitar simply by turning his right handed guitar upside down! He built his first guitar. He is known for playing a very specific brand of guitar, the Gibson Flying V. He once played a show with a symphony orchestra. Eventually he died (I should mention that he did so sadly, shouldn't I?). He was a VERY influential player. Who is it?

Answer: Albert King

Albert (along with Freddie and BB) King is basically considered the king of the blues. The nickname for his guitars is usually Lucy. He is said to have an extremely identifiable sound to his guitar playing. His guitar of choice tends to be a Gibson Flying V model. He died of a heart attack on December 21, 1992 and was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2013.
8. This tummy toucher (verified as being one via an early video) of renown is one of the great tambourine players. Some might say he's the Jeff Beck of tambourine players (ESPECIALLY left handed tambourine players!) and they would not be lyin'! He does things with the tambourine that people like Jimi Hendrix did for the guitar (which is ironic as he is mainly a guitar player and great singer). I cannot verify if he ever set his tambourine on fire but, he should've! It's been said he's a bit of a leech and he once was a mother. He was once in a massively popular hit making machine that put out many an amazing record. Shake a tailfeather and gimme his name.

Answer: Marc Volman

Marc Volman was basically half of the Turtles, along with Howard Kaylan. That alone would have been enough in my book. But he was half of the lead singing duo in Frank Zappa's Mothers (also along with Howard Kaylan). Finally he was the Phlorescent Leech (aka Flo) in Flo & Eddie (I'll let you guess who his partner in that great and hilarious band was/is). If you have ever experienced his tummy rubbin' in old Turtles videos you will never forget him.

David Nolte was the tambourine player in the Los Angeles band The Last, Howard Kaylan.... Don't know. Never heard of him. Marc Bolan? YOU get to figure out the seven degrees of separation to Flo & Eddie.
9. This player of the mouth organ was once a very influential band leader of great talent. He played at least one gigantic '60s music festival. He issued a bunch of records before he died quite a while back. He started out as a classical flautist before turning to the harmonica. As with many great musicians he one day decided to go die of a heroin overdose. Which was a tragic idiot move to make as this guy was actually really talented and had a great knack for discovering good players and giving them their first widespread exposure. This man was actually a highly respected harmonica player. Blow your harmonica son and tell me who he be?

Answer: Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield was one of the great harmonica players. He is directly responsible for introducing the world to guitar greats Michael Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop. His band played both the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock. He split up his initial band (The Paul Butterfield Blues Band) in 1971 and formed Better Days; he continued with them until his death of a heroin overdose on May 4, 1987.

Alan Wilson was another junkie who died early and was known for being in Canned Heat. John Sebastian was a founding member of the Lovin' Spoonful. Nowadays he is probably best known for writing and performing the theme song for the very popular 70s sitcom "Welcome Back Kotter". John Mayall is (put simply) perhaps the man most important to the 60s British blues scene. He is responsible for bringing Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and many others to prominence.
10. This man was truly one of my idols. While some might argue his musical importance in the grand scheme of things, to me the man is truly a giant. Some people would have called his primary job as being a comedian. He himself much preferred to be looked at as an entertainer. His first widespread exposure as a bongo/conga player was on the TV show "Saturday Night Live", a show which gave many a musician their first widespread exposure. He was known for trying his (left) hand at many things. He died of lung cancer in 1984 - or did he?

Answer: Andy Kaufman

The great Andy Kaufman lived from January 17, 1949 - May 16, 1984. Or, according to his best friend, is still alive and his death was a hoax. While "Bongo player" might be a bit of a stretch of what to call him he WAS left handed and DID play bongos/congas on "Saturday Night Live" and since Guitar Center doesn't exactly have tons of people sportin' the bongo and showing off their skills to pay the bills (much less left handed ones) the pickings are slim. Besides: it's my excuse to pay small tribute to somebody I truly idolized. So there.

Angus played bongos and assorted hand drums in the original line up of the Velvet Underground. Sam Clayton played drums and percussion with Little Feat and Mickey Finn was one of the persussionists in Tyrannosaurus Rex/T Rex.
Source: Author UglyPancake

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