Mike's "Upside Down"

It was Jimi Hendrix who sang "My smile is just a frown turned upside down".  He also loved Fender guitars.  He also played them upside down.  Instead of using a left hand guitar, he took the Stratocaster style that you see on the left, and strung it backward, and played it upside down.

Maybe at first, it was all he had as an option, but the reversal of bass and treble strings being played with the opposite pickups gave him the sound that made him famous.  The guitar on the right is my 65 Fender Jaguar.  Jimi is only seen in one photo with a guitar like this, and though he holds it upside down, it is not strung backwards, so it was probably borrowed for the shoot.  Jimi did play it's cousin the Jazz Master on occasion.  He also borrowed a Fender Telecaster to play the famous son "Hey Joe".