“He’s left handed and he plays a left handed guitar. But he strings the strings backwards, bass on the bottom and treble on top. It’s like he learned to play by using a right handed guitar flipped to the left but didn’t bother to restring it in reverse like Jimi Hendrix did.”
Check out Albert King. He did the same thing, as do I. I think Doyle Bramhall II, Bobby Womack and Bob Geldof played lefty with righty strings as well. I know Jimi Hendrix learned to play that way but switched over to standard strings before he got famous.
So to you I shall put an end
And you'll never hear surf music again ...
[At half-speed] That sounds like a lie to me
Come on man, let's go home
...was alleged by Dick Dale to have been Hendrix's way of encouraging his recuperation when Dale was seriously ill. RIP.