page_title: List of musicians who play left-handed
section_title: Bassists
hierarchical_section_title: List of musicians who play left-handed / Guitarists and bassists / Bassists
caption_attribution_description: English: Paul McCartney during a Wings concert. Français&#160;: Paul McCartney pendant un concert des Wings (version rognée).
context_page_description: This is a list of notable left-handed musicians who play their instruments naturally.
context_section_description: Martin Eric Ain (Celtic Frost)
  Rosemary Butler (Formerly Birtha; now backing and solo vocalist)
  Gerald Casale (Devo; plays strings backwards)
  Ken Casey (Dropkick Murphys)
  Stuart Chatwood (The Tea Party)
  Flavio Cianciarulo (Los Fabulosos Cadillacs/De la tierra/solo) plays with strings in correct order, both guitar and bass.
  Seffy Efrati (Blackfield, Aviv Geffen) plays with the strings backwards
  Nick Feldman (Wang Chung)
  Kathy Foster (The Thermals)
  Ed Gagliardi (Foreigner; naturally right-handed, played left-handed)
  Jimi Goodwin (Doves; plays both guitar and bass with strings backwards)
  Karl Green (Herman's Hermits)
  Paul Gray (Slipknot)
  Jimmy Haslip (Yellowjackets; plays with strings reversed)
  Colin Hodgkinson (Back Door, Whitesnake)
  Lee Jackson (The Nice)
  Gerald Johnson (Steve Miller Band; Plays with strings reversed)
  Joe Lester (Intronaut)
  Joe Long (Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons)
  Alan Longmuir (Bay City Rollers; plays both guitar and bass with strings reversed)
  Paul McCartney (The Beatles/Wings/solo) plays with strings in correct order, both guitar and bass; plays drums right-handed
  Robbie Merrill (Godsmack) actually right-handed, but plays guitar left-handed because of a birth defect that disabled the middle finger of his left hand.
  Josh Newton (Every Time I Die)
  Doug Pinnick (King's X)
  Scott Reeder (Kyuss/The Obsessed/Unida; plays with strings reversed)
  Kyle Sanders (Hellyeah)
  Brad Savage (Band from TV)
  Danielle Nicole Schnebelen (Trampled Under Foot)
  Jeff Schmidt (Bass Soloist, plays with strings reversed)
  Steve Smith, The Vapors
  Jacob Sproul (Rose Hill Drive)
  Wayman Tisdale (played with strings reversed)
  Mark White (Spin Doctors)
  Paul Wilson (Snow Patrol)
  Pete Wright (Crass)
  A. W. Yrjänä (CMX)
caption: Paul McCartney playing a left-handed Rickenbacker 4001 bass
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