Coco Montoya - Long Beach Blues Festival California (2005)

Coco Montoya (Henry Montoya, born on October 2, 1951 in Santa Monica, California, United States) is an important blues guitarist who was part of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers

Montoya's career began in the mid-1970s when Albert Collins invited him to join his band as a drummer. I sponsor Collins Montoya and taught him his icy hot style. They have remained friends even after Montoya left the band Collins. In the early 1980s John Mayall heard Montoya play guitar in a bar in Los Angeles. Shortly after Montoya Mayall invited to join the reformed Bluesbreakers again. Montoya remained in the band for 10 years. In the early 1990s decided it was time to try for yourself. He has released several albums of blues great success

Montoya is left-handed and plays the guitar upside down while maintaining the strings in the normal order. In other words, this means playing with guitars turned slickest, leading the bass strings at the top of the mast and acute at the bottom, and uses his right hand to put the chords and left to percutirlas for him acute are at the top and at the bottom serious. This contrasts with the style of other lefties like Jimi Hendrix and Tony Iommi, among others, whose lead guitar strings repositioned for left (though Hendrix could also play guitars with strings without repositioning). In most current pictures of Montoya is seen playing a Stratocaster type guitar, with body adapted for left-handed (mirror of a body for right image) with leader and typical headstock Stratocaster for right, so that the pins remaining at the bottom, and with ropes arranged upside down relative to the typical placement of a left-handed guitar.