How high should I wear my guitar?

The politics of guitar strap length examined

Chris Vinnicombe, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 4:21 pm GMT

The glittering highs and lows of strap length history

There was a time when wearing your guitar up high on a short strap was about as cool as Death Valley marathon runner. A low-slung guitar was an almost political statement, aligning you with punks like Johnny Ramone and Sid Vicious and sticking two defiant fingers up to the cape-wearing prog virtuosi and stuffy folk artists of the age.Similarly, the pouting hair metal prima donnas...

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