Hang em Low............

[mikeratan00]

Famed Geetar Players Hangin their LP's low IMO are:
Aldrich
Slash

[blood5150]

http://www.artwallpapers.net/music_wallpapers/jimmy_page/02/jimmy_page02.jpg

[mikeratan00]

http://www.artwallpapers.net/music_wallpapers/jimmy_page/02/jimmy_page02.jpg
Left him out by error:rotflmao

[Caretaker]

Steve Clark

[59burst]

To me, Jimmy Page was the coolest. He never had to put his leg up on a monitor to solo like Slash does. Somehow he could wear it low naturally; everyone else looks like they are trying to be cool but not quite hitting the mark. Just MHO.

[John Hurtt]

Steve Clark

I don't know how that guy played. He must have had chronic back problems slinging that low.

[AnthonyL]

Zakk Wylde

[Caretaker]

I don't know how that guy played. He must have had chronic back problems slinging that low.
He was drunk for 4 years...straight.

[John Hurtt]

He was drunk for 4 years...straight.

There is that.

[Mike Fleming]

Slight tangent, but I always loved this quote from Roy Buchanan in an old Guitar Player: "I like to wear my guitar high. Les Paul used to do the same thing, wearing it up like a bib. We used to wonder why he didn't wear it low and look cool like the rest of us, but he was playing a hundred times better guitar than we were."

[derekd]

Funny, I always though wearing your guitar really low looked goofy because it is a less efficient way to play. I guess one man's cool is another man's goofiness.

[dumbell78]

Funny, I always though wearing your guitar really low looked goofy because it is a less efficient way to play. I guess one man's cool is another man's goofiness.

Always thought the same. I wear mine like a bib and really cant play any other way.

[heavysoul]

To me, Jimmy Page was the coolest. He never had to put his leg up on a monitor to solo like Slash does. Somehow he could wear it low naturally; everyone else looks like they are trying to be cool but not quite hitting the mark. Just MHO.


He had long arms...

i wish i could sling my axe that low. but not with my t-rex arms.

[shane88]

if it's good enuff 4 the coolest ie J Ramone :)

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk303/maygical_is_gud/JohnnyRamone.jpg

[Tone_Terrific]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPZrgebMLAw&feature=related

Les Paul....up, yes, but not goofy high, either.

[Lespaulsignature 74]

Billy Joe Armstrong...Green Day

[somedude]

Generally, the higher it is the easier it is to play, and

the lower it is (to a point) the easier it is on the back.

It's kind of a trade off, and it depends on which is more important to you.

I don't play jazz, and I don't spend much time above the 12th fret. I wear mine a little lower than midway.

[somedude]

Anyway;

http://entimg.msn.com/i/LiveEarth/venues/uk/UK_JamesHetfield_400.jpg

[nsriley]

Someone already mentioned Steve Clark.

http://www.steveclarkguitar.com/Steve_Clark_0004b.jpg

[Lucidology]

It always makes me extremely uncomfortable to view guys who hang 'em so low ...

I have noticed that many player who do (not all of them of course...)
play mostly with down strokes ...

[Dave Klausner]

If you watch Zakk Wylde play, when it's time to take a solo, he usually puts a foot up on a monitor or something like that, so the guitar is on his knee and raised up to a reasonable height.

[Jahn]

Peter Hook from New Order. When he gets going, he starts juggling that bass on his knees like it's a soccer ball:

http://www.trustnoone.org.uk/images/hooky.jpg

[Mudder]

I started low, but have steadily moved things higher and higher as I needed better hand positions to play stuff.

[Grenville]

Anyway;

http://entimg.msn.com/i/LiveEarth/venues/uk/UK_JamesHetfield_400.jpg


Got it low-ish,


but obviously it's hurting him.

[2leod]

I remember seeing the band Lighthouse playing "One Fine Morning" on TV in the early '70s, and one of the guitarists had his axe darn near to his knees. He had freakishly long arms - don't know what his name was though...

Anyone else remember?

[groutfulone]

Both Joan and Dougie

http://www.thecoverzone.com/Jett/Graphics/05297031.jpg

[ShaneGuitar]

I'm too fat to hold my guitar low. Have to have it above my pot belly! Like Shawn Lane; just without the whole talent thing that he had going on.

Have to say even in the 80's I held it high and barely was 135 pounds. My hair was heavier than I was:roll

[MikeE]

It's bass but Ben Shepard from Soundgarden dragged his on the floor for most of the show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gyYKnnRvhc

[rwe333]

It's bass but Ben Shepard from Soundgarden dragged his on the floor for most of the show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gyYKnnRvhc

dUg Pinnock too (but real long arms).

Some LP cats at a reasonable height:
http://themusicsover.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/paulkossoff.jpg
http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ebpentium/dimeola/concert/al_dimeola_400.jpg
http://www.dprp.net/proghistory/1971_02/Foc04.jpg

ETC...

[Neill]

dUg Pinnock too (but real long arms).

Some LP cats are a reasonable height:
http://www.dprp.net/proghistory/1971_02/Foc04.jpg http://themusicsover.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/paulkossoff.jpg http://www.eskimo.com/%7Ebpentium/dimeola/concert/al_dimeola_400.jpg

ETC...

i'd hang mine like mclaughlin or fripp... ride'em high (or reasonable, or whilst sitting down).

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2282747263_a5d2932e43.jpg?v=0

http://www.gaudela.net/gar/img/Robert_Fripp-02b.jpg

[rwe333]

i'd hang mine like mclaughlin or fripp... ride'em high (or reasonable).
Yup... Same here...

[Tone_Terrific]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN2VNFpiGWo

Teddy!!?? Lordy, this is high!
I didn't expect this guy to be so high even back in the psych daze.
I forgot, and he dropped to normal later on, too.

[B_of_H]

I wear mine a little higher than most rock guys because I feel most comfortable with it like that. I don't care how it looks.

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v296/49/68/1187633235/n1187633235_137725_9491.jpg

[Ed Packer]

I wear mine "sitting high". I adjust my strap while I'm sitting so that when I stand it's at the same level as if I'm sitting. (make sense?) I don't think it's too high, though.

[VintageKnob]

Something about hollow-bodies that look higher.
The body is bigger so it is up higher, but the neck is farther away so it feels right.
Especially when you tip it up just a bit, it looks real 'jazzy' high.
Carlton looks real high when he brings the neck up.

2 cents - DStefani