strap locks are an inexpensive way of avoidng embarrassment. i've put them on all the guitars i preform with. a story about that is i was playing the guitar in one song at my school's christmas concert(for my school brass band where i also play cornet trumpet,baritone,tuba,keyboard,bass drums and double-bass violin) when it happened, what guitatrist fear more than breaking a string playing live is when your guitar strap comes of your guitar and you drop it. well this happened to me but i caught it before it hit the ground i don't think to many people in the crowd noticed it because i wasn't playing in front of the band i was sort in the back of the band playing, but i was so embarrased and i promised myself that wouldn't happen again so i went to a guitar shop not to far from my house and asked them if they had a strap that was so tight that it wouldn't fall off and they told me i didn't need a new strap that i should buy strap locks and i did and it hasn't happened again. So fellow guitarist please invest in buying strap locks so this doesn't happen to you a pair of schaller guitar locks only $10.00-15.00. if not for you do it for the people who have to listen to all that noise when your guitar hits the ground.

peaceout,

I can go you one better. I was playing a gig once and I kicked my guitar chord out. It was a three piece band and I was singing. So I couldn't do anything about it. I just kept playing, pretending everything was fine.

Next time I brought a longer chord and looped it thru my strap so that it couldn't be kicked out.

Those stories isn´t imbaricing!!!
Thats Rock n´roll, It´s supposed to happen.
A little unwanted stage-show hasn´t killed anybody(ohhh??...just remembered it has).

Try standing over a flash pod when it goes off between your legs...
...not the best way to try & hit that high note

I picked up a nice locking strap about 2 months ago. It's by Planet Waves, and it will fit any guitar and stay locked in place until you release the catch and physically move the thing, making sure there is no possible way for it to accidentally unlock.

yeah, that's good because i have a friend named zig who is like hendrix reincarnated who was doing all the tricks with his guitar like swinging it, going around his back ala srv style and dropped and broke his gibson les paul. what a shame.

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Jake Sommers

Its happened to me a lot, like one time in our band we were practicing this song we could never get down, we were just about to finish it and my strap fails, my guitar almost hit the ground, and the we never finshed the song.