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Is Ned a phony?
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I just think they're neat!
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I've also been playing since the late 20th century. It took me years to realize how much more comfortable it was to play with the strap shortened and the neck pointed up a little so the pickups sit around midriff level. (This was crystallized by playing a classical guitar for the first time.) Do people find a low-slung guitar comfortable to play or are hundreds of professional guitarists doing it because it looks cool? No wonder people complain about bar chords!
They do it because it looks cool. And their playing suffers because if it.
I feel like when Blink-182 were peak popularity around the turn of the century, they brought with them incredibly low hanging guitars. I think they're also giants and so it appeared even lower. But punk and it's offshoots tended to do the low guitar thing.
And so for me, when I was in a band as a kid, I sacrificed comfort and some of my ability to play to look cool. The number one rule of combat (and life) is: Always Look Cool.
When playing seated, I rest the guitar on my right leg, neck slightly up. Standing, or my favorite, reclining, I prefer to have the guitar nearly vertical kind of like a cello.