THE WAY HOW I USED TO TAPE UP MY GUITAR LIKE: Through the years of heavy touring this is how I used to deal with the perennial strap slip problem, just duct taping the strap area whenever it happened. I did this even though (a) it was a kind of special, old, "vintage" guitar that probably should have been treated better; and (b) I was well aware of an easy, permanent solution that wouldn't have involved any tape. That solution was, all I need to do was to drink a couple of Grolsches. (You use the rubber gaskets from the bottle tops like a washer to hold the strap on and it pretty much never fails.) But this I was too lazy to do. Grolsches weren't plentiful on the road in the US, as I suspect they are not now either. (I had Grolsch gaskets on other guitars at the time, as well, from touring in Europe. I never brought this Epiphone Coronet to Europe because I didn't have a good case for it. All I'd have had to do was to take them off the Les Pauls and put them on the Coronet, but I was too lazy to do that too.) Despite the tape, the strap still managed to work its way free, owing to my wild, dynamic stage antics no doubt. So by the time I finally decided to excavate the guitar from the tape I had to cut through several layers of gunk stretching back nearly twenty years. I turns out you can pick up a four pack of Grolsch at the Grocery Outlet to drink while you're addressing these layers, and then just slip the gaskets on when you're done. Try it, it works. #music #guitar #minds