My Band LAUGH At Me for This - My Most Unprofessional Habit and the Hercules Stand

The phrase "a drunk bridesmaid" made me grin.

I quite like the robot-sentry styling. But it's a little under-engineered IMO. Ideally, it should contain a gyroscopic based AI system so that if knocked over, an airbag system is deployed once a critical angle occurs. It would then text an image of the culprit to house security.

Sorry to be Debbie Downer. I've had two Hercules neck clamps fail on me. I now use a simple folding stand that holds three leaning guitars. It's 1/2 the cost of the Hercules, light, and no way to fail.

Looks very cool but I like the cheap little triangle ones that fold up in one movement. Supports guitar from body, no pressure on neck, basically no setup and folds up small (flat) for travel.

Over the years of gigging, I’ve seen so many guitar’s knocked off stands, some even resulting in a broken neck or headstock. It’s the guitar stand that’s the problem. Roadies, band members and anyone else can see the guitar, but not the splayed out black legs and they trip over the legs. Also I’ve seen musicians put the guitar in the stand but leave the guitar cord in the guitar, giving another opportunity for a trip hazard. My fifty year old Gibson SG, is too valuable to me to allow any chance of it getting knocked over. So it stays in it’s hard case until a minute before the first set, to check tuning. Then after each set, back in the case. At the end of the gig straight back in the case before I do anything else. Incidentally, I was told by someone years ago, you should never leave your guitar leaning against your speaker. The speaker has very strong magnets, and your pick ups are magnetic too. It could diminish the power of your pick ups. How true that is I don’t know. But I’d never do it anyway. Just subscribed to your channel, love the videos.

The gold standard when it comes to stands, in my opinion, is K&M. Guitarstands, mic stands etc

Hercules stands are over-engineered, in my opinion. All the moving parts are potential failure points; the claws can sometimes lock on to your guitar when you try to grab it in a hurry, pulling the stand over and any other instrument hanging off it. I've been using K&M's dual stand for years now, and found them much more reliable.

The K&M folding stand is what I use. Light, portable, fairly cheap and very reliable. I also have a guitar stand case that I'll sometimes share with the rest of the band. The Hercules you've got does look very nice though and definitely a space conscious solution if you need 2 guitars.

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I almost always forget to bring a guitar stand to gigs. At some venues, there really isn’t room to set one up.

My favourite gigging stand is the Hercules Travelite GS302B, it will fold and fit into most gig bags too.

Hercules GS200B for me. Folds very easily to a compact rectangle. I just chuck it in my cable bag so it never gets forgotten.

Ha, I’m the same - I lean my guitar on an amp or in the corner. Even on the biggest gigs I do. Can’t be bothered bringing a stand, ha.

This tone kills!!!

I have 2 A frame stands, one i just got from fender accommodates offset or Odd type bodies/explorer V, The older one is just regular A frame, they are small fold very Flat, easy to transport. Do not Lean any Gibson or tilt back headstocks on Amps. Back in the 70's i put mine back in the case even on a break. It is interesting to see what was used in the Days of the Beatles touring occasionally you will see an A frame. But GOOD to HAVE one.

I found the newer 2 stands tend to topple because the hangers are positioned in the wrong position. The old ones work fine. I do also use a 3 and use the third one as a coat hanger.....

I have one I don't use because of the clamps. It won't hold a tele or Strat properly and they hang by the tuners. I have wall hangers for home but use a single stand or a floor rack, stores up to 5 instruments sideways, for jams and such. The floor racks are collapsible and much safer.

I use the mono bags that you can pull and place the guitar while the bag is upright. Also, Neutrik silent plugs on my cable.

I use that very model. I’ve found it to be very good. The only problem I’ve had is at outdoor gigs where the ground slopes - then it can get unstable

I never gig without a stand for each guitar. My preference is the Hercules compact folding stand. My brother once made a lightweight contraption that remained fixed to the guitar permanently, and folded out so the guitar would lean without falling. In theory, anyway!