Played My First Two Gigs With It This Week

[chadocaster]

Played gigs Wednesday and Friday with my HM and I gotta say that I never picked up the Tele once! This thing was a BLAST to play! The only issue was very minor tuning stability, but I'm thinking the springs are fatigued, so I'll put new ones in this week.

My band plays stuff from all across the spectrum, from U2, Petty and Bon Jovi to America, The Beatles and Brooks and Dunn and this baby had a tone for everything! The other guitarist commented on how great the tone was several times. But, IMHO, he plays a Parker, so he should be jealous of EVERYBODY'S tone. LOL ;D

I play through a Vox Tonelab SE direct to the PA. I use mostly AC-30 or Marshall JCM 800 models and couldn't be more impressed with the versatility of this seemingly one trick pony. This axe does it all!!!

[monsta]

gigged with mine friday night. play in a ridiculous hard rock band where i shred like crazy and go a bit nuts on the old tremelo in bits. never missed a beat, stayed in tune great. i love these guitars!

had a couple of people asking about it (the HM) after the show.

[heem6]

"HM Strats - still going strong after 20 years."

[chadocaster]

No doubt! About the only thing I can't play on it is shred...Because I never really studied speed picking.

I've always been a Gilmour/Harrison/Clapton type of player. If only I had paid attention when my buddies were running sweep arpeggios...

[ofrhm]

Mine went way outta tune friday IDK what the deal was... Then i pulled my squier out & got pissed & threw it across the room... I know have a guitar that is in pieces... So im getting my 2nd HM strat friday!! Now i wont get so upset when i have to use my backup