Actually, I'm of the strap on the headstock school. And I find the quick release gizmo a help. It lives on the guitar, because threading the lace under the strings is a pain (especially since I have a slot-headed guitar so the strings come off the nut at more of an angle. Also its thin enough not to get in the way of my left hand when I'm playing. I generally play sitting down, and the strap lives in my case. On the odd occasions when I need to stand, clipping the strap to the top and buttoning it to the bottom is a piece of cake. And frankly, speaking as a woman of "ample charms" (a al Dolly Parton, rather than Mama Cass Elliot), I'm not sure I could hold the guitar in a comfortable position if the strap were fastened at the base of the neck.