I recently bought this guitar. Pretty sure they're Dry pickups but I've heard Double trick are a possibility. I've had many good, but not great Gibsons. This guitar is amazing.
You mean you bought a similar one, right? This one is still with me. In this video I used just an old set of SD Alnico's, nothing too fancy. If the wood has "IT", the guitar will sound great with almost any low-output PAF-type humbuckers in my experience. You can color the tone and EQ with changing pickups, but they won't magically transform a guitar.
@@qua7771 I actually traded it along with some other items for some Warrior guitars. The eg59/70 was the thing I miss the most. But getting new Warriors is hard to pass. I got lucky a local store had a container come in so I bought some and could physically play them. Otherwise just Reverb or Google I guess
@@Guitar_MagicI agree. I have a 1988 EG59-70 on the way. It has the original pickups which should be DRY '82's. I hope it's a keeper. I hadn't heard any complaints about these Greco's.
Every guitar is unique, there are outstanding and boring examples within every brand/model/series. This is a nice one for sure and have the mojo of the good Historics.
The Love Rock doesn't disappoint. This is certain. Nor do Greco's EG guitars. But with Tokai in particular, they've been made all over the place. & I'm kinda assuming one means with an open book headstock, this changes too. I suppose, hence the lawsuit.
What's kinda interesting about that is, I used to have a Tokai Love Rock, with no serial number on it. No country of origin either. They sure are made, all over the place. But this one actually had an open book headstock.
Partly true. The history is pretty interesting. The late descendants of the renaissance painter and sculpture - El Greco - established the manufactory in the 20th century when they sailed out to Japan after World War 1 to introduce the Flamenco guitar to the Japanese audience.
Not a great sound TBH ImHo, very shrill, my Gibson standard 1986 sounds better and CS 58 , 2002 sound far better, it looks good but when it comes to sounds it just doesn’t have the presence of any Gibson I have owned IMHO just like all the Gibson versus Greco videos
I have to disagree. Firstly, this is not a comparison video therefore you have no base of justification. I uploaded comparisons of this guitar against various R8 and R9 models and it held its own pretty well (sayin this as a huge vintage and CS Gibson fan). This guitar is just a hell of a good LP. from a n era when Gibson was in deep sh*t. It's true that Gibsons have more presence in general (South-Central vs African Khaya mahogany) but not always. This one had more bite than the majority MIJ LPs. It was a great specimen.
They are outside Gibson’s legal reach. So long as they dont set up shop in the US. Anyhow, maybe if gibson made better guitars at better prices, we wouldnt need the grecos and Tokais of the world
@@Squall6575 I own several Gibson guitars and haven’t had any issues with any of them. Anyway, Gibson’s poor quality control, if true, doesn’t give a competitor the right to copy them.
@@guitarman3968 i will admit, as of 2019, their QC has vastly improved. But this the free market, and if Gibson isnt providing what some buyers want, others can.
@@Squall6575 But not an exact repetition. That’s nothing short of copying. Obviously a Fender product doesn’t resemble a Gibson. PRS is different from Fender.
