I had to be the singer in my 2nd. band when I was 19. I said " I'm not singing unless I have a guitr to hide behind." Next day our keyboard player says " Hey Terry, I've got a guitar for you." It was an original 61 SG Les Paul Jr. Gee, I couldn't believe the myriad of sounds from that on P-90 pickup.
love this guitar a ton this vid made me remember the 74 sg standard i got from the factory when i was doing gibson's advertising. best non-custom guitar i ever had...
@@CarolineGuitarCo Maybe the magnet is C8? BTW, the more whatever is attached to a string resonates, the less energy is left in the string to be sensed by a pickup. FI, a jazz box will have lower electrical output than a solid body guitar with the same pickup. It's also why the action on a jazz box can be set so low. The string vibrations lose more energy quickly, so they don't buzz against the frets at the same height.
I’ve always had a soft spot for these since a teenage bandmate bought one in walnut brown new in around ‘72. Thick chamfered slab SG body, no neck angle (so the neck sits high against the body), pretty weak logo-embossed single coil melody maker” pickup but a huge neck with a fantastic action. On the downside, typical early 70’s “paddle” headstock.
Nice had a rear routed 71 deluxe for years with the straight neck angle. It’s a little different but still awesome doesn’t feel as fragile as the older style ones
I have a guitar with a SG shaped body, fitted with a Strat neck and single P-90. The body is as thick as a Strat body, silverburst satin finish, it's pretty sick!
Another winner from Gibson! right up there with the sonex,the corvus, RD firebird, any non reverse firebird, MX? and the cancelled jimi hendrix stratish thing. Can you name any other Gibson clunkers?!?
They're so thick because they're made out of poplar. Needs that huge neck joint for stability. Nice tones, but don't expect a shredder. Have to admit it's pretty!
As a kid, I bought an SG-1 that was very similar, in 1976, in Nashville, TN, It was a 1970 model, I think. I modded it in 1977-78 to have one DiMarzio SuperDistortion pickup, and one DiMarzio PAF, two tones and two volumes, like an SG Standard. It had the biggest, fattest neck I ever played on any Gibson electric. It was like a big old Gibson acoustic guitar neck! Sold it to a friend when I got married and needed money for the ring.
Around 1985 I bought a Gibson SG-200. It was tobacco brown, or walnut, or whatever they called it in the 70s. It had 2 single coil pickups with metal mounting rings and black covers with the Gibson script logo. Panel switches for pickup selection. I paid $285 for it. I wish I still had that guitar.
ever since getting a guitar with p90’s, they have been my favorite pickup type. for me, they blow humbuckers out of the water, even in modern metal contexts.
That's cool. I always want a slightly thicker SG : it would counter the neck dive, as well as add back some of that tone wood lost in the crash diet the Les Paul went thru to become the SG. I see that with the Phil X Framus XG , when he was with them (it's also neck thru, and the neck" joins"the body further down the neck). Do you find it counters the dive, and replenishes some of that Rich, LP-esque sustain...??
I'm pretty sure that P90 is a later addition as a pal of mine had one of these and it came with a truly useless low output single coil pickup with 'Gibson' moulded into the plastic cover that looked more like it had come from Fender than Gibson
That's addressed in the video. These are different models based on the pickup configuration. You can read more about it here: solidguitar.fandom.com/wiki/SG_100_/_200_/_250#SG-100_Junior_(1972)
The sound is pretty similar to a SG Jr. due to the single P-90, but the body shape and balance feel different because of the different thickness and neck joint angle.
It sounds like Tool but I'm terrible with names (despite them being most of what I listen to) so I couldn't tell you the song EDIT: I think it's Pneuma
My first electric guitar was an SG-200, from that era. $150 in about 1981. It took me decades to figure out what it was, with the Internet's help. I still have it but after some poorly-thought-out mod attempts it's not in good shape.
The volute does NOT protect the headstock. If it did, they wouldn't have gotten rid of it. They THOUGHT it would protect the headstock.....but in reality.....it causes perpendicular breaks.....which are FAR worse than regular breaks. Thus.....the normal neck came back.
@@DMSProduktionsI thought about taking it off, but (a) it looks too cool (b) I wouldn’t want to risk damaging the pickup, and (c) I’ll just deal and maybe bump the treble up 😂
@@CarolineGuitarCo TRY a PLASTIC P90 shell! Magnetically invisible! That's WHy Gibson use them on their P90s! Only ever saw metal shells on Epi P90s. This is the only Gibbo I have ever seen with a metal shell P90 on it!
