Finally played a Gibson SG with P90's in worship

[DADGAD]

Picked up an SG Classic last week and gave it a workout at church this morning. WHOA! Except for some hum at high gain, it was just about the best tone I've had in may past 19 years as a church muse. It was good for clean-to-mean guitar work. The amp I used is an Ampeg Jet 12R RI, which is a Vox AC15 clone. The cleans were perfect. An MXR DynaComp yielded great jangle and my favorite Boss DS-1 delivered great soaring leads.

The worship pastor got a chuckle when I pulled it out of the case and told him to expect repercussions about the red guitar with the devil's horns.

Before this, I tried the Squire Custom II, Epiphone Casino and an Ibanez Jet King 3 in my P90 quest. None were worthy. But the Gibson delivered tone in spades so my search is over. Many reviews knock the tuners but tuning stability was perfect.

Just had to share!

Gary

[Parma_TeleMon]

Sweet rig! Been gassin' for one of those!!

Didn't accidently start jammin' on "Highway to Hell" didja?

[DADGAD]

No. It was "Back In Black". The guitar is great for Steve Marriot/Humble Pie stuff, too.

[Saxguitar]

That is sweet, I wish I had a SG with p-90's. I bet it sounded sweet. This past sunday my Tele was in desperate need of new strings and a little set-up so I had to pull out my first guitar which was just a cheap Meijer store Les Paul, which I spray painted to look like Zakk Wyldes , luckily for me I am the only one in my church who knows who that is.

The pastor kept cracking jokes about needing a rifle to have some target practice, and a few of the older members let me know they thought it was "far out" (their words I promise).

I wish I could pull out a SG, that would make everyone do some double takes on second thought with the number of members in my congregation which have arthritis I problably shouldn't.

[Scott Auld]

DADGAD, congrats on the new guitar. P90s are great.

[DADGAD]

Back in the day, I had a sweet old Epiphone. The platform was two P90s on a slab of mahogany. I let it get away...



Ever since Gibson reissued it, I've had bad GAS...



Last week, I stopped into the local GC and spotted the SG Classic for $999. October 1, the price dropped $50 on their web site and the 10% off coupon on the monthly flyer pushed me over the edge. Went there and tried two and an SG Standard. This particular classic won. If you ever get the chance to try one, you will understand why everyone calls it Gibson's best deal in a new electric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v3_XnC9V_c

[Parma_TeleMon]

Originally Posted by DADGAD

No. It was "Back In Black". .

HAH!!!

[Rich_S]

Gotta love a P-90 SG... the Telcaster of Gibsons.

[scooteraz]

Gotta say, I would like one of those, or one of these.



I think they would be great in worship.

[still_fiddlin]

The first electric I actually bought was an SG with humbuckers, but my roommate at the time had a 60s SG with P-90s and that thing just screamed. I ended up getting rid of my SG. That's definitely the one to get. (Hmm, wonder if he's still got it sitting under a bed somewhere... have to check next time I'm up north.)

[cknowles]

DADGAD Nice Score!!

My Wife bought me a Canadian "Dillion" SG clone with P-90's in it for my birthday this year. I swapped the original pickups and electronics as it was really noisy, and shielded everything with copper then played it in church. I agree with DADGAD my search is over. With quality pickups and electronics it is a tone monster. Clean, it just rings and when I dig in, it breaks up so nicely.

Mine is run directly through the church's sounds system so I use a Digitech RP-250 to wet the sound a bit.

Here's mine:






Chris

[DADGAD]

Nice work, Chris!

[Parma_TeleMon]

Boy, I'll say!

[wazupwiopiii]

I use an Epi G400 into an rp 90. Great combination for things like Lincoln Brewster.