SG Special/ Classic

[jerryjg]

Aside from the Woodstock generation guitarists, like Townshend and Santana, who used the 2 P90 pickup SG Special, I am wondering if anyone of any note really still plays these things? I bought one ( now called the SG 'Classic' ) when I thought they were being discontinued last year. Nice guitar, but I'm thinking of trading it for a Acoustic or a Humbucking Gibson.
I do like P90's, though not as much as Humbuckers, and i belive P90 sound is a good tone to have in ones stable, yet you can get that P90'ish tone in a Strat with a good overwound SC, or in a Tele with a P90, not to mention a Les Paul.
Nothing against SG's cause I love my old '80 Firebrand, but just sayin', ya know?

[bristol]

I can't think of anyone famous (but me ),but many folks seem to use LP Juniors (BJ Armstrong for example) with a P-90. I would think that they sound pretty similar. I have a 67 SG Special that I bought in high school (dating myself). Based on the SN, it's older than any of the ones Townsend smashed.

It's much nicer than the reissues. Fatter neck, bigger frets.

Unfortunately, I modded it, since everyone did at the time, and that has hurt its vintage value. I removed the terrible vibrato bar and put on a tune-a-matic bridge and Schaller tuners. Much better playability. Pretty much everyone did the same thing at the time or at a minimum used the bridge as a wrap around bridge/tail piece, avoiding the vibrato, like PT.

I do love that guitar. The P-90 growl.
I don't like the reissues much.

[bluesbreaking]

I can't think of anyone famous (but me ),but many folks seem to use LP Juniors (BJ Armstrong for example) with a P-90. I would think that they sound pretty similar.

I would think so too. They're both all-mahogany with the P-90's. The main difference I would think would come from the neck joint, making the LP Junior sound fatter and more sustaining. Leslie West also used a Junior...

[johniss0001]

i play an sg with p90s and it's the best guitar i have ever played at the moment it's a 1970 approx sg professional with bigsby perfect and will do everything from clapton, hendrix, who, free, AC/DC and deep purple famous people who have used p90 sgs noddy holder from slade, rick parfitt status quo obviously pete townsend that's guys who have usedthem live but who knows what goes on in the studio with these guys and what modern bands use