Gibson SGs - various models and used market

TimmyO

impmann said:

My 94 SG Special (gloss) came with god-knows what original pickups... they were good for da gainz and rawk but sounded pretty vile clean, imho.

I changed out to Classic 57s (that most seem to hate) and it was massively improved. I could make those Robbie Kreiger psych rock sounds, it could do warm cleans and yet it could still rock like a bastard.

Ive kept it yet other SGs have come and gone (including a posh Standard, a P90 Classic etc). I won’t part with it - it’s a blinding guitar. Although I do still want a Jeff Tweedy signature one...

I think the only reason 57 Classics have anything other than an amazing reputation is because they were the stock pickup for a long time in a lot of Gibsons so the internet-wisdom-crowd who needed to justify their pickup-conveyer-belt slagged them.

The Les Paul Forum had a massive blind test of PAF-types years ago : cue much humble pie when the 57 Classic got picked as fave more than the darlings-of-the-day booteek handwound stuff.