Gibson SG

Gibson SG was introduced in 1961 as Gibson's new solid body guitar, the SG obliterated traditional concepts of dolid body electrics and became an instant classic. Whit an ultra slim body and two sharp cutaway horns, that allow easy access to the upper frets the SG body style has remain in production since it's first apparance. The SG is available in many classic finishes cherry, natural, walnut, mahogany, white, black and various specialty colors and bursts. The SG's devilish looks and parralel sustained tone had mayde it the undisputed favourite of some of rock's most legendary guitarists. Featurs of the SG include tune-o-matic bridge, one, two, or three humbuckers, one, two P-90s, certain entery-level versions had smaller single coli pickups. The SG's body is made of: mahogany, mahogany and maple, birch laminate, maple, the neck is made of: mahogany, birch, laminate, mapel. Here are a few rock guitarists that had and still use(ed) a Gibson: Chuck Berry used an ES-350T early in his career, later switching to ES-345s and ES-355s, Eric Claptonhas used a variety of Gibsons throughout his career. The second electric guitar Clapton owned was a red 1964 ES-335 that he used with The Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith and as a solo artist, Bob Dylan uses a variety of Gibson models, including a J-50, a J-200, a J-180 and a J-45, Ace Frehley (Kiss) used a 3 pickup Les Paul Custom as well as an Ace Frehley Signature model, alsow uses a Gibson Les Paul Standard, Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) has used an SG throughout most of his career, and also owns other Gibson models, Jimmy Page (The Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin/solo) uses a 1959 Les Paul, and now my personall favorite guitarist the fuounder of one of rock's greatests band Angus Young (AC/DC) he is well hnow to use a Gibosn SG and Gibson has produced an Angus Young Signature SG model, and now for another rock legend he is half man, half beast Slash (Guns N' Roses/Slash's Snakepit/Velvet Revolver/Slash's Blues Ball) he uses many different Les Paul models including his own custom shop Les Paul model, and there are many more Gibson users.