Some gig pics...

Alex_SG said:
Still working on it. The slide bits are sooo hard.
Mike Bloomfield was a master of the blues guitar, and another who died way too early...
I doubt I'll sound like him even if I did get it down.
Besides, he used a Telecaster, not an SG. It might sound a little closer on my '61 SG Special - The P90s can get a little shrill like a lipstick pickup on a Tele...
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Agree about Bloomfield. There are some cool vids on Stewmac.com of Dan Erlewine doing a bunch of work on Mike Bloomfield's Tele.
 
Yeah I was looking at them a couple of days back. Pity someone cut the top bout off the tele and turned it into a double cut. That would have done untold damage to the value. Although I think the fact that it is "The Bloomfield Tele" makes it priceless anyway.

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I suck at singing. A cross between Barry White and Pee Wee Hermann would come close... ;)
When I used to go to church, or in music class at school, I was so embarrassed at my voice that I used to "mime"!
 
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Fixing this now. First guitar I built over 25 years ago. My dad helped me. He knew nothing about guitars, but everything about tools and he had a shop full of them. Truss rod didn't work so I removed the fretboard and truss rod and am installing new. Pix in another thread:
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Some more... Playing in a fancy club

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AND in a smoky bar at 2 a.m.... The place used to be a 1940s export company office, now it's an underground pub. This was one of the gigs I liked best! A bit "CBGBish" :D

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I was looking at that thread a couple of days back too. Nice build there...
 
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Sérgio said:
Wow, what SG was that??? Very cool! Aged cherry or brown?
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Mid 60's SG custom stripped down to naked mahogany
with a black plastic plate where the middle pickup was.
I bought it used on Feb 1, 1969 and it is still my favorite.
 
Tony M. said:
Mid 60's SG custom stripped down to naked mahogany
with a black plastic plate where the middle pickup was.
I bought it used on Feb 1, 1969 and it is still my favorite.
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WOW, more pics would be highly appreciated
 
Sérgio said:
WOW, more pics would be highly appreciated
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The one in the middle.
I but a middle pickup back in because it looks better than the plastic plate
but it is strictly cosmetic. The guitar is wired like any 2 pickup SG.
Another thing, the tailpiece is closer to the bridge than normal.
All 3 guitars sound and feel different from each other.
(I should really get a junior to complete the set....)
(I should have kept that transitional Band Master head...)

(Those are NOS signature milk crates by the way, not reissues.)

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Tony M. said:
The one in the middle.
I but a middle pickup back in because it looks better than the plastic plate
but it is strictly cosmetic. The guitar is wired like any 2 pickup SG.
Another thing, the tailpiece is closer to the bridge than normal.
All 3 guitars sound and feel different from each other.
(I should really get a junior to complete the set....)
(I should have kept that transitional Band Master head...)

(Those are NOS signature milk crates by the way, not reissues.)

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Cool, I didn't know block inlays were around before 1973
 
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