Gibson SG Standard 61 : I Just Bought a Guitar that I've always HATED!

[@GearGasms]

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[@onlyguitars]

Thats awesome! I never cared much for the SG, but earlier this year the SG just popped in my mind and just couldn't get my minf out of it. I looked for one that had a good chunkier neck (I dont dig the slim taper) and the standard ticked al lthe boxes, although I agree prefer the smaller pickguard. And Holy damn! The Sg blew my mind. Such a unique guitar, and sounds so unique, different than the les paul. Love both and is just so easy to play and light and the upper access is fantastic. Has everything I dont like from a Les Paul. Glad you are loving it, the SG's are indeed a beast of their own.

[@GearGasms]

Yes I’m a reconverted believer! 🤘🏻

[@thehoosiercraftsmanworksho1745]

I always hated the sg but now I want one.... I just bought my first les paul 50s standard. I've owned washburns, schecters, fenders and so own. Now you've got me really wanting one !

[@GearGasms]

Ooops! Sorry!

[@terryoquinn8199]

I have wanted the SG ‘61 standard since they came out , in ‘19 ? , I think . Mine was delivered on Friday 11/15/24 , two days ago and I absolutely love it . I have many reasons why I chose the one I bought but I think the line is fantastic ! I can hear her calling out to me now , gotta go ! Later .

[@GearGasms]

Mine is downstairs in my play a lot spot right now! Welcome to the family!

[@kstaggs87]

The SG is the guitar I’ve wanted since I learned to play 20 years ago. Finally got one last month. SG Tribute. I absolutely love it.

[@GearGasms]

Nice. The SG Tribute is the best of their Tribute series!

[@Ethesilentkid]

The sg sucks only angus young and Tony iommi plays one

[@kstaggs87]

@@Ethesilentkid and Pete Townshend, and Derek Trucks, and Frank Zappa, and Jimi Hendrix, Clapton played one also, so did Carlos Santana. A lot more artists play them than you think.

[@GearGasms]

@kstaggs87 and that GearGasms geezer!

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@Ethesilentkid 🤓🤘🏻

[@robertlathan4639]

A + on the air guitar!! Looked awesome!! Happy trails everyone!!! Love you all and have a blessed day!!! Lol!!!!!!

[@GearGasms]

You too!!

[@johndaugherty4127]

Just got my first SG. An Epiphone SG Modern that I have fallen in love with. Killer neck. Killer ickups. Split coil p90 sounds. Fantastic binding. I am a huge SG fan now

[@GearGasms]

Nice! Welcome to the family!

[@AngelMartinez-qs3cf]

I have this guitar! It's pretty cool! I also have the Gibson SG Special with P90s in Ebony. One of the best guitar ever. What are your thoughts of the P90 pickups?

[@GearGasms]

Very cool! I love P90s. I’ve got an Epi 339 and Les Paul Special with them. They are particularly great in SGs!

[@garyshaw8169]

I'm late Alan, so it's happy Saturday.🍻. Mastered the record yesterday! I'll send you a copy soon. 👍

[@GearGasms]

Oh nice! Yes send me a link and I’ll be sure to enjoy!

[@garyshaw8169]

@@GearGasms it's been time, my 89 year old Dad broke his neck falling in the garden! He's bouncing back like you wouldn't believe. These old people are something else.

[@GearGasms]

@garyshaw8169 good to hear!

[@jimwoodard64]

Welcome to the fold! I've got the same color. Love it. One of my favorite axes!!

[@GearGasms]

Right on!

[@monmixer]

The Epiphone 61 that is 949.00 comes with burst buckers 2 and 3 and a hard case. I had an SG when I was 18 ish. Crown SG copy. It was actually a great guitar for 199.00. Sold it later and bought a Cortez les paul custom which was also a nice guitar with unreal sustain. Both were MIJ of course. When I went Gibson shopping after my attempts to purchase one I liked failed so I went to the back street music store to see what he had. Well the new kid on the block was in town Hamer. So I passed the Gibson step and just went to the top. Lower price and better quality. I still have a 1980 Hamer Standard. It's worth over 5 digits today.

[@GearGasms]

It’s a shame Hamer didn’t last. I had a Slammer Explorer and it wasn’t great but it was a Slammer so it wasn’t supposed to be. Maybe that down market move under the same brand name hurt the brand. Rick Nielsen was one of my favorite Hamer guys. I’m gonna do an Epiphone SG at some point soon

[@monmixer]

@@GearGasms The Hamer Specials and Sunburst models were just as good if not better than any double cut les paul that Gibson was asking a grand for and the sunburst was like 700. Les Paul Killer for sure. To be fair equal at worse.

[@frankdardano3182]

If you want a real guitar, GIBSON. There are others. Same with cars, why buy, and bitch,YOU bought it! I don't care for your twinkle sound, can't you do better? Watch Tim, you will learn how to get a full sound out of a SG. Meanwhile,you can appear all week, in your room. Nothing wrong with that, we are both too old too play pro anymore. Like your delay,everything else is the usual one of a million stuff. Again, nothing wrong, nothing original. The best play open playing, doing their own stuff,even if it's not difficult,IT'S ORIGINAL! Why listen to a copy, when you have the original?

[@axesandelbows414]

Ok.. I've always wanted an SG and today I pulled the trigger on the '61 Standard. I can't wait for this thing to throw some 🫏

[@GearGasms]

Cool where did you order it from?

[@axesandelbows414]

@@GearGasms Gibson Mod Shop! I scored the SG Standard '61 in Persimmon Magic! My Dream Donkey for sure! 🎈

[@GearGasms]

Hell yeah! A Trogly worthy purchase for sure!

[@brianseneca3546]

How old are you? Youre pictures of your first guitars and attire closely match mine! Also you're SG story mirrors mine! I have always been a Les Paul guy even in the 80's when everyone was playing Charvels and Jacksons etc etc. Ace was my first guitar hero followed by Joe Perry who obviously both played Les Pauls. I agree I didnt like the look either. But like you I went into my local guitar store and my buddy was selling his 61 reissue. The EXACT same thing happened to me! Sounded great, played great (and I usually favor big necks) I have the vibrola, which I never touch unless it was an accident. I DO like how the small guard looks over the batman guard. It is now one of my GO TO guitars. Enjoy my friend I know I am

[@GearGasms]

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[@danpalmer4820]

I love the way SG's look (especially with the new colors), but they've always felt oddly balanced to me. Club neck and skinny body. Never tried the 61 Standard, though. Maybe they're better. Good video.

[@GearGasms]

I get ya but this neck is opposite of clubby- it’s sleek and amazing! Try one out for sure! Thanks for the kind words!

[@dlpasco]

OMG. I went through exactly the same thing. Thought my SG was garbage because it wasn't a Charvel/Jackson with EMGs. Decades later, still have the SG. It's irreplaceable. Nothing like it.

[@GearGasms]

We are not alone!! Yeah full circle with this one!

[@quasimodo8072]

Aight cuzes I'm bout ti fill ye in on the perfect SG set up! 1. Move strap button the horn, it lessens dive a lil and all of the roll away 2. Add a fine tuner tailpiece 3. Add a roller wheel bridge 4. Add locking tuners 5. Maybe a roller nut too but mine stayed without one 2.

[@GearGasms]

🤘🏻🎸

[@saddle8bag]

I bought one years ago. Had a shitty bridge on that wouldn't sustain a millisecond. I bought a Callaham bridge for it that fixed that problem. I think I got the same pups you have. Probably great in a band to cut, but way too bright for my ears in the house. My next mod was dropping Gibson's humbucker sized P-90s in it. I think the tuners are kind crappy. Hard to keep in tune for long, but I doubt I'll change those. I'm not much of a lead virtuoso, but I will say that tweedling around on the SG is the easiest of my 3 electrics. My one other gripe about it is the fret nubs. They look nice and all, but the high E string want's to fall right off the fret board the string gets anywhere near those things. I do love the lightness of that guitar. It's the one I'm most likely to pickup and noodle around on unplugged as it's very comfortable to hold while I watch a baseball game on TV.

[@GearGasms]

Wow - what year is yours? This one is obviously newer so they have apparently stepped it up since yours

[@brianphelps1183]

I have not found an SG I could gel with, love the look though.

[@GearGasms]

What was it that you didn’t like?

[@robinfawcett7973]

I've always had the feeling that Batman owned one of these... maybe in matt black? Cheers

[@GearGasms]

Yes it is very bat like! Maybe I’ll call it Bruce Wayne or at least Robert Pattinson lol

[@SwankyJami]

Maaannn I can't wait to finally get a SG!! It's definitely gonna be an Epiphone, because 1. I'm a novice player and 2. I'm only paying for a Gibson SG when I can afford it and truly play it lol

[@GearGasms]

I’ll be doing an Epiphone SG on the channel soon. Epiphone is way more than good enough! Glad to have you around!

[@juniorkong9587]

Ok well at least this guy is funny as hell, from the right era and pretty original. I think I’ll subscribe. Keith

[@GearGasms]

Thank you Keith! Welcome to the family!

[@bluehappyscrap]

AWESOME!!!💯🌍

[@GearGasms]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@RoquetteAttaquer]

The most unique guitar that no other manufacturer copied

[@GearGasms]

Interesting thought but yes!

[@Carlosocc95]

I also hate sgs but for some reason I need one 😂

[@GearGasms]

Funny how that is!

[@thecollector3780]

The SG is a rebellious guitar it was called The Les paul when it released in 61 when it clearly doesnt look anything like a Les paul model the two red horns make it look devious there's a reason why its Called The Red Devil this guitar is not for the faint of heart 😈🤘

[@GearGasms]

Yeah horns up with this one for sure! Would love to have you subscribe if not already! Thank you!

[@Tcrunk365]

Another banger.

[@GearGasms]

Thank you!

[@randrothify]

Of all the pointy Gibsons, the SG is the only that I like the looks of probably because it’s the only one with balanced proportions.

[@GearGasms]

Yeah it’s a great design!

[@thedawnoftheblackhearts2745]

All right, all right, but now let's go back and talk about serious things like futuristic pink guitars. Let's make glam metal great again

[@GearGasms]

lol preach brother!

[@izzajoker]

The first bend you did would have knocked my epi SG out of tune permanently. Loved it otherwise.

[@GearGasms]

lol!

[@R1GAMBLER]

time to learn some Electric Wizard riffs

[@GearGasms]

On it!

[@R1GAMBLER]

@@GearGasms guess I'm the only one who loves the SG batwing pickguard kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4aThYiIYtRpnacfeature=shared

[@saneone100]

I love mine.

[@GearGasms]

Played this in a video for Orange amps that I shot yesterday! Still loving it!

[@vince6792]

Derek Trucks called he wants his guitar back‼️ I would admire your new Gibson but every time I pick one up I feel like I'm cheating on my wife 😀 Will you ever do a vid on PRS? I would consider cheating if I was a PRS 😎

[@GearGasms]

Yeah I have a PRS C24 that I’ve not done a video on yet. It and the Taylor are the only two I’ve not made a video on yet. Honestly I’m a bit sheepish about playing so poorly on such expensive guitars.

[@vince6792]

@@GearGasms you play fine Alan!! You're showcasing the instrument not your level of expertise. Although I understand you're POV... I'm not sure I would do it either, then again, musicians are becoming extinct. Sad but true, AI is the future of music. Thank you for still making these fun entertaining videos and sharing a small part of your personal life with your fans. You are appreciated and I hope you are doing and feeling great 💯👍😊‼️

[@richardjohnson8546]

Get your hands on a PRS S2 McCarty 594 Thinline. It’ll make you hate the SG even more. It’s a SG done right!

[@GearGasms]

On it! 🤓

[@jonmurphy776]

Nice 🎸 ! Kinda surprised though to see a young SC rocker without a mullet! Borderline disappointing!😂

[@GearGasms]

Aha but I was in Georgia! Lol

[@TheScumAlsoRises]

Is your model a couple years old? Saw it had the baby photo, which Gibson stopped including a year or two ago. Regardless, I love this guitar. I have the same model, in transparent teal. Saw that color randomly on sale for 25% off at GC one day and had to pick it up.

[@GearGasms]

No it’s from late 2023. Bet yours is beautiful- never seen that color!

[@johnsmith-ug5tp]

"They did not." 😢🤗🤣

[@GearGasms]

They’d recognize Mimisounds tho lol!

[@johnsmith-ug5tp]

@@GearGasms HAHA! And the twins

[@andrewtschuta2627]

12:25 Lol

[@GearGasms]

Honesty! 🤓

[@andrewtschuta2627]

@@GearGasms I should specify the "Oh brother this guy stinks!" part made me laugh not your playing.

[@GearGasms]

Well that guy is honest too is what I meant. All good! 😜

[@TREVORJB101]

I watched this video because of my dislike for SG's, lol

[@GearGasms]

Nice! Lol

[@Ethesilentkid]

The sg is just a metal elitist guitar

[@GearGasms]

Alrighty then! 🎸

[@markpell8979]

This is something you usually only have to remind the bass player, but DO NOT eat or snort the silica gel just because it looks like drugs. This advice courtesy of the White Trash Federation (WTF).

[@GearGasms]

That was a fat sack! I thought about busting it up and getting it out there on those corners! 😜

[@BlurpeeBaggins]

I have finally just accepted the fact I don’t like Gibsons. I don’t really even know why…maybe something traumatic happened to me with a Gibson as a child?

[@GearGasms]

Perhaps you fear Authentic. Perhaps you fear Mark Agnesi. 🤓

[@budgetguitarist]

Nice guitar, Alan! I recently bought a used Epiphone SG. It hangs on my wall, looking cool, and I pick it up and play it, and it sounds great (because I upgraded the bridge pickup) but it's a little uncomfy to play sitting down. So I put it back on the wall, and it calls to me again. I'd love to pick up a Gibson SG for the right budget price, but that's not likely to happen.

[@GearGasms]

What is it about sitting down? Does it neck dive?