Many guitar purists insist that SG necks are unstable and prone to damage. I wouldn't have a clue. I only know my best pals 69 SG had the skinniest dern neck I've ever played. And...natch...he traded it away back when everything cost next to nothing. Sigh.

PS: oh yea, I almost forgot...my other best pal recently got the first SG he's ever owned in over thirty years of pro playing (the Standard, I believe...in white) and just loves the heck out of it.

I love the neck on 'em. It just sticks out of the body "weirdly" for me! LOL
M

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jamesg1213

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I know you will enjoy the SG.... to me, it's one of the finest guitars ever made. It has a slim, thin neck, it's weight is perfect, and such a sexy shape, throw in the dual humbuckers covered in chrome........ nothing even comes close IMHO.....
 

Talk about 'in the eye of the beholder'..love the sound of an SG (especially Angus' clean/dirty tone), but really don't like it's looks at all.

I'm with you James. Hard to enjoy playing a guitar that is just butt ugly. Maybe if I could tell the difference of what type of solid body guitar the HB sounds made things may look different to me.
 

 
Y'all are killing me here....
 
I guess I kinda feel the same way about the "plain Jane" look of some of the other guitars that people seem to go bonkers over. To each his own, and yes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Some things are so ugly, they are cute? At least that's what I've heard. I don't care.... she's all mine and I wouldn't trade or sell her for nothing. And I think she's beautiful. So there.....take that. 
 
Rain.... don't you be listening to them talk that way.... Get that SG.... she's a beautiful thing.

I had a SG 5 string bass guitar at one time. I would not buy it again as mentioned above because of the neck. Too much tension in the strings for it.
And unfortunately I would think that way about the guitar also. (for the price I think there are better guitars out there perhaps, maybe it is just something with the thinner neck -hard to say but not a bass guitar in that design. Sorry but I know for sure but that was some years ago now).
 
As to Allman Brothers some I think became Sea Level after the demise:
Never really caught on though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIXuCGLfcFU
 
(a favorite song).
 
Album the song is on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5zWvZWgrs0
A few songs of that will warm you up to the Allman Brothers although different.
Actually an ugly time in the history of music since Disco was big at the time for some reason no one like me knows.
Like Trance music nowadays for some other reason no one like me understands.
This concludes your music history lesson for today. Music to shake your finger at, and perhaps not your index finger.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The fastest and easiest neck I ever played on was an SG. What a Beaut Rain!

Maybe on a guitar!
 

My last student (I've stopped teaching after 50 years of it) just got a '61 Historic SG for his high school graduation/ 18th birthday present. Nice gift, eh?!   ....I will have to check that out.
 
RE the Allman Brothers Band. I remember waking up to Dreams one morning in Chicago (early '70?). It was the first I'd heard of them and it blew me away. I saw them in DC with the Band and the Dead, back then. Eat A Peach and the first LP still stick out the most for me, though Live At The Fillmore was killer, too.
Michael

The first band I jammed with in high school the bass player had the Gibson SG bass... EB0 I believe.   We had a matched looking pair...   Same color scheme.

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spacey

jamesg1213

Guitarhacker
 
I know you will enjoy the SG.... to me, it's one of the finest guitars ever made. It has a slim, thin neck, it's weight is perfect, and such a sexy shape, throw in the dual humbuckers covered in chrome........ nothing even comes close IMHO.....
 

Talk about 'in the eye of the beholder'..love the sound of an SG (especially Angus' clean/dirty tone), but really don't like it's looks at all.

I'm with you James. Hard to enjoy playing a guitar that is just butt ugly. Maybe if I could tell the difference of what type of solid body guitar the HB sounds made things may look different to me.
 

 
Y'all are killing me here....
 
I guess I kinda feel the same way about the "plain Jane" look of some of the other guitars that people seem to go bonkers over. To each his own, and yes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Some things are so ugly, they are cute? At least that's what I've heard. I don't care.... she's all mine and I wouldn't trade or sell her for nothing. And I think she's beautiful. So there.....take that. 
 
Rain.... don't you be listening to them talk that way.... Get that SG.... she's a beautiful thing.

LOL...there are many guitars I think are ugly but I'm glad they're there for those that like them.
And really...does anybody here play a guitar because of what somebody else thinks?  .
And another good thing...Rain doesn't have to worry about me buying the one he wants LOL.
 
 

I would have to say to Rain, I always trust  whatever "calls" me about a guitar (or mic or any instrument, VST etc) is going to continue to inspire me for a long time. I don't have any experience (none in my almost 51 years of "playing") to the contrary.
 
So, go for it! There are some items that I have never owned that it is now time for, and a few that have been long absent in my daily life, that are going to get "put back in place". I love being inspired!
 
Michael