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Gibson Murphy Lab 1964 SG Heavy Aged demo
As our two friends agree in the thumbnail, the SG is a classic. Both George Harrison and notably Angus Young have used this guitar and Angus almost exclusively!
Born out of the commercial ashes of the then failed Les Paul model, the new Les Paul model confused a few back in 1961 as it bore little resemblance to the rather staid and traditional guitar that had been Les Paul's signature model since 1952. This one was a double cutaway with strange carvings and a tremolo system apparently made from a cut up sardine can which was half the thickness of the heavy predecessor.
It was still the Les Paul standard though!
Now, a few years later and the Les Paul model designation had vanished for reasons unknown and Gibson was calling this guitar the 'SG'.
Fender must have scared Gibson a little as the Stratocaster was taking off with its slinky double cutaway, light weight and whammy bar, so the SG was meant to compete. It didn't really.
However, it's never been out of production and stays popular to this day.
My one is a 2021 Custom Shop Murphy Lab re-issue and Heavy Aged. 2021 was the first year of the Murphy Lab and they went out of their way to make this thing look like a vintage original. Uncanny really. The Maestro Vibrola works as, by this time, Gibson had re-learned how to set the neck and to forge that spring steel to make the break angle actually work unlike a previous USA Robbie krieger model I owned (briefly). That one didn't work at all!
I'm demoing this into a Two Rock Classic Reverb and its 2x12" cabinet with a Rode NT1-A and Sure SM57 off axis slightly on the lower speaker and recorded into a Presonus Studio 68C and Studio One. No funny stuff in post!
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