OffYourFace wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 11:25 am
The red one I just bought only weighs 9.6 lbs. so that's not too bad. It doesn't have the coil splits which is a bummer but I have about 100 single coil guitars already so... haha.
I was psyched that he took $1300 for it. But with the new Reverb and CA tax laws, I paid $120 tax (and $50 shipping).
I was supposed to buy a nice 1981 brown sunburst SG2000 locally for $1700 but the buyer sold it yesterday morning. Then a few hours later I saw this red one on Reverb. It all worked out
What's weird is that I found the same red SG2000 on RockNRoll Vintage's website as a sold item. It was listed for $1995. I'm not sure if it sold for that much and how long ago it sold.
This is the exact guitar I bought:
https://rocknrollvintage.com/listing/31466440
I love them, though I only own a related model a (tapped) SA1200S semi which (
whisper it so they don't hear) I probably like more than my Gretches. I really liked it before but I really like the playing of the guitarist in
Second Still (who totally nail the sound IMO and the sound I sought as pup in the early 80's) and plays a 335 and I found my Yamaha hit that post punk spot perfectly and easily with my JC and BOSS lineup when if I'm honest the Gretsch are little too stately to want to conjure swirls and squalls, they are more swans gliding around while the SA is a peregrine falcon in a dive. Sadly that guitar is in another house and I've not seen it for 3 months but I hope to soon. I often look at SG1000's, the guitarist in my early 80's goth band played a 500 while wanting a 1000 and I always loved playing it, though if I could find the right SA1200 for sale I fancy putting Filtertrons in one as a way of unifying my spheres as it were, I also fancy that one having a Bigsby but I'd have to get it plugged and refinished on top to do that since I can't be bothered with that ugly Vibramate fuss and bother.
Btw on the taps...I've always found them the only ones that actually do something I'd want, I really hope yours has them.
The thing about Yamaha SG's is I don't really like the looks, i mean they look better than a Gibson SG which is too horned god for the loafer goth likes of me or is that it's just the wrong horned god, the potbellied be-chapped horned god of shuttlecock down the troosers rawk. Yeah not fond of the looks but I am fond of their fitness for purpose and no nonsense nature, I was going to say they are the Range Rover 3 Doors of guitars but I'd have to admit a Yamaha is better built!
I'd also say that some of the rawk undesirables getting into them as discussed in the past with Eggwheat kinda puts me of, or perhaps I'm just not able to transcend such knobbery, though you could say that about all the utter tools with offsets these day.
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