08 Sep Angus Young FIRST SG (video)
The good ol’ Kyle (BackingTracks on YouTube) has allowed me to post this video of his. This represents his knowledge in discerning the differences among Gibson SG guitar models in the years range 1967-1972.
Enjoy, and thanks, Kyle!
SD 😉
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Kirk2000
Posted at 23:22h, 09 SeptemberHere is just a little excerpt from an interview with Eddie Van Halen from the 80’s about the Schaffer Vega wireless system he used.. KIRK
GP: Do you use wireless transmitters?
EVH: Yeah, I always do because I bounce around a lot. My first one was a Schaffer-Vega. It took me a long time to get it working right with my system because at the time my amps were so powerful that the thing was overdriven and wouldn’t work. It was too much power. Then when I got weaker amps I could use it. If you use it with too high of an amp it will just freak out; you get the weirdest feedback noises you ever heard in your life. And then I got a Nasty Cordless. Now the Schaffer-Vega is tuned to a fixed frequency, and one of the advantages of the Nasty is that you can dial in the frequency, just like a radio. The Schaffer-Vega has a built-in compressor in the transmitter, which is kind of cool, depending on what amp you use it with. I think that the Nasty is weaker. Like with the Schaffer-Vega I’m always reaching at my knob, trying to get 11 out of it instead of 10. And with the Nasty, I’m reaching for 14, so I use an equalizer to boost it. But it is actually a cleaner sounding system. When we played the Budokan in Japan I couldn’t use either one because there were heavy radio signals everywhere.
SoloDallas
Posted at 10:21h, 26 SeptemberVERY informative, thank you Kirk. I think the Schaffer-Vega had a compressor and a booster, and Angus took advantage of both.
KyleSG
Posted at 19:49h, 08 SeptemberThanks for posting Fil 🙂 should have mentioned something about the made in U.S.A but anyways.
KyleSG
Posted at 19:52h, 08 Septemberwait nvm I did mention about the made in usa lol
thearmedmonkey
Posted at 10:00h, 08 SeptemberHi.
My SG has the cutouts of a 1970 model but not the “Made in U.S.A” on the back of the neck. So is this an early 70′ ? Or late 69?
Thanks, Lasse
SoloDallas
Posted at 16:25h, 08 SeptemberI’d say either one would be a good guess!
Dries
Posted at 06:27h, 08 SeptemberHi ,
I had e time ago studied his guitars to, I’ve found some remarkable things about Angus’ SG’s around ’78. Seems he had more than one ‘first guitar’, or he repaired it several times that year. What do you think of it?
http://everythingsg.com/forum/index.php?topic=17019.msg248426#msg248426
SoloDallas
Posted at 06:30h, 08 SeptemberAhhh… I remember that post: it was YOU then!
I think that that’s Angus’ FIRST SG.
There is proved facts – Jaydee’s luthier statements – that state that that guitar went into a number of repairs. That guitar today may also be the one with the thunder inlays – one of the three – I am writing another article about it.
Dries
Posted at 06:35h, 08 SeptemberYeah. There are some great pics around. Many details to see on them.
SoloDallas
Posted at 06:40h, 08 SeptemberIf you have good images PLEASE submit them to solodallas@gmail.com
Credit will be given to YOUR for them!
Thanks,
Fil
whiskeyontherocks
Posted at 16:13h, 08 SeptemberWhy did he put tape on the guitar?
Dries
Posted at 16:20h, 08 SeptemberTo hold the parts together. No, actually he used it for taping off the tone controls – as far as I can see -, also to cover some holes.
But there’s one thing that sticks with me. If you look on the video footage of ‘ Fling Thing/Rocker’ live in Glasgow – Apollo, you can see his input jack hanging around, and the rest of the show it was IN the jack. So that means that the signal from the pickup wasn’t going trough his front jack, and that there was something extra in his pickup captivity. It would be no suprise to me if there was a booster in it too.
Watch and see ( It’s also in the Family Jewels box );
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9qMB8PD_wk
SoloDallas
Posted at 16:24h, 08 SeptemberI concur to the boost theory. He NEVER stated it, but later on went on Schaffer Vega (wireless boost) which affected massively his tone. So…
Dries
Posted at 16:27h, 08 SeptemberLook at this, just uploaded a picture of it. It looks strange, isn’t it?
http://i56.tinypic.com/xmq45e.png
SoloDallas
Posted at 16:33h, 08 SeptemberUnbelievable. This one I can’t explain! O.o
Dries
Posted at 16:35h, 08 SeptemberWell, there is much more going on that we don’t know about – I think -. This is his ‘first SG’, where a badass bridge is mounted on.
But there MUST be something in that pickup captivity !
SoloDallas
Posted at 16:35h, 08 SeptemberWait, he’s ALREADY using the Schaffer Vega system there. So he HAD boost from that. The additional jack might be a spare in case he broke one cable.
Dries
Posted at 16:37h, 08 SeptemberThat could explain it. But there certainly must be a boost. A JTM45, or JMP50 would never distort so much like his tone in that era’.
SoloDallas
Posted at 16:40h, 08 SeptemberThe Schaffer Vega HAD two boosts! One on the receiver and one on the sender side. Tony Platt says Angus used it all the time and it affect tone massively.
Dries
Posted at 16:45h, 08 SeptemberExplains a lot. But that wireless system is extremely rare !
But his tone, and Mal’s ( listen to bootlegs ) were massive changed from the moment of Back in Black, such a difference to performances in ’79 and early ’80s, to me it’s like a turning point in their sound.
whiskeyontherocks
Posted at 16:37h, 08 SeptemberI see, Thanks to you and Solo. But I’m still confused as to what the hanging wire was for if the signal wasn’t going to the front jack…
SoloDallas
Posted at 16:24h, 08 SeptemberSweat. To avoid sweat entering the holes.