50th Anniversary Pete Townshend SG

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:17 pm

50th Anniversary Pete Townshend SGs(Link) Long Live Rock!

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It would look good next to my Les Paul Deluxe!

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:28 pm

I like a nice white Gibson and the wraparound bridge is a very brilliant idea, but I still hate those neck-diving sons of bitches.

kypdurron · Post by **kypdurron** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:32 pm

I thought PT was older

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:34 pm

I like the OHM case!

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:04 pm

Sparky wrote:I like the OHM case!

lel

SGJarrod · Post by **SGJarrod** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:18 am

callin dibs..... not being a richard...seriously...dibs

I want to do very naughty things to it

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:39 am

i want to make it smoke from my HMS BONG and ask it stories about life on the road

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 6:56 pm

They are in stock at MF(Link)

MikeG · Post by **MikeG** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:07 pm

Bit unfortunate having the Who logo painted on the side.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:49 pm

MikeG wrote:Bit unfortunate having the Who logo painted on the side.

I thought is said "OHM"!

OHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Actually,I think it is unfortunate that "Gibson USA" is painted on the side.

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:54 pm

westtexasred wrote:
MikeG wrote:Bit unfortunate having the Who logo painted on the side.
I thought is said "OHM"

hahahahaha, i like that

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:15 pm

Amazon says "only 19 left" at Musician's Friend(Link)

pumpkin · Post by **pumpkin** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:21 pm

I used to drive the sets for The Who on their world tours. Great days. Till I found out some things about Pete Townshend that I didn't like. And all I'll say is - and I said it to his face - where is the book?

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:08 pm

One of my ultimate do want guitars, if only it had a beefy neck profile (and a non-chintzy headstock decal).

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:06 pm

Thanks! I should get it tomorrow provided UPS doesn't drive by my house without stopping like last time.

From the lot notes of the Christie's auction for the white SG:

"Pete Townshend appears to have owned at least two, or possibly three Polaris White Gibson SG Specials. This guitar, and another version that is documented in photographs of The Who on stage in Holland, 10th March, 1973, are distinctive because they both have three holes on the body where the tailpiece has been removed - this version has three holes that form a triangle on the body whereas the other version has three holes in a straight line below the bridge.
Photographs taken by Robert Ellis at the Odeon Theatre in Newcastle on 6th November, 1973, the second of three nights in Newcastle during the Fallout Shelter Tour, show Pete Townshend prior to going on stage holding the guitar in this Lot [see photograph above] and photographs from the same night show Townshend on stage with the guitar [see front cover photograph].

The Gibson SG is the model of guitar with which Townshend is most associated. He used this model almost exclusively on stage between 1968-1973. He tended to use SGs dating between 1966-1970, which are identified by their full black wraparound pickguard. Gibson changed the SG's specification in 1971 - according to an interview with Townshend published in Guitar Player magazine, May/June, 1972: ...They took the old SG off the market like about a year ago, so we used up every old SG in the country...I raided every music store in the country practically, looking for old SGs... When supplies of 1966-1970 models began to dry up, he then briefly switched to pre-1966 models with the smaller pickguard such as the guitar in this lot. Subsequently, at the end of 1973, he switched permanently to using a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe.
Townshend often took off the tailpiece and tremolo arm on his Gibson SG guitars as, according to him, the guitars ...were a bit weak, which was the only problem; I could actually break them with my bare hands. But that's when I started to develop that technique because you didn't need a tremolo arm. You could do it by just shaking the guitar...

In the late 1970s, the vendor obtained this guitar from a former employee of The Who who was learing to play, and to whom Townshend had given the guitar in the mid-1970s."

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:06 am

musiciansfriend wrote:Top it all off with a set of vintage-style tuners with pearloid buttons

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:18 am

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 6:30 am

Sparky wrote:

Hey, it was research!

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:32 am

My friend on another forum got one of the Robbie Krieger SGs today.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:12 pm

SG's look best with less shit on them. I dig it.