The SG and the Strat are the 2 most beautiful guitars ever made !

I’m the opposite. I’ve always loved SG’s, and to me it’s what I imagine a Les Paul is to others - it has a classic tone, I love the look, the feel, everything about them. I suppose I’m lucky I prefer the cheaper guitar.

Nice Playing...Kossoff, Mr. Big ? Iommi has used them his entire career. Maybe the rosewood neck, with binding has a smoother feel. Hence the cost will increase. Nice work man!

I love my 3 SGs, got a Standart, a 3 Pickup Deluxe and a Junior. Love the sound and the playability of the upper Fretboard, can even use my thumb up there...

I wonder if you're getting stuck on the SG because of low frets. I'm not sure if Gibson fret sizes change from one model to another but I usually wish they were just a bit higher for my taste. And of course they will vary just slightly from one guitar to another because the frets are levelled in the set up process. If the frets go in less perfectly then more material comes off the frets.

EPIC! BRAVO! The SG is >YOU! QUESTION: How do you get your vibrato so tight? Like Toni Iommi? What gauge of strings do you use? THANKS!

I play an SG because I want that Les Paul thang without the weight.

I’ve had a love/hate thing with SG’s for years. Love the way they look, and some of my favorite players ever used them. But I’ve never got on with actually playing one. The neck dive alone turns me off, and the thin body just feels weird to me. For upper fret access and a fast neck I just use my Strat (HSS) or my ESP. Both are perfectly balanced and play like butter.

I was looking at mine hanging on the wall and I thought "Why don’t I play that more?" There is a bit of a tuning issue but a String Butler has helped. I need to pick it up again. That one sounds awesome!

Joey that guitar sounds sooo sick !!

I bought my daughter an SG for her first guitar. I thought I was going to love it because I'm a big fan of Pete Townshend's tone using one from the early 70's, but I never really connected with it. Also, I have a hard time keeping it in tune. I prefer the versatility of my Strat. She took lessons on it for awhile and pretty much gave up on guitar for now. I'll keep it around just in case wants to get back into it sometime, or trade it for something she wants.

I played my buddies SG and I got lost on the neck. It seems SOOOO long, compared to other guitars. I play LP's and Tele's, where the necks join the bodies in similar positions. The SG is just different in that regard. I have a LP junior that is just like what you have there, but the board is rosewood. Single P90 is killer! I agree with other comments, your Tele fits your style very well!! Love your playing bro.

I know they are great sounding guitars. But not for me. I dont like the look.

BRILLIANT! SG juniors are great, I have the 2018

SGs can be made to the ultimate solidbody if the can mount any pickup in the pickguard like for example I'd love to see 2 single coils and a humbucker with a vibrato trem

I have 3 SG’s and they’re all completely different. I love them all, but rarely gig with them.

This is going to be a weird one, but may be a good example of it’s strange “niche”. I’m a country/rock guitarist. Keith Urban started playing juniors in the late 00s and still does sometimes. I loved the sound of the Les Paul Jr., but I ended up selling it and later regretting that. Years later, I opted to purchase an SG Jr. because I remembered my love for the single p-90, but wondered how it would sound with a bit thinner body. Boom. I found what I would refer to as Keith’s Junior sound but slightly thinner, which works out incredibly well for country music. I’d go as far to say that the Gibson SG is the closest thing to a telecaster in the Gibson line-up. Again, super weird, but dang if I don’t get a kick out of using one!

Good video, understood your point of view. If I had to choose between a Les Paul and a SG I would choose the SG. The Les Paul is IMO not as comfortable to play because of the position of the neck joint. And I love the sound of SGs. They are IMears a little more transparent compared to most LPs. I have both a SG std and a SGjr. I like to quote Mike Campbell, it is nice to have different flavours of sounds and tones like a painter uses different flavours of any colour to paint a good picture. Not that I produce hit records as a successfull artist like him, but I feel inspired using those flavours and I certainly play slightly and sometimes more differently on each guitar.

I would be interested in it, if it had a set of Gibson Dirty Fingers pickups in it. But the P90 on its own sounds a bit weak. Great playing, but I can’t put my finger on the song you played? Something for me to consider/ponder all night 😉

Very fast neck, but i couldn't take the neck dive. It always sounded thin next to my Les Paul. Like you, it didn't have a place in my guitar arsenal that wasn't filled by another guitar.

I like my Sg though its a Custom Pro and not a jr, especially the bite and the weight but I find it a little uncomfortable so a belly cut would be nice!

Funnily enough, I just bought a great copy of a Les Paul Junior (Custom 77, a French brand) from a guy who said it was "not his thing" and he "mostly played SGs".

I've always loved SGs, but not enough to buy one. Instead, I opted for a really great Yamaha SG I got in a trade decades ago. I loved it. I wish I still had it. I'm either going to find one on the used market or get a Guild Polara, which is the best SG "inspired" ax on the market today. The thing about the SG, or SG style guitars is that, unlike a PRS, they don't offer the perfect fusion of a Les Paul and a Strat, the two most popular guitars of all time. The SG is still very popular guitar, but issues like neck dive and tuning stability are probably bigger factors than tone. The tone is great. No, not as thick as an LP, but Tony Iommi and many other players have done a fine job of getting heavy chugging metal from an SG. As I play classic rock, and SG is fine for me, tone wise. Another nice thing about the SG is playability. They are just some of the easiest guitars to play. Maybe I'll change my mind and buy the real deal one day, but not before I buy a Polara.

Damn... you have a great feel. Really "in the pocket" 👍🤘

That Kossoff vibrato ...

Personally, Telecasters and SGs are the perfect match together. I also love Jazzmasters and Les Pauls. But I find myself gravitating more with Teles and SGs. I believe you should try an SG Standard with an Rounded Neck, far more versatile than the Les Paul in terms of everything. It’s important to mention that Gibson never got discontinued the SG. You just need a good strap. Serious I really your videos and thanks for sharing really good stuff. My 2 Cents.

Nice SG! I have a Gibson Tribute and I love it... however, I like my Les Paul Junior a bit more. The SG Junior seems to be the best of both worlds. Cheers from Hamburg!

Mine at least, is not well balanced (easy to fix with a leather strap) but also, the position of the pickups seems out of my arms way and dont find it comfortable to play. Also, don;'t like the front facing input jack. :S

I believe the SG is Gibson’s best selling guitar so I think a lot of people play them.

Dear brother Joey! Even a plank of wood with one string would sound amazing in your hands!

I’d give up my LP standard long before I gave up my SG

Ok but what is the song though

I love my SG Jr

You don't like SG's but you own that couch? Hmm.

Servus, also ich als standardmäßiger SG Spieler find die Gitarre einfach nur mega. Sie sieht geil aus, ist super leicht, man kommt durch das Design perfekt an die ganz hohen Lagen und ich finde sie verdammt einfach zu spielen. Tony Iommi ist eben auch mein Lieblingsgitarrist, deshalb ist ne SG einfach ein Muss! :-)

Your intro got me thinking and it sounds right to me that for every 10 Les Paul owners and gigging LP players there is one SG player. But according to Gibson and their sales numbers the SG is their best selling guitar and it has out sold LPs. 90% of SG owners must be bedroom/basement players. haha

For me it’s the looks.

I like the Sg because its light with bite! My Sg is about 3 lbs lighter than my LP.

The song is: Mr. Big - Mr. Big

If it's good enough for Tony Iommi... Still not interested in playing one myself, though. 😅

Are you German? Or do you live on Germany? atleast your english sounds not so German. But I immediately recognized my hometown. xD

I'd say, as a lifelong SG player, that you can't base your opinion on playing an SG Junior with a maple fretboard. That is a guitar with a very specific sound and feel. If you like thinner necks look for a '61 reissue/standard. If fatter, a production line standard or find one with a 50s neck specs and see how that tickles you. Two pickup gives you a lot more options. Roll off the tone on the neck pickup on an SG and you have Clapton's famous "woman" tone, which is gloriuous.

I used to hate SG's. I hated the look. I hated the red. And I hated the horns. I thought it was a lame attempt to be "edgy" by being a "Satan" head looking guitar. And I especially hated the batwing. I still do! But one day guitar scrolling, with all the main suspect slots filled in my collection - the strat , the tele the LP, the superstrats, the PRS, the offset... - and suddenly I found myself GAS'ing for a blue SG! 🤷‍♂️ Go figure! I still love Blue SG's the most, small guard...and have one (a special), bit would still love a Pelham Standard '61. Stoptail/TOM. I no longer see the horns as a lame "devil" affectation", having learnt first hand just how purposeful the shape is to the ergonomics. Compared to a Les Paul, this thing is like hugging a super model! A Strat to a tele is the SG to the LP : the sleeker, stripped down Mk 2 of the chunkier prototype, single-cut model. I still prefer my SG 's to be anything but red...and not batwing, if it all possible. But both have exceptions! (A cherry Junior for one ; and really funky batwing models can be alright, like one I saw: a pearlescent seafoam green / white batwing, triple gold humbuckers... C'mon!! 🤷‍♂️) As for tone.... I don't try to have them as competing for the LP sound. The LP has that cornered. But my SG Special is good for more articulate sounds...that doesn't have the flabbiness, and wooliness of the LP , clean from the neck . The SG Special is also....well, special.. because of the wraptail. It gives it such a 'snap' to rhythm riffing! I could riff out on mine for hours! The snarl and the snap! 😙👌 It definitely has its own thing going, and I'm so glad I grabbed her when I did - as an impulse during COVID _!!_

There a pain in the ass to sit with for me but I do love them

The SG, a model that has been in production consistently since it's introduction in 1961...but nobody plays them. They just buy them and let them sit in a corner and collect dust. Joey knows.

Its perfect for me, straight up ACDC

I never used to like SGs. I hated the body shape. It wasnt until i got to borrow a friend's SG Standard where my mind was changed. It wasnt in great condition. He got it as a high school graduation present, broke a string, then put it in its case for 5 years. There was nothing wrong with the guitar, just needed some love and care. I convinced him to let me borrow it to clean it up, do a basic set up, and restring it. After all was done it looked, felt, and played like it was brand new again. I got to hold onto it for 2 weeks and within those weeks it became my favorite humbucker guitar i have ever played. Tonally speaking it is the humbucker sound i wish i had. It was perfect. The neck dive could get annoying, but the way it sounded, the feel of the neck, and the way it resonated was more than enough to make me forget all about that pesky neck dive. It was a sad day i had to give it back to him.

10 years ago i move from a fender strat to an gibson sg, and coincidently (or not, who knows), for me everything go shit since then (musically talking). maybe i sell the little whore tomorrow

My SG is "neck heavy"

Too much analysis and opinions. Grab it and play the shit out of it.

Where did you come from? its look like germany like i life. In my opinion the necks of SG's are too fat and they look better than a les paul but not very well. Good i love Fender...😉🤟

The Gibson sg is gibsons top selling guitar……..

I just hate the SG body shape, it doesn’t look comfortable to hold or play

SGs are ugly, but sounds cool

From somebody who has owned a lot of guitars I would say the SG looks hideous. Really the Les Paul is beautiful. The Strat is iconic. The Dinky just plays well. The Tele is classically beautiful but the SG is just ugly. 90 % of guitar players agree and that is why they don't play them. It could be the best playing guitar ever. Nothing could change the fact that is a fat ugly slab of wood with no character.

Your Tele kills this Gibson.And Tele goes with your vibe.You don't sound like you on this Gibson.