Pete Townsend with P90 soapbars on a Strat.
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Gibson Les Paul Gold Top with p90 soapbars.
Mike Ness of Social Distortion set up.
I guess that most people agree on the fact that Les Paul is the Punk Rock Guitar No1. The Sex Pistols, theClash, the Damned, Social Distortion blah blah blah all played Les Pauls. Some played/play SG, like Ebba Grön, Asta Kask and Rancid. Either it is Gibson or Epiphones the handle it all about that Les Paul and SG sound. But not all of them had that crispy, crunchy sound. Like the way Social Distortion have. It not in the guitar itself it is in. It is in the pick ups. P90 was the fifties Les Paul pick up. A noisy and crunchy pick up that was replaced by the more silent Humbuckers.
If you listen to guitar heroes like Pete Townsend in the Who, especially in the ...We don´t be fooled again song, you hear that special crunch. The extra power that shoots out of the guitar because the pick ups. Neil Youngs uber noisy distortion is also the works of the P90ies. Mike Ness of Social Distortion is another P90 guy. How ever to make it easier to fit in the standard slot where the Humbuckers are placed, Gibson designed the P94 pick up, a P90 for the Humbucker slots. There are other manufacturer of the P90/P94´s, Swedish Lundgren Revolver is an exellent pick up with the same sound.
To play with those pick ups is both a powerful experience and annoying, because the noise in it self is a helluva job to handle. But it is so punk rock it hurts.
If you listen to guitar heroes like Pete Townsend in the Who, especially in the ...We don´t be fooled again song, you hear that special crunch. The extra power that shoots out of the guitar because the pick ups. Neil Youngs uber noisy distortion is also the works of the P90ies. Mike Ness of Social Distortion is another P90 guy. How ever to make it easier to fit in the standard slot where the Humbuckers are placed, Gibson designed the P94 pick up, a P90 for the Humbucker slots. There are other manufacturer of the P90/P94´s, Swedish Lundgren Revolver is an exellent pick up with the same sound.
To play with those pick ups is both a powerful experience and annoying, because the noise in it self is a helluva job to handle. But it is so punk rock it hurts.
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