1954 Fender Stratocaster #0001 vs Gibson SG Custom 1970

The 1954 Fender Stratocaster #0001 and the Gibson SG Custom 1970 are both electric guitars. Current prices: $2675 vs $6799.

Similarity
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38% — somewhat different

Shared genres
citedGenres both listings are associated with.
  • Rock

Gibson SG Custom 1970

Gibson · electric guitar

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Price

$2675via Reverb

$6799via Reverb

Description

The Fender Stratocaster 0001 is a 1954 Stratocaster carrying the ceremonial serial number 0001, made by Leo Fender not as the literal first Stratocaster off the line (that distinction belongs to serial 0100, now owned by collector George Gruhn) but as a symbolic piece for a distributor. David Gilmour acquired it in 1978 from his guitar technician Phil Taylor, who had bought it from Seymour Duncan for 900 dollars. Gilmour used it on Pink Floyds The Wall, including the guitar line on Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, and has called it the perfect Stratocaster, though its rarity means it is seldom seen live.

Angus Young's modified 1970s Gibson SG Custom is best remembered from AC/DC's 1979 Hammersmith Odeon concert during the Highway to Hell tour, and continued to see occasional use into the 1980 Back in Black tour, most likely acquired during a 1978 US visit. According to his guitar tech, the guitar originally shipped in a walnut finish with three pickups and a tremolo unit, a spec distinct from the two-pickup SG Standard, in walnut with a Lyre Maestro tremolo, that had been Young's very first guitar and his main studio instrument on AC/DC's earliest albums. Together the two guitars mark different points in Young's early rig: the Standard for foundational studio work, the Custom for a specific, well-documented stretch of high-profile live shows during one of the band's most pivotal touring periods.

Genres
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  • Hard Rock
  • Metal
  • Punk
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