1967 Gibson SG Custom - White vs Gibson ES-125

The 1967 Gibson SG Custom - White and the Gibson ES-125 are both electric guitars sharing warm, dynamic. The 1967 Gibson SG Custom - White leans smooth and full. The Gibson ES-125 leans transparent and tight.

Similarity
citedBlended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.

51% moderately similar

Shared genres
citedGenres both listings are associated with.
  • Blues
  • Rock
Shared tone character
citedDerived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.
  • warm
  • dynamic

Gibson ES-125

Unknown brand · electric guitar

Citation fame
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Price

$1450via Reverb

Description

Jimi Hendrix played a white 1967 Gibson SG Custom, a mahogany-bodied, three-humbucker guitar he first used at a Rhode Island Auditorium show in November 1968 and later played, strung for a right-handed guitar despite his left-handed technique, on The Dick Cavett Show on September 9 1969 for a medley of Izabella and Machine Gun. It was also seen at Woodstock. The three humbuckers gave a thicker, more powerful tone than the single-coil Stratocasters most associated with Hendrix, and the white finish has aged to a pale yellow over the decades since.

The Gibson ES-125 is a semi-hollow body electric guitar delivering warm, articulate tone with natural feedback control. Its single-cutaway design and P90 pickups provide jazz and rhythm tone. The ES-125 appeals to jazz and blues players.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • Hard Rock
  • Experimental
  • Psychedelic Rock
  • Jazz
  • Metal
  • Blues Rock
Tonal lean
  • smooth
  • full
  • sustaining
  • fuzzy
  • transparent
  • tight

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