Gibson Les Paul Custom 1969 vs Gibson SG Custom 1970
The Gibson Les Paul Custom 1969 and the Gibson SG Custom 1970 are both electric guitars. The Gibson Les Paul Custom 1969 leans tight and sustaining. Current prices: $1901.79 vs $6799.
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Blended 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.49% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Hard Rock
- Rock
- Punk
Gibson Les Paul Custom 1969
Gibson · electric guitar
Gibson SG Custom 1970
Gibson · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$1901.79via Reverb
$6799via Reverb
John Frusciante acquired this 1969 Gibson Les Paul Custom, fitted with two uncovered PAF-style humbuckers, around mid-2004 as a practical alternative to his SG, whose factory tremolo system his guitar technician Dave Lee found unreliable and impractical for touring. He used it to record Readymade on Stadium Arcadium and to add overdubs on Make You Feel Better, then continued using it live during the Roll On The Red tour starting in June 2004. As a late-60s Les Paul Custom it carries the model's mahogany body, multi-ply binding, and ebony fingerboard, giving Frusciante a heavier, more sustain-focused alternative to the brighter Stratocasters most associated with his main recorded tone.
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.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Classic Rock
- Alternative Rock
- Punk Rock
- Metal
- tight
- sustaining
- mid-forward
- transparent
- dynamic