Gibson SG Custom 1970 vs Jaydee Donnington
The Gibson SG Custom 1970 and the Jaydee Donnington are both electric guitars.
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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.50% — moderately similar
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Hard Rock
- Rock
Gibson SG Custom 1970
Gibson · electric guitar
Jaydee Donnington
Jaydee · electric guitar
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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.
UK luthier John Diggins, working under the Jaydee name, built the original Donnington SG for Angus Young in 1981 and presented it to him backstage just before AC/DC's performance at the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington, a guitar Young took straight from that gift onto the stage the same night. Built with a mahogany body and neck, lightning-flash fingerboard inlays, white binding on the neck and headstock, gold-plated hardware, and two Jaydee Hooligan humbuckers, it became one of the most visually striking guitars in Young's collection, distinct from his more commonly seen Gibson SGs. Jaydee later reintroduced a production replica of the model in 2015 after dropping their standard Angus Young SG from the catalog, keeping the Donnington name and design available to fans who wanted a piece of that specific 1981 moment.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Metal
- Punk