Description
Yamaha SG t-shirt was released to coincide with our Yamaha SG-70 (and SG-175) pickup tone test in the Tone Library.
It comes with free shipping anywhere in the world!
It features a Yamaha SG with the pickups that posed a question… are the Yamaha SG-70 (175) the pickups that Carlos Santana rejected. The answer to that question can be found here
Yamaha SG t shirt
• 100% ring-spun cotton
• Sport Grey is 90% ring-spun cotton, 10% polyester
• Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• Pre-shrunk
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
• Quarter-turned to avoid crease down the centre
About the Yamaha SG
In 1973 Yamaha debuted the bolt-on SG-35 and SG-30… and a little later came the set neck versions, like the SG 50. The SG-70 was very similar to the SG-50, but had a mahogany body. It also had the first of Yamaha’s “hot” humbuckers. It’s fair to say that momentum really swelled following the release of the SG-90 and SG-175 in 1974. Of course, two years later the redesigned SG2000 took the world by storm… and this is where Santana comes into the story. I’m not a Yamaha historian. And I don’t know much about Santana, but it’s fair to say his involvement in the SG project the Yamaha’s SG2000 to one of the most desirable guitars in history. From what I’ve been able to work out in my research, Yamaha sent Santana an SG-175. He must have seen potential in it, but came back with a list of changes. These included the weight, neck construction, some design features like the Buddah inlyas. At the end of the day he wanted more resonance from the guitar. He still wasn’t happy and when they came back to him with the next guitar, it sported the OPG1 pickups – they used the Alinco V pickups
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