Re: Pearly Gates in Les Paul won't get lasting harmonics?? What is up here???
PS good guitars don't need fretjobs every year - more like every couple decades, tops. Some of the better old frets, you'll rub a thumb groove ditch through the back of the neck before you'll ever grind them down to below 50%.
Also, Epi's really don't deserve dropping in a couple hundred bucks of pups (maybe a used USA set if you can score one for $50 or less total, but definitely not a new Pearly), especially after blowing money on a fretjob too. It's just wasting your money for you. Money that, sum total, could have ALREADY turned into at least a used Gibson SG Standard, and probably something far more entertaining like an ESP Eclipse or better. And that's only if you're holding out for the big names... If you're willing to spend time to research and hunt down MIJ unknown "nonames", 200 bucks gets you in the door to indestructible frets for life, or at least compared to that Epi stuff. And the noname pups in them will scream a lot better than any USA ones will in an epiphone, because back then not only could they afford to make guitars out of real materials, like wood and not just wood but the right tonewood for the bodies and necks and tops, but they actually TRIED and WANTED TO. And it showed even down to the little things like good wiring real steel screws brass when it's saddles steel when it's tremolos expensive alloys in frets, and not zinc and cardboard across the board. THAT is where you wanna plug in a $200 pickup set. And there you'll get results.
There's a darn good reason no one famous every plays epi [edit: modern Gibson Epiphone china/korea, not talking about their own pretty sweet vintage hollowbodies before they went bust, or some of the 100x less common MIJs like the "Elitists"], but strap on a Greco or a Destroyer or a JEM, and you can rock a decent sized stadium of demanding fans with confidence, as many rockers before you have done, and many will again.
PS good guitars don't need fretjobs every year - more like every couple decades, tops. Some of the better old frets, you'll rub a thumb groove ditch through the back of the neck before you'll ever grind them down to below 50%.
Also, Epi's really don't deserve dropping in a couple hundred bucks of pups (maybe a used USA set if you can score one for $50 or less total, but definitely not a new Pearly), especially after blowing money on a fretjob too. It's just wasting your money for you. Money that, sum total, could have ALREADY turned into at least a used Gibson SG Standard, and probably something far more entertaining like an ESP Eclipse or better. And that's only if you're holding out for the big names... If you're willing to spend time to research and hunt down MIJ unknown "nonames", 200 bucks gets you in the door to indestructible frets for life, or at least compared to that Epi stuff. And the noname pups in them will scream a lot better than any USA ones will in an epiphone, because back then not only could they afford to make guitars out of real materials, like wood and not just wood but the right tonewood for the bodies and necks and tops, but they actually TRIED and WANTED TO. And it showed even down to the little things like good wiring real steel screws brass when it's saddles steel when it's tremolos expensive alloys in frets, and not zinc and cardboard across the board. THAT is where you wanna plug in a $200 pickup set. And there you'll get results.
There's a darn good reason no one famous every plays epi [edit: modern Gibson Epiphone china/korea, not talking about their own pretty sweet vintage hollowbodies before they went bust, or some of the 100x less common MIJs like the "Elitists"], but strap on a Greco or a Destroyer or a JEM, and you can rock a decent sized stadium of demanding fans with confidence, as many rockers before you have done, and many will again.
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