Vintage USA Epiphone P90 action!

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Vintage USA Epiphone P90 action!

I love the LP Deluxe style mini pickups! I have played three guitars with them and I would have killed for all three. Two were LP's and one was a Epiphone Crestwood. I liked the Crestwood the best, but the pickups were a bit microphonic. Just the same mini's are sweet, because they are bright, tight, compressed and they really cut through. The only real problem with them is if they are on a guitar with a maple cap. Vintage pickups can sound overly bright and they are a little bit weak and microphonic.

Almost all real Mini's are a little microphonic...none of them were potted and the covers actually hold the pickup together, after several decades of being played they are loose inside and squeel...

 

[The Golden Boy]

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Im not sure which came first and Im not completely sure if those were Epi or Gibson pickups...I've always heard them called Epi mini's so I just keep it alive...

The minis were designed to replace the Epiphone "New York" pickup.

When Gibson bought Epiphone, they also got all the extra parts- as I understand, they did not continue making pickups to the Epiphone plans, so when they ran out that's when they engineered a new pickup for the Epiphone guitars that had pickups in that size. The first Gibson to have them was the Johnny Smith signature guitar.

 

[blueman335]

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The MC5 were pretty tame in that video. I saw them a few times following the 'Kick Out The Jams' release (1970?), they were madmen on stage & the crowd would be on the verge of a riot. Kids loved 'em, but the critics panned them for being all volume & feedback. The follow-up album was a lame studio production with all the life sucked out of it, and they lost most of their following with that brilliant move.

They had a 'sister band' in Ann Arbor, "The Up", which I saw once, but they seemed to disappear shortly after that. Great time for rock and roll in Detroit. Nugent was with the Amboy Dukes, Bob Seger hadn't gone totally commercial yet, and there were some other local bands like the Stooges, Frost (Dick Wagner), Frigid Pink, Catfish, Scott Richard Case, & Wilson Moore Pursuit.

 

[ES350]

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The Epi 'NY' pickup was a single coil, built like some of the Supro/National pickups...Epi didn't have a HB pickup of any kind pre-Gibson buyout. If you want to see some strange looking SC designs, check out some of the late 40's Epis...