Ultimate Rhoads

Can someone give me the background of Randy's SG? What were the specs of it?

It was made by gibson and had 6 strings.

JAY wrote:It was made by gibson and had 6 strings.

I dont think that Too,too much has been said about that guitar.
Kevin DuBrow said that that was the Guitar Randy played when they auditioned him for QR,& that Randy had such a heavy left hand Vibrato that it would Very often go out of tune.Outside of that I think Kelly Garni said that Randy had Sold it shortly after he got his LP. Hope that helps a little?
Here are a Couple Pics of it

Now, alot of people where I go get my lessons at have these. Out of the 12-14 I see every Monday, 5 or 6 of them have this guitar, made by Gibson not by Epiphone. They have great sound and are comfortable, but it does go out of tune after a few minutes.

Something I noticed in the picture is the pick ups looks like p90s - which if they are, means that it was a Gibson SG special Randy owned. Nowadays The name Special is given to an unbound versions of the SG standard, but then they were the name for the 2 p90 equipped SG. If it was an SG Special that is an interesting choice of guitar given the sound we know Randy for...

Matt

Cpt Matt Sparrow wrote:Something I noticed in the picture is the pick ups looks like p90s - which if they are, means that it was a Gibson SG special Randy owned. Nowadays The name Special is given to an unbound versions of the SG standard, but then they were the name for the 2 p90 equipped SG. If it was an SG Special that is an interesting choice of guitar given the sound we know Randy for...

Matt

This....it looks to be a late 60's (somewhere between 67 and 71, that's when the pickguard changed to the batwing style) one although pretty hard to tell without seeing the bridge

Axeman1956 wrote:does go out of tune after a few minutes.

the wrap around bridges they had are a pain because its almost impossible to intonate

Great pics!!!