The Guitars Of Angus Young - A Short History
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I remember getting an SG and thinking "where's the rest of it?" He made it look huge lol
Me too. I had bought an epiphone and I remember thinking.. “maybe they aren’t the full size the gibsons are” lol
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HAHA
Oh man, same, for years I thought SGs were massive guitars
Haha yeah they look like toy guitars on tall (and heavy) guys like me.
Great video, I think it would be fair to say that Angus Young has immortalised the Gibson SG, every time you see a Gibson SG, you think of Angus Young.
I usually think of tony iommi but both heavily used the sg.
One of the best lead tones in rock, sg and a Marshall amps.
The easybeats were a great band. So many good songs unknown outside of Australia
In my opinion, Show Me The Way To St Louis is the blueprint for AC/DC. That driving rhythm guitar,,,
The SGs are a sharp looking guitar.
13:32 Stuff Upper Lip? hahahahahaha!
I'm dying!!!!! BAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAAAA
As a pre-teen kid my 3 biggest guitar influences were Tony Iommi, Ace Frehley and Angus, so I always loved SG's and Les Pauls. I remember I also had book of black and white concert footage of The Who and Pete played an SG throughout the entire book. I knew then I was destined to have an SG. After years of playing a Sekova brand silverburst strat copy my parents took me to a local mom and pop Gibson dealer in 1982 and there it was... a 1982 SG "Firebrand Deluxe" in black. I think it was like $400 and although we were considered poor, my parents bought it for me for Christmas. I later saw a photo of Angus on a Hit Parader magazine cover with the exact guitar including the factory reverse zebra bridge pickup. Since then I've toured with many bands, moved a dozen times, been through a divorce, addiction, sold off entire collections of guitars and lived in my car but against all odds... I still have that guitar today and it's sitting next to me as I type this, 40+ years later!
I've been an Ac/Dc fan for the last 25 years and i had never seen 90% of the pics in this video! Excellent work.
Proud owner of an SG guitar since 1995. I can't think of any other guitar I'd rather use
Lovely! Yeah I love my SG bro!
Love SG's.
Me too
Angus almost didn't get to use his John Diggins SG throughout the 80s as, after one of the 1982 shows at the Glasgow Apollo, I had access to the stage (I had been given a pass as compensation for losing my seat). It was sitting alongside his backup guitar in the wings of the stage. There was nobody around and the backstage exit was just a few feet away. I had a long coat on and the guitar fitted under it without being visible. I very nearly snaffled it but my teenage conscience got the better of me and I put it back in its stand. But I did get to play it first!
Looking back, I'm so glad I didn't pinch it. I could never have lived with myself.
brilliant!
I wonder how much it would have gone for on Reverb now. 😆
And how many years I would have got. 🙄
Thanks Ramon.
Great info, Ramon! Thank you so much for this!
Awesome! You brought back the intro music! Great journalism, Goose!
Great episode in History of his Guitars Ramon. 👍🏼Love it. Thnx.
Remarkable and unique how Angus always remained loyal to the SG.
Awesome! Thanks for all your knowledge on Angus Young’s SGs he has used over the years. Angus is one of the best!
Thank you for doing Angus Young Is one of my favourite Guitarist. Gary Moore did a fantastic Version of Friday on my Mind.
Thanks for sharing. I loved this👍
Angus Young is a cool operator. Always swagger. 100%
SGs are light…. That’s why it’s the most headstock heavy guitar ever build. I love my SG but playing standing… uff!
It’s the opposite of a Flying V lol. The part of the SG that’s tough for me is how it’s shifted over to the left. If you look few players interchange with an SG live. Even Bonamassa who’s basically a traveling guitar show. I know he has them but I’ve never seen him use one live (I’m sure he has tho). But it’s a tough switch. Personally I can go from big neck to small neck, single coils to HB’s no problem but as soon as I strap that SG on it’s like woah wait give me a minute here I just hit a G and it sounded allot like an A lol
Excellent video, thanks for all your research.
Thanks for this! Love your vids. And now you’ve covered my hero!
Great video , I enjoyed it. Thank you
Great video! Nice and comprehensive.
I luv the Custom SG with the white pick guard he uses.
Great videos keep making them they are very informative
Nice one 😎💯🎸👑🏴
Pleasure Allan
@@TheGuitarShow Thank you Sir!
Love your work, have a great weekend!
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Wow this is the most thorough & meticulous video about a guitarist I think I've ever seen before. So much love & respect would've gone into this. Subscribed
Thanks so much Loki
Outstanding, So detailed, great stuff on the Radio Preamp.
Outstanding as always! Thanks so much.
My pleasure!
Impressive Guitar documentary on Angus. Enjoyed it.
I remember that in the 90’s he had a column in Guitar World, and he was using an older cream coloured SG
I remember that cover well, the cover and background behind angus was green. The guitar you were speaking about was a prop or rental from the magazine. Angus preferred brown SG’s, followed by the different reds and that black custom.
@@timothya.olmeda7299 worst part, I even remember that this SG had a missing inlay! 😂😂
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It had a dot inlay, standard. It also has the letters SG indented on the bell trust rod cover.
I have a photographic memory. That, and I had that magazine for over 25+ years. I think I still have it in my music magazine collection in the garage somewhere.🤓
I remember it was so unusual to see him with an SG in that color and style.
I heard a story that he purchased a cream SG off Elvis,not sure if the story has any truth to it.🤷
I love my SG's!
Your channel is great- you are doing a great job. I must add, that I saw AC/DC in late 1976 (they were a fill in band), and he played a black Music Man Sting Ray. He even wore a different costume, it was blue.
Awesome detailed information. The sg is still my favorite guitar as well as AC/DC my favorite band. Well done sir, thank you 👍👍
Excellent as always. Thanks!
Thanks Craig
Great vid!!
Awesome, thank you
Enjoyed this very much Ramon thank you
Pleasure Isn
A point of note : i dont think john digins so much as made an new SG out right for angus, as rescued an old gibson that had corroded so bad -- through sweat leaking into the electronics -- that it had caught fire, for the monsters of rock. I might be wrong on this, but i dont think so. If you look at pictures of that guitar it has a slightly alcove look to the body were the damaged wood had been "plained" away.
Great content, fascinating study and unique I'd say. Immediately subbed!
thanks!
Angus Young is One of my favourite Guitarists I Love AC DC I Own a Red Vintage SG Copy .
Very nice those Vintage guitars are really nice
There’s a Rig Rundown on AC/DC where they interview Trace Foster who is Angus Young’s guitar tech. They showed the three guitars that Angie was using for that tour. One of them was the black SG that began life as the triple pickup custom and is known as the Back in Black SG. The other was the walnut finish that also was painted black and a new SG given to Angus by the guitarists for Paul McCartney and Angus was being used as a backup. You can see the repairs made to both of the older ones where the block of wood was cut for the wireless pack. Nice to see this history tie in nicely with that video.
I seen that about 20 times, love it.
10.37 - that's Tony Iommi's SG - got the crosses on the fretboard and its left handed . .
He's so humble. One of the biggest, baddest guitarists ever and tours with 3 70's SG's through reissue Marshalls. Most home guitarists can afford his rig. He also plays whole shows with one SG! You never see that with modern guitarists.
Great presentation. Thanks.
Thank you
Angus and SG guitar ratio or proportion is perfect !
I got to see AC/DC on their Rock Or Bust tour back in 2015 in Montréal and it was definitely one of the best shows I've been to, AC/DC has always been one of my favourite bands since I was younger and Angus is a huge inspiration for me so it was awesome hearing about the classic SGs he played over the years (and the AC/DC Rig Rundown has always been one of my favourites from Premier Guitar), great video as always Ramon
I was at that same show and it was my 2nd time seeing them. My first time was on January 9th 2009 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto during the Black Ice tour.
Conner Hills Nice, I’m from Toronto and I’ve seen a bunch of shows there over the years. Great venue
STIFF upper lip tour👍
I love Angus. Thanks for listing his axes!!!
Many thanks indeed Fred!
5:30 The tape on the neck pickup is to prevent the high e string from getting stuck.
That 'Let There Be Rock' film is the best 2 hours of concert footage ever made. Next to 'Live At Donnington'.
Angus Young Is the Best Bad Ass Blues Based Rock & Roller of All Time, Hands Down, Nobody Can Come Close to Him, Rock On, Cousin Figel
Walnut finish, volute, Made In USA stamp, and large pickguard would put it at 1970. I had that exact 1970 model, which was a basketcase when I got it, so I modified it to all hell. Sold it around 2001-02, I think, at the Michigan Guitar Show to a kid who obviously intended to flip it. In his Vintage Guitar column on oddball ebay finds, Will Ray featured Danelectro guitars that had been modded extensively. In a side note, he gave a description of an SG he'd found that matched mine exactly. Almost wish I had that guitar back. Lol.
Nice job and good effort! Although a few things could be changed throughout. I will mention that his black Donnington SG with the Les Paul is a 1963. The body details and serial number put it as so and he also had another almost identical black SG with him since the Donnington tour which can be hard to tell apart if you don't know what to look for that one is a 1963/64.
All the Angus signature guitars in the mid 2000’s came with the devil on the headstock and trapezoid inlays. It also had the ‘walrus tooth’ tremolo system on them also. I think it was around 2015 another two signatures came out. One was a custom shop and the other retailed for around £1000. The custom shop had the batwing pick guard whereas it’s cheaper counter part had the smaller pick guard.
I never heard of "lightning rods" except in reference to metal rods meant to safely ground lightning strikes. I've only heard the term "lightning bolts" to describe the jagged streak of light seen in a lightning strike. Perhaps I've not been around much.
However I still liked this video, and pretty much all of The Guitar Show vids. Thanks.
Yeah, I've not heard of a stuff upper lip either. 🤔
This is great really looking forward to the second video, when are you planning to do a part two on the Eddie Van Halen history of guitars video
I promise thats coming soon
Great video 👍👏
Thank you Mark
13:31 aaah yes the stUff upper lip tour
The Schaffer-Vega Diversity System from the 70s was eventually banned by the FCC, but, as mentioned, it did something to the guitar tone that Angus liked. A company duplicated the box and it can be used like an effect. You can see it on Angus' Premier Guitar Rig Rundown video from 2016.
Solo Dallas. They also make pickups and amps geared towards the AC/DC sound. If you haven’t seen it, check out their UA-cam channel, they’ve been uploading some outstanding AC/DC covers.
Why was it banned?
@@wolfgangwolfdogplaysguitar701 I don’t know the specifics, but I know it used VHF TV frequencies and the FCC limited it’s power output.
there is a lot of rock history in this video.....i enjoyed it.....although i never had a Gibson SG myself, i bought one for my son, who loves it....:-)
Oz Rock Legands. Vander and Young in the Easybeats paved the way for AC/DC .im lucky enough to have grown up watching ACDC live. Angus and his school bag. The initial cordless was inside the bag. 👊 Bon was the best. ✌️🤘🏴☠️🇦🇺
Another great video, if you were in a bar band in 80’s you were playing 2 or 3 AC/DC songs, looking forward to the next video , thanks.
Manny’s Music on 48th Street?
Awesome!!!! Do Tony Iommi please!🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
I'll bet that installing the wireless transmitter pack into the back of his SG to some extent helped correct the notorious 'neck dive' of this guitar.
There was a vide somewhere on youtube, where the author of the video claimed that the black sg from the 90s is one of Angus’s first two
Guitars, refinished. I am not sure if this is correct. Thanks again for such a cool video!
This is fascinating. I’ve always assumed he used stock guitars 🤯
Thanks
Note: the early 80's SG Standard had the toggle switch moved above and behind the 4 control knobs. Fortunately, Gibson eventually moved it back to where it originally was located (in front of the control knobs). Nice.
Ive never seeen Angus have Cross Inlays, however I have seen Toni Iommi play one often.
Yes he got one from Jaydee
JD Houligan eh. What are the odds of me finding one of those I wonder.
Just ask jaydee to build you a set.
John put a Hooligan in the bridge position on my Strat. After collecting it I plugged it into Angus' backline (Birmingham Odeon) and had a blast prior to the band showing up for the show
Kool a legendary player I had a friend I was 17 or 18 that was,78 my friend was 21 I arrived on evening we usually at least smoked a joint . But he pulls out an album turns out it was let there be rock . We played it listened he goes this band is gonna be the next great band referring to Zeppelin The Stones and even the Beatles . I went you sure about that lol. He could tell somehow so in my neck of the woods he discovered ACDC . No one really knew who they were as this was before Highway was released . I never spoke to him again so I don't know what he thought of Brian Johnson . It's crazy I had another friend tell me he passed away
Hey Ramon, great video! Would love to see one of the history of Michael Schenker’s guitars. Cheers!
Thanks for this - I'll put him on the list
@@TheGuitarShow Thank you!!
Can you Do Alex Lefson.
Nice. Thanks
Pelasure
Always dug the custom with the white pickguard. Such a nice look
me too!
SG s are prone to cracking on the top mounted jack socked so this is probably the reason it was moved
I enjoyed this walk down memory lane.
In 1978 late backline crew member 'Keith Evans' & I took Angus' SG1 (fairly sure) to John Diggins to have a new body made. Angus had sweat so much that the body had rotted in places.
About August 1979 I started building Backline cages for what became the Back in Black tour.
Heady days!
ua-cam.com/video/aCJOsD4u3Ng/v-deo.html
Waiting for the 1970 SG Standard prices to go nuts… Interesting that Angus like the necks on them so much. They have a very narrow nut but get almost baseball bat like from the 7th fret onwards. Love mine!
He’s like 5’ 2” he needed a small guitar.
Well, he could've used a electrified ukelele,☺️ Woulda done the business
AWESOME!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Output jack!
I love the SG
Thank you for this, I'm pretty sure this the one everyone's been waiting for. I would like to add its said Angus' first sg got work done to it after he started using the highway to hell second. Hes also said he has retired it to only studio cause he wants nothing to happen to it. So what a lot of people think including me is that the cherry sg that's used on the back n black music videos with white pickup selector washer, full batwing pick guard, with a pickup ring around the bridge pickup that's later added with lightning bolt inlays is his first sg just redone. 1] He said he doesn't use it anymore, which is true he hasn't played it since early 2000s. 2] It looks exactly like the first one just redone. Also he has played the signature ones that look like that one but if you look closely those ones don't have a pickup ring around the bridge pickup. Thanks just thought I'd share.
I suggested that theory to Fil (SoloDallas) and he thinks the lightning bolts SG is probably his 2nd or 3rd SG. But he has seen the original 1st SG and it's not been restored, still in rough shape to this day.
@@SoloDallasII I would LOVE to see the first one somebody needs to find a way to get a photo of it.
@@jamesrickmanguitar Realistically, it will not see the light of day until Angus dies.
Thanx Goose, That was great. You never disappoint...
...and BTW, have we done a Jeff Beck yet? ...or Keith Richards?
I've done Keith - Jeff Beck is on the 5 to do next list...
There's already a definitive guitar history of Angus's guitars... here on UA-cam lol!
Theres some slide work on the black ice album, wonder if Angus used an sg for that or whether it's even Malcolm playing the slide
It would have had to have the action raised, unless he has that magic touch and can avoid the frets with the slide even with low action. I would not doubt he can. I'm pretty sure his action is always set low, but I really don't know. It would've been nice if that info had been covered, but I'm not complaining. It's still a nice video.
@@garyginther6742 I use an epiphone sg as my main slide guitar.. with the strings slackened off a bit, you can raise or drop the action at the bridge in seconds using just your fingers..
I recall a Guitar World article about this. I don't think they mentioned what guitar was used on Stormy May Day, but they did say it was Angus playing it.
@@bombercountyblues I can appreciate your comment, but that would not change the action much farther away from the bridge - closer to the nut. I'm sure in the studio AND on stage, he would have a special guitar for combination slide work and normal fret work, and possibly have another one that's just for slide work only. I'm sure that's how most professionals would approach putting in slide parts. Your approach would be too time consuming and too much of a hassle for players with a lot of dough.
Gary Rossington uses an sg on Freebird for slide, he says and does, I’ve seen pictures of it, he slides a little screw driver under the strings on the first fret to raise the action, still does it to this day
Look at the jack at 3:11
Love the song Friday on my mind, never knew it was Angus bro.
It sure is/was! The Easybeats had a lot of good songs and his brother along with Harry Vanda (lead guitarist for The Easybeats) also produced the first few albums of AC/DC up to Powerage.
It's not Angus mate, it's his older brother George Young.
Cool.... altough i think the black SG with the small guard is a strange transition between 63 and 65... but who knows... what about the great aged and signed model ;)
Thanks for this
The the guitars are great. But in the end, it's not the car, it's the driver
Thanks for posting this. Any chance you can do Adrian Smith and/or Dave Murray?
thanks for the suggestions Wayne
Can you please do some Metal guitarists as well
I've seen few pictures of Angus holding and/or playing quite a few different guitars. Mustangs, ES-335s, Les Pauls (both single and double cut). I'm not sure if he owned them or if they were borrowed.
Despite his obvious yen for the SG, I’m pretty sure he nevertheless keeps a Gibson Les Paul at his home. He certainly afford it.
On a side note, they represent the Lollipop Guild.
10:18 I think this is most likely one of Tony Iommi's guitars.. note the fret board inlays.
at 10:50...that looks like Tony Iommi's SG with the cross inlays, I never saw Angus with cross inlays
Could you please do a video on mick mars?
Best damn guitar vid ever . I mean that
Thanks
Life long fan, i got to see them in Dayton OH a all around time of my life ill take to my grave! AC/DC will always be #1 unchallenged. My head rung for a couple days after. I want a cannon for souvenir lol. So sorry for the loss of Malcolm. Is Phill behaving now days? Brian ,Cliff all are legends, class of your own.
thanks for the great comment