Thank you all for the excellent advice. I'm leaning towards the '61 SG with burstbuckets R and T. Here is the reason why. I had been vacillating between a Telecaster for that Merle Haggard/Keith Richards sound ("Girl with The Far Away Eyes" kind of twang) and a Gibson SG. I Iike the way that the brightness of the '61 SG can do good capturing that country sound; I found that it also can approximate the Iggy Raw Power sound as well. On top of this, if I ever want it to be less spankier (as one person said), it seems that I can just control with the tone knob. Of course I heard these pickup sounds (490 vs BB) from a LP. When I heard the two pickups A-B on an SG, it was harder to differentiate. I don't know why that is. Dang, those Les Pauls sound great. It's like picking between Marilyn Monroe or Brigitte Bardot. One is a little fatter it seems and the other has a more lithsome look, sound, and feel. They both are so terrific in their own unique ways.
This is the video I consulted for my comparison, but once again, the cat is playing an LP and not an SG.