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  1. Rock maple has many advantages for guitar building - strength, stiffness, takes finish very well, is not a tropical hardwood and it sounds good. Some of Gibsons best sounding guitars have used maple extensively. The LP was originally to be maple body and neck - weight concerns prompted the change to mahogany. With it's much slimmer body, the SG can use maple, yet not be too heavy. (If the SG design had come before the LP, I'm sure the all maple construction would have become standard). Walnut is a good tonewood - maybe a bit on the dark side like mahogany, but brightened up a bit by the ebony fretboard on "The SG" models. It has a nice clean sound, but can scream with a good amp.
  2. If it's anything like my '79 "The SG" (which was the slightly earlier version of the Firebrand), it won't be a '50s profile. The neck is pretty slim near the nut, but tapers to fairly chunky near the body. This is because (certainly on mine), the neck has more than the usual one 10th of an inch taper- the difference between the neck thickness at the first and 12th frets. Gibson necks always vary slightly due to hand shaping.
  3. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott Heron.
  4. Third Stone From The Sun - The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
  5. Root Beer Rag - Billy Joel Or, Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2.
  6. The Long Riders - Ry Cooder. Or, The Shortest Straw - Metallica.
  7. Lost in space - Lighthouse Family.
  8. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing - Zappa.
  9. I want to get away - Lenny Kravitz.
  10. Crying in the rain - Everly Brothers.
  11. America Drinks and Goes Home - Zappa.
  12. None too soon - Allan Holdsworth. Every day is exactly the same - Nine inch nails.
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