Oh the Wildkat and those P90's

[Andy]

I had neglected to try out P90's because I thought they were a short lived transition between single coils and humbuckers, historically.

they evolved into a budget pickup for the budget gutars , for example les paul jr.

[tjcurtin1]

Wingsdad - thanks for that - it's cool to know, especially the info on 'The End'. I can play that string of leads in my head by heart, but will hear it differently now - always assumed it was George and John at work...

[jpfeifer]

I'm a big fan of the P-90 sounds that are on so many of the Beatle recordings too. I didn't even know this was a P-90 sound until I had a guitar with P-90s in it (my Hamer Newport). It wasn only then that I started to realize how many tracks the Beatles recorded with those Epiphone Casinos.

The Beatle tune "And Your Bird Can Sing" is great example of this tone, as is Payperback Writer. A lot of Steve Howe's early Yes recordings have this same tone. Listen to the guitar work on the Roundabout album and you hear the P-90 tones all over it on a lot of his lead work.

The P-90's get this really cool snarl kind of tone in the bridge position. On the neck pickup they sound really bluesy, more like a 335 kind of tone. After having P-90's I am surprised that they are not more popular with guitar players. They're a ton of fun to play on.

-- Jim

[just strum]

they evolved into a budget pickup for the budget gutars , for example les paul jr.

Huh?