John Mayer Playing an SG

To kick off the release of his new album Battle Studies, John Mayer played a concert at the Beacon Theatre in NYC and the concert was broadcast by Fuse. Mayer played a number of guitars throughout the show, including of course a collection of Strats and his signature Martin acoustic. He also played a Telecaster, which isn’t too much of a surprise as he’d posted videos of himself playing a Telecaster during the recording of the album. However, what was surprising was him playing an SG at the end of the show on “Friends, Lovers, or Nothing”. He got a great tone out of it through his Two Rock amps.

Below is a video of Mayer playing the song with his SG:

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5 Responses to “John Mayer Playing an SG”

Charlie

What is this SG?
I love the bridge on it…

January 25th, 2010 at 06:26
Josh

Mayer tone through an SG? I’ve been trying to do this for ages. At least now I know it’s possible

December 8th, 2010 at 03:12
Josh

The Sg he’s playing is a ’61 reissue. It’s got the added ’61 vibrola tailpiece. It’s possible that the guitar is originally from 1961, but i doubt it.

December 8th, 2010 at 03:19
Jack

it is in fact a 1961 “Les Paul” SG. They do not make reproductions of that specific virbato tailpiece, too unstable tuning wise. Beautiful guitar. Derek Trucks has one as well

October 23rd, 2011 at 15:58
Josh

Thanks for the information, Jack.

October 23rd, 2011 at 20:29

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