Blues maestro Joe Bonamassa has teamed up with pickup powerhouse Seymour Duncan on a brand new set of Customized Store P-90s.

Recreating the sound of the P-90s in his treasured 1961 Gibson SG Particular – which made him fall in love with the sound of P=90s within the first place – the Joe Bonamassa “Pawn Store Particular” 1961 P90 Set utilises Alnico 4 magnets, a customized wind and “traditionally correct parts” to ship “ethereal highs, expressive midrange and snarling overdrive”.

Joe Bonamassa’s love affair with P-90s started in 2010, when he found his now-prized ‘61 Gibson SG Particular at a pawn store whereas on tour. Although relationship again to the primary yr Gibson ever launched the now well-known SG mannequin, the guitar is claimed to have been a “pristine instance of a first-year SG Particular”.

As he remembers, he was alerted to the presence of the pawn store in Fort Wayne, Indiana by a member of his crew.

“Very not often do you discover a particular guitar in a pawn store,” Bonamassa says. “Properly, in the future in 2010, I used to be enjoying the Embassy Theatre in Fort Wayne. It was the center of winter, and I heard there was a pawn store across the nook with an attention-grabbing SG from one of many crew guys.”

He continues: “I ended up bringing it again to the Embassy Theatre. I plugged it in, and these explicit P-90s had been the P-90s that I used to be trying to find. Over time, I at all times thought they had been both too darkish or too vivid; not for me. However this was the start of my love affair with P-90s.”

Seymour Duncan has been tasked with recreating the pickups of a few of Joe Bonamassa’s classic guitars previously, however this collaboration marks the primary time the model has made a customized Joe Bonamassa P-90 set.

The pickups are outfitted with traditionally correct dimpled P-90 backside plates, covers and different period-correct particulars, and are available wax potted as per JoBo’s preferences for his stay performances.

Owing to the particular place that ‘61 “Pawn Store Particular” SG has in Bonamassa’s assortment – it was the very first instrument he catalogued, marking it as stock merchandise #001 – the primary 610 units of the brand new pickups include a Nerdville #001 stock tag, plus a certificates of authenticity signed by each Joe and Seymour Duncan.

Nerdville, after all, refers back to the two areas in LA and Nashville the place Joe Bonamassa homes his huge assortment of classic devices.

The Joe Bonamassa “Pawn Store Particular” pickups can be found now, priced at $375 a set.

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Sam is the Affiliate Information Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Totally immersed in music tradition for almost all of his life, Sam has performed guitar for 20 years, studied music know-how and manufacturing at college, and likewise written for the likes of Guitar World, Whole Guitar, Metallic Hammer and MusicRadar.