Help identifying a 1968 SG

[allgonoslow]

Hi all, I purchased a 1968 Gibson Sg Standard about a year ago. After the fact, I was bugging the seller about its history, and he was being very elusive, saying all he could tell me is that it belonged to somebody who lived on the West Coast of the USA, was in his 60s or 70s, had most recently used the guitar for touring in Europe (I purchased the guitar in Germany), that he promised the previous owner he would not reveal his identity as long as he (previous owner) was alive, and that he had made similar arrangements selling guitars for people like Scotty Moore and other notable guitarists (whom he had ostensibly met at guitar shows). Naturally this piqued my interest. Note that this entire discussion took place after the purchase was made and was not intended as a selling point.

The guitar has Gibson embossed pickup covers, which weren't introduced until the early to mid '70s, but the seller claimed that merely the covers had been replaced and that the pickups themselves are original. Upon opening the guitar up to verify this (they are indeed original), I found a big etching in the pickup cavity of the letters "RGRAAB", and under the pickguard the name "Rich" is slightly scratched into the body.

I know this is a long shot, but given that the guitar *potentially* belonged to someone of note, does anybody have any ideas? I realize it's also very likely some random dude named Rich carved his name and his shitty band's initials into the guitar, but I figured I'd throw it out there. Let me know what you come up with!

Justin

 

[MR D]

Hi all, I purchased a 1968 Gibson Sg Standard about a year ago. After the fact, I was bugging the seller about its history, and he was being very elusive, saying all he could tell me is that it belonged to somebody who lived on the West Coast of the USA, was in his 60s or 70s, had most recently used the guitar for touring in Europe (I purchased the guitar in Germany), that he promised the previous owner he would not reveal his identity as long as he (previous owner) was alive, and that he had made similar arrangements selling guitars for people like Scotty Moore and other notable guitarists (whom he had ostensibly met at guitar shows). Naturally this piqued my interest. Note that this entire discussion took place after the purchase was made and was not intended as a selling point.

The guitar has Gibson embossed pickup covers, which weren't introduced until the early to mid '70s, but the seller claimed that merely the covers had been replaced and that the pickups themselves are original. Upon opening the guitar up to verify this (they are indeed original), I found a big etching in the pickup cavity of the letters "RGRAAB", and under the pickguard the name "Rich" is slightly scratched into the body.

I know this is a long shot, but given that the guitar *potentially* belonged to someone of note, does anybody have any ideas? I realize it's also very likely some random dude named Rich carved his name and his shitty band's initials into the guitar, but I figured I'd throw it out there. Let me know what you come up with!

Justin

Pictures ? a'68 SG Standard.....SWEET ! IDT I would GAS who owned it as long as it became mine.

 

[Col Mustard]

In my humble opinion (IMHO) the value of any guitar
is in the music that YOU can make with it,
disregarding any former owners, whether punk or pop.

Former owners need to be expunged, using deep cleaning techniques and products. Dead punk skin and old skin grease needs to be removed from the fingerboard with
Windex or other drastic cleansers, and no Big Fat Greek jokes need be allowed.

Connections to former pop stars are usually bunk...
but a '68 Gibson will have its own mojo without regard
to aging stars who may be no longer of note.

What I'm saying here is: Rock that sucker...
Ignore who may have owned it in the past. It was likely
a guy (or guys) who played bars and dance halls, such that the chords to "Mustang Sally" might be imprinted into its control cavity.

It's your job to make this guitar your own, and play the
best that you can while owning it.

Now let's see some pictures. Simply use your imaging
software to resize the photos to 5x7@100 and they'll upload fine on this site.

 

[Gigem]

Maybe it's this famous unit?

https://memes.yarn.co/yarn-clip/65db3a91-8232-47c2-88e0-e4b7c02f7716