SGs and Churches

Hey, do any of you guys here play your SGs at your church? I play on a weekly basis, but I don't always play my SG. Today I did though, and it sounded great

Here's a picture of it from today:


And here's one from a couple of weeks ago:


It is such a versatile guitar, it can do anything from swells to lead lines

 

Not sure a guitar with horns that plays the Devil's Music is entirely appropriate myself...

 

Who said that was Ted McCartey's intent designing the SG? I like the idea that it was just his response to a popular guitar Fender was making at the time called the Stratocaster

 

But it sounds SO much more rock 'n' roll if you say it was the devil...

 

I've never seen on played in church here in Manila, i guess for the same reason. I see nothing wrong playing SG in church IMHO. May I suggest using the Iommi model because they already have crosses in them :)

 

And those crosses aren't intended to be upside down
But eh, I've only got my Standard for SGs, it's in the rotation with my ES-335, Firebird, and Strat so I don't play it all of the time

 

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to play at any church that thinks a SG is evil.

 

I play primarily acoustic when I play at church, but when I have gone electric it's been with my G400.

 

Many times I have thought about Logan's topic of this thread. I don't go to church very often, but from all the times I had, I have never seen a mucisian at church use an SG... or shredder-style guitars for that matter.

I eagerly await the for the day someone shows up with one of these:


Or better yet... the DIABLO... MUHAHAHAAAAA....:

 

I went for the G400 (all I could afford) because the guys that played the electric were playing Strat or Teles or the occasional LP. The rebel in me wanted something different. Little did I know at the time, but the SG (whether Gibby or Epi) is a pretty awesome guitar.

 

Anyone who thinks that the SG can only play the devil's tune needs to be referred to the music of Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

She will set you straight.

 

The first SG I ever saw in person was when I went to play with the worship band at church in my hometown of Knoxville, TN, back around 1971. The other guitarist had a Cherry SG standard. No-one seemed the slightest bit phased by the SG, and that included me. I just thought it was cool.

Then there was a Chicago-base Christian power trio called The Exkursions whom I saw in the basement of an old United Methodist church around the same time. Their guitarist, Mike Johnson, used a Cherry EDS-1275 double neck with those same red horns. We talked some. I don't recall him being thrown out of any more churches than anyone else (including me).

Bob

 

There is nothing wrong in using the sg in church but there are some church people that see the devil in anything and everything.

 

I didn't have my SG Diablo when I was a church's Misic Director. I always played my PRS Starla Ibanez AS73. I wonder if I would get struck by lightning?

 

If playing an SG worked for Sister Rosetta Tharpe, it should work for the rest of us.

 

That's a beautiful SG there, Mr chicagoslim... . What color is that?

 

Thanks. It's a black, AAA Maple top.

 

Thanks. Different lighting on the pics. The first pic has warmer lighting, and your SG looks brownish in that one. The black (or brown... ) is beautiful. There's no way you would be struck by lightning with that beauty in church...