When checking email for auction alerts I had a Greco SG notice that was already an hour old.
One click on the link, and right away I am staring at a Greco odd-ball SG, the same one that I remember seeing years ago on the legendary Udonitron's Flickr site (pics below from the talented Udonitron). With a fair purchase price, I remembered enough to read the description before hitting the magic button. "The Greco logo looks similar to a Gibson - don't purchase if that bothers you." stood out but only as something I've never seen before. The pictures look decent enough so click, click, click and off the market it did come.
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| Triple mini-humbuckers. From https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobenis/ |
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| 1989 serial From https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobenis/ |
Someone from the great FB Greco group posted a video link to another example from 1989. There is some good playing here to demo the pickups.
Certainly there was another 3-pickup SG that came out around the same time, also with gold hardware but with P-90s, dot inlays, and metal tuning pegs like on a junior. One one of the auction sites, a proper model name: Greco SS-85S model for Ranmaru from "Street Sliders."
A quick search and we have actual footage of the man himself with the guitar.
I pulled these pictures from an old auction:
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