A Junior with a P-90 is killer. I'm talking about the single cut ones with the dog ear P-90s. Cheap little student guitars of the day with necks like baseball bats. Mississippi Queen, eh?
Of course the 'other' Junior is the SG shape ones, and we know how great they sound for
slide, and the regular SGs too.
I guess the thing with Strats, and Teles for that matter as well is you have to fight them a bit- nothing comes easy- you have to work for it. But once you get hooked on single coils, its hard to go back to humbuckers- they all sound so muddy and poorly defined. The EMG SPC I have installed does fatten them up considerable and add a lot of harmonic content. It might give the impression of a humbucker, but there is no way any humbucker will ever have the definition of a single coil or p-90.
Of course there are exceptions, like the real '59 Les Paul Standard I played last year with its original PAFs. But it was also valued at @$200,000. Sounded like every last penny too.
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