Hey AT
It seems its you and me.
This Forum gets little flurries of activity and then gets deadly quiet.
Its a shame its not more well attended.
I usually shy away from questions involving 'best'.
Best is too subjective.
Pickups are tools, anyway. Whats the best screwdriver, y'know? Depends on what screw your driving.
P-90s are great pickups. I have a 57 Les Paul jr with a P-90 that I love. But they have quite a bit of hum. Being that I favor strats overall I do like the articulation of single coils for
slide but dislike the hum. Mostly I'm using Kinman Vintage Noiseless Single Coil. Chris Kinman knows tone.
His website is extremely informative if you've never seen it. I think his strat pick ups are quite brilliant and I've been through lots of others, but its all a question of taste and need. Although I prefer to play my strats some of my best overdriven slide tones come out of my old 335 with humbuckers, very similar to the one Dave Hole uses, mine sounds very much like his also. So its a question of what sound you're chasing too. I guess I'm more into the tones captured by Lowell George, Cooder and Kirk than Dave Hole or George Thorogood at this stage.
How about you. What sounds do you hear in your head that youd like to capture?