I had a dentist appointment for the semi-annual cleaning at 3pm. My dentist is in Lakeland. The gig location is about 30 miles south of here and the dentist is about 20 miles south of that so I did not want to come back home in between the appointment and the gig. As luck would have it there is a Guitar Center in Lakeland. The perfect place to kill some time. The plan was to browse, head on up to Z-hills for some dinner then go set up and play.
I had been in GC for about half hour of so looking at new amps, used amps, Gretsch guitars, PA speaker and acoustic guitars. I was just about to wander on out when I noticed an SG hanging over in the Gibson corner. I caught my eye because it has a single batwing P90. I love Gibson guitars and I love P90's so I went over to check it out. There was no tag, sticker of anything so suggest a price so out of curiosity I inquired. The dude had no idea and when he browsed the store inventory in the computer it did not show up. So he unlocked it and took it down to get the serial number. Of course he handed it to me while he punched in the numbers and commence to play it and look it over. The neck was perfect to my hand and it played so "soft". The action required little effort and it was very very light. Even being light it still did not have the neck dive some SG models have.
Eventually he told me that he found it in the data base and it was $1200 even. By this time I had already googled and found the SG Jr sold for $1399 at most sites. I asked if it came with a HSC or a bag. He had no idea and went into the back to check. He came out and said there was no case for the guitar. He also said he thought another GC location had sent that guitar to their store for some reason and that is why there was no case and no info in their inventory. That is also why it was discounted to $1200. At that point I had lost my mind and believed I could not live without it. He hooked me up with a nicely padded TKL for $50 and I was out the door like a kid at Christmas.
