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May as well post the fruits of me fixing the broken tone pot and randomly deciding “why not, swapping out pickups IS a decent way to distract myself”

Ibanez RG470MSP, 2020 model, HSH configuration (humbucker, single coil, humbucker) with a Lace Gold single coil and two “Powered By Lace” humbuckers. These were picked up for a different project that I am probably not going to be able to finish, so I decided to swap out the original pickups here since apparently stock pickups can be whatever (I’ve definitely noticed a huge difference with the single coil already). I guess the “powered by Lace” pickups are probably just inexpensive, Lace branded generics, but they sound nice enough and look nice, + good soldering experience.

I actually meant to buy black, not chrome, but I suck at reading apparently.

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“He takes the stage clad in a tattered , and a Casey Jones hat pulled down over his face: in old age, he increasingly looks less like a than a mechanic from a small American town who distrusts anyone not born within a mile radius of its centre.

He dispatches a version of on acoustic guitar, before the arrive. This is essentially his earlier outfit augmented by 82-year-old keyboard player , a man whose career stretches back to Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett’s legendary late 60s .

They may well be the best backing band Young has assembled since , their simultaneously tumultuous and lumbering and .”

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The Guardian · Neil Young at Glastonbury review – ragged glory from a noisemaker who never treads the easy pathBy Alexis Petridis