1964 Gibson SG Junior, Cherry ex-Neol Davies/Roger Lomas

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Really cool 1964 Gibson SG Junior, made all the more special by its fascinating history and links to two influential figures in British music. Purchased in the early '70s by Neol Davies, guitarist, songwriter and founding member of Coventry’s iconic 2 Tone band The Selecter, this SG later passed to Roger Lomas—guitarist for The Sorrows and The Dodgers, and now a Grammy Award-winning producer. Neol Davies played this SG Junior during the early days of The Selecter—a band at the forefront of the 2-Tone movement alongside The Specials. It was The Selecter’s raw, rhythmic guitar-driven sound and mix of ska, reggae and punk rock that helped define British ska in the late '70s and early '80s. Included with the guitar are photographs of Neol playing it at a formative early gig - an event he personally described as "the birth of 2-Tone." Recently the guitar was loaned to the 2 Tone Lives and Legacies exhibition in Coventry, and Neol was reunited with it once again. Later in the '70s Neol sold the guitar to Roger Lomas - a guitarist whose early career with bands The Sorrows and The Dodgers (see case stencil) gave way to producing, most notably for acts like The Selecter, Bad Manners, The Specials and in later years earning a Grammy for his work with Lee Scratch Perry. As for the guitar itself, it’s a really good example weighing in at a featherweight 2.55 kg or 5.62 lbs! The neck is particularly nice - a wide feeling 'C' profile that sits comfortably. The guitar has been routed to accommodate an original Gibson T-Top humbucker - something that first attracted Neol to the guitar when he saw it on display in a shop on London's Denmark Street. The combination of this humbucker with the lightweight, resonant, thin Honduras Mahogany body makes for a very dynamic instrument that has an excellent ring and a very pleasant 'airiness' to the sound, with nice bite and clarity. The pots have their date codes covered by solder but are of CTS manufacture and appear from the period. It