At punk/hardcore shows in both Los Angeles and Las Vegas, I've always seen more Gibsons and Fenders than anything else. The Sex Pistols had an expensive high-end Les Paul that they burglarized from Rod Stewart, and they did awful things with it that it wasn't meant to do at all. Jimmy Page had an LP, Tony Iommi (who wrote the first chapter of the book on metal guitar) had an SG, Hendrix of course had a Strat....

The SG was the orginal metal guitar, I think.