I agree... As soon as I wired the tone control to the bridge on mine I started exploring it and liking it. I also like to have a tube screamer or something similar to push the front of the amp when I’m using it. Nothing wrong with the bridge pickup at all.
3bolt79, (with all due respect), what in the world is that thing in your avatar? It looks to me like a bearded, beakless bird . . . or, bearded white tes**cles with eyes. As my high school students used to say OMG!