Yeah sorry, didn't mean to be a smartarse. P90s are great - they're like the missing link between Fender single-coils and Gibson humbuckers.
They have one coil like a Fender pickup, but they "hear" more of the string because the coil is shallow-and-wide rather than tall-and-narrow, and the magnetic structure is like a humbucker - bar magnets and steel screw polepieces rather than individual Alnico-magnet poles like Fender pickups.
And then you get those budget Strat copies where the pickups are almost like a cross between a Fender pickup and a P90 - with steel rod polepieces and a bar magnet along the bottom of the pickup. There's a blues player (can't remember if it's Ronnie Earl or Duke Robillard) who likes them better than proper Strat pickups because they sound a bit fatter and less "plucky".
