Can't help you on that one elavd - no personal experience of MMs (and I can't watch the clip at the mo anyway - at work :roll: )
However, I've just reread the entire thread - and my gut feeling is that MM is what you need. And I'm also begining to think it's what I will need if I put them in my alder strat (but Apaches if I put them in my basswood strat - that has more mid "honk" to it accoustically). I'm bassing this on me looking for the "quack" rather than the "spank" as described earlier. And from your original post I think you are too...
You'll get there, don't worry - and I think you'll actually be happy whichever way you choose, they are more versatile than this nerve-wracking (but enjoyable) selection process makes us think.
I can tell you from my experience with the Irish Tours, that the BKP singles are stunning. I've been mainly a strat player for nearly 30 years, and the ITs are just gorgeous. They almost cover all bases for me, but my main thing is slightly hotter strat-player type blues, so the ITs were the obvious starting point for me. What they have done is open up my finger vibrato and other techniques - what you put in actually makes a difference with BKPs - and have reduced the amount of gain I find myself using to get the same feel as before. Hence me getting more interested in styles where perhaps more "vintage" might be handy.
If I didn't have another strat (which I wasn't planning on upgrading) which might take the ITs, then I wouldn't even be considering swapping the ITs out of my favourite. They almost do what you're asking, and for me, they do it close enough if they were my only option.
(EDIT: While writing this, Horsehead answered - I beat you for rambling :roll: - and I nearly said "there's a guy on here with MMs in a 62 re-issue, I reckon he'd know..." :D Looks like I need to watch the clip when I get home)
(EDIT 2: Or is an actual 62 Horsehead???! I never considered that...)
