His stripped guitar (still with the original nickel tuners) is first seen in the ' Revolution' promo film. In the early seventies, the original tuners were replaced with a set of gold Grover tuners or machine heads. In 1968 when the band were making the double album The Beatles, Lennon had the pickguard removed from his Casino and professionally sanded to bare wood and lightly lacquered with two thin coats of nitro-cellulose.

John Lennon used the Epiphone Casino as his main electric instrument during the remainder of his time with the Beatles, replacing the Rickenbacker 325. In 1965 John Lennon and George Harrison bought 1965 Casinos, which are clearly seen in photos of Japan concerts (last World Tour, 1966). In 1964, Paul McCartney, The Beatles' bass player, was the first Beatle to acquire a Casino (a 1962 model), using it for his studio forays into guitar work, including his guitar solos on ' Ticket to Ride' (1965), ' Drive My Car' (1965) and ' Taxman' (1966) he also played it on “ Helter Skelter” (1968). Paul McCartney playing a Casino at Live 8, 2005. Per the Epiphone String Gauge Guide, the Casino comes with string gauges (from high to low): 0.010' 0.013' 0.017' 0.026' 0.036' 0.046'. Current versions have a laminated maple top, sides, and back, and a mahogany neck. With the exception of the John Lennon models, subsequent Casinos have been made with 14-degree headstock angle with five layer all maple laminated tops. Through 1970, the Casino headstock was set at a 17-degree angle and the top was made of five laminated layers of maple, birch, maple, birch, and maple. The Casino neck joins the body at the 16th fret instead of the 19th like on the Gibson ES models.Įarly versions of the Casino had a spruce top.

This makes it lighter, and louder when played without an amplifier, but much more prone to feedback than semi-hollow or solid-body electrics. Unlike semi-hollow body guitars such as the Gibson ES-335, which have a center block to promote sustain and reduce feedback, the Casino and its cousin, the Gibson ES-330 are true hollow-bodied guitars. Although generally fitted with a trapeze-type tailpiece, often a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece is used in its place (either as a factory direct feature or as an aftermarket upgrade). It’s good.The Casino, also designated by Epiphone as model E230TD, is a thinline hollow-bodied guitar with two Gibson P-90 pick-ups. Only really judge it on when we’ve been playing it live and it seems to I mean, you never know what toĮxpect, obviously, and I’ve been really pleased with it. Think it’s a quite a challenge to write that and make it condensed.”ĭiscussing his most recent album, ‘Sonik Kicks’, he said: “[The “I like all sorts of songs, but I do like story songs as well, I Ideas into three minutes, you know, than a double album. It was more of a challenge to try and fit those Singles and some of Pete Townshend’s early songs, they were Saw more of a conceptual link in some of Ray Davies’ Weller said: “I’ve never been a fan of the concept album.

While talking with Absolute Radio, the singer songwriter expressed that he believes individual tracks to give a whole story – much like his heroes Ray Davies and Pete Townshend did.

Paul Weller admits to not liking concept album and not a fan of it.

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