Uncut.co.uk | Wild Mercury Sound - Post details: Fleet Foxes and Al Jardine

John Mulvey on Uncut documents a meeting between current Epiphone Casino player, Skye Skjelset’s band, Fleet Foxes, and one time Casino player, Al Jardine.
Fleet Foxes singer, Robin Pecknold, described the meeting to Mulvey: “We played him a couple of songs off the EP in the studio ‘cos he wanted to test out these new monitors [...]

The 10 best songs ever played on an Epiphone guitar

Everyone loves a list, so I thought I’d put one together containing what I think are the ten best songs ever played, either live or on record, on an Epiphone guitar. I’m sure there will be much disagreement, so please feel free to argue in the Comments.

Read on for Fretboard’s run-down of the 10 best songs ever played on an Epiphone, and don’t forget to tell us what you think.

The Epiphone Casino

The Epiphone Casino is a wonderful hollow-bodied electric guitar first made in 1958 and based on the Gibson ES-330. It’s probably most famous for being played by three Beatles between 1965 and 1967. (You can probably guess that Ringo Starr was the odd Beatle out.) In fact, John Lennon loved his so much, he used it for the rest of his time with the band, favouring it over the Rickenbacker 325 he’d been using up to that point.