Johnny Marr’s 1963 Epiphone Casino

There’s a great pic of Johnny Marr’s 1963 Epiphone Casino here. In the text underneath, Marr notes that he played part of How Soon is Now on the Casino (with Bigsby tremolo fitted) and that he wrote Nowhere Fast on it. Marr also played the Casino at Glastonbury in 1984 and was pictured with it [...]

paul weller and his casino

The Official Epiphone Weblog has a post linking to a video of Paul Weller playing his Epiphone Casino. It’s from the Weller at the BBC CD and DVD package released last year and shows Weller playing Changing Man on what looks like Jools Hollands Later… show. At a guess I’d say it was recorded sometime [...]

Epiphone John Lennon Revolution Casino

The Epiphone John Lennon Revolution Casino is an exact replica of the Casino Lennon famously sanded and modified and used for the latter part of his Beatles career. It was also, famously, the guitar Lennon played at the Beatles final concert on the roof of the Apple Corp. building in London.

The anatomy of an Epiphone guitar. Part 1: The Humbucker

The humbucker, or humbucking pick-up, is a feature of most of the electric guitars made by Epiphone and its parent company, Gibson.

The humbucker is a two-coil pick-up with coils of reversed polarity, reverse wound, and connected in series. The name is derived from the fact the design of the pick-up significantly reduces the noise and interference associated with single coil pick-ups used in other guitars, such as Fender’s Stratocaster. In other words, they ‘buck the hum.’

Win an Epiphone SG

Clash Music mag is giving away an Epiphone SG signed by The Subways in an online competition. All you have to do ia enter your name and email address and agree to receive at least one newsletter from The Subways.

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.

Epiphone Casino to tour Australia with Paul Weller

Paul Weller has announced his first tour of Australia in 20 years, and will no doubt take his Epiphone Casino along for the ride.

Epiphone Casino and Paul Weller pic by Chotda licensed underCreative Commons Attribution 2.5 licence.

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.

The Epiphone Story

The Epiphone name first appeared in 1928 as The Epiphone Banjo Company and is derived from the nickname of its founder, Epaminondas Stathopoulo, ‘Epi’, and ‘phone’, the Greek for ‘sound.’