Total Guitar

Total Guitar has news of a concert on 1 August, the anniversary of the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh, to honour George Harrison. The concert will take place at At George’s Hall in Liverpool and run alongside an exhibition which is described as the largest collection of George Harrison memorabilia. The exhibition will run until 18 [...]

Epiphone Casino Ltd Edition with Bigsby

The Epiphone Casino Ltd Edition with Bigsby is a special custom version of this ubiquitous Epi. It was launched at Namm in early 2006 and shipped throughout that year. If you’re quick, and very lucky, you’ll still be able to pick one up from a dealer. If not, you’ll have to resort to second hand [...]

Paul McCartney Wants to Release “Lost” 14 Minute Beatles Track

Rolling Stone reports that McCartney told BBC Radio 4 in an interview over the weekend that the time is right to release the 14-minute psychedelic improv, Carnival of Light.
‘I like it because it’s like the Beatles free,’ said McCartney. The track was left off 1995’s Anthology because it was ‘too adventurous’ according to Sir [...]

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 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.

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.’