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The Riviera will have considerably less feedback issues, and has much better fret access, so if you play. Both are killer Blues guitars, but the Casino is the perfect Jazz guitar, and is basically the sound of the British Invasion. This Casino hollowbody electric guitar features dogear P-90T Classic pickups and a 5-ply maple with basswood top bracing. Shitty gear pic: NGD Epiphone Casino I guess you could say I took a gamble on this guitar, and it payed off. Shortly afterwards, John Lennon and George Harrison bought Casinos for the Beatles 1966 world tour. The Casino had no pre-Gibson equivalent, and corresponds to the Gibson ES-330 launched the previous year. Howling Wolf took a Casino on his first tour of the UK, appearing on Thank Your Lucky Stars. The Epiphone range of the 1960s consisted of several guitars based on the pre-Gibson Stathopoulos-era guitars, and a number closely resembling the Gibson guitars of the same time all were produced in the same factory in Kalamazoo, MI, USA.

The Casino was first adopted by Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones who used a Casino to record the demo for “Satisfaction” at Chess Records in Chicago. When it made its debut, the Casino was just one of several new thinline archtops designed and produced at the company’s adopted factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that it shared with one-time competitor and now partner, Gibson. Since its introduction in 1961, the legendary Casino has been Epiphone’s best-selling archtop and a standard instrument found throughout the rock ‘n’ roll landscape.

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