Available in Natural and Vintage Sunburst. Featuring Dogear PRO P-90 pickups and a 5-ply maple body. Shortly afterward, John Lennon and George Harrison bought Casinos for the Beatles' 1966 world tour. Howlin' Wolf took a Casino on his first tour of the UK, appearing on Thank Your Lucky Stars. I read that John Lennon originally had a Sunburst Casino and then in the late 60s had the finish sanded or stripped to natural to supposedly improve the tone. It comes with two finishes - Sunburst and Natural. Featuring Dogear P-90T Classic pickups and a 5-ply Maple. Hi, Im thinking of buying an Epiphone Casino Elitest semi-acoustic guitar.
The Casino was adopted by Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones who used a Casino to record the demo for “Satisfaction” at Chess Records in Chicago. Shortly afterwards, John Lennon and George Harrison bought Casinos for the Beatles 1966 world tour. First introduced in 1961, the Casino was just one of several new thinline archtops designed and produced at the company’s adopted new factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan that it shared with one-time competitor and new partner, Gibson. Since 1961, the legendary Casino™ has been Epiphone’s best-selling archtop and a rock n’ roll standard.
