This Casino hollowbody electric guitar features dogear P-90T Classic pickups and a 5-ply maple with basswood top bracing. Shortly afterwards, John Lennon and George Harrison bought Casinos for the Beatles 1966 world tour. Howling Wolf took a Casino on his first tour of the UK, appearing on Thank Your Lucky Stars. 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.
