When people get together and listen to records, they talk about all kinds of things related to the music, so obviously we must have touched upon the instruments and it struck home. “I showed him my hollowbody guitar that I’d bought when I was in the army in Japan in 1955. I was turned on after that, and an Epiphone.” Mayall recalls the late-night record sessions. King, Eric Clapton… he was sort of showing me where all of Eric’s stuff was from. Influenced to purchase it by his friend, blues musician John Mayall, McCartney said, “You’d go back to his place and he’d sit you down, give you a drink, and say, ‘Just check this out.’ He’d go over to his deck, and for hours blast you with B.B. Paul McCartney was the first Beatle to acquire a Casino. Paul McCartney’s Epiphone Casino courtesy of and copyright OutLine Press UK. Each owned a Casino and used it for countless recordings and performances. Of all the guitars the Beatles made famous, the only one that John, Paul and George had in common was the Epiphone Casino. Available in Natural and Vintage Sunburst.John Lennon with his Epiphone Casino in December, 1968, on the set of “Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus.” Lennon photo: Andrew Maclear/Redferns. 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. 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. First introduced in 1961, the Casino was just one of several new thin line 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.

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