Available in Natural, Vintage Sunburst, and new Turquoise color finishes. Featuring Dogear P-90T Classic™ pickups and a 5-ply Maple body with Basswood top bracing. Shortly afterwards, 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 first 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 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. Epiphone ETCATQCH1 Casino Hollowbody Guitar - HOLLOWBODY GUITARS - EPIPHONE TOMS The Only Music Shop. Since 1961, the legendary Casino has been Epiphone’s best-selling archtop and a rock ‘n’ roll standard. Available in Natural, Vintage Sunburst, and new.