Model: Epiphone Casino Color: natural Year: 1964 & late '90s or early '00s
Used in...
- 1999-2015
- the main guitars used during the recording sessions of the album Dig Out Your Soul
- featured in the video of Riverman
- used during the recording sessions of the album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Details
Epiphone Casinos are famous for being among the most recognizable Beatles guitars: John, Paul and George all had one. In 1968, when the band were making the double album The Beatles, John had his Casino sanded to bare wood and lightly lacquered with a thin layer of nitro. The pickguard was also removed.1
George had his Casino sanded down too later that year.
Many '60s Casinos were sanded down and miss their pickguard because of this. It is not known if Noel had it sanded or if he bought the guitar as it was; the pickguard is missing on his one too, but the screw can still be seen near the neck pickup.
The original finish was probably Sunburst.
Note: in these pictures it is either the ’64 or the Lennon reissue
A blonde Casino appears in a few studio pictures taken by Mitch Ikeda in 1999 or 2000: it was likely used to record demos & guitar parts for the album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.
The same blonde Casino also appears inside the booklet of the album.
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants – booklet
Two Casinos were used during the recording sessions of Dig Out Your Soul at Abbey Road. Noel recorded The Turning and most of the other album tracks with them.2 One is the original 'sanded' '64, while the other one is an almost identical modern reissue (a Lennon 'Revolution' signature model), as it was mentioned in an interview from 2008: "For this record I used two Epiphone Casinos. One is an original 1960s... I think it's probably a 1964 which has been sanded down, it's blonde. And one is one of the John Lennon reissue ones, that came out a few years back. They were the two main guitars I used all the way through the album. Which is not like me, I don't really use real hollow-body guitars with P90s, it's not really my style. But they seemed to work best in the studio this time."3 Noel plays a blonde Casino - probably the Sanded '64 - in the Riverman video, released in April 2015.
Note: in these pictures it is either the ’64 or the Lennon reissue
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- https://forum.gibson.com/topic/171454-sanding-an-epiphone-casino/ ↩︎
- Gold & Silver & Sunshine: the making of Dig Out Your Soul ↩︎
- https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/noel-gallagher-exclusive-interview-171793 ↩︎
The Chief's Guitars - Noel Gallagher's guitars: a complete guide - Oasis and NGHFB 