Epiphone Casino (JL, Sunburst)

Model: Epiphone John Lennon 1965 Casino
Color: Vintage Sunburst
Year: 1999 (serial: 328393, #03xx/19651)

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Used in...

- 2000

- featured in the video of Sunday Morning Call
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To the best of my knowledge, Noel never used this Casino live on stage - but he does play it in the Sunday Morning Call video, filmed on April 2, 2000, in Vancouver2

At first, I assumed it was a standard 1990s Korean-made reissue. Gem plays a very similar Casino in the same video, so I figured they might have been provided by Epiphone as a promotional loan or perhaps borrowed from a local shop.

Further analysis, sparked by evidence provided by a reader,3 revealed that this one is actually a "John Lennon 1965 Casino" model.

John's original Casino originally featured a Sunburst finish: in 1968, he had it sanded to bare wood and lightly lacquered with a thin layer of nitro. In late 1999, Epiphone replicated the two different versions of John's Casino: the Sunburst - named "John Lennon 1965 Casino" - and the Natural "sanded" - named "John Lennon Revolution Casino".4

Both models were manufactured in Japan and assembled in USA: they were designed to '60s Kalamazoo specs and they featured Gibson electronics and an ABR bridge with nylon saddles.5
Q Magazine – April 2000
Two distinctive features of the "Lennon Casino" reissue are the black washer around the toggle switch and the specific '60s shape of the headstock.

This guitar also appears in the April 2000 issue of Q Magazine (shown above)6 and in behind-the-scenes footage from the Sunday Morning Call video shoot.7

It's unclear whether Noel still owns this particular Sunburst Casino, but he does still have at least one of the "sanded" Revolution Casino models.

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  1. All the Lennon reissue models were stamped with the original serial number of John’s Casino on the back of the headstock (328393). A label was put inside the lower f-hole with the actual production number, out of 1965. For privacy reasons, the full production number of Noel’s Casino isn’t shared here. ↩︎
  2. Thanks to Live4Ever forum user oasislive for the correct dating! ↩︎
  3. The source prefers to stay anonymous – thanks! ↩︎
  4. The Epiphone Guitar Book – Walter Carter ↩︎
  5. The Epiphone Guitar Book – Walter Carter ↩︎
  6. Thanks to Live4Ever forum user ajito for providing the scan! ↩︎
  7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB2skt3Yu_w ↩︎

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