Model: Epiphone USA Casino Color: Sunburst Year: 2021?
Used in... - 2023 - played live during the Council Skies tour
Details This is the Sunburst twin of the Royal Tan USA Casino, which is among Noel's favorite new guitars. The original Epiphone Casinos were made in Gibson's factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan, starting in 1961. Production was later moved overseas: Japan, Korea and then China. In 2021, Epiphone announced a new, US-made version of the Casino: it features two dogear Gibson P-90 pickups, vintage braided wiring and wax potting to reduce feedback.1 The Casinos are fully hollow guitars, i.e. they do not have central blocks like 335/345/355: because of this, they are quite prone to feedback at moderate volume. Noel is a fan of this new USA model: he's described the Royal Tan one as a "fuc*ing great guitar".2
He probably liked his USA Casino so much that in late June 2023, during the USA tour with Garbage, he bought another one at the Gibson Garage3 in Nashville. The guitar is pictured in two photos taken by Sharon Latham: one that shows Noel testing it in the store, and another one with Gem Archer strumming it backstage on the same day. It was kept as a backstage/spare guitar during the rest of the tour until it made its live debut at the first gig of the EU tour, in Amsterdam, on 5 November 2023: Noel played it in the encore for The Mighty Quinn.
Stickers At its first live appearance in Amsterdam it had a round sticker on the pickguard. It is hard to identify it, but if anyone knows what it is please contact me! At the next outing in Dusseldorf, the sticker was still there but it was removed before the Milan gig two days later.
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- https://www.guitarworld.com/news/epiphone-unveils-made-in-usa-casino ↩︎
- Council Skies Scrapbook, part 2, February 2022 ↩︎
- https://www.gibson.com/Garage ↩︎
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