Both “Blak & Blue” P-90s pickups are powered by standard Casino controls for volume and tone with a high quality Switchcraft™ 3-way toggle with a white cap and black washer. Equipped with two vintage P-90 single-coil pickups, the Casino still delivers those Beatlesque tones at a price every player can. Ever since The Beatles purchased three Casinos back in 1964, this hollow Epi model has taken on a life of its own. Gary Clark Jr.Clark’s new Epiphone “Blak & Blue” Casino features the same legendary Gibson P-90 pickups, wound with the same attention to detail as the handmade originals with a P-90R in the rhythm position and a P-90T in the lead. The Epiphone Casino Electric Guitar is the guitar that put Epiphone on the map.

The thinline style body of the Casino, combined with the P-90’s mighty Alnico magnets, have perhaps powered more GRAMMYs and more groundbreaking recordings than any other pickup-from The Beatles and Rolling Stones to Oasis and Radiohead. But they truly found their voice in the Epiphone Casino starting in 1961. I bought it used a couple of years ago from the original owner who said he bought it new in 2010. The Epiphone Casino ES-230TD that McCartney purchased at the end of ’64 has an early-style Gibson-design headstock rather than Epiphone’s later hourglass-shaped headstock.

P-90s were originally intended as a powerful yet sensitive jazz guitar pickup. This is an Epiphone Casino VS (Vintage Sunburst). The P-90 single coil pickup first appeared in the late 40s in archtops made at the now- legendary Gibson & Epiphone factory in Kalamazoo, Michigan where the Casino was first designed in the early 60s. It’s easy to summon your own brand of dynamics on any size stage and at any volume. Though the Casino is a hollow body, it’s perfectly balanced in size and sound.

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