A New Arrival

Is there anything more exciting than buying a new guitar? Of course there isn’t.
And what are the three most important things about a guitar? Answer: What it looks like, what it looks like, and what it looks like.

This is Owen’s new Epiphone Casino, in Mick Jagger’s favourite colour, cherry red. We’ve added it to our line-up a] because we totally dig it in such a super-huge way and b] because lately, we’ve been doing a few songs in the Motown/Chuck Berry/Beatles mould that a solidbody electric guitar like a Stratocaster, Telecaster, Les Paul, SG and so on just can’t replicate.

The hollow construction of the guitar (there’s not even a centreblock running down the middle, as there is with similar-looking Gibson and Epiphone models like the ES-335 and the Sheraton) makes for a distinctive, hollow, classic tone almost bordering on that of an acoustic’s voice – prone to feedback at high volume, but worth running the gauntlet for.

Plus it’s the same model that Paul McCartney did the solos for Taxman and Drive My Car with, and which John Lennon used for most of his time with The Beatles. And what’s good enough for them is good enough for us.

Looking forward to using it tomorrow... Listen out for the howling feedback from the Bristol Grain Barge!