11/16/2023 0 Comments Fake 1967 epiphone casinoIt remained his main guitar on stage and in the studio through 1964 and into 1965, and it’s the guitar most associated with John on stage with The Beatles. The new Rick arrived in time for the band’s second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. A gift from Rickenbacker provided a replacement for the road-weary original, a new Jetglo (black) 325 presented during The Beatles’ first American visit early in 1964. Later, he had the guitar refinished black. The Kauffman he replaced with a better Bigsby unit. The knobs he replaced quickly with smaller Hofner types. It had the cooker knobs that Rickenbacker fitted at the time and it had a Kauffman vibrato, neither apparently to John’s liking. He told an interviewer at the time that his semi-solid three‑pickup short-scale ’58 325 – which evidently had been on the shop wall for some time – was “the most beautiful guitar”.
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