guitar comparison

a few clips of me playing an Epiphone Elitist Casino, a limited edition Epi John Lennon 1965 Casino and a 6 year old Rickenbacker 330 with vintage 7.4k toaster pickups. Some Beatles, Smiths (some girls), Simon and Garfunkel. Played through a Mesa Lonestar special. Overdrive is a tubescreamer (the drive is probably set too high)

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Music

Tags:

• John
• Lennon
• 1965
• Epiphone
• Casino
• elitist
• rickenbacker
• 330
• toaster
• beatles
• smiths
• some
• girls

[ricplayer620]

theres a video on here somewhere of John saying how the casino is a pain to play (not his words) but just that its harder to play.

[ihgac]

My personal opinion is that compared to a strat, most guitars are harder to play. There is just something about the contours on a strat. My second favourite guitar is a tele with strat contours (purist tele owners probably won't agree with me there!!)

[jenton70]

That sunburst Epi sounds best to my ears. I think it is phenomenal. Is that the Elitist or the Lennon?

[ihgac]

sunburst is the Lennon - or was. I sadly no longer have it

[frenchytouch]

i like the song you play at about 7:00 with the ricky,nice.I like the "vintage" pickups on your rickenbacker,why does the new models are equiped with other pickups?is it a kind of re issue model ?

[ihgac]

It's called back to the old house by the smiths. The ric came with hi-gain pickups. I fitted the vintage pickups myself

[ywn90]

im glad that you play the smiths,johnny marr is one of the best guitar players out there

[monorailsandwich]

This isn't a complete comparison. You didn't overdrive the Ric.

[Hoopermazing]

@ricplayer620 He doesn't say that "the Casino" is a pain to play. He says that the particular one he had in his hands was a pain. Personally, I'll take any semi-hollow guitar over a solid-body anchor of a guitar. And, again personally, Strats are a pain to play sitting down without a strap irrespective of the weight. The slip around too much for my tastes... and again, they're brick-heavy... not as absurdly heavy as a Les Paul... but too heavy for me.

[bilbomarks]

@ricplayer620 I'm sure it just needed a setup. He chose that as his main guitar for the few years of the beatles, so it had to feel good at some point.

[guitarsteve6190]

well if your using a lonestar, nothing can sound bad into one of them :) i could plug a ham sandwich into mine and still get baller tone

[fguka]

Dude the first one is just a regular casino. I have the same thing. It's exactly the same as the sunburst. Lennon used the sunburst and then sanded the finish down to a natural wood color.

[ianzxcvb]

Number 1 sounds uncanilly authentic - like Lennon's - more than number 2 which is more 330. Wish the third had been the standard casino - sorely tempted to get the bigsby version. The Casino on paperback writer has the greatest tone in recording history - IMO.

Beautiful playing btw

[srocketdude]

which do u like best

[srocketdude]

@ricplayer620 he actually said it was cripiling