Epiphone guitars. (Classic Saturday Marquis post)

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John Lee Hooker.

Paul Weller.

Paul McCartney.

George Harrison and John Lennon.

Brian Jones.

The Edge.

Keith Richards.

Pete Doherty.

Bob Dylan.

George Harrison.

John Lennon.

Noel Gallagher.

My Epiphone Riviera and Sheraton.

I’ve always had a weakness for Epiphone guitars. I don’t know the reason. Maybe because – talking about classic Usa guitars used for roots music – they were an alternative choice to the two reignin’ brands Fender-Gibson. And they were less expensive than the above mentioned or other brands the like of Gretsch or Rickenbacker. Or because John Lee Hooker played them. Sure by the time I reached the age to play a guitar Epiphone had already slipped in the unlucky position of the “cheap brand of Gibson”, as a sort of mexican-produced Fender or, worst, a Squire.

But in the past it was different. Epiphone was founded in 1873 (!) by Anastasious Stathopoulus, in Turkey. He…

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