1964 EPIPHONE CASINO

This ’64 Casino was bought along with Johnny’s ’63 Gibson J-160E during a shopping trip to Denmark Street in London shortly after he moved to Earls Court in the 80s. The guitar was used to record the main guitar parts for one of The Smiths’ bestknown songs How Soon Is Now?. In a moment of creative exploration during the session he decided to re-amp the tracks using a quartet of Fender Twin Reverbs at high volume and stumbled upon perhaps one of the most instantly recognisable and inspired examples of amp tremolo in recorded history.