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EPIPHONE JOE BONAMASSA 1962 ES-335

REVIEW

Hold yer horses: a Chinese-made Epiphone for a grand? What’s going on? Before you hit your favoured guitar forum complaining about the price of guitars today, yes, this is a top-dollar Epiphone but the continuing rise in quality of the ones we’ve seen over the past couple of years, not to mention the whole Joe Bonnamassa tie-up, results in a guitar package that’s very different from the Epiphone semi-hollows of yore.

A REPLICA OF JOE’S LOST-BUT-FOUND THINLINE

There’s a good back story, too. Back in 1996, Joe bought a ’62 Gibson ES-335 which he went on to use on his first album, . To help finance his move from New York to Los

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