NEW Epiphone Coronet, Wilshire & Crestwood Guitars - '50s Classics Brought Back to Life!

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Today the Captain & Danish Pete take a trip to the "Golden Era" days of the '50s & take a look at Epiphones new Original collection! Brought back to life, Epiphone introduces some of their most iconic models from the past including the Coronet, Wilshire & Crestwood Custom.
All featuring elegant symmetrical bodies, proprietary pickups, CTS pots, high-quality Graph Tech NuBone nuts and reduced-size Kalamazoo headstocks with striking "Bikini" badges.
Epiphone's new Original Collection brings the past back to life with some forgotten-gems, vintage favourites & iconic guitars!

↪️ Episode Guide ↩️
» 0:00 Intro Jam Between The Captain & Danish Pete
» 3:00 New Epiphone Coronet, Wilshire & Crestwood Guitars
» 7:12 Let's Get Some Tones!
» 10:15 How Does It Sound with Some Gain?
» 12:30 Epiphone Crestwood Specs
» 13:31 Epiphone Crestwood Sound Demo
» 17:45 Final Thoughts
» Outro Jam on the New Epiphone Original Collection

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[paulthorn]

I love seeing Epiphone produce guitars of their own legacy rather than just making budget versions of Gibson models.

[outsidestuff]

Somebody accidentally pressed the ON button at Epiphone and theyve suddenly started doing a bunch of cool unique stuff

[benkmoskomusic]

Finally, an “Epiphone Inspired” line from Epiphone...

[johnward]

I'd so much rather see Epiphone originals than the thousandth version of a Les Paul.

[martyboucher]

FINALLY, this should be a core part of epiphone's line, like the texan and the casino

[williamolsen]

I had been emailing Gibson about this for awhile. I probably had nothing to do with them bringing it back, but I am going to take some credit for it anyway.

[diniscorreia]

These guitars actually sound amazing... epiphone are killing it

[hammyjammies]

The thing I really appreciate is that the new Gibson owners are letting Epiphone produce stuff you don't see in the Gibson lineup and giving them a USP rather than cheap Gibson alternative. Prophecy lineup, the Uptown Kat, epi exclusive signatures. Gives more of a reason to try them out!

[jaket]

The logo sideways is sort of like the quake logo

[erestube]

The Wilshire district is one of the major areas in Los Angeles (pronounced "will sure"). Wilshire Boulevard is one of the main streets running through L.A. A coronet is a kind of crown and it was also an American car in the 50s. Crestwood also continues with the royal "crest" theme. If you stand a double cutaway body up, you kind of get the shape of a crown with the double cutaway and neck joint.

[furtherdefinitions]

Just bought the Crestwood, and I love it. It beats my 68 SG in every way, and is very versatile in its tones. Its light weight makes it easy to carry and I can play many styles on it. The minibucker has become my favorite PU. I was always a P-90 fan, but this bridges the tonal ranges of both the P-90 and full HB, the best of both worlds. BTW, the idea that this was a prototype to the SG, yes it was. It came out 2 years before the SG, and they just sharpened and angled the bevels for that "batwing" or "devil horn" look. This has now become my main gigging guitar because it has a really broad range of tonal expression. I love it. My earlier comment must have been read by Epiphone as they have re-released the original Riviera and Sheraton. Wish they still released the other two I mentioned.

[ojderrick]

Not only am I buying this guitar so I love this video, but I keep coming back to this video every day for the intro jam. Just a good groove, it's infectious. I wish I could listen to it on loop for 10 hours

[AngelDeVille]

Epiphone made some of the coolest guitars ever, I’m so glad they are bringing these back. I ordered the white custom.

[williamolsen]

I will get a coronet, and a Wilshire. I wanted to get a vintage one for awhile, but the prices for these are crazy. This is the most exciting guitar news I have heard in a long time.

[andrewpartington]

What everyone was wanting this entire time

[ziggylayneable]

When I was a teenager in the eighties my main guitar was a 1980 American standard Strat. I still own it I still play it. At the same time.I was given an old Epiphone cornet and it sat in a case for 30 years. A few years back I restored it and completely upgraded it, now whenever I want to play along with Steve Marriott or Peter Frampton in humble pie I use my Coronet(I don't have any tremolo on mine). The thing is sturdy as hell it's built like a rock.Alao, to a player who's been playing a while the neek feels really nice to play.Now I wish I would have dug this thing out 20 years ago and got it up and running nicely because I didn't even know what I was missing out on.

[jfinester]

Great to see Epiphone reissuing these. They were definitely not student guitars back in the ‘60s, however. Epiphones were made in the Gibson factory by Gibson workers. Almost all Gibson models had Epiphone equivalents that sold for the same price, some sold for more. In the solidbody line, the Coronet was the SG Junior, the Wilshire was the SG Special, the Crestwood was the SG Standard, and there was a Crestwood Deluxe that was Epiphone’s version of an SG Custom. (Drake Levin of Paul Revere & The Raiders used one in the mid-1960s.) The first Epiphone solidbodies had the equal-doublecut shape of the Wilshire, but slab-bodied like a Fender Telecaster. At some point they got the contoured edges, probably around 1960-‘61, still with the 3-on-a-side headstocks, and around 1964 the treble-side horn got shortened and the headstock went to a batwing six-on-one-side configuration, which lasted until US-made Epiphones were discontinued in 1969. These new ones are basically ‘62 reissues. Around ‘63 or ‘64, the Wilshire got mini-humbuckers in place of the P-90s, and there was a Wilshire 12-string around 1965. I’ve been looking for one of those ever since I saw it in the Epi catalog in 1965. They’re so scarce that I’ve never seen one in the, er, wood. And I used to have an early ‘60s Epiphone Broadway, their equivalent to a Gibson ES-175DN. Big hollowbody, two mini-humbuckers (out of phase!), Frequensator split tailpiece. Another one I wish I’d kept!

[thadlogan]

Shocked these came out in 1962 and never really took off... one of best looking guitars I've ever seen... probably better looking then both a strat and tele and sg. I really need to try one...

[jackduxbury]

Oh Wanted one of these for the longest time. Whenever Robbie Mcintosh got out the Coronet you know heads were gonna roll with the deadly nature of the licks that came forth!!! 😍

[TheTrollMastah]

These in Nitro would be epic asf. Might pick one up and refinish it