JONATHAN PRETUS: My name is Jonathan Pretus, and I play in the band Cowboy Mouth from New Orleans, Lousiana. Tada! It is 2004 Epiphone Casino. I bought it basically -- I was pretty much a Les Paul guy. From the [INDISCERNIBLE], I love just the beef, the sound of a nice good Gibson Les Paul and I just wanted to try something a little bit different, something with a little more options. I don't like real tinny thin sounds so I started playing hollow bodies, and a lot of people will say that the Casino is really basically like a jazz guitar, and I actually tended to like the sounds it gave me for rock a little better. It just gives me a little more of a thick, buttery tone which I really dug, and so I bought it and shoved some pillow stuffing in it, and it kind of quieted the feedback a little bit and it's a great-sounding guitar. It's very versatile, the clean tones are fantastic and the distorted tones are good too, so I'm very happy.

It's a completely hollow body. They don't have that tone block inside. Theres a lot of different ways you can try to work around that outputs and pillow stuffing in it. Some people will use that stuff called Great Stuff that you spray and that it expands but the danger of that is that it can pop the top of the body off so it really was just a lot of, you know, experimentation with the amount of stuffing and then just learning kind of finding out just he feel of the guitar towards the amp. It's a little bit easier to deal with the Mesa Boogie versus with the Marshall I found which kind of surprised me because the Mesa is a little bit hotter on their distortions, but I haven't really had any problems with it. I just kind of I learned to adapt to the room that we're in and the situation that we're in and I really never had any problems with it, and it's great because if I do want to get some feedback out of it, I'll just hit my tube screamer on top of it and just kind of can manipulate it from there which is great, so it lets me be a little esoteric if I choose to be.