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jerryme
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Username: jerryme

Post Number: 93
Registered: 1-2008
Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 12:08 pm:   Edit Post

This will no doubt be of interest to a number of us....
Colin
mike1762
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Username: mike1762

Post Number: 330
Registered: 1-2008
Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 12:22 pm:   Edit Post

What?
jet_powers
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Username: jet_powers

Post Number: 449
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 4:25 pm:   Edit Post

I'm already interested to know what it is....
jerryme
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Username: jerryme

Post Number: 94
Registered: 1-2008
Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 5:44 pm:   Edit Post

Oops.

www.cripeguitars.com
davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 8144
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 6:29 pm:   Edit Post

Interesting site. I just read the bio.
57basstra
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Username: 57basstra

Post Number: 968
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 6:47 pm:   Edit Post

That is interesting, thanks.
davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 8145
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 7:09 pm:   Edit Post

I just got through going through the whole site. Pretty neat!
bassman10096
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Username: bassman10096

Post Number: 1219
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 10:06 am:   Edit Post

Cool. Cripe is an amazing story.
tom_z
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Username: tom_z

Post Number: 579
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 12:13 pm:   Edit Post

Very cool Colin. Pat and Tim O'Donnell built a guitar for me that has some Cripe-like features. In talking to them during the process, I came to find out that, being Florida neighbors of Steve, they received some of the parts and wood left over from Cripe's shop. They also mentioned having some kind of agreement with the estate to continue to build Cripe designs. I've often thought I wouldn't mind having a guitar like the ebony Cripe owned by Kimock.

Thanks for the link.

Peace
Tom
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 3906
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 1:46 pm:   Edit Post

I love "Teak".

Bill, tgo
sonicus
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Username: sonicus

Post Number: 89
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 5:40 pm:   Edit Post

I find the fact that Steve Cripe was self taught is incredibly inspiring to me. Anyone with that kind of determination is really enabling them selves to such a high life condition.
Wow.

(Message edited by sonicus on June 07, 2009)
phylo
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Username: phylo

Post Number: 115
Registered: 10-2005
Posted on Monday, June 08, 2009 - 8:53 am:   Edit Post

How responsible were these guitars for the thin tinny tone we witnessed in 94-95?

Certainly the 'speakerless' stage system played a role, but it think the guitar played a large role.

I just did a little research and listened to two Sugaree's from 1995 courtesy of archive.org. July 8th, he played Rosebud then Tiger. I compared that opening with the March 27, 1995 (not certain but safe to assume it is Lightening Bolt) Sugaree and there is a noticeable difference; mostly in the mid and upper range, the tone is so much warmer on the Irwin rigs.
cje
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Post Number: 10
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Monday, June 08, 2009 - 11:15 am:   Edit Post

I think the tinniness you're talking about stems from Garcia's use of the piezo bridge built into the Cripes. I remember when he started using the Cripe, he almost always used the piezo feature, which lends itself to sounding pretty thin.
jerryme
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Username: jerryme

Post Number: 95
Registered: 1-2008
Posted on Monday, June 08, 2009 - 11:18 am:   Edit Post

That is correct. For some reason or another Ol' Jer just decided to use the piezo pickup more than anything else between 94-95. However there are some smoking shows during this time period where he elected not to use the piezo so much.

Colin
broesau
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Username: broesau

Post Number: 1
Registered: 6-2009
Posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 - 12:47 pm:   Edit Post

Bolt never had a Piezo. I know people think it did because of the thin sound, but the sound change came from the way Jerry was buffering his pedals and probably a little tone lost when they went wireless, not because of his guitar necessarily since Jerry's guitar never went wireless, just his vocals & monitor. Get the GD Gear Book by Blair Jackson and you can read all this first hand,
phylo
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Username: phylo

Post Number: 116
Registered: 10-2005
Posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 - 1:17 pm:   Edit Post

Dunno if you can call the monitor wireless either. His rig went speakerless, but the ear buds were wired. Except for Weir for obvious reasons.

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