| Author | Message | ||
| jerryme
Member Username: jerryme Post Number: 93 Registered: 1-2008 |
This will no doubt be of interest to a number of us.... Colin | ||
| mike1762
Advanced Member Username: mike1762 Post Number: 330 Registered: 1-2008 |
What? | ||
| jet_powers
Senior Member Username: jet_powers Post Number: 449 Registered: 2-2003 |
I'm already interested to know what it is.... | ||
| jerryme
Member Username: jerryme Post Number: 94 Registered: 1-2008 |
Oops. www.cripeguitars.com | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 8144 Registered: 5-2002 |
Interesting site. I just read the bio. | ||
| 57basstra
Senior Member Username: 57basstra Post Number: 968 Registered: 4-2005 |
That is interesting, thanks. | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 8145 Registered: 5-2002 |
I just got through going through the whole site. Pretty neat! | ||
| bassman10096
Senior Member Username: bassman10096 Post Number: 1219 Registered: 7-2003 |
Cool. Cripe is an amazing story. | ||
| tom_z
Senior Member Username: tom_z Post Number: 579 Registered: 7-2004 |
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
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 3906 Registered: 7-2004 |
I love "Teak". Bill, tgo | ||
| sonicus
Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 89 Registered: 5-2009 |
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
Intermediate Member Username: phylo Post Number: 115 Registered: 10-2005 |
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
New Username: cje Post Number: 10 Registered: 5-2009 |
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
Member Username: jerryme Post Number: 95 Registered: 1-2008 |
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
New Username: broesau Post Number: 1 Registered: 6-2009 |
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
Intermediate Member Username: phylo Post Number: 116 Registered: 10-2005 |
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. |
