Cripe’s notes were written sometime around October 1993, the time when Cripe completed Top Hat and Eagle.  Hal Hammer sat with Cripe with each guitar in hand (except Lightning Bolt which Garcia already possessed) and [...]

Listening for the sound: For Steve Kimock Cripe Experience on YouTube   Jim Overton recommends: Bronx Experiment:  1/19/2006  Grey Eagle, Asheville Elmer’s Revenge: 3/6/2003   Orange Peel, Asheville 3/21/2003  Chester’s, Fayetteville 7/10/2003    The Mint, Hailey , [...]

Rob Bienstock - In memory of Stephen Ray Cripe. R.I.P. 1996 "St. Stephen will remain, all he lost he shall regain. " I first met Stephen Cripe at one of our gigs in Miami about 5 [...]

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As it would happen, the Garcia connection to Cripe guitars would continue well past the loss of both musician and luthier in the hands of yet another Bay Area six-stringed master of the lyre, Steve [...]

Steve’s friend Adam Palow, a fellow craftsman (albeit of amplifiers), would visit Trilby a few weeks after the accident. Guitars had been finished, partially finished and in-progress Masterpiece destroyed, but he described seeing the potential [...]