Grateful Dead—Official site includes information about The Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, individual band members, and merchandise.

Steve Kimock—Official site for Steve Kimock includes news, tour dates, biographies, gear information, and sound files.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum— The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is the preeminent home for the celebration and study of rock and roll music.

Resurrection Guitars—Pat O’Donnell and his son Tim, of Resurrection Guitars, picked up the pieces of Cripe’s work and completed several guitars that were under construction when Cripe died. They make custom designed guitars including replicas of Cripe’s guitars.

Tungsten Amplification—Adam Palow was a friend of Steve Cripe and has owned several Cripe Guitars. He is the founder of Tungsten Amplification. which specializes in building hand wired tube amplifiers.

Gary Brawer—Gary Brawer lives in San Francisco and does modifications, restorations and repairs on guitars and basses. Gary was Garcia’s main guitar tech, the professional who modified Jerry’s Cripe guitars to suit his specific setup and electronics requirements.

Vintage One Guitars—Vintage Guitars bought, sold and traded by seasoned collectors, guitar players, estates and private owners.

Artinger Guitars—Makes custom designed guitars in Pennsylvania.

The Guitar Collection—Website of guitar collector Guy Mackenzie, including galleries of his guitar collection and background information.

Photography Credits

Bob Minkin Photography—Bob designed and produced this website and contributed photos of Garcia and Kimock playing their Cripe guitars. Minkin has also created the CD and DVD packaging for dozens of Grateful Dick’s Picks and Vault releases, Phil Lesh CD and DVDs, and many other artists.

Carl Fowler—Carl Fowler photographed Jerry Garcia’s guitars at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for this website.

Dan Savage—Dan Savage photographed Steve Kimock’s Cripe guitars for this website.

Kim Kim Foster-Tobin—Photographed several Cripe guitars for this website.

Hal Hammer, Jr.—was a friend and mentor to Steve Cripe and provided stories, documents and photos. Additional link for Hal here: BluesGuitarman.com

Janice Wulf Photography—Janice has many photos of Steve Kimock playing both of his Cripe guitars.


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