CRAVE (Cool & Rare American Vintage Electric) Guitars
As the sizzling summer season of weekend music festivals draws to a close for another year, maybe it’s worth taking a look at this particular cultural phenomenon. It is perhaps tempting to think that open air festivals are a new-ish … Continued
The CRAVE Guitars web site is intentionally a serious place. Its mission is clear – to bring you “the coolest American vintage electric guitars from the biggest guitar companies on the planet”. What constitutes ‘cool’ is obviously for each of … Continued
In previous articles, I’ve touched on various personal aspects of guitars and guitar playing, including: ‘why’ – the reason I picked up and played guitar ‘how’ – the way that my relationship with the guitar developed from first contact to … Continued
CRAVE Guitars is returning to pretentious opinionated pontification (POP for short) for June 2016. The starting point for this month’s article is to have a bit of fun speculating about the future, especially given that musicians by and large tend … Continued
It’s been a few months now since I covered any new CRAVE Guitars’ acquisitions and it suddenly occurred to me that quite a bit has happened since Christmas 2015. So, I’ve put arrogant, pretentious rhetoric on hold in order to … Continued
Let’s face it; one of the peculiarities of most musicians is the vehement adherence to unjustifiable preferences, often to almost extreme levels of obsessiveness, usually responded to with the rather inadequate defence of ‘personal taste’. In fact, I agree with … Continued
A couple of months (and posts) ago, I mused on the other key elements of a guitarist’s arsenal, amplifiers and effects. While often regarded as 2nd class citizens of the vintage signal chain, they are, however, both essential items as … Continued
I am assuming that if you are reading this, you are quite likely to play guitar as well as look at them. You may know from previous posts that guitars are meant to be used for their intended purpose, making … Continued
Most of my previous articles have focused on the venerable (electric) guitar – the source of the electrical signal that becomes music. This month, while there is probably a bit of ‘preaching to the converted’, it is perhaps worth reflecting … Continued
A busy end to 2015! As mentioned in my November 2015 article, “… another great imported ‘Cool & Rare American Vintage Electric’ guitar [was] wending its way from its birthplace in New York via Texas…”. Well, it arrived safe and … Continued
There’s been quite a flurry of guitar activity at CRAVE Guitars this autumn, way more than enough for a single article. For November, I’ll focus on some recent 4 and 6‑string additions. Unfortunately, cool guitars from Fender and Gibson that … Continued
Quite a lot has been happening at CRAVE Guitars over the past few weeks. Firstly, the web site has had quite a major overhaul. While it doesn’t look very different at first glance (intentionally) it has been comprehensively updated with … Continued