Prince playing the Rave Blue Cloud!
THE CLOUD GUITAR WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED AND BUILT BY JEFF LEVIN THEN REDESIGNED BY DAVE RUSAN 4 PRINCE. THIS BLOG IS FOR ALL THE DIFFERENT COLOR CLOUD GUITARS PRINCE HAS USED OVER THE YEARS INCLUDING REPRODUCTIONS, HOMEMADE CLOUDS AS WELL AS CLOUD ARTWORK. SO IF YOU HAVE ANY PICTURES OF A CLOUD YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SEND IT TO ME AT gordytee@yahoo.com THE BEAUTIFUL CLOUD GUITAR HEADER ARTWORK WAS CREATED BY THE TALENTED WES SWICK!
Mar 31, 2011
Mar 30, 2011
Stephen's Cloud & Symbol Guitars!
A great photo of Stephen's Blue Angel cloud and a white symbol (Habibi) guitar. It looks like the Blue Angel is winning! You got a nice collection Stephen!
Mar 28, 2011
Priest's Wall Of Sound!
A serious collection of guitars with his white cloud leading the way!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/Priestworld
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/PriestworldCloud Art
The Purple One! Prince floating above the clouds with the white cloud! A very awesome work of art by the artist Lipglossary over at deviantart.com
Mar 26, 2011
My Ergo Cloud 2.0
Dearly beloved......we R gathered here today to witness the birth of another cloud.....the newest creation from Jesse Blue over at Ergoinstruments.com. 
After seeing his original cloud I was floored and when I heard that he was building a second one you didn't have to ask me twice and I jumped on it! He sent some of the photo of it as he was working on it and it just got me more and more excited!
The body is mahogany which gives it a really rich look and sound in my opinion and there are tiny freckles (beauty marks) on the wood which gives it a great unique look and adds some character to it.....I hope the photos show some of that! The pickups and knobs are a cream color along with the binding that goes around the entire cloud and even into the curl around the output jack! That's what really sets the look of this cloud off! There is a cream color cover on the back and Jesse added pick holder (which is just the coolest thing ever) at the bottom on the rear. The headstock and horn are adorned with his signature rose florette's! Ok...as you can probably tell I'm pretty excited so it might take me a little while to come back down to earth...LOL!
After seeing his original cloud I was floored and when I heard that he was building a second one you didn't have to ask me twice and I jumped on it! He sent some of the photo of it as he was working on it and it just got me more and more excited!The body is mahogany which gives it a really rich look and sound in my opinion and there are tiny freckles (beauty marks) on the wood which gives it a great unique look and adds some character to it.....I hope the photos show some of that! The pickups and knobs are a cream color along with the binding that goes around the entire cloud and even into the curl around the output jack! That's what really sets the look of this cloud off! There is a cream color cover on the back and Jesse added pick holder (which is just the coolest thing ever) at the bottom on the rear. The headstock and horn are adorned with his signature rose florette's! Ok...as you can probably tell I'm pretty excited so it might take me a little while to come back down to earth...LOL! Jesse has informed me that he is working on a third cloud guitar in gold! I don't have any other details than that right now but if anyone is interested in it contact him at Ergoinstruments.com or your more than welcome to send me a note and I'll pass it on to him!
Prince Life
Life magazine captures a moment during the Lovesexy Tour of Prince obviously killing it with the Peach Cloud!
Pawel's Cloud - Finished!
Pawel's cloud is finished and it looks great! A great addition to the cloud universe! The builders name is Krzysztof Gryniewicz (my luthier). It's made from a single piece of bubinga wood and with some vintage EMG81 humbucker, and 2x EMG se singles. Gold hardware finishes off this beauty along with the gold frets as well! The hole on back is bigger than usual because he has 2 single coil pickups and 5 way switch. I know Pawel will enjoy this cloud for a long, long time! Ok...start jammin Pawel!
Here's Pawel in action with his new cloud!
Pawel's Cloud - The Build
My friend Pawel form Poland has been keeping me updated on his cloud guitar project and has finally finished it so here are the photos of his build.....I'll post the finished photos in the next post! His cloud is made from a single piece of wood and was hand made by his friend Krzysztof Gryniewicz who builds clouds exclusively!
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1627314128875&comments#!/album.php?id=1338165699&aid=2071263
Mar 23, 2011
NPG Music Club Memories
Damn I miss this website!
Out of all the various sites Prince has had over the years I think this was the best one. As usual it didn't last long but I do remember playing with that mixing board for hours! I always got lost going up and down those stairs and not remembering where they would lead me to! I recall clicking on the cloud guitar above the fire place where you could order one or both of the white and rave blue clouds! It took me awhile but I finally got the nerve to click the purchase button for the white cloud....man that was alot of money then and still is but it was worth it....I just regret not grabbing the blue one as well before the site shut down (Damn!) I guess I wouldn't be sitting here writing this if it wasn't for the NPG site so thank you Prince and Sam J. for designing it!
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