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Creston Electric Instruments

CUSTOM GUITARS FOR HUMANS

About Me

Creston Electric Instruments produces custom guitars, built one at a time by one person near the toxic barge canal in beautiful Burlington, Vermont. The guitars are finished to look like real instruments made by a real person, not poured out of a mold on the other side of the globe. All guitars are designed in collaboration with the players who use them - professionals and beginners and in between. The results are sometimes traditional and sometimes outlandish.They are played by the fancy and by the humble.Vermont artist Sarah Ryan has been known to lend a brush.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/12/2006
Band Website: crestonguitars.com
Band Members: Creston Lea - soloist
Influences: Phineas Gage, Kerrie "I'm afraid your friend Mathis is really...my friend Mathis" Mathes, Paul Bigsby, "(I'm) Stranded", Sarah Ryan, Robert Pike, Bo Diddley, Li’l Bob & the Lollipops, Snakes On Everything, City of Iowa City, Jason Lollar, Claude Russell Bridges, Alvis Edgar Owens Jr., the mushroom of destruction, the American Boy's Handy Book, De vulgari eloquentia, the Little Box of Pine on the 7:29, Clarence White + Dick Curless.
Sounds Like: The Bottle Rockets, Chuck Prophet, Eric Heywood, The Mother Hips, Anders Parker, Mark Spencer, Ian MacKaye, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Jim Roll, Gob Iron, Tony Gilkyson, Jaleel Bunton / TV On The Radio, Thomas Heyman III, Jimmy Ryan, The Court & Spark, Hiss Golden Messenger, Zack Hickman / Josh Ritter, Ryan Ober, G. DaPonte, Missy Bly, The Cush, HELOISE, The Jazz Guys, Lowell Thompson, James Kochalka Superstar, The Lonestar Chain, Cave Bees, Swale, My First Days On Junk, Chrome Cowboys, Colin Clary [AND The Magogs], Dashfield, you next. Warm and wide, but always articulate.
Record Label: Cora
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

I have a daughter

My wife delivered a perfect 5lb 11oz baby girl named Cora Jane Lea last Friday, Oct 26th. She'll doubtless be lousy for my turnaround time, but you couldn't ask for a better baby...">...
Posted by Creston Electric Instruments on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:46:00 PST

Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express

Look - Chuck's got a new record on the cusp of release:Soap And WaterChuck and band shut down the storied Sweetwater Saloon in Mill Valley, CA on August 31, nailing the coffin lid closed with the suga...
Posted by Creston Electric Instruments on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:23:00 PST

How-to Videos

How to take andvantage of a small camcorder mic aimed straight at your guitar amp, Skokie, IL:Brian Henneman, Trashpicker introHow to rock a driveway, Freehold, NJ:Brian Henneman intro's TrashpickerPL...
Posted by Creston Electric Instruments on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:53:00 PST

Newsletter - Birch Bark, Apollo XII, Old Pink, Deep Brown, Beesting, et al

From time to time, I mail out a newsletter to my former clients, my mom, the patient people waiting for custom guitars. Here's the latest - replete with HTML! - sent 7/6/07:--Dear guitar enthusiast fr...
Posted by Creston Electric Instruments on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:44:00 PST

Tom Heyman on YouTube

Say, check out Tom Heyman playing his silver sugar pine Creston Electric guitar at The Make-Out Room last month!Tom Heyman VideoTom's record, Deliver Me, is really worth your attention. It's my solder...
Posted by Creston Electric Instruments on Tue, 22 May 2007 03:40:00 PST

Ryan Power

My friend Ryan Power is a very talented fellow. He made a beautiful record in the smallest apartment in Burlington and then broke all of our hearts by moving to Arkansas. The whole record is available...
Posted by Creston Electric Instruments on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:10:00 PST

HARP uncut!...now it can be told

The current issue of Harp magazine [Nick Cave on the cover] contains a half-page piece about my delightful product, particularly the Hickory and Trashpicker guitars I made for Brian Henneman of the Bo...
Posted by Creston Electric Instruments on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:02:00 PST

ARTFORUM

looks like I nearly got into Art Forum (or is it ARTFORUM? that's pretty dated, isn't it?) - my dear old pal Pascal made the scene for the magazine in his Creston Electric t-shirt.photo-editors, denyi...
Posted by Creston Electric Instruments on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:04:00 PST

the super hits of the super heroes

I finally caved to the MySpace tractor beam in these last weeks of 2006, so it seems only appropriate to break in this blog window with an introspective retrospective of the year's meaningful musical ...
Posted by Creston Electric Instruments on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:19:00 PST