I know there has been a lot of discussion about the cloud guitar over the years but I love the guitar and was curious if there are any pics of the black cloud with batman fret markers that so many of you claim once existed. i have yet to see it.

please help

[Edited 9/20/10 18:13pm]

I used the search box located at the upper right.

Check out http://prince.org/msg/7/314182

luv4u said:

I used the search box located at the upper right.

Check out http://prince.org/msg/7/314182

I don't see a black cloud with batman fret markers here. The pic from Batdance is a bass and not even a cloud base. The baby blue cloud looks like it may have batman fret markers but is that what everyone has been referring to?

I have pix of the black Batman Cloud somewhere, but hell if I know where they are.

I have better pix somewhere, but here it is front and center. The Batman logos are at a 90-degree angle.

[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/Guitar/nudetour_Page_14_17-1.jpg[/img:$uid]

Don't know if any info on it is on here, but this is a nifty wee site http://cloudguitarcentral.blogspot.com/

there was the original white cloud guitar and then 4 others called north, south, east and west (they have nameplates on the back saying that), the blue angel is west and belongs to a fan. the black one was given away onstage to an MTV competition winner in about 1990. there were more cloud guitars and sometimes they would be resprayed different colours, so he didn't have a stream of loads of them in different colours, they were repainted to match his moods

i think the photo of the guitars is from the nude tour program

squirrelgrease said:

I have better pix somewhere, but here it is front and center. The Batman logos are at a 90-degree angle.

[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/Guitar/nudetour_Page_14_17-1.jpg[/img:$uid]

That's a great picture!!! Is there a complete photo?

Nice pic!

Man, I love those weird white guitars. If there're any rockers on the planet Vulcan, they're probably playin' those!

awesome picture, imagine all the music that has been played on those

prime said:

squirrelgrease said:

I have better pix somewhere, but here it is front and center. The Batman logos are at a 90-degree angle.

That's a great picture!!! Is there a complete photo?

It's from the 1990 Nude Tour program. I pulled it from Volume 1 of The Cover Experience (there are 6 volumes). Any 'noid who digs Prince-related ephemera imagery needs to hunt those wonderful DVDs/ISOs down like a demon.

[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/MagsArticles/nudetour_Page_14_17.jpg[/img:$uid]

squirrelgrease said:

prime said:

That's a great picture!!! Is there a complete photo?

It's from the 1990 Nude Tour program. I pulled it from Volume 1 of The Cover Experience (there are 6 volumes). Any 'noid who digs Prince-related ephemera imagery needs to hunt those wonderful DVDs/ISOs down like a demon.

[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/MagsArticles/nudetour_Page_14_17.jpg[/img:$uid]

paisleypark4 said:

squirrelgrease said:

It's from the 1990 Nude Tour program. I pulled it from Volume 1 of The Cover Experience (there are 6 volumes). Any 'noid who digs Prince-related ephemera imagery needs to hunt those wonderful DVDs/ISOs down like a demon.

I wish they had a cloud bass..omg that would be awesome!!!

They did. The Cloud guitar was designed after the Cloud Bass that Andre Cymone used.

squirrelgrease said:

paisleypark4 said:

I wish they had a cloud bass..omg that would be awesome!!!

They did. The Cloud guitar was designed after the Cloud Bass that Andre Cymone used.

aaaaaaah

squirrelgrease said:

I have better pix somewhere, but here it is front and center. The Batman logos are at a 90-degree angle.

[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/Guitar/nudetour_Page_14_17-1.jpg[/img:$uid]

This pic reminds me, I was out at Paisley Park for a show in 1995. There were about 50 guitars suspended from the ceiling in a corner section of the soundstage area. Turns out it was used in the video for I Like It There. Check it out on a certain video site!

paisleypark4 said:

squirrelgrease said:

They did. The Cloud guitar was designed after the Cloud Bass that Andre Cymone used.

aaaaaaah

Hell yeah that would be awsome!

Funklov said:

I know there has been a lot of discussion about the cloud guitar over the years but I love the guitar and was curious if there are any pics of the black cloud with batman fret markers that so many of you claim once existed. i have yet to see it.

please help

[Edited 9/20/10 18:13pm]

If it's out there somewhere we will find it!

squirrelgrease said:

I have better pix somewhere, but here it is front and center. The Batman logos are at a 90-degree angle.

[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/Guitar/nudetour_Page_14_17-1.jpg[/img:$uid]

Wow. Thanks for posting. I have seen this pic before but never noticed the symbols as they are hard to see here. Is this the only pic of the guitar? I have never seen Prince play it except in the Batdance video.

I'm now curious what the fret markers are on the blue angel.

I also can't tell if the peach cloud really has spade fret markers from this pic.

As I recall a cloud bass can be seen briefly played left handed by Sonny T in the "Most Beautiful Girl in the World" video

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i'm with the maple on black with this one.

it co-ordinates.

Cx

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groovement said:

[IMG]Batman Git Close-up[/IMG]

Now I'm wondering about the pic I posted because the bats are obviously not perpendicular with the frets as I stated. I guess there was a third black Cloud.

First Black Cloud: Black paint, maple fretboard, dot fret markers.

Second Black Cloud: Black paint, black painted fretboard, "Bat" fret markers.

Third Black Cloud: Black paint, black painted fretboard, dot fret markers.

First:

[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/Guitar/b7a54147a4.jpg[/img:$uid]

[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/Guitar/af83b9c165.jpg[/img:$uid]

Second:

[img:$uid]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v51/groovement/HQ909146.jpg[/img:$uid]

Third:

[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/Guitar/fine.jpg[/img:$uid]

Note that the covers on the pick-ups are matte black, which makes this a Black Cloud.

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[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/Guitar/LG9077.jpg[/img:$uid]

unique said:

there was the original white cloud guitar and then 4 others called north, south, east and west (they have nameplates on the back saying that), the blue angel is west and belongs to a fan. the black one was given away onstage to an MTV competition winner in about 1990. there were more cloud guitars and sometimes they would be resprayed different colours, so he didn't have a stream of loads of them in different colours, they were repainted to match his moods

i think the photo of the guitars is from the nude tour program

I think this may be from the same photo session as the Nude Tour book image (circa 1989):

[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/Guitar/sky89princeguitar.jpg[/img:$uid]

Funklov said:

I'm now curious what the fret markers are on the blue angel.

I also can't tell if the peach cloud really has spade fret markers from this pic.

The original Blue Angel had the black dots on the fret markers. The Peach Cloud had black dots.

[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/Guitar/I1.jpg[/img:$uid]

[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/Guitar/a-3.jpg[/img:$uid]

[img:$uid]http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/squirrelgrease2009/Guitar/b2c177750f7e8b1d608d4cdd8e3f996e_we.jpg[/img:$uid]

motherfunka said:

This pic reminds me, I was out at Paisley Park for a show in 1995. There were about 50 guitars suspended from the ceiling in a corner section of the soundstage area. Turns out it was used in the video for I Like It There. Check it out on a certain video site!

Great story. I've referred to that video a few times as it had the not often seen Cloud Bass hanging from the ceiling.

squirrelgrease said:

motherfunka said:

This pic reminds me, I was out at Paisley Park for a show in 1995. There were about 50 guitars suspended from the ceiling in a corner section of the soundstage area. Turns out it was used in the video for I Like It There. Check it out on a certain video site!

Great story. I've referred to that video a few times as it had the not often seen Cloud Bass hanging from the ceiling.

i think they had some of the guitars hanging during one of the cellys, the first one i think. they had some outfits hanging for sure, and some idiot nicked the cardboard sign from one, that caused a major security alert and lots of upset bodyguards. then someone nicked the cat bowl from the kitchen another time and that part was off limits

squirrelgrease said: