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Originally Posted by Crazyeelboy  Back in the ... 1970s... there were tons of upholstered Kustom amps and cabinet running around. They had a cool cushioned finish. I even had one for a while. I don't recall it as being a bad amp, but once I got rid of it for my Sunn/Cerwin Vega rig, I never thought about getting a Kustom again. I don't know the model you have in mind, but whenever I think of Kustom, I think of those groovy cushioned boxes. |
You mean these?
I bought this rig mostly because when I was a kid, some of the bands that played at my Jr High dances had Kustom gear and I thought the blue sparkle rigs were maybe the coolest looking things I'd ever seen.
Well, that and it also was loaded with Altec 421's. The other head on the right is refered to as a "Frankenstein" Kustom, because it's got a huge reverb tank in it's high "forehead".
Looks
way cool; doesn't sound nearly so cool. I actually wired a pair of jacks together and mounted one in the input and one in the speaker out to use as a pass through to one of these 2000S's;
which sits on a stand on the side of the stage, and then ran the speaker out on the Sunn back into the Kustom 215. I put D140F's in the Kustom cab.
I did it for a 70's revue band I played for a while back, got the retro look, the big 2000S sound, and still kept everything in the same era. I even used a coiled cord for my J bass.
It was like a magnet to the old timers in the venues we played,
everybody had a story about the old tuck n' roll amps.
