I picked me up one of these bass combos this week in Salt Lake City. I played around on a bunch of Kustom amps. I was pretty impressed and the prices are reasonable. I really liked the High Voltage guitar amps. I think they really are getting it right on mixing modern and tube technology together. James Brown who designed the 5150 series of amps for Peavey is their head amp designer now. If you like high gain heads try his Double Cross amp out. It's nice.
Back in 1977 when I was in the Army, the rec centers usually did not have good guitar equipment for service members to use.
The best I could usually hope for would be if they had a Fender Mustang. And in the amp department, most of the time there were beat up crummy shit amps. Once in awhile I would find something interesting, like the rec center at Ft. Jackson, S.C. had some old Supro 2 X 12 tube combo amps from the 60s that ROARED.
Anyway, the most common amp I would find that would be really cool (they had these at Ft. Lewis, WA) were Kustom 2 X 12 120-watt transistor amps. Those bastards were loud as fuck!
I remember seeing the Osmonds when I was a little kid and their back line were Kustom tuck and roll amps. I thought they were pretty cool looking. Many of those solid state amps still work today. Cool looking amps when they were new especially the blue sparkly ones. Then you would see them with ripped covering and the stuffing handing out.
I believe John Fogerty used KUSTOM's "back in the day"
Originally Posted by Matt White
The ones I saw in the Army were the next generation Kustom amps that were not tuck and roll. They had the usual black tolex like all the Sleavey combos had.
Good thing they have amps in the army. Two guys by the name of Jimi Hendrix and Billy Cox used army rec center equipment. It was a good thing Jimi fucked up his ankle jumping out of an airplane and got an honorable discharge. Can you imagine him going to Nam and getting killed before the music got released??
Those would be collectable now. Jimi Page used one on Led Zeppelin I. Did you plug in a Tele and crank out some Communication Breakdown?like the rec center at Ft. Jackson, S.C. had some old Supro 2 X 12 tube combo amps from the 60s that ROARED.
Heh....I did not even know that song yet. I had only been playing guitar for about 8 months at that point. When I was plugging a Fender Mustang into them, I did not even know why the damn things would not distort. All I knew was turn the bitches up. And so the management at the rec center would come yell at me to turn it down. Probably did not help matters much that I barely knew how to play, lol. I was still trying to perfect all the songs on Kiss: Alive!
They had two of them there. With these big, white plastic knobs that were about 2 inches in diameter.
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