Robben Ford Discussion

telefunk1 · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:47 pm Post subject: Forget the Dumbles and Fuchs....

This is a REAL amp!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=43373&item=3778927440&rd=1

Aeolian · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:07 pm Post subject:

Oh yeah! Tuck and roll baby! I remember the first Credence show I went to. Rows of those things across the back. I thought they looks so cool and Fogarty got a great tone regards of the transistors.
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glasman · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject:

Oh Man does that take me back in time. I had the 3-15" version of that same amp (for bass in black) back in high school. Tuck and roll was coooooool back then.

Anymore remember Plush amps?

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telefunk1 · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:47 am Post subject:

I knew this would get a rise from the "old timers" on the list! Is this amp amazing or what!

AndyR · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 7:11 am Post subject: I had one, too...

...had a black Kustom w/2-12" cabinet.

Bought it in '74 for about $200 or so.

Paired with my '69 Les Paul Deluxe, which I bought for $225, sounded pretty good cranking out "Turn to Stone" and "Rocky Mountain Way" and other heavy hits of the 70s...

The Kustom is long gone, but I still have the '69 LP...it was the one thing I wouldn't sell or pawn for rent $$$.

Smile

Andy

glasman · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:28 am Post subject:

telefunk1 · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:46 am Post subject:

gary - It takes one to know one, as they say!

First band I was ever in, the lead player had a blue sparkle Kustom and the bass player had the black bass rig. I was using a Bandmaster and those Kustom amps were so loud that the Fender was huffing and puffing to keep up!

A - I have seen the pics of the live CCR shows with the Kustom backline - always thought that looked so cool.

magvike · Member Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 26 Location: San Diego

I can dig it!!! In my second band the other guitarist and the bassist had 100 watt Kustoms and I had a Pro Reverb. They kept telling me to "Turn it up!!!". I had that little 40W 2x12 sucker floored and you just couldn't hear me.... I don't even remember how the singer was heard....maybe he wasn't, he used to writhe around on the floor a lot with his shirt off. We were punk back in the 60's.....the name of the band was Throat....
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fingerlakes · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:13 am Post subject:

I played in a band back in the'6o's called " The Town Criers". Two brothers played guitar and bass, and both had Kustom's, one sparkly blue, the other gold. I played a Farfisa Combo Compact through a Marshall amp. We were very loud. A lot of GFR stuff with a litlle Butterfield,and Blues Project mixed in. I will be hooking up with both of those fellows at Gregg's show on Tues night.

JonyB · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:02 am Post subject:

I can hear that farfisa through the marshall now...man that was some really BIG cheese Razz

did you guys play "96Tears" ? Cool

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glasman · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:11 am Post subject:

This whole thread has me rolling of the floor of my cubical at work!

Ah, to be young again......... then again, I have much better toys now!!

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magvike · Member Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 26 Location: San Diego

I DO have a Fender Blues Deluxe which is pretty similar. In tweed, no less. There is something magical about a Fender guitar through an old Fender amp, though....I've talked to both those guys since then and those Kustoms and my Pro Reverb are long gone.....
Mike.

Daved · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:30 am Post subject:

My first live performances.... a Vox Continental thru a Vox Super Beatle amp. And, after all these years, I still love the sound of cheese.... Laughing

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glasman · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:07 am Post subject:

Daved · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:41 am Post subject:

In '69 I was visiting my future wife (who lived there at the time, tho I lived up in Stockton) and I went to the Mosrite factory which was in a small basement just a few blocks from her house. That was a very fun and impressive thing for me.... especially considering what my career would turn out to be decades later.
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