Any one still use an old "Kustom" tuck & roll

Jerry Hayes · From: Virginia Beach, Va.

I have an old Kustom 250 piggy back amp with two 4-12 cabinets covered in blue sparkle tuck & roll. I've use it a little for some old rock and roll shows on occasion but last night we had an outdoor gig at the Farmer's Market in Va. Beach so I decided to take it along with only one cabinet. Man, you wouldn't believe just how good the thing sounded with my old Telecaster and Les Paul. I think it has probably the best sound of any solid state amp I've ever played through. The bass player has a Kustom 200 with black tuck & roll & two 15" speakers. We had 'em cranked and pushing some air. I'd use the rig a lot more but it's just too big and hard to handle. The reverb and tremolo have a killer "swampy" sound........JH in Va.
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Bill Ford · From: Graniteville SC Aiken

Tried one in 69, when they were the rage, was not the best for steel,it didn't sound right, took it back,traded for another one, it sounded the same. I think it had 2x12s. Traded back to dealer for a Fender super reverb 4x10s,best amp I ever owned in that era.
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Jerry Overstreet · From: Louisville Ky

I don't own one, but play with some guys occasionally that use these old rigs for bass. One of them is the blue sparkle head/cab and the other is black. Both have the 2/15's and they sound great and I love the look of the tuck and roll...reminds me of my old chevy's custom interior Cool

Every once in a while I'll run across someone using the guitar rigs, but not very often.

These were reissued 10 yrs. ago or so, but I don't know if they're similar in sound to the originals or if they're still in production.

Jerry Hayes · From: Virginia Beach, Va.

At one point in the seventies I played in a band which had all Kustom amps and a PA set. Everything was covered in black tuck & roll and really looked great on stage. The amp I was using then was a Kustom 100 with 4 ten inch speakers. I remember changing the speakers to JBL's and not watching the way they were wired up. I wired it up like a Super Reverb and it didn't work right, that's when I found out about series parallel........JH in Va.
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Richard Sinkler · From: aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana

One of my dreams when I was using a rack system (a few years ago) was to have 2 single 15 Kustom tuck and Roll cabs and put my Black Widows into them. Unfortunately, it's hard and expensive to find these in good condition, if at all.

Dick Wood · From: Springtown Texas, USA

This brings back some good memories of the 70's when our rock band had several Kustom amps on stage.

We thought we were too cool!

Kevin Mincke · From: Farmington, MN (Twin Cities-South Metro) USA

I still have a PA 400 model head? silver sparkle tuck&roll which I think was very similar to the bass head.

Kevin Mincke · From: Farmington, MN (Twin Cities-South Metro) USA

I still have a PA 200 model head? silver sparkle tuck&roll which I think was very similar to the bass head. Kinda neat stuff for back then Cool

Dom Franco · From: Beaverton, OR, 97007

I still have two Kustom 200 amps. I use them often, especially for out door gigs to power my leslie and 15" JBLs. I traveled through Alaska and the lower 48 playing hundreds of Gigs.
Even used the extra one occasionally as a PA power amp when the real one blew up.
I had to resolder the wires to the reverb tank on one and replace preamp transistors on both throughout their 35 years of service. The blue pilot lights got stolen and replaced by red ones. (some jealous musician no doubt!)

I love my Kustoms
Dom

Skip Edwards · From: LA,CA

There was a very short blip years ago when a few players started to use them, instead of their Fenders. They were solid state, loud and clean and a step in amp evolution, right before Peaveys started showing up.

But the thing I like the most about Kustom is that someone had to say, "Hey, I got a good idea...let's tuck and roll some amps." And then the next guy had to say...Good idea! And on down the line....from whoever did the financing for the tooling up and manufacture, and everyone else that was involved. They took what was a pretty goofy idea and saw it through.

And because they did, they're classics.

Jim Palenscar · From: Oceanside, Calif, USA

In the early 70's I played with a band in Davis called Powder River. What I most remember about the Kustom tuck and rolls was that we had some PA columns and one night in Woodland we were playing at a dive called The Trails End and a fight broke out- chairs flyin' and the like- and somehow the PA tuck and roll columns went flyin' too- quite a sight!

Kevin Mincke · From: Farmington, MN (Twin Cities-South Metro) USA

"The blue pilot lights got stolen and replaced by red ones. (some jealous musician no doubt!)"

Mine came with the red jewel (unless it was replaced at somepoint i wasn't aware of but I've had it a real long time.)

Skip Edwards · From: LA,CA

How about this beast?

Stu Schulman · From: Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)

Skip,I actually got to play one of those organs once...I always wanted to get a Tuck&Roll couch.Have you guys ever played steel out of a Shure Vocal Smasher P.A? I think that they sound great. Wink

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Skip Edwards · From: LA,CA

I'm jealous, Stu. Those things came out around the time I got my first Hammond, so I never paid them any mind.
I do still have my Vox Continental, though. Bought it new in '65.

Dom Franco · From: Beaverton, OR, 97007

I bought my First Kustom amp in 1969 and they all had blue pilot lights at that time... Blue Jewels, same thread as Fender's red ones.

Dom Mr. Green

Bill Leff · From: Santa Cruz, CA, USA

My band played at the Kustom booth's "Battle of the Bands" at the Hollywood Palladium's "Teenage Fair" they used to have back in the 60's/early 70's. We made the finals but unfortunately did not win.

This was the same year the Acoustic brand amps came out with the horns in the speaker cabinets. Everyone wanted one of those beasts!

Dick Wood · From: Springtown Texas, USA

Bill Leff, In 1973 a friend and I bought matching dual cabinet Acoustic guitar rigs and our bass player had the Acoustic bass rig.

Those were absolutely the loudest and cleanest amps I ever played through and my guitar player pal still has his guitar rig and it still looks brand new after all these years.

Nick Reed · From: Russellville, KY USA

Sweeeeeeeeeeet!

Jerry Hayes · From: Virginia Beach, Va.

Nick, is that your's?......JH in Va.
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Dave Mudgett · From: Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee

Not right now, but I've used the trem/vibrato-loaded 150s over the years - great sound. Sorta like a Magnatone on a budget, but I'm using my old Maggie 260 these days.

Stephen Gambrell · From: Over there

Are there any Kustom guitars still around?

Dave Mudgett · From: Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee

I saw an old Kustom guitar a few years ago. First I'd seen in a long time. Not a lot of them, that's for sure.

Richard Sinkler · From: aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana

Nick. Do you own that white Kustom? It really is sweet.

I would give a month off my life to be able to sit at that organ. Are those JBL's in the Organ?

Jack Stoner · From: Kansas City, MO

I used to see a lot of Kustom stuff, since I lived in Kansas City, Missouri and Chanute Kansas wasn't that far away. Sort of "local" made equipment (like the "local made" ZumSteels).

Our Bass player has two Kustom Bass systems with the two 15" speakers.

The last band I was in, in Kansas City, the bandleader and the guy that owned/started Kustom were friends. When he started up the "new" Kustom company in the mid 90's, he came to our Bandleader offering him part of the company if he invested in it. He decined as he said "I know him".

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