![]() In an original promotion Kustom gave away "Kustom Kats" with the purchase of an amplifier. The original Kustom amplifiers will say Kustom by Ross. Other users included Motown bass player James Jameson, Sheryl Crow, Waylon Jennings, Leon Russell, Johnny Cash, Roy Clark, The Jackson 5, Carl Perkins, and The Carpenters. The oldest ones came with a black plexiglass front plate with the logo in the center and also a power/polarity three was toggle switch on the back and two arms to wrap the power cord around while transporting the amplifier. Kustom amps came with anywhere from 50 to 100 watts. This 1968 model had the usual reverb and tremolo/vibrato and also harmonic clipper and boost controls. ![]() ![]() John Forgarty of out of Creedence Clearwater Revival is still using a Kustom K200 A-4 (100 watt) amplifier. Many artists of the day used Kustoms since they created a beautiful looking back line. This was similar to what was being used in automobiles from that era. Naugahyde is a trademark of the Uniroyal company which was Kustom’s supplier. All were covered in a vinyl material known as naugahyde that was applied using a tuck and roll covering design. The Kustom amplifier chassis was made of steel. His amps and speaker cabs were incredibly well constructed and many of his early products are still in use today despite being forty to fifty years old and having little or no maintenance. We wanted big, clean and loud.įender came to the transistor market in the mid-1960’s and failed miserably, due to their amplifier line which seemed to have acquired a bad reputation for not being dependable. But in 1966 Bud Ross hit the jackpot. ![]() In the mid 1960's we didn't care if the amp had tubes or transistors. I can recall Dad bringing home this amazing small transistor radio.Īll of Ross’s amplifiers used only transistors instead of tubes. This was the era when transistorized electronics was new. ![]()
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