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1967 Kustom 200A4

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1967 Kustom 200A4

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John Fogerty

John Fogerty recalls the song started to develop during a quick soundcheck at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco about spring 1968: "I plugged in to my amp and I started hearing an E7th chord with that swampy vibrato that I was making on my little Kustom amp. It just turned me on to be standing there – I was so excited that I was playing in front of a real audience in San Francisco; I was just charged; and suddenly, I was inspired. I turned to the band and said “just start playing E”, and I started screaming at the top of my range, just a melody and vowel sounds and consonants. --- Then suddenly, right in the middle of having this burst of inspiration, it went silent. The stage manager had pulled the plug out of my amplifier. I looked at him and said, “Why’d you do that?”, and he said, “Don’t worry about that, you’re not going anywhere anyhow.” --- I looked at him and said, “Not going anywhere? You give me a year, pal, and I’ll show ya who’s not goin’ somewhere!”" (John Fogerty on his official site in 1997).
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shaun_curran

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An amazing piece of history!

My absolute favorite amp. One of the very few from the 1960s with Reverb, Vibrato, Tremolo, Selectone (a sort of EQ), and a harmonic Clipper function (Sort of a fuzz.distortion(. Cranked up a bit it roars into overdrive.

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jimmarchi1

the Kustom stuff is so underrated.

about 8 hours ago

shaun_curran

I agree! I mean, most of the amps and guitars I have I got because I am obsessed with Creedence Clearwater Revival, and I love my Kustom. I have 2 A4 heads; I am actually working on one now, replacing all the caps and transistors.

about 4 hours ago

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