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My wife thinks I'm crazy anyone. I look at a lot of fold outs but none have any babes on them. In fact I told her to just look at the babes in this one.
It must have taken you a while to get all the girls to set up like that for this photo shoot too. What motivation did you to get them out in the sun?
I took all of my guitars and basses out to the band room for a shoot one night. That stuff is work. They were uncopperative though. They are all prima Donna's.
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Tue, 08 November 2005 16:56 |
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Confidentially I don't think Cheryl Crow (could be the nose) is that hot either. I'm looking at the Kustom's too.
I'll bet your chicks were glad to see some sunlight, fresh air, and a bath. Most babes seem to be a bit more appealing after they come of the bath.
Maybe Cheryl Crow should come out in a bath towl and lay on the Kustom's with a towel around her hair too. Naw! I'd still be looking at the Kustom's.
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Wed, 16 November 2005 14:57 |
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I have always had dogs. I have two right now that I claim. One is that big yellow lab. He swims like a boat. Tail up and out of the water. In fact his whole back bone is out of the water. The other one I claim is a German Sheppard. Pretty nice fella really but he's big so folks are afraid of him.
Like you I'm a softie too. So I have a stray that has lived here for four years now. I guess he's not too much of a stray then since he won't leave LOL..
But you are right they are the best alarm systems in the world. Other people get stuff thieved but not us. I would imagine yours are quite attached to you and any thing that you care for too like those Kustom pretties too.
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Fri, 18 November 2005 03:33 |
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Sounds like you may be a decicated key man. Any one these days with a real hammond and multiple Leslie's would have to be. I have one old Leslie. Its one of the 131 tallboys. I had that old big fella several years.
Right now I don't have good hammond clone. The only keys I have are P120, Casio, and a concertmate. I think the last one was named after the old tedisco line of amps. I think I would like to have a Nord and a Trinton.
I'm susposed to be a guitar player. But I have and affinity for good keys too. I used to play in a band with a mate who had a
B-3 and three Leslie's. I got mine from him when he sold out. He had them named after the books of the Bible. Peter, John, and Paul. I have big John. Peter and Paul were the smaller 122 series.
I have never even seen a 2x10 Kustom up close. I have only seen one Kustom 250 and I was impressed by it. I have seen lots of 200 and 100 series though. I have five Kustom heads and cabs. My band room is only 11x28 and its crowded too. The Pa alone has twenty five cabs.
Like you I have several Fenders too. A total of eight cabs and five amp sections. I have no Marshalls but I do have two Vox amps. I also have a little set of Ludwig's.
I can see why you don't have much in your play room if you have to lug them upstairs. Whew! I get tuckered out thinking about that.
Did'nt I see some Pa cabs in the lawn romping around too. I hope that they all cooperated like good gals when you told them it was back to their cells time.
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Fri, 18 November 2005 19:54 |
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I agree the blacks are cool. I have two blacks. The only one that I bought brand new was black. They don't call it basic black for nothing. I never started out to have a collection but its like snow. First its only a inch or so. Then its your up to your knees, then its your hips, then waste deep. Now who cares anymore lets make some snowballs
I have and even eleven guitars counting my three basses. Eleven is not really and even number I know but I don't have any torn in half guitars and all of their parts are on them so they are even.
Two of my boards have transpose buttons and they are handy to play with some one who plays your favorite songs but in the wrong key. My keys are always right so it got to be them that are in the wrong key.
Another thing I find that real handy for is when you go to a jam and its one of these affairs where the other guitar players fingers are too tender to press on the strings that are so tight as when they are in standard tune and or the singer can't quite sing. So every one is tuned a half step.
I have a Twin too but its the regular Twin's evil half brother. Its the Evil Twin. It has all black face cosmetics and except for the spic and span clean the simularities end there. Its full of bells and whistles most are well hidden so that it appears for all the world to look like its more wholesome and upstanding brother. But it has three seperate channels. I'm sure that you can imagine that the other two are designed to do good clean living things as the first channel does. It sort of has a split personality.
Thats cool that you have a Kustom Pa of sorts. From the way you have described and my own long history with Kustom's I am sure that it is a very powerful combination that works well. The fifteens will handle the lows. The horns the highs and those columns will bring out the mids the way that most modern systems cannot begin to.
I too am missing a few 200 models. I have no red amp, no blue amp, and no gold amp. Although I never really expect to get a gold one. A couple of speaker combinations I am missing is a 3x12 one. It would be nice to get one in red but any color will do. I'd like to have a 100 in 2x12 and again any color will do. Its always the last ones that are so hard to find.
You are probably right on the 2x10 Kustom. I will bet it will be a very good guitar amp. I have always like the sound of tens. I find that my Kustom's sound really good for guitar if I use my Ric or my Gretsch. Strats are not quite as sweet as those two thru my Kustom's.
In Fender I need two more to make my choir complete. One is a Vibro King and the other is the 59 Bassman. I only have two Vox amps. But you have one that I am lusting afterwards and thats the AC30CC. I want one in a head and cab. The combo is of course very near the same thing but its a lot harder to change the tubes in them.
The trolly's on those Vox amps are a work of art but they take up a lot of room so I don't think I will get one or at least not get one until I have more room for this rowdy crowd. I also kinda like the Vox new verision of the Super Beatle the AD120VTX.
Then there is the problem of a Vox bass amp. None of the older ones are as well designed as our Kustom's. So that is gonna take some time and thought. I have a modern head that I hide behind the scene for bass with my Fender's and Kustom's. But the Fender or Kustom cabs are used for bass and the heads are setting on top of their cabs with cords plugged in and the lights are all glowing. Wonderful David Copperfield.
I would like to have a good hammond clone board too. The Roland VK8 is pretty good one. But the Nord weighs less that twenty pounds. Its red too. Since red is my wife's favorite color after rolled and pleated I can ususally get anything I want if I can find some thing red on it.
I just don't have enought experience to say on synth. So on price and features alone that I have read about the Trinton LE looks good on paper in the 76 key form. I wanna be able to do synth sounds and horn parts too.
I am with you my keyboard playing is limited to chords with the left hand and leads with my right. I have played with some folks though including the B-3 player that I got my Leslie from that had their left is either cut off or neulogically damaged so they cannot be used.
But when you hear a good hammond player who can really play those things it is truely a thing of beauty. I'm just a lump of coal in that crowd.
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Tue, 22 November 2005 00:50 |
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I use to be a simple Kustom geetar player too LOL.. I had one in the purple burst and it had a B-5 bigsby on it. I really messed up on that one though. Later in the seventies I got a Strat, a Les Paul, and a Mustang.
Some how I figured I had too many geetars. That would'nt happen now. So I much to my regret I sold to a drummer friend of mine that I had played with for a long time. He offered to give it back to me a couple of years ago and so I went to look at it
By the time I got over there he had changed his mind to selling it for $350. If it had looked like it did when I sold it to him that would have been fine. But I'm afraid it did'nt. Even worse really he had pretty well just trashed it.
He had put two big humbuckers down in it instead of like the orginal pickups being mounted on top. They were so big that only a small amount of wood remained between the two and even it was split in two.
He had also dropped it several times and along with all of the bumps and bruises he had broked off two tuning keys and had just glued them back on.
I thought about it for a while still and almost got another one but it was sold before I could get it. Then realizing that I would have more in one than a new Rickenbacker. I just bought the color of the year 360 Ric in Montezuma Glo.
So thats how I used to just be a simple everyday Kustom geetar owner. I have only seen one other one in person and it was in natural maple. The one I almost got to buy on line was a red one. So none would have been my purple burst. If I had gotten my old one back I had planned on painting it black as there was nothing left of the orginal color.
I helped that same drummer buddy take home a hammond spinet organ not long ago. I think it was and L. He got a tiny Leslie with it about the side of footstool. Not very loud but still pretty cool. He says he has a little Fender Leslie with it now. He also says he has and orginal Mellotron out in his garage buried under some motorcycle parts. So you never know what of us old musicians have hidden around.
One of the reasons I had decieded to get a Hammond clone with at least seventy some odd keys on it is him. He found that the little L just not have enought keys on it to be as useful as he thought it would be.
In some ways the new AC30CC may be better than the orginal in others its sadly lacking. Like you I'm not too overjoyed at how the combo is made with the speakers being soldered in and you have to unsolder those and pull the amp out just to put in new set of tubes. The head verision will remendy some of those what must have been brain farts that day for the designer. Other things on it like the channel blend switches are pretty cool along with the other bells and whistles.
Time will only tell too if they will stand the test of time like our old amps have. But at least they are still being made and on the market.
I kinda like the AD120VTX amp that they have out now too. Its too bad though they don't make a decent bass amp anymore.
Those are my three amp weaknesses Kustom, Fender, and Vox. I still enjoy just sighting a Kustom of almost any model. I enjoy seeing some old Fenders and Vox amps too though. The Kustom's are just a bit more exciting as none are made like them anymore these days.
Hopefully the Trinton LE is a close relative of the bigger Trinton. I'd like to have a good keyboard synth and sampler. But they can get pretty expensive. I know somethings you have to get spanked on but I am always thinking of all the other equipment I could get for that same amount of pennies that I would have in one keyboard. This can get painful sometimes being a gearhead.
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Wed, 23 November 2005 04:55 |
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I'm very interested to hear how it sounds with the new tubes? What kind of tubes that you deciede on getting new for it too? Compared to the old ones in it? There is a varity of new tubes on the market but how or what to pick is always a mystery. As soon as you hear one tube is good they invarabily get bad ratings the next day.
My buddy got Mesa Boogie tubes for his Bandmaster. He thinks the amp works but finds it a little lifeless now. I put one set of main power tubes in my Twin (it has two sets)as one had gone bad in that set. I put Ruby tubes in it. I heard first that the Ruby tubes were good now some folks say that they are bad LOL.. It had to win for loosing. As some folks say aspen pitman tubes are good others say well? At best they say they are not any good shall we say.
I think that new tubes are actually only made in china or russia. No chinese tube is said to be worth a dime and thats what the AC30CC comes with. That lead russian or Nos and Nos from I hear is super expensive.
I agree with you too Vox is not as cool looking as Fender and Fender does not look as cool as Kustom. But then again most new bass amps are not exactly beauty queens either and are not gonna win any asthetic awards for the worlds coolest looking amps thats for sure.
With Vox I do think that the brown grille clothe amps do look a bit better than the black ones. There were a few old AC30's covered in Tan, Grey, Red, and even Purple Tolex though and those do look a bit better with the black grille. Well maybe they do LOL..
I was thinking of ordering one with the Wharfendales (the standard speakers) and then replacing them with the Red Fangs and using the orginals in monitor cabs I'm gonna sell or something like that LOL.. I'd like to hear what you think about the Blues vrs the Wharfs too?
I think that it would be interesting to hear one with a single Blue and one Red Fang too? I think my two little Vox Cambridge amps are lonely amongst the sea of Kustom's and Fender's in my band room. I sure your Vox has and inferiority complex.
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Well, solid state forum or not here goes. I have a fair amount of New Old Stock 6L6GC`s, 5881`s KT88`s and lot of 12AX7`s, 12AT7`s and plenty of others. When I get back home I will check them out and give you a complete rundown. These are 60`s and 70`s GE and Sylvania tubes. Not a foreign tube in the bunch. Would you be interested????
Conrad
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would like to see what you've got...If I were dealing with just a couple personal special rigs that I wanted to tube n play for myself..then I'd be really picky about tone...for all my rental rigs...I've been pleased with the current stock of tubes out there...just have to take a little time to check em out on each load..can't just open a box and expect it to be good like you could with the old US tubes...but for the most part..and as often as we're doing maintenance.. I'm pretty cool on current tubes..but let's see whatcha got..sounds like some fun stuff!
I actually have much more trouble out of current amps due to cheap components...lousy transistors, really lousy wave solder...cheap pots...etc...for example, in the past year I've purchased 2 different products for bass..a Korg Ampeg SVT, a GK1001RBH, and an Eden WT800...the korg camed tubed cheap and unmatched...it played ok...but she's solid now after a set of JJs and a little extra love..the tolex seems thinner and cheaper too...but other than that..pretty solid...the GK...blew up...and did so badly enough that it took an entire new board $150 from GK who's customer service btw sucks...also the primary 10 in the 4x10 cab blew and those are odd 32ohm drivers...had to special order the coil and kit..my local speaker recone dude didn't have one to match..and boy does he have a ton of others...the EDen....biggest disapointment...the amp has been back for warranty repair...and it still needs work...currently , after they sent it back as it completely failed, now, the gain pot seems to have some hot spots on it which when you hit em, sends the amp to full volume..which in turn spikes the speakers and blows the little lights limiters on the horns...the cheap plastic cab corners tear up right away, the casters tear up right away, the mounting of the push buttons on the preamp is so shabby that you have to take a pen to push the buttons in and out as they just don't fit..its the most expensive bass rig I own..and the shittiest..not road worthy at all...
Every new fender..mexi and now chinese.. Twins, bassmans, etc...you must go in and hand solder over all the cheap wave boards...if you don't, by the 3rd job...you'll have socket failures...now mind you, most of the time I or my guys are in possession of the gear..it doesn't get banged around..and we're known for having the cleanest gear in the market...and I spend extra time and money to keep grills and tolex repaired and the amps in top shape...and I've abused my kustoms compared to the pampering all this "pro" gear gets in my rental stock...and the kustoms have never given me trouble...solid as a friggin tank...current manufacturers, resting on old legacy names...should be ashamed at what they call pro gear..it just ain't so....ok..soap box done...finish packing..and ready to head to Orlando !!! ..ya'll have a good turkey day...n Play Loud! ET
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Thu, 24 November 2005 05:11 |
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Looks like you got a bully on your hands. I think I saw one of those big un's kick sand in that little one's port holes. He should be in the penalty box.
Cool sig of Bud Ross. How hard did you twist his arm? Did he sneak those none dearmonds in there too?
A Danelecto twelve string joined our crazy crowd today. He's in for a Kustomizing experience.
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Mon, 28 November 2005 21:57 |
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I had mine for quite a while playing lots of jobs with it. Thats why I noticied the pickups so fast. Too bad mine was trashed or I would have it back now. The way the pickups were mounted orginally mounted on top too was a very Ric like design. No other guitars on the planet used that concept to my knowledge but those two companies and to change even that one little item would have changed the entire guitar.
Thats why not only why the big humbuckers did'nt look right on it even if he (my drummer buddy or who ever he had put them in) had'nt cracked the wood between them. The guitar design was still messed up. Just by changing that one thing the way he did it messed up the entire guitar.
But looking at it even in its decripit state still gave me insights in the quality of it though. I could see where it had been cracked and bruised that it had a sanding sealer undercoat under the color coat. Meaning that it was a lacquer finish. One of the finishes that all guitar players and collectors all covet.
Yup Bud is first class. He created a company, a quality product, and image all from scratch thats still admired to this day. I think he means his guarrentee to be his lifetime anyway.
I like several things on my Kustom. Two of course was the way it played and sounded. But I liked the fret markers, that little metal plate between the neck pickup and the neck for the truss rod, and the way he used the same knobs as on the amps. Having that bigsby on there set it off too. That old guitar never disappointed me.
It just goes to show you that all of the little things do add up.
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As far as my memory goes mine was a very nice guitar. I could have bought a Gretsch Tennessean at the same time for the same amount of money. But there was just some about that old Kustom guitar. So that goes a long way to say how good I thought mine was.
The only guitars that I have that don't see too much use now is my 66 Strat (its worth too much cash now to use much) and my Les Paul. The Les Paul is a heavy guitar.
The old Kustom probably had played at many more gigs than any other guitar that I have now. Not that it was any better than my Strats, Gretsch, Les Paul, Mustang, and Ric that I play mainly now. But that band I was in when I had it had a lot of jobs. It being a horn band and all we had a leg up on the local competetion.
But it served me well thru out all of those gigs. Perhaps it blended better with that band too with its sound properties and that is why I have such fond memories of it. But then again most of the gear we really love is out of the memories we have with it.
If old bud started making them again I would'nt mind having another one.
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If you're used to playing a Strat. They (Kustom's) do seem like toys. Play a Strat a while and then pick up a Les Paul. You'll really think you are a babe in toyland. Except for the monster weight of the Les Paul that is.
Have you ever played a Mustang or Dano Twelve? They are true short scale guitars. Even with the twelve string headstock there is room left over in a 335 case with Dano twelve. One thing I have never understood is that 325 short scale Ric's like Lennon's are such a bear to play and have to have 13 guage strings on them just to stay in tune. Not so with a Mustang on the Dano Twelve they are enjoyable to play.
But I did read where when Lennon got his brand new Ric 325 given to him after the Beatles did the Sullivan show that he said that it was odd that it never played as good as his old one. Must have been something very Mustang like about his orginal one.
What does your Kustom weigh? My Ric weighs 7 1/4 pounds. Most of my alder Strat weigh 7 1/4 too. Its a nice weight to have slung around for neck for four hours. The Stang and Dano weigh even less. I have two Strat that one weights 8 pounds and the other weighs 8 1/4 pounds. You'd be surprized how much that extra weight pulls on you after and hour or so.
My Les Paul weighs 9 1/2 pounds. Its a one set only guitar believe me. My Ric is a 360 and it a nice guitar. But I had my old Kustom so long it still brings back good memories. What kind of pickups did Bud put on yours? They look like some kind of Gretsch pickup. How are they mounted in it? As you probably know the Dearonds were mounted on top.
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In a way I don't know exactly what mine weigh either. I just weigh them all on the same scale. My method of madness on that was weigh some thing on it and go to store with commerical that and check it against them.
I have a couple of sixties Fenders. One is 66 Strat and the other a 66 Mustang. When and if I get the right offer on the Strat it will be gone like yours did LOL.. But I do know about what its worth so it would not leave easy. The Mustang is worth a little bit of course but not enought to say lets throw it out with the babies water.
My Les Paul is a later seventies model with a natural maple top. Nice guitar but too heavy and not yet old enought for people to beg me to sell it to them. So its proabably gonna be around here for a while too.
My Ric six string is a 2003 with nothing special about it but the paint job. Its Montezuma glo. I have nineties Deluxe Plus Strat, a Malmsteen artist Signature Strat, and a 50th anniversary Deluxe Strat with all of that gold hardware. Its not worth a lot today but its one of those of how long you keep it kinda things that finally rolls around.
My Gretsch is and Elliot Easton Signature Duo Jet. It sounds like from the way this is coming out that I crave artist signature guitars. But in truth I just like the features and the sounds of these guitar. I have never even heard a song that Malmsteen plays and don't even know of any names of any he plays. I just happened to pick it off a rack one day while trying out a pedal.
My basses are Violin basses, the cheap ones that work great. I have two twelves and neither are a holy grail type like the Ric twelves are. But one of them is a Dano and a pretty nice twelve really. Its kinda odd before listening to you describe your guitar as a Kustom semi pro.
I think we deciede what is pro or not to and extent based on the what the Pro's play. But I have seen Pro bass players with Dano long horn basses in their hands. Think Ted Nugent's Brydland for instance. No body else plays one of those things. Especially for rock.
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Wed, 07 December 2005 11:26 |
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see....that's why I like talking to you..no matter how bad I think my GAS is...you make me feel better about myself (grin)..dude...you have a lot of cool stuff...most of my remaining gear is product that the general market could care less about and would never make me any ebay money...but I keep em cause I like em and that's really where I'm at in life now...there was a time when I thought...sell em all and take the money and buy one kill gibson or something..but truth is the players I have work every bit as good as a high end model and really suite me well...so I'm not sure I'd be gaining anything other than worry about nicking up an expensive guitar body every time I'd take it out to play..
I've seen the Malmsteen strat (scalloped fret board)..kinda cool..good effort by Fender...and I actually worked with Elliot last year..he was playing with credence Clearwater as the new lead vocalist can't cut John's guitar work... Elliot surprised me as he was playing a fender std usa tele...they contracted me for backline ..and for him I was asked to provide a pair of EVH 5150 PV heads on top of marshall 1960A cabs loaded with vintage 30s...gotta say...he had some very sweet tone..
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