Well, I'll be!!

[lbpesq]

No, Peter, no new rugrats on the immediate horizon.  After writing about concerts, beer, and Kustom cabs from 40-45 years ago, I just felt a little creaky, that's all.  Congrats on yours!  I figure (hope) we're still a few years away!

Bill, tgo

[gtrguy]

I used to have a black Kustom 200 with a huge matching cab when I was a teenager (2X15s with horns?). I was playing it with my guitar once while my mom was baking a cake. She left the house and I cranked the amp way up. The cake was starting to rise and the loud volume killed it; it just flopped over and died!

[hammer]

All I remember about the bands in which I've played in that used Kustom cabs was that there was often more duct tape on the cab than original ribbed padding.  These guys always seemed to forget to bring cabinet covers and the padded covering stuff just got torn up something awful.  In one band in which I played, an 8-piece ensemble with horns, the horn players jointly owned the P.A.  Unlike other bands in which the duct tape put on the padded cover tears seemed to stay forever, in this case it always looked like there was someone peeling or attempting to peel it off.  A ways down the road I found out why...it served as the stash for the horn section.

[keith_h]

I played through a 3X15 Kustom with an old Silvertone head in my very early years of playing. They had replaced a 1X15 Univox combo and I thought I had hit the holly grail of being able to be heard (tone didn't matter in those days). I also owned a PA consisting of Vox Grenadier columns and Vox PA head. When I compare all of that to what I own today and the phenomenal improvement in tone of the newer stuff all I can do is say thank goodness. 

[cozmik_cowboy]

In the early '80s I used to see the late, great Aron Burton frequently, and did his sound occasionally; he had a Kustom 200 that had been in a club fire.  All the tuck-and-roll was burned off, and the wood was charred, but it worked like a dream.

Peter

[edwin]

For some reason if you lived outside Colorado in the 60s-70s Coors was considered to be a "holy grail" beer. When I finally got to taste some in 1974 it was obvious that it was garbage and I could never understand the allure.

Lots of Kustom gear visible in the shot below from Menlo Park in 1967. The Kustom organ is sure a formidable looking piece of gear. I don't remember ever seeing anyone play one.

My understanding was that this picture was from Denver, leading me to believe that this might have been rented gear.
http://jerrygarcia.com/show/1967-09-24-city-park-denver-co-usa/

[cozmik_cowboy]

Hmmm: In one shot Jer's playing his '56 Les Paul Custom, but in the other it looks like a LP Jr.  Only shot I've seen of that, too.

Peter

[StephenR]

My understanding was that this picture was from Denver, leading me to believe that this might have been rented gear.
http://jerrygarcia.com/show/1967-09-24-city-park-denver-co-usa/

Think you are right about the date and location, thanks for the correction. I had the image stashed and it was likely mislabeled when I got it. For some reason I always thought it was from the 7/2/67 El Camino Park gig. Despite having seen other shots of some Kustom gear on stage with the Dead in the early years the fact that pretty much all the equipment in the picture is Kustom does seem to indicate they were on the road and everything was rented. 

[edwin]

My understanding was that this picture was from Denver, leading me to believe that this might have been rented gear.
http://jerrygarcia.com/show/1967-09-24-city-park-denver-co-usa/

Think you are right about the date and location, thanks for the correction. I had the image stashed and it was likely mislabeled when I got it. For some reason I always thought it was from the 7/2/67 El Camino Park gig. Despite having seen other shots of some Kustom gear on stage with the Dead in the early years the fact that pretty much all the equipment in the picture is Kustom does seem to indicate they were on the road and everything was rented. 

Maybe this was also the trip where Jerry picked up his pedal steel in Boulder.

[cozmik_cowboy]

I note also that Bobby's playing a red 345 instead of his fabled sunburst '58 one.

Peter

[cje]

The best part is that Pig's got his iPhone sitting on top of that organ, and his earbuds are wrapped around his mic stand!
 

[lbpesq]

Geez, I thought I was impressed when I learned that Trump invented the phrase "prime the pump" last week, but Pig invented the iPhone in the 1960's!  WOW!!!!

hehehehe

Bill, tgo