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small treasure find [message #1107] Sat, 08 December 2001 11:19   RoyC Messages: 97 Registered: April 2000 Location: East Central Illinois Member Yesterday, my wife, Cathy, was cleaning out a storage area (with stuff that was first put there by me in 1978) and ran across some interesting stuff, that I had totally forgotten about: the operators manual to the cascade K100 stack (my first Kustom - bought in '70) a small cache of Kustom brochures - the SC's, Kombo II, 150-500 series, etc the set-lists from the first band I was in - back in '70-'72 the band "equipment inventory list" from that band It was nice running across the Kustom stuff. Those old set-lists, however, I can't believe we actually played some of that stuff in public. *cringe* My current band is rehearsing tonite for our New Years Eve gig. The drummer (who has been with us 2 years) is the same drummer from my first band. I'll show some of this stuff to him tonite - should be interesting. Oh, by the way, "Louie, Louie" was on that set-list. Report message to a moderator

Re: small treasure find [message #1108 is a reply to message #1107] Sat, 08 December 2001 11:35   RoyC Messages: 97 Registered: April 2000 Location: East Central Illinois Member Oh, I forgot to mention that among the assortment of goodies she found were 2 Kustom "newspapers" entitled "The Kustom Sound". Not sure, but it looks like these may have been printed quarterly. The summer '71 issue has the headline "Carpenters on Top", and underneath that headline is a pic of Karen Carpenter at the drums and Richard Carpenter at the Wurlitzer, backed by multiple large black Kustoms. The other one (winter '71) has the headline "New P.A.'s for '71" across the top of the front page, while across the bottom is the beginnings of a decent article on Creedence Clearwater Revival, complete with an interview with John Fogerty. Both newspapers also have a (then) current summary of best selling albums and singles, in the various music categories (rock and roll, r&b, country-western, etc). Along with small articles featuring new up and coming bands of the time (Iron Butterfly, Osmond Bros, Lou Rawls, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, etc). Really interesting reading. Report message to a moderator

Re: small treasure find [message #1109 is a reply to message #1107] Sat, 08 December 2001 18:30   Jc Messages: 217 Registered: March 2000 Location: N.W. Chicago Suburb Senior Member Louie Louie! I must have been the bass player for ya Roy!! I know that song!! Jc Report message to a moderator

Re: small treasure find [message #1114 is a reply to message #1109] Sat, 08 December 2001 23:42 KustomBlues Messages: 490 Registered: June 2001 Location: Michigan Senior Member Dang it, JC, I could have been his first bass player in his band cuz I was playing that song on bass 30 years ago, no fooling!!! Did the "guy" have long brown hair??? :-) Report message to a moderator

Re: small treasure find [message #1118 is a reply to message #1107] Sun, 09 December 2001 01:17 Anonymous Don't feel bad about the set list, Roy. when I went to pick up my Kustom 200B-1 at my parents house a few months ago, I found an old briefcase with similar stuff to what you found, including a set list from the band I was in during the 80's. It included Olivia Newton-John's, "Physical". Yikes! Report message to a moderator

Re: small treasure find [message #1124 is a reply to message #1118] Mon, 10 December 2001 11:43 Anonymous I"ve heard JC play bass...and he's pullin yer leg...he can't play Louie !!! haha... no really...he can't....(he he he)but he sure looks good tryin ! Roy..hope you'll scan some of those goodies and let Dan post em...would be so great so see those.. I did see a behind the scenes on the carpenters and a couple shots showed her playing with the 6x row of siren PA behind her....too cool! Report message to a moderator

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