#1970S KUSTOM KASINO AMPS SERIES#

Oh, and they also introduced 'Kasino' amps for a few years around 1970, pretty much the same innards, but without the vinyl.Ĭlick to expand.That's super-cool, thanks for posting those pics, and that Cascade is SEXY. They ran for a couple years ('71-'74?) with tuck and roll covering, and then not long after the founder left the company, they switched their aesthetic altogether for Phase III, dropped the tuck and roll, and most of the amps have a 'Big K' logo and a blue control panel. Flat front control panel was first, from abt '66-'71 (my numbers are a bit fuzzy), then there was a Phase II period that had a slanted control panel and often a blue push-button power switch.

JBLs, Altec Lansings, or CTS.Īnd finally, the ones with a flat front control panel (most common) predate the ones with a slanted front. In some literature, there's a letter at the end (J, A, or C, I think), which designates what brand of speaker compliment the head/cab pkg was sold with. 1 is just a dry amp, -2 has reverb, -3 has (I think) reverb and tremolo, etc. The number at the end designates the effects.

#1970S KUSTOM KASINO AMPS SERIES#

I think the A series ran '65-'66 or so, with the B series '66-'71 or something like that. The A or B designates whether it's the earlier 'A' series, which I seem to remember reading had some design issues, and the 'B' series, which is more common.

The number, usually, designates double the actual wattage (100=50w, 200=100w), and I think the PA units are numbered different, even if they're 50/100 watts. Okay, I'm stoked, I went down this rabbit hole a couple years ago.

1970s kustom kasino amps