John Fogerty confesses he's more of an amp aficionado than a pedal enthusiast. “It was probably the best-sounding solid-state amp ever made,” he waxed lyrical in a 2023 Guitar World interview, when talking about the Kustom amps he used during his Creedence Clearwater Revival era.
“I was playing a Kustom K200A[-4], which was an amazing rig. It was roughly 100 watts and was solid-state. It didn’t sound hard and cold and sterile the way so many other solid-state amps of that era sounded. And I’m just talking about when I used it clean. That amp had four effects built in; one was reverb, which I never used…”
