Jim Marshall

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Victory Pete said:
Jimi Hendrix along with many others used Fenders in the studio frequently.

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So what? Lots of people do. What did he use at Monterrey Pop? Woodstock? What does that change? Are you gonna deny the importance of Marshalls in rock and roll? Don't you *claim* to have 3 of them? Right.
 
Greg_L said:
So what? Lots of people do. What did he use at Monterrey Pop? Woodstock? What does that change? Are you gonna deny the importance of Marshalls in rock and roll? Don't you *claim* to have 3 of them? Right.
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Five.

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Pete I'm gonna ask you nicely to stay out of my threads. Go troll somewhere else please. Thanks.
 
Victory Pete, this is getting stupid, now. No-one wants to see photographs of your possessions. Are you Aspergers or something? You never seem to grasp the sarcasm or irony in what you're doing.
 
Bubba po said:
Victory Pete, this is getting stupid, now. No-one wants to see photographs of your possessions. Are you Aspergers or something? You never seem to grasp the sarcasm or irony in what you're doing.
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It is a tribute to Jim Marshall. Didnt you ask to see some photos previously? I was just honoring your request:rolleyes:.

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PS "Grasp the sarcasm or irony"? Do you mean do I like all my stuff I have aquired over my years of hard work?
 
Greg_L said:
Jim Marshall didn't just improve on the Bassman, he also pioneered the "stack", and you damn near can't go to any rock concert without seeing one, or at least a halfstack.

The "Marshall" script on millions of heads, cabs, and combos all over the world and heard on millions of records past, present, and future prove his legacy.
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The "stack" thing might be open to debate, as Fender was using separate heads and cabinets in their "Bassman" and "Showman" amps in the mid-60's...
 
bdenton said:
The "stack" thing might be open to debate, as Fender was using separate heads and cabinets in their "Bassman" and "Showman" amps in the mid-60's...
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And my blonde '62 Bassman, for whatever reason, has fooled many gear heads into thinking I recorded a Plexi. I get asked what pedal I'm using, too. It's a stock head and cabinet. And going back earlier, I've heard many tweed Deluxe amps sound like a Marshall. But still, when you say 'sounds like a Marshall' that's a legacy.
 
Greg_L said:
Right. His legacy is everywhere.
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Victory Pete said:
Lyndon Laney's will be also. I do alot of recording with the Lionheart Class A amps.
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That's not in dispute. Laney's legacy may well be everywhere. But once again, that misses the point. I'm sure there are many peoples' legacies out there but this isn't a competition.
Victory Pete said:
Jimi Hendrix along with many others used Fenders in the studio frequently
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Sure. The 1960s was a period of immense and frequent change. Few artists stuck with any one make of anything in that freewheeling decade. But the thread isn't about Fender or Vox or Yamaha or Farfisa or Burns or Studer. It's about Marshall and Jim and his electricians contributed immensely to the sound of rock music by enabling guitarists that wanted to be LOUD
 and 'in yer face' to be just that in a way that had rarely, if ever, existed before.
I mean, Dave Davies' guitar sound with the Kinks on their first couple of actual hits {"You really got me" and "All day and all of the night"}, whoever played the fuzzy lick on the Stones' version of "I wanna be your man" and the heavy playing on the Nashville Teens' "Tobacco road" are all crucial stageposts on the road to heavy electric guitar in their distortion and sonic character. But it took something like the Marshall amps, {firstly in the hands of someone like Pete Townshend, then others} to get from where the sonics of those aforementioned guitars were pointing towards to the earth and ear shattering places that the likes of Hendrix took them.
No small thing.
 
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