When Marshalls Ruled the World!!!!

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I remember going to concerts in the 70's, and all the bands had the huge Marshall stacks. It was a rite of passage I guess to eventually aquire the stacks to play in a REAL rock band. I was going through some of my old concert stubs and it made me think of the most used amp of that era.

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Now here's what I call a stack of Marshalls. Not a bad collection of guitars either.

DaveAmatosMarshallsGuitars.jpg
 
as far as im concerned, marshalls still rule the world. there may be better sounding amps given the circumstances, but theres not many things in live music more impressive than that marshall name scrawled across a wall of amps.
 
What I don't get is people who buy Marshall stacks and take the name off the front...
 
Amps are for pussies!
Us really great guitar players can crank out without having to plug in!
 
Had a bunch of smaller Marshall hybrids over the years and finally took the plunge and got me a TSL100.

It sits on top of a 1960A 4 x 12" and is just sexy !!


I love it !!
 
Love your stub collection. I have seen all of those bands back in the 70's and early 80's. Most at the vaunted "Ector County Coloseum" (sp) in Odessa Texas. LOL :D
 
I saw Foghat in a small club back in the early 90's.I think only the bass player was an original member.They had enough gear to play a stadium.
My ears bled! :eek:
 
Nice Marshalls. I wonder how he wires them all together?
 
Texsunburst59 said:
Now here's what I call a stack of Marshalls. Not a bad collection of guitars either.

DaveAmatosMarshallsGuitars.jpg


I like how there aren't 4 agiles or jay tursers or any other crap guitars mixed in there. Like an ovation acoustic would look like junk in that company.

I have to admit, though. I think it'd be really cool to drive a forklift into them all with Dave standing there crying like a bitch.

I know. I have tendencies.
 
I've heard that Van Halen and other bands used to put dummy cabinets on stage just to make it look impressive.
 
MadAudio said:
I've heard that Van Halen and other bands used to put dummy cabinets on stage just to make it look impressive.
I remember a similiar thing in an interview with Iron Maiden..
Someone asked them how loud all those amps were...
They replied *we don't even use all the bottom row, turned to 4, the rest are for show!"
 
I love my 87 JCM800 50 Watter sittin on top of 4*12 slant Marshall cabinet. Yes they still do rule. On a side note, I also really like Older Fender Tube amps.
 
I regret selling my stack

I loved my JCM800 growing up...lots of volume power for jamming in the basement with my friends. Now I want a flat response amp to go with my GT-8 pedal.
 
MadAudio said:
I've heard that Van Halen and other bands used to put dummy cabinets on stage just to make it look impressive.

Yep. I worked as a stage hand for a while years back, and for a Metallica show, we schlepped 27 marshall cabs onto the stage (three 3X3 stacks). Only 3 of them had speakers in them, the center one in each stack, and only 50 watts driving each one of them.
 
Greg_L said:
as far as im concerned, marshalls still rule the world. there may be better sounding amps given the circumstances, but theres not many things in live music more impressive than that marshall name scrawled across a wall of amps.
Cept maybe MESA. :)
 
Dumby said:
I loved my JCM800 growing up...lots of volume power for jamming in the basement with my friends. Now I want a flat response amp to go with my GT-8 pedal.

Yow! Are ya deaf yet?
 
darrin_h2000 said:
Cept maybe MESA. :)
mmmm MESA!
Many people say they don't like the sound OR look of Mesa's....


Many people lie about many different things.
 
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