Jim Marshall RIP - The Jim Marshall Tribute Thread

A true legend. I live locally and the news is doing the rounds via my local community now

RIP Jim Marshall



EDIT - As a tribute, this would be a good thread to recall any stories about Marshall Amps we have owned. Factual, funny or otherwise...

Yeah Rain, it's a bummer. I am due at a regular session Thursday night tonight hosted by his son, Terry Marshall, I doubt he will make it tonight, but perhaps an impromptu tribute night could well be on the cards... 

I have 5 Marshall Amps, love em all in their own different way...

R.I.P. Mr Marshall.

Thanks for selling Jimi that amp. :-)

another legend gone.  RIP

He went to 11.  Rest In Peace, Mr. Marshall.  

Sad news indeed.  I have one Marshall combo amp and 3 Marshall heads and 3 Marshall cabinets.  With the purchase of each one I thought I would sell the others, but I have not been able to give any of them up.  My favorite is the 1977 JMP Mark II 100 watt.  Classic tone at it's finest.

Rain, I had a similar encounter with a loud neighbor who always had their crappy music too loud.  I put the amp against the wall and cranked it up.  Never had a problem again.

Here's my Marshall story (which has been told in the CW forums before).

1979/1980 Chas Sandford (a guitar player I played with in 1970-71; look him up) calls me from England and asked me to get his Marshall head from his brother and sell it for him (Chas was broke).

I put the ad in the Recycler or some such. An Austrian guy calls me up and says can he come by and try it out. I say yes. He comes over and brings a keyboard with him and we plugs it in and he says Frank wants him to get a guitar sound for his keyboard. I say Frank who? He says Zappa. (I'm LIMH at this point thinking what a dreamer). I sell him the amp and ask his name. Peter Wolf he says. (LIMH more thinking the J. Geils guy is NOT Austrian).

Now, Peter tells me he loves the community I live in and says one day he hopes to live in a community just like it. The city is Simi Valley, California.

Fast forward to mid '90s. My son tells me his band has been contacted by an older musician to record his material from a 'concept' album from the '80s he never recorded. He wanted a young band to modernize his idea. I ask the guys name. Peter Wolf he says. An Austrian guy living in Simi Valley. I tell my son the whole story and he conveys it to Peter and Peter says "Of course I remember your father, he was a very kind man to me". I chat him up about Frank and he tells me some things. I never told him I did not believe him.

True story.

Needless to say my son's band at the time had internal disputes about the material and they never did the album. I told them (not my son he was in favor) they made a big mistake. Youth is wasted on the youth, no?

P.S. Of course I did search out if Peter was in FZs band and of course he was.

Crank em up!  Thanks for everything Jim, ol pal.  A true giant.

RIP to one of the true legends, and by all accounts a good guy.

In his honor, I have a feeling it's going to be LOUD in the world today.

I was playing rhythm guitar and singing in a band years ago. I had a Peavey amp at the time. A guitarist friend from another band called one day to ask if I knew anyone interested in his Marshall 50 watt tube combo. I bought it for $150. He had hotrodded it a bit, and the thing just screamed! I took it to the gig that night, and set it on top of my Peavey 4X10 cabinet. In the middle of the 3rd song, after singing the 1st chorus I turned to walk back to the amp and turn it up (for the 3rd time). The drummer was flipping me the bird, and the bass player was standing next to my amp with a "Just try it again bucko" look on his face. Loved that sound!

Thanks Jim and RIP.

Randy

Old55


He went to 11.  Rest In Peace, Mr. Marshall.  

I keep thinking that this should say ... "he invented 11"!

mike_mccue


R.I.P. Mr Marshall.

Thanks for selling Jimi that amp. :-)

+100w

He is/was my Aunts uncle. RIP Jim Marshall  Bibs