Posted on 04/05/2012 7:02:18 AM PDT by Drew68
The man who gave rock one of its key visual and sonic props has died. Jim Marshall, known as "The Father of Loud" for inventing the Marshall amplifier, was 88 years old.
Marshall was a drummer and drum teacher who used his earnings to set up a music shop in west London in 1960. Among his customers were the likes of Ritchie Blackmore and Pete Townshend, and it was through talking to them that Marshall realised there was a gap in the market for a guitar amplifier cheaper than the American-made models popular at the time. When, at Townshend's request, a Marshall 1959 amplifier head was teamed with a cabinet, the "Marshall stack" was born, becoming the defining feature in rock bands' backlines for generations to come.
Virtually every major guitarist has used Marshall amps at one time or another, and giant arrays of Marshall cabs – often suggested to be empty boxes, with no actual amplification purposes – have become key stage props for generations of metal bands, especially.
Among the musicians paying their respects to the late innovator was former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, who tweeted: "The news of Jim Marshall passing is deeply saddening. R & R will never be the same w/out him. But, his amps will live on FOREVER!"
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Ooops that should be fate sigh*
That’s okay...truly, our best years have passed us by.....LOL
One of my biker jackets has the flaming Chronos symol with “Our Best Years Have Passed Us By” and “The Golden Age Of Leather” as rockers.
[Die hard fan, much?]
;]
“On Your Feet Or On Your Knees”(One of the most awesome album titles ever”
*And* one of the best gatefold covers.
[yes, I kept all my vinyl]..;]
I would *so* love to slap you on the back of my bike and take you on a 1000W quadrophonic, sub-woofered, pitch dark back road ride some night.
DFTR is transcendant when you’re in the middle of nowhere and a full moon is rising over the mountains...and the intro begins.
[moon crazy, summer of changes...]
;D
Your are too cool. That has to be one awesome jacket to see. Die hard fan here for sure. Rock on Sister! 8-)
If you aren’t already aware, the finally re-released “Imaginos” on CD.
Awesome.
As if you didn’t think I was already mad, all of my Ibizan Hound’s registered names begin with “Desdinova’s ___________”
Ever heard this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edXuzE8zcuc
Or this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_k1ncbxE08
Back atcha!
BOC: On tour forever!
To show you what great guys they are, the last time I saw them in MD, somebody pick-pocketed the tour shirt I’d bought out of the bag was carrying.
The show was over and the roadies were packed up but we went back to to see if we could buy me another one and some guy went in their tour bus and came back out with a shirt...which they gave to me.
[spend enough time hanging on the edge of the stage and they start to recognize you]
LOL
“I would *so* love to slap you on the back of my bike and take you on a 1000W quadrophonic, sub-woofered, pitch dark back road ride some night.
DFTR is transcendant when you’re in the middle of nowhere and a full moon is rising over the mountains...and the intro begins.
[moon crazy, summer of changes...]”
That would truly be Some Enchanted Evening. 8-) I bet “The Vigil” is wicked through that sound system or “The Sun Jester” and “Let Go”. Would love to hear “Black Blade” throgh that system all the quad on that would be awesome.
BOC You Can be Whatever you want to be, You got the Power, We Got The Key!!!
BOC - Let Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTtImX3hNaQ
BOC - The Vigil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFXXQYPB8A0
BOC - The Great Sun Jester
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYg3vvVwj4Y&feature=relmfu
BOC - Black Blade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCxL3-Fl7bM
Thanks for the update on “Imaginos”. Under rated CD for sure plus Heaven Forbid is very underated also IMHO.
BOC - See You In Black
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7oRU-zErEA&feature=relmfu
Good catch thanks for those. :)
That was great of them to give you the shirt. BOC Rock Forever.
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