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Are you proud of your Marshall? Has it been to Hell and back yet still works? Have you taken it to strange or exotic locations? If so, we want to know about it!

Email us a picture with a brief description and your pride and joy could end up featured here

Beast of an amp

Beast of an amp

Hey everyone at marshall, keep up the good work producing high quality amps. I got the guitar in the picture free when i was 15! so i didnt have an amp! "what do u play it through" says my dad?
well we went into town (scunthorpe, UK) about 4 months later and after haering the micro stack in the shop i thought i had to get this! so i did and well its a beast of an amp! only thing is i can only play it loud when the parents and nieghbours are out!
reagards

steve!(15)

My Hero

My Hero

Hello,

I'm Tom de Vreugd from the Netherlands and I have a Marshall Superbass from 73',(little modificated through the years) with a 1960BX cab with Greenbacks. Played with a F***er strat and a tubescreamer it sounds just like my heroes, no unneccesary effects, just like a guitar used to sound like! Amp for Life!

Kind Regards,

Tom de Vreugd (from the band: the Bullfrogz)

Prized Collections

Prized Collections

Attached are my prized collection of Marshalls. I turned 50 the month so I like the ease of carrying these 2X12 cabinets. There are a matching pair of 1966 cabinets, a half stack silver anniversary, a Mosfet, an Artist, and a 2204s. Each has a unique sound so each song will use a different amp.

Anonymous

I love it

I love it

Attached is my entire rig at the moment. Im in a metal band "The Ties" and we are from the UK. I play rhythm and lead guitar aswell as being a vocalist. I play an Epiphone Les Paul, Epiphone SG Custom and a F***er Acoustic (Don't know what series to be honest) through my Marshall JCM900 half stack. I think this is an amazing amp and i would never change it to a different one. I use a Marshall Guv'nor 2 for my rhythm sound which i can make really HEAVY and even better through my D******tro 7 band EQ. I use a Jackhammer for my solos just for a little more attack and it sounds even better when i put that kick arse tone through my Jim Dunlop Cry Baby Wah. It just screams and i love it. Jim all your products are so flexible you can use them for nearly anything!! But I will stick to shaking the house to the foundations !! Thanx !!!!!

Dan

And then there were three

And then there were three

Hi Everybody,

Barry Bennedetta here.  Just wanting to say thank you for finally giving me everything I've always wanted in a Marshall.  I like the Marshall DSL-50 head so much, that I had to buy three of them, along with six 1960 Vintage Cabinets.  It has all the features that I've always wanted, like two channels, reverb, bass boost, and an effects loop if I need it.  I also enjoy playing through my Marshall DSL-401 and DSL-201 when I want great tone at a lower volume. Thanks for making it all possible.

Barry Bennedetta

Fanatic

Fanatic

Hi there,
 
I am a huge Marshall fan from back in the 70s: I've owned a JMP 100 Super Lead half stack and a "small head" 50-Watter with a 4x10" and then an 8x10" bottom! In the 80s I bought a JCM 800 50-watt 1-12" combo. I still have that amp and I've put it on a 8512 4x12" bottom for more crunch and blast! I also bought an AVT50 1x12" combo that I am using for rehearsal and a MG30DFX for studio work (it has a great chorus on it). I also have a little Lead 12 and of course, one of those cute MS-2Cs. And I've had others like an 18-watt head and a MG15DFX.
 
I've also read Jim's bio and it's quite a life Mr. Marshall has led!
 
Good stuff all!
 
Cheers,

Jerry Fielden, AraPacis guitarist

Never too old

Never too old

Attached is the only picture I can find of my old Marshall Master Volume 50 Watt 2x12 combo. It was taken in some Pub in Todmorden back in '91 when I was playing with a band called "Steel Dawn". I owned the amp from 1979 to 1993 and it survived several trips to and from my University via the gentle minstrations of the British Rail Parcel service. To prepare it for these ordeals I'd simply stuff a set of old curtains under the dust cover, which I'd gaffa tape to the amp! The only time this amp ever let me down is when I took it inot a store to try and trade it in on a P**vy. It refused to make any sort of sound. I got it home and it worked perfectly. Hmm... I finally sold the amp when my ex kept pestering me with "Your too old to be gigging any more" (I was 33 at the time). Twelve years on I'm gigging again, and I wish I still had that heavy old beast!
 
Cheers

Steve Kellett

Heaven

Heaven

Hello dear Marshall people!

Here is my band's gear in which you can see our two 1962 Bluesbreaker combo reissues which provide us eternal extasy each time we plug a guitar into them. The black bluesbreaker on the left is a standard reissue version and the white one on the right is a limited edition from 1997 (Marshall's 35th anniversary). Both sound like heavens..

We believe those amps are the best ones ever made in the whole history of music. This is just the ultimate Marshall sound from the 60s and we're very proud to own such pieces of artwork.

Thanks again for everything!!

Manny Edwardson -The Humbuckers- Paris France.

Rock On

Rock On

The Mini-Marshall Stack is Hotter than any 15 Watts Around. Goes Great with my K*****s

Rock On and Be Jammin' . At 49 I got my first Marshall. Won't be my Last!

Smoke1 Plays Marshall Amps Loud in Southern Maryland

Anonymous

Jim'll Fix It

Jim'll Fix It

Dear Jim.

Please fix it for me to have my picture on your cool web site.

Here is a picture of me, Laura (13) on stage with my bank with my beloved MG100 at a school concert cutting the tone during our rendition of AC/DC's TNT. Cool! Fact is I had the gain up a little high so a few faces were
melted in the front row. Not surprising as we followed an acoustic guitar ensemble! Enjoy.

Laura McCormack

Pride 'n' Joy

Pride 'n' Joy

So here it is... my pride and joy... a Marshall super 100w PA head s/n SP-6946E dated 1972.
 
It always sounds glorious and has been running as a master volume since I purchased it in 1985... a good amp to mod if you want to... heaps of BIG tone with those four 12AX7's in the gain stage!
 
One hot afternoon in 1986 the mains transformer went up in a thick cloud of stinking black smoke.... horrified but facing the facts I put in a beefy high-grade replacement and it now pushes out around 120 watts... I haven't looked back since.. just HUGE!!! 
 
It still runs the old preamp tubes in it from the 70's ( a mix of marshall's, J*N and F***ers) and aside from replacing the tired old General Electric EL34's and giving it a regular going over, I expect this 33 year old baby to reach a ripe old age with lots of grace and no troubles at all... Point to point amps like this are a dream to play through and are also very reliable on the road! It is good to see some handwired amps like this coming out of the woodwork again these days!
 
I really like this amp and have always taken pretty good care of it. As a result it has always served me well. I don't know their value nowdays but to me it has become both a priceless and irreplaceable part of my musical life.
It has always had a JCM800 quad box beneath it... industry standard so what more can I say? Well.... I tried it with two quads and it just went completely off!
 
Hope you like the pics!
 
Thanks Jim!

Anonymous

Rock to Fusion

Rock to Fusion

A TSL100 head, 1960A and 1960BV cabs, along with a Joe Satriani Ibanez, Scott Henderson Suhr, and Steve Morse Music Man.  From rock to fusion, my Mashall full stack brings out the best in these wonderfull guitars.

John Feulner – guitarist for “The Physics Band”

Boaster

Boaster

Greetings from Melbourne, Australia where pub rock is alive and well and where in virtually any venue you'll be assured of being aurally assaulted by Marshall's of all vintage.

I have used both Master & Non-Master Marshall models in my 25 year career of noisy guitar work but I've owned only one, a Marshall which I still have today. I send this to you to rectify the bad rap received in articles printed in certain publications that will not be named here, of the Marshall Artiste.

Pictured is my circa 1973 Marshall Artiste head - rated at 40 watts, driving an early 70's 4x25watt slant cab. The beauty of this particular halfstack is it delivers three different & distinct tones. In recording & live situations I regularly coax from this amp, shimmering clean tones, a wicked hissing & barking distortion and my fave tone, which can only be described as "like the sound you would hear when running hardwood through a bandsaw !!! ".

Big boast..????? You bet..!!!!! :-) Pick up a copy of The Vampire Lovers '13 Tasteless Masterpieces' through English Label www.magic-monster.com and hear this much maligned model in its pure recorded glory and make up your own mind. I'm sure then, you'll agree that this Marshall Artiste is worthy of being called "a keeper".

NoIsE, NoIse, NoiSe.

Matty Nasty

Simply The Best

Simply The Best

I finally found some time to write an e-mail to You. I`m sending You a few  photo`s of my pride `n joy.
 
I`m from Serbia, my name is Jovan Jelicic. I play Marshall JMP 50 W head and Marshall 4x30H angled cab.
 
So far I`ve bought 2 heads and 2 angled cabs. My plan is to have 3 stacks containing these 2 50W heads, one 100W JMP, 3 angled cabs and 3 stragiht cabs. The only tipe of speakers I`m interested in are the 30`s and the 25`s. Those simply are the best. I don`t like the new stuff, sorry, not my taste.
 
I`m 21 years old, and all I can say is..... thank you.... Marshall is the only amp I ever liked, and the only amp I`ll probably ever play. Theres no reason for searching elswhere, You`we got it all!!! Oh yes, I play in a band called Alien SeX, we play hard rock music......
 
Once again, thanky You for making music sound better!

Jovan Jelicic

Dripping With Tone

Dripping With Tone

Here is my pride and joy which I purchased while stationed in Germany in 1986.

The head is a 1978, 50W Super Lead which just "drips" of tone. I have owned other Marshalls(2210), but always come back to this classic.

The cabinet is a complete mystery. It has the ancient 1965,66 Celestions G12's, but looks like something out of the 70's. I can't find any Marshall serial number or model numbers. In the "History of Marshall" they show in inside of a vintage 1966 cabinent with the G12's and mine looks identical. I guess that somebody re-furbished cab.

The one picture shows just the Marshall the other is with my 1991 Stratocaster.

Anyway if my pictures make the Web great, If not I always have this rig to enjoy.

D.Mark Prevoznik