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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!

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A Very Marshall Christmas

A Very Marshall Christmas

Santa must have felt bad about making me wait for 40 years, Readers Amps #37 But he sure is taking care of me now!!!! Have A Very Marshall Christmas.

Dave, Delaware USA

T'was The Night Before Christmas

T'was The Night Before Christmas

"T'was the night before Christmas, and all through the house"
"Not a creature was stirring, until SANTA PLUGGED IN..!!"
We caught him! He left the amp on!
Our X'Mas Prezzie came early this year..!!
Our very own HALF STACK..!!
WOOOOOHOOOOOOO..!!!
You don't get any more Merry than THAT..!
We'll be "ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE" this year..!

Joe, Joey & Matty from Long Island, NY

Cream

Cream

Cream,
That is, good smooth tone. The best amplifiers ever, thanks Jim, you makes me happy.

Juan (Madrid)

Heavenly Tone

Heavenly Tone

To all the good folks at Marshall Amps, I've been a professional guitarist since 1974 and have had literaly hundreds of amps. The ones that pleases me now are my Marshall 20/20 and my 50 watt JCM 800 (4210) These amps help me to piease the very GODs themselves! Thanks Marshall for helping me to sound soooo... GOOD!
Yours truly,

LeBurn Maddox

Trust In Tone

Trust In Tone

20 watts from 1973 (well loved, well used, 100% original, sounds just as strong and just as sweet as she did on the day I bought her) and another 20 watts from 35 years later (bought her last week). Keep up the good work.

Matt

The Stallion Rides Again

The Stallion Rides Again

After financial disaster having to sell all my equipment. THE POT BELLIED STALLION IS BACK with 1982 Marshall JCM 800 2203 and a JCM 800 lead series 412 cab.
It was a devastating loss to sell my 1979 strat 1992 les paul 1988 marshall jcm 800 1959 both jcm 800 cabs and then my 1987 marshall head and cab. I had nothing left but my picture what I once had. I bought sold traded sold again. From having to play a cr*te power block, then l*ney, then a 5150 then finally sold it all and got another marshall jcm 800 but this time it was a 2203. None of the other amps I had to settle for came close to the tone and volume I was used to. I had re arranged my room and put the other amps in another place refusing to let them be located where the king of tone once stood My Marshall jcm 800 1959 left a hole that could only be filled by another marshall. I cant begin to tell you what it means to have a marshall amp again, it was like a death in the family. I had chance to play dsl 50 and tsl 100 watt amps they were nothing like the vintage ones I owned previously. I did notice on the tsl 100 you reverse the master and pregain and get a decent 1959 tone. Its good to be back with a VINTAGE MARSHALL JCM 800 2203 AND JCM 800 LEAD SERIES CAB.

Jeffrey Mannon

Forget The Rest!

Forget The Rest!

Hello to the Marshall Company,

I send you this picture of my 2 DSL 2000 amps (50 watt), and my 4 speaker cabs with 12 inch celestion GT 75 speakers. That's an incredible wall off sound, thank you Jim. As you can see I'm a lefthanded player and these are my lefthanded Gaskell guitars , they sound great with my Marshall amps. Marshall is the best, forget the rest,

Kind regards from Belgium,

Ingrid en Pierre

Monster!

Monster!

Here is a picture of my NEW Marshall 1959RR with my Polka Dot V!! This AMP IS A MONSTER!!!!

I LOVE IT!!

Craig

Score!

Score!

Hey folks!
We recently scored a ’67 plexi panel JTM 50. Here’s a shot of our ever growing collection. A ’67 JTM 50, a ’75 JMP 50 and an ’88 JCM800 #1987.

Best Regards,

Gene & Erick

United Lutherie, Athens, OH

Another Happy Customer

Another Happy Customer

I herewith would like to express my gratitude for you developing such a tremendous amp like the JVM 410 H. It is really a perfect amplifier that I have been searching now for 25 years. I am improving my skills every time I explore a new sound-setting, which takes me hours and hours every day. I wish, this amp had been existing 20 years ago.

Kind regards

Claus van der Zwet

Marshall Saves!

Marshall Saves!

I am back again The Pot Bellied Stallion rides again. Here is a picture of my pride and joy. Marshall JCM 800 model 1959 amp head with two jcm 800 412 cabs with 1978 F*nder Stratocaster and a 1992 Gibson les paul. Oh yeah a lexicon mpx g2 processor and foot controller. Then disaster hit I had surgeory lost my Job My mother passed I had too sell everything I owned. I went through two more jobs and finally got a good job again.. I am getting caught up with finaces. I had to settle for Cr*te again then a L*ney, then 5150 I had enough of that sh*t. None of the amps came close to the Marshall JCM 800 1959 I had. I managed to scrape the funds and purchased a vintage JCM 800 2203 with vertical inputs and M*sa 212 cab. I also bought a Gibson les paul studio OCD version 1 pedal.
To my delight I found the Marshall JCM 800 2203 head a more controllable than the 1959. While I love both heads the 2203 is able to handle small to large venues without bursting your ear drums unless you choose too. The 1959 head was a beast I miss it, and it should have a warning label play in large stadiums only.
Its been about a year and half since I had a marshall JCM 800 and a Gibson les paul , there is no other amp that can give you the tone that the Marshall jcm 800 amps can.

Jeffrey Mannon

Piece Of Cake!

Piece Of Cake!

Hi all at Marshall,

I just ate my Marshall stack!

Since I love my TSL100 so much, seemed only natrual my birthday cake should look like this...Thank you Amanda!

Best wishes

Neil Patrick

Signed By The Man Himself

Signed By The Man Himself

Hey there

Check out my amp. I’m from Sydney, Australia It’s JCM 900 100w Signed by himself Jim Marshall at Sydney Guitar Show in 2005

enjoy

Damian

Beautiful Noise

Beautiful Noise

This is a picture of me playing a club in my local town with my band, blowing the place up with my pride and joy, my Marshall JVM. There is nothing that comes close to sounding like this amp. she is the most nasty, crushing, monstrous... beautiful thing i have ever heard. I have been playin for about 3 years and every amp i have owned in those three years has been a Marshall..... and every amp i will ever own will also be a marshall. Marshall amps Were the best when they started, they are the best now, and they will continue to be the best forever. I am proud to be one of the many many many players that make up the marshall army ! Thanks to Jim and all the guys and gals at marshall for making the best amps in the world.

Marshall forever !!!

Dave Starkey

Complete At Last

Complete At Last

this is my marshall avt 150 tribute full stack it is my my pride and joy and is now fully completed with the other cabinet


James Clark