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Topic: Jim Marshall RIP |
Chris Wynn
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Posted 5 Apr 2012 6:44 am |
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I have just heard that Jim Marshall has passed away aged 88. Whilst not exactly country amps there can be no doubt that his babies have had an enormous impact on the world of popular music. Please view my post 'What's in a name' for how he helped me. I wrote that this morning, UK time, unaware of his passing. He was a great man.
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 5 Apr 2012 8:08 am
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I spent many hours in Jim's music shop in Hanwell Broadway in west London (next door to the Trolleybus Depot!) in the very early '60s. With Jim's passing that means that the three principal figues in that store have left us.
Micky Borer (aka Mickey King), an amazing guitarist and lead player with Cliff Bennett's band.
Pete Dyke - a lovely man and a fine jazz guitarist (who'd always be kidding around with Micky and I about our preoccupation with rock and roll licks!)
Now Jim has died. He was a part-time drummer, but the shop was his living. He identified a need for a reliable UK-made amplifier and, at first, concentrated on repair work as well as speaker-cabinet construction. One of his first efforts was providing me with split cabinets for my 2x12" Selmer amplifier.
I was with pop singer Eden Kane back then and Jim made us his very first PA system - a 50 watt amp head with two column speakers. We should have kept it - it'd be worth a fortune now!
He was a nice man who always made me welcome - even when I was just being a tyre-kicker! Those early amps were made in a lock-up garage just around the corner from the shop - none of us guessed how big the 'J T Marshall' name would become.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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