Back in the sixties I had a job as an area representative....There was a new industial development about 45 miles from my hometown Oxford, called Milton Keynes, one of the 1st satelite towns for London.
One day I was making cold calls when I came across a small warehouse with a couple of guys working on what looked like amps, and indeed they were....This warehouse turned out to be the humble beginning of "Marshall" amps. I thought to myself these guys really know the bizzo and in my mind thought they would succeed Looking back I had no idea just how famous Jim Marshall (Marshall Amps) would become, It was only shadowed by a statement of mine when after chatting to "The Beatles" in a local muso's cafe in Oxford my wife and I checked them out playing that evening and I said to my wife "This band will do Very Well" they had such good harmony and wrote their own stuff..
Well indeed they did do very well ha ha.(Slight understatement) I digress
Jim prior to making Amps had a drum shop in London in the fifties taught drummers such as Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience) Mitch Waller (Little Richard) Mickey Underwood (Ritchie Blackmore) When I visited his place at Milton Keyes there were about 3 working there and today he has getting close to 250 employess. They put out around 6,500amps weekly.
Trivia: JVM= James and Victoria Marshall
JTM = James T Marshall
From Humble Beginnings........
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