Apr 052012
Jim Marshall, creator of the famed Marshall amp (Marshall stack!), has died at 88. Fans of former Minnesota Vikings great Jim Marshall, the defensive lineman whose sterling career is only marked by the time he picked up a fumble and returned it the wrong way—to his own team’s endzone (ie, resulting in a 2-point “safety,” the closest thing in American football to an “own goal,” as our ex-US, soccer-loving readers call it)—need not worry. As of this writing the former “Purple People Eater” is alive and well.
May your recollections of the legendary Marshall amp creator and his creation commence!
Sad news indeed. When I lived in Milton Keynes twenty years ago, about twenty miles from where I’m sitting now, the Marshall Amp Factory in Bletchley (part of MK) was muso-landmark-heaven, I would drive past it just because it was there. I believe it still is, and the next time I am negotiating the roundabouts down that way I’ll go past and pay my respects.