Jim marshal

Jim marshall was the founder of the world famous line of marshall amps. besides making famous amps,  His fame and success has earned him an OBE honour for his "services to the music industry and charity" and is known as one of the forefathers of rock along with Leo Fender, Les Paul and Seth Lover, creator of the Hum-bucker Pickup.

Jim marshal never had an easy childhood as he was in hospital for most of his early life. unable to attend school. when he reached his teens he outgrew his bad bones and lead a normal teenage life from their on. Jim diddnt have any education to his name and decided to start working at an age of 13. 

He always had a thing for music and became the lead vocalist for a 16 man band. called the flying colours and was performing 6 nights a weeks, often taking an interest in the drums and playing them as often as he could.

in 1942 the bands drummer left and jim offered to take his place. after some success he decided to start teaching, as demand rose he had over 65 pupils. in 1960 he opened up a drum shop which soon became a popular haunt for the up and coming rock bands of the time, who wanted jim to also stock guitars and amps,“They kept pestering me to stock guitars and amps so I decided to give it a go.” so he did. Soon after he noticed that his guitar customers wanted an amp sound that wasn't in the stock at the time “Listening to what they were saying gave me a very good idea of what they wanted,” 

After some work the finished was the JTM45, JTM being Jim and Terry Marshal, Terry being Jim's Dad. the amp was an instant success, it had the aggressive sound that was requested as well as 30 Watts of power, so it was loud enough too. Hence why 23 were sold the day it came out. considering there was no real anticipation or advertising. it was quite a hit.

Throughout his career, Jim has devoted countless hours and millions of pounds to charities, especially those dedicated to helping disabled and underprivileged children. “It all goes back to spending so much of my young life in that wretched plaster cast,” he explained. Jim was also made an honorary Doctor of Music in 2002 and awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 2004.

On the morning of Thursday, April 5th 2012 Jim passed away. He Was 88 when he died, and his death is still celebrated to the present day. many bands and artists morned and payed tribute to him when they heard about him. many of which have quoted "Heaven Now Goes to Eleven!"