VERSUS ROCK’N’ROLL HEADPHONES
We are the ampy ’uns
If you want some affordable headphones to go with your Metallica T-shirt and skull tattoos, it’s got to be Marshall or Orange. Let Stuff help you pick a side…
[ Words Richard Purvis ]
LONDON SQUALLING: LEGENDS OF BRIT ROCK
In 1963, a London music shop owner called Jim Marshall tried to make a copy of an American guitar amplifier, but he didn’t have the right parts so it came out a bit wrong. And thus, rock was born.
OK, it may not have been a total accident that the first Marshall amps sounded so fierce, but that raspy roar turned out to be the foundation of heavy rock and metal everywhere.