Blog: The Adios Lounge

Jim Marshall , creator of the Marshall stack, died Thursday morning at the age of 88. Of all the men who pioneered rock music between 1964-67, including fellow innovators like Leo Fender and Les Paul , and musicians like Pete Townshend and Jimi Hendrix , it was Marshall who fathered LOUD. As fundamental as Gibson and Fender guitars were, they still needed something to plug into. Similarly, those feedback-laden soundscapes by The Who and Hendrix required Marshall amps to become fully realized. Once musicians learned to stack the [...]