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Brian May details his disastrous experiment with a Marshall stack — and how Jimi Hendrix then showed him up with it
Likewise, AC/DC’s guitarists wouldn’t look right onstage without a wall of Marshall amps behind them. For Brian May, his unique Red Special guitar and an unwavering allegiance to Vox AC30 amps have ...
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“It sounded awful. I could hardly play”: Brian May on the one time he experimented with a Marshall stack
“So I plugged into a Marshall stack with my guitar and treble booster ... “After we’d played, I stayed behind backstage and I looked through between the amps as Jimi came on stage, plugged into that ...
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Ritchie Blackmore got the loudest Marshall amp ever made. All he had to do was keep two secrets
The guitarist said his volume while testing amps was distracting to Marshall's workforce, even when he was in a soundproofed room ...