Marshall Jim Marshall - The Father of Loud Book

When music store owner and drum teacher Jim Marshall set to work designing an amp to realize the musical vision of local guitarists, he laid the very foundations of rock music. After playing the sixth prototype of 'Number 1', which would later become the JTM45, Jim said, "That's it! That's going to be the Marshall sound from now on!" And so it was. Since the 1960s Marshall amps have been the first choice of rock's greatest guitarists.The entire Jim Marshall story is told in the authorized biography Jim Marshall: The Father of Loud, by Rich Maloof (published by Backbeat Books), which features a foreword written by guitar hero and personal friend of Jim's Slash. The tale is a captivating one, broken down into 2 main parts. The first section traces Jim's story from childhood as a young boy diagnosed with a rare bone disease to his stage success as a singer and big-band drummer, onto the development of the iconic Marshall stack and Marshall's rise