Jim Marshall - The Father of Loud: The Story of the Man Behind the World's Most Famous Guitar Amplifiers

by Rich Maloof

In the early 1960s, a handful of brash British kids needed a new sound for a new kind of music. They marched into a music store in their blue-collar town and asked the gentleman behind the desk to build them an amplifier with leg-shaking power and jaw-dropping tone. So he did. This first-ever biography tells the story of Jim Marshall - founder of Marshall Amplification and creator of guitar amplifiers that have defined the sound of rock and are prized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879308036
• ISBN13: 9780879308032
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Backbeat Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.1"