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Is it true that Jim Marshall inventor of the Marshall Amp was a jazz drummer?
There's a story about him owning a music store and teaching out of it. A guy that worked there starting building amps and somehow, that became Marshall amps. I think Pete Townsend was one of his early customers.
Pete had Marshall build him a large cab with 8x12" speakers. After the tour, Townsend apparently came back and had Marshall cut the amp in two pieces to make it lighter for the road crew. That's apparently the beginning of the infamous 4x12" cab.
Later Townsend switched to HI-WATT amps... they were built to MILSPEC (i.e. resilient) which gave them great favor among the touring bands. Marshall's dominated though. I always liked the HI-WATT sound better.