Marshall Amps

A history more than 30 years long.

Marshall Amps

A 30-year history

I started collecting MARSHALL amplifiers 35 years ago. To me they have always represented one of the greatest symbols of rock music along with the STRATOCASTERS and LES PAULs.

In my short career as a bass user (to use the term musician would seem blasphemous in my case), if I could I would have always played the music I loved but , unfortunately in those early 1970s if you wanted to be in a band and get on a stage in 90 percent of the cases you had to do smooth. I, who adored JACK BRUCE as a bass player, found myself playing with my thumb a note every five minutes.

As I grew up and had the chance, I took revenge: I had not been able to play what I wanted to play and not having been able to stand in front of a wall of MARSHALLs like my myth with CREAM, like DEEP PURPLE on the cover of MADE IN JAPAN or the AC/DC that I love so much, I began ”collecting” old MARSHALLs along the streets of Northern Italy. The period that interests me has always been between 1966 and 1969 : the heyday of CREAM and JIMI HENDRIX, they brought fame to the Marshall brand.

The period before this one never interested me too much because my love for Marshalls stems from my love for a certain period of music history.

Now that I own so many of them, even after so many years, I still find myself admiring them from time to time and would love to see them again on an important stage , together with a beautiful LUDWIG,a HAMMOND C3…………

EACH MARSHALL HEAD HAS ITS OWN 4X12 SPEAKER FROM THE SAME PERIOD

Mariano Freschi

ABOUT 80 MARSHALL CRATES – 1966 TO 1971 – ARE PART OF THE COLLECTION
(PHOTOGRAPHS COMING SOON)

1965 Marshall JTM super tremolo-100W
“dual-output”

1965 Marshall JTM45

1966 Marshall JTM 100 super amplifier 100W
owned by Motors

1966 Marshall Jtm45/100 Super Amplifier in Purple

GLENN-HUGHES_Fender_Bass.

1966 Marshall JTM45

Jack-Bruce_1971

1966 Marshall JTM45

1965 Marshall JTM45

1966/1967 Marshall Pinstripe Cabinets and.
Plexi Heads

1967 Marhall Jtm50 “Black-Flag” 50w

1967 SUPERBASS Marshall JMP 100 watt

1968 SUPERBASS Marshall JMP 100 watt

1967 SUPERLEAD Marshall JMP 100 watts

1967 Marshall Super Lead 100w

1967 Marshall Super Lead 100w

1967 Marshall Jtm 45/100

1967/68 Marshall JMP 50 watt tremolo

1967/68 SUPERBASS Marshall JMP 100 watts

1967/1968 Marshall Bluesbreaker Combos

1968 Marshall Super Lead 100w

1968 Marshall Super Lead 100w

1968 Marshall Super Lead 100w

1967/68 Marshall Super tremolo 100w

1968 SUPERBASS Marshall JMP 100 watt

1968 SUPERLEAD Marshall JMP 100 watts

1968 Marshall JMP 50 watt

1968 Marshall JMP 50 watt

1968 Marshall JMP 50 watt

1968/69 Marshall JMP 50 watt

1968/69 SUPERLEAD Marshall JMP 100 watts

1969 Marshall Super Lead 100w

1969 Marshall Super Lead 100w

1969 Marshall JMP 50 watt

1968_69-marshall-plexi-superlead

1968_69 marshall plexi superlead

1967 marshall plexi superlead blackflag

1967 marshall plexi super P.A.

1966 Marshall Plexi JTM 100 P.A.

1965 marshall JTM45

1967 Marshall JMP 50 watt with 8X10 speaker

1972 MARSHALL FULL STACK – NEW CONDITIONS


JIM MARSHALL & MARIANO FRESCHI

2-x-White_superlead_heads-with-various_autographs

1970/71 4 X MARSHALL CABINETS IN WHITE

Red Marshall Amps

ARE PART OF THE COLLECTION, 15 CASES IN RED
(PHOTOGRAPHS COMING SOON)

1968 Marshall 50 watt plexi tremolo

1969 Marshall 50 watt

1969 Marshall superlead

1969 Marshall Super Lead plexi
signed by Jim Marshall and Ken Bran

GLENN-HUGHES_Fender_Bass.

1970 Marshall Major 200 watt

Jack-Bruce_1971

Marshall mercury early 1970s

1971 Marshall superlead

1972 Marshall 50 watt

1973 Marshall superlead

1974 Marshall superlead

1975 Marshall artistè

1976 Marshall superlead

1977 Marshall superlead

“In my meetings with Jim Marshall, I was also able to get confirmation from him that the pairing we liked best was between a LES PAUL and his amplifiers. These are my four favorite ‘tools’.”

Mariano Freschi

1955 Gibson Les Paul Custom

1968 Gibson Les Paul Custom Black

1968 Gibson Les Paul Standard GoldTop with Bigsby

1969 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe GoldTop

Marshall Audio Systems

ARE PART OF THE COLLECTION, 40 P.A. CABINETS AND VARIOUS OTHER P.A. AMPLIFIERS.

Marshall mixer 8 channels 100 w

1972 Marshall 9-channel mixer

1972 Marshall 250w transistor power amp

1971 Marshall 2 power amplifiers 100w cad. tubes

1972 Marshall 250w transistor power amp

1972 Marshall 9 channel mixer – mint