Marshall Amps

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)