Marshall has announced plans to celebrate the 60th anniversary of its association with the late Jimi Hendrix, with a set of special edition releases.
In honour of Hendrix, Marshall have release a limited edition 1959 JMH 100W Half Stack and 1960 AJMH 4x 12 cab, along with a limit-edition Fuzz Face Pedal.
The guitars have been inspired by “Hendrix’s iconic sound and cosmic aesthetic", meaning there's an appropriately psychedelic Purple Haze-esque artwork given to the amp, pedal and cab, along with a purple LED indicator and silver detailing inspired by Hendrix's jewellery.
“Hendrix didn’t just play through Marshall amps, he redefined what they could do. From London and Monterey in ’67 to Woodstock ’69, he tamed the raw power of the Marshall stack to shake the world", Marshall said of Hendrix.
Elsewhere, Marshall told Guitar World said that the pedal offers a tone not too dissimilar to Hendrix's 1970 Isle of Wight performance, with a vintage-style wire harness and hand stuff components. It is also available exclusively with the stack.
Marhsall also said that the amp remains as standard for a 1959 hand wired half stack , while the pedal features BC183 silicon transistors for a more aggressive, hard hitting tone.
“Jimi was a formidable musician, a real force of nature. He took everything to a new level and carried everybody with him,” Terry Marshall, Co-founder, Marshall Amplification, said. “When he played, it was an emotional time for everybody because everyone was thinking, if he can do it, I could maybe do it. And he’s using Marshall, therefore we want Marshall".
He added: “It was a really special time for us all and there’s no doubt that we grew with him and his fame, it was a natural tie-up. The rest is history as they say".
The Hendrix head is available now, priced at $3,400, with the matching cab available at $1,1599.99. The bundle itself, pedal included will cost $4,999.99. The half stack and pedal also feature a similarly styled Action III wireless speaker, including a purple-on-black, water-on-oil style aesthetic.
Find out more info via this link here.
Speaking of Hendrix, the estates of the late singer's bandmates, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding, who claimed that the musicians had "died in relative poverty", lost their copyright case against the record label, Sony Music.
This comes after it was initially claimed that two late musicians were “excluded early on in their lifetimes” and “died in relative poverty”, despite the band's success.
However, Mr Justice Johnson dismissed the claims from the estates and state that the clause of this recording agreement was "clear and unequivocal". More on this from Nova here.
