Marshall have honoured Jimi Hendrix with “cosmic-inspired” amps and speakers for the musician’s 60 year anniversary with the brand.
The rock musician perfected his signature overdriven sound with Marshall amps – and now, the brand are commemorating his longstanding relationship with a series of limited-edition products.
“We built the amps, Hendrix made them scream,” Marshall said of the collection. “From the moment Hendrix plugged into a Marshall guitar amplifier in ’66, they became an unstoppable creative force.”
Among the products is a hand-wired 1969 JMH Super Lead-style tube amp head, alongside matching hand-wired 4×12. It also comes with a commemorative badge and a black-and-purple cosmic swirl finish. There’s also a limited-edition Dunlop Fuzz Face fuzz pedal which you can pair with the amp.
On top of that, a cosmic purple swirl Hendrix signature edition Acton III Bluetooth speaker will also be available to purchase.
The collection is available to order now. The speaker costs $299, while the half-stack and fuzz pedal bundle will set you back $4,999.
Speaking about the collection, co-founder Terry Marshall said: “Jimi was a formidable musician, a real force of nature. He took everything to a new level and carried everybody with him. When he played, it was an emotional time for everybody because everyone was thinking, if he can do it, I could maybe do it.
“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,” he added. “The rest is history as they say.”
Recently, the estates of Jimi Hendrix’s bandmates lost their copyright case against Sony Music.
Details of the lawsuit emerged last December, where it was claimed by the estate of Noel Redding, who died in 2003 aged 57, and drummer Mitch Mitchell, who died aged 62 in 2008, that they were “excluded early on in their lifetimes” and “died in relative poverty”.
Sony Music Entertainment UK were quick to reject the claims, with lawyer Robert Howe arguing that the original recording copyright belonged to the albums’ producers, not the musicians.
Last April, it was officially ruled that the terms of the recording agreement were “clear and unequivocal”. “The producers and the band members agreed that the producers would have the copyright throughout the world in the recordings … There was no temporal or territorial limitation to this agreement,” he said (via The Guardian).
Elsewhere, Marshall teamed up with the Music Venue Trust to champion over 60 local artists in grassroots venues.