Marshall to support Experience Hendrix Tour

Experience Hendrix, fourth edition, biennial concert tour featuring an all-star line up of music greats paying homage to the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix launches March 2010 with special performances across the United States.

Some of the best know and most respected artists in contemporary rock and blues will be performing music written and inspired by Jimi Hendrix, including Joe Satriani, Jonny Lang, Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brad Whitford (of Aerosmith), Doyle Bramhall II, Ernie Isley, Living Colour, Double Trouble’s Chris Layton and bassist Billy Cox. Billy Cox first befriended Hendrix when the two were in the 101st Airborne division of the US Army, he then went on and played in both the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys and performed with Hendrix at such landmark festivals as Woodstock and the Isle of Wight. Cox commented, "It's a thrill for me to play Jimi's music for audiences now as it was in the 1960s. The Experience Hendrix tours have shown how timeless this music really is." And no Hendrix tribute gig would be complete without that true Jimi tone that can only come from a full backline of Marshall!

Check out our gig guide for a full listing of tour dates. For more information on the tour and contributing artists go to www.experiencehendrixtour.com

TIP OF THE WEEK - JMD:1 SERIES

A Look At NAMM 2010

Large crowds, lots of noise, the worlds press . . . it must be the Marshall booth at NAMM 2010!

Marshall kicked off the evening before the big show opened with a launch party for the brand new JMD:1 Series. The JMD:1 was launched by our very own international demonstrator, Chris George, who took to the stage to showcase the ability of the range to the watching audience of distributors, dealers, press and distinguished guests. He was followed up by Brian Nutter, guitarist with Keith Urban, who showed the aptitude of the JMD:1 for his tone. Allison Robertson of The Donnas was up next demonstrating a rockier tone before finally the volume was turned up and Zakk Wylde finished the evening off with an amazing 20 minute set.

The highlight of the first day of the show was the appearance of Dave Mustaine, who launched his new mighty Megastack before signing as many autographs as he could get through in an hour. We were also visited by new Marshall user Michael Amott of Arch Enemy. Michael has recently joined the Marshall family and is now happily playing the JVM410H. Our third and final signing of the day was from Dan and Travis of Atreyu.

The second day saw stand visited by Doug Aldrich, Kerry King and Lemmy who all signed for their waiting fans and Doug also demo-ed the newly launched JMD:1 on stage. Stevie D from Buckcherry also got up on stage for us on Saturday, his choice of amp was the recently launched Marshall MA series. The excitement didn't end there either, things just got bigger, madder, louder, crazier, and even more unbelievable! People rushed straight to the Marshall stand as soon as the doors opened to get their place in the queue for the appearance of rock legend, Slash. Slash came in at midday and did a couple of small interviews in the Marshall sound booth before announcing to the press and the world the collaboration between himself and us for the AFD100 project. The progress and info on this can be found at AFD100.com. Our good friend Corey Taylor was amazing on stage and signed many fans autographs. Jason Hook from 5FDP put on a great performance and John5 came by to sign a few autographs for fans as well.

Sunday, things calmed down a little and we managed to concentrate on demoing the new amps to the guys in the trade. In fact our demo booth was on the go the whole time with Chris George displaying exactly what the new JMD:1 Series can achieve.

All in all for everyone that went to NAMM it proved to be another very successful show and everyone who checked out the new stock were very impressed. Here's to another year and another great addition to the Marshall range. See you all again in LA next year!

Dave Mustaine Megastack

Marshall Amplification are proud to announce another great launch at NAMM10 - the arrival of the Dave Mustaine signature MG15MSFXDM Megastack. This mighty mini stack is a menacing addition to our revolutionary MG Series, with it's four custom-voiced FX and specially programmed channels by the main man himself, this is sure to strike fear into the hearts of grown-ups everywhere!

Click here for more information on this fantastic addition to the Marshall range.

JMD:1 Series

Marshall Amplification are proud to introduce the innovative and revoluntionary JMD:1 Series. With immense versatility and extensive tonal control, the JMD:1 is quite simply one of the most comprehensive and sophicated amplifiers Marshall has created to date. For more information on this formidable range go to www.marshallamps.com