Topic: Silver Anniversary resurrection
I just wanted to thank you guys for the inspriation to get my amp off to Marshall to get it back to life. It's one of the 2x12 50W combos from 1987 and, whilst I have looked after it, it's never played right since I got it. I probably should have got it fixed rather than played it, but what the hell, it's there to be played. Then I made it worse, so I stopped playing it. Oops!
I bought it in 2005 after seeing it sitting in the corner of one of the local guitar shops looking lonely and was curious about what it was. Apparantly a guy had come in and traded it in for a Cornford. It came with a hand signed letter from Jim Marshall himself thanking the original owner for purchasing one of his special amps. It also came with a plastic cover that looked like it should be covering some piece of medical equipment in a hospital from the 1980s. Of course it turns out that a few well respected players seem to use variants of these amps today, including an artist I recently found in 2007 called Joe Bonamassa.
Anyway, having read on this very page the settings Joe recommends for these amps I thought I'd better dust it off and take it to Bletchley so that the boys and girls at Marshall can breathe a new lease of life into it. Hopefully nothing serious is wrong with it and it just needs a cap job. Then I can see how well I can murder Bridge To Better Days.
For anyone interested I've taken a picture and put it at the bottom (hopefully!). I have also just noticed that I need to tighten the screws holding the casters on!
