BUILT TO PERFORM
Indestructible is not the first word you’d traditionally associate with valve amps. As any hard-gigging young band will tell you, the demanding slog of the modern circuit – with its knocks, prangs, spills and intense studio sessions – can leave lesser-made valve models in pieces. But not if you’re plugging into a Marshall.
“It’s like Lemmy said,” reflects Product Director Luke Green. “Old Marshalls never die, they just blow your head off. And it’s true. One of Marshall’s biggest competitors globally is ourselves, and that’s because our products just go on and on. That’s part of our reputation. We’re always thinking of the bands in vans, doing it for real.”
From the start, when Pete Townshend demanded an amp that could survive The Who’s auto-destruction, Jim Marshall lived by the twin values of tone and muscle. And it’s an ethos that runs right the way through to the all-valve Origin series, launched in 2018 and now riding shotgun with upcoming acts including The Big Moon, Mallory Knox, Keywest and James Bay’s sideman Andy Cortes.
“We were getting ready to go out on tour with Slaves,” recalls Alex Deadman of hot-tip post-punk trio Lady Bird, “and I needed something bigger, with some real power, because we were playing 2,000-capacity venues, which we’d never done before. I plugged into the Origin 50 head
