Today: a random display of offbeat bits from 1977 that caught my eye: a tiny homage to the wonder that is The Internet K Hole.  IE., draw your own connections/conclusions.

US Marshall Amplifiers Print-ad circa 1979

An advertising executive told me a great story about Arm & Hammer Baking Soda once.  He was working on a new round of adverts and the client was frustrated with trying to figure our how to increase sales.  It seems that most folks were buying a box every year to ‘freshen’ their fridge but how could they be encouraged to buy more? At this point, someone had the idea to encourage consumers to buy one for the fridge, and one for the freezer.  If you have a useful products that consumers like, perhaps the next logical step is to convince those consumers that they need to buy More Than One.

Marshall JCM800 advert circa 1983

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Products covered, with text, specs, and photos, include: Marshall 1959, 1987, 1989, 1992, 2048, 2068, and 1986 tube heads; 1960, 1982, 1990, 2049, 2045, 2069, and 1935 speaker cabinets; Marshall 2064, 2065, and 2052 ‘powercel’ cabinets; Marshall 2040, 2078, and 2077 combo amps; Marshall Disco Unit (yup…) 1993 ‘turntable control unit’; Marshall 2071, 2050, and 2070 mixers; plus a slew of additional P.A. equipment.

I spent yesterday doing the final wiring and installation of my newly-restored Wheatstone SP-6 console into the control room at Gold Coast Recorders.  Took the opportunity to listen to a pile of records that I had not gotten around to.  “The Welsh Connection” by Man really caught my ear, and got me into a real UK Rock circa ’75 kinda mood.  Hence today’s post.

The most interesting bits to the ’74 Marshall Catalog are the 2050 and 2070 mixers, neither of which seem to have survived the 1970s. I cannot find a single reference to them on the web, other than in a book about Marshall.

The much smaller # 2071 mini-mixer remains in evidence; here’s a link to one for sale for a few bucks in Ireland.   A unit cosmetically similar to the 2050 is also available in England right now; price is quite good IMO…

And of course, let’s not forget the Marshall Disco Unit.

Jim Marshall offers some sage advice here as well:

This really is true.  Do not try to Disco alone.  Sad at best.

Finally, we meet the face of Marshall:

Oh that’s the wrong pic.

Here he is:

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