The Sound of Rock: Marshall Amps History and Factory Tour

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I have met Phil wells the chap in the video on numerous occassions. Lovely guy absolutely brilliant and completely bonkers as well.
He has had more than one role in marshall over a very long time.

A long way back I bought my first Eventide rack and needed bits and bobs to be able to run it wet dry wet and I was considering buying a Marshall SE100 and I phoned marshall to ask them if they knew if it would be suitable for what I wanted to do. They put Phil wells on the phone and he talked for quite a while explaining in detail that it would work for wet dry wet. After talking to Phil wells I realised I didn't have a clue about Wet dry wet so Phil Wells told me once I had bought the SE100 that I could phone him back and he would talk me through how to set up the wet dry wet. Once I bought the SE100 I phoned him back and good to his word he did exactly that and stayed on the phone with me for almost 2 hours taking me through the setup while I physically set it up and tested it all, Very helpful friendly considerate chap. !!
If repairs or servicing are needed on a marshall there are 2 options, Send the equipment to them or book it in for a wait while it's repaired serviced in Milton keynes.
I always took my gear direct to them to wait while it was repaired or serviced, Marshall only book in 2 while you wait repairs/services a day, You can book for the morning session or afternoon session, While you wait there is their equivalent of a green room type set up. The room is about 35 foot by 35 and one side of the room is a very large window where you can watch the techs repair your amp. On the walls are dozens of photos taken by marshall themselves of the Artists/Guitarists that have visited there over the years and there is literally a whole history of guitar players on the walls. Apparently lot's of liquid lunches happened back in the day with visting artists and people from Marshall including Jim Marshall himself.
Whenever I visited there Paul Marshall and wellsy would always be there and they have some amazing stories and accounts of the guitar players that have visited there.
Well worth the visit, Much better fun to go there than just sending it off for repair.
 
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I have met Phil wells the chap in the video on numerous occassions. Lovely guy absolutely brilliant and completely bonkers as well.
He has had more than one role in marshall over a very long time.

A long way back I bought my first Eventide rack and needed bits and bobs to be able to run it wet dry wet and I was considering buying a Marshall SE100 and I phoned marshall to ask them if they knew if it would be suitable for what I wanted to do. They put Phil wells on the phone and he talked for quite a while explaining in detail that it would work for wet dry wet. After talking to Phil wells I realised I didn't have a clue about Wet dry wet so Phil Wells told me once I had bought the SE100 that I could phone him back and he would talk me through how to set up the wet dry wet. Once I bought the SE100 I phoned him back and good to his word he did exactly that and stayed on the phone with me for almost 2 hours taking me through the setup while I physically set it up and tested it all, Very helpful friendly considerate chap. !!
If repairs or servicing are needed on a marshall there are 2 options, Send the equipment to them or book it in for a wait while it's repaired serviced in Milton keynes.
I always took my gear direct to them to wait while it was repaired or serviced, Marshall only book in 2 while you wait repairs/services a day, You can book for the morning session or afternoon session, While you wait there is their equivalent of a green room type set up. The room is about 35 foot by 35 and one side of the room is a very large window where you can watch the techs repair your amp. On the walls are dozens of photos taken by marshall themselves of the Artists/Guitarists that have visited there over the years and there is literally a whole history of guitar players on the walls. Apparently lot's of liquid lunches happened back in the day with visting artists and people from Marshall including Jim Marshall himself.
Whenever I visited there Paul Marshall and wellsy would always be there and they have some amazing stories and accounts of the guitar players that have visited there.
Well worth the visit, Much better fun to go there than just sending it off for repair.

What a great story! 😎
 
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