Is Blackstaramps owned by Marshall?

[eem2am]

Hello,

I have been thinking about it, and i am strongly suspicious that Blackstar Amplification is in fact set up and funded by Marshall Amplification.

On this page, it explains how Blackstaramps was formed when the Engineering team of Marshall Amplification simply got up and walked out of Marshall Amplification to set up their own company (Blackstaramps)..........

Meet Your Maker - Blackstar Amplification

link repeated here in case above link breaks:
http://www.blackstaramps.co.uk/about...your-maker.php

........Hold on a minute, i just cannot see Jim Marshall (MD of Marshall Amplification) agreeing to this!!!!!!.........at least he would have taken them for a ride in court?
-Even more so since Marshall Amplification is based in Milton Keynes, UK, and Blackstaramps is based just 15 miles away in Northampton, UK.


Making things more suspicious is this weblink where Jim Marshall is singing the praises of the Engineer who left him to set up Blackstaramps................(near bottom of article)......

Jim Marshall Interview

link repeated here in case above link breaks:
http://www.premierguitar.com/archive...m_marshall.htm

.......i doubt that Jim Marshall would allow such things to be printed if Blackstar really was set up in competition with Marshall.

Jim Marshall is no slouch, he wouldnt allow his Best-Engineer-Ever to simply walk off and become a competitor to him......-recently Jim Marshall has been producing Marshall Fridges and other white goods......showing that he is still very keen on the world of business and innovation.

I believe that Jim Marshall secretly funds Blackstaramps, and that he started it in order to explore new improved Guitar amp technology.

...for one thing, i think he is using Blakstaramps to get even more into the world of Class D guitar amplifiers, supplied by SMPS's with DSP enhanced sound....whilst at the same time maintaining his lucrative Marshall Amplification business





If you read the above i am sure you will agree.


No Managing Director in the world lets his best staff just up-sticks and take his market share....-this just does NOT happen in the real world......specially not an innovator and slick-handed businessman like Jim Marshall.


I am convinced that Blackstaramps is owned and funded by Marshall Amplification.

Do you agree?

[Printer2]

Who cares?

[Nigel Goodwin]

Originally Posted by Printer2

Who cares?

Nope - who would?.

[Minion]

Originally Posted by eem2am

Hello,



........Hold on a minute, i just cannot see Jim Marshall (MD of Marshall Amplification) agreeing to this!!!!!!.........at least he would have taken them for a ride in court?
-Even more so since Marshall Amplification is based in Milton Keynes, UK, and Blackstaramps is based just 15 miles away in Northampton, UK.


Jim Marshall is no slouch, he wouldnt allow his Best-Engineer-Ever to simply walk off and become a competitor to him......-recently Jim Marshall has been producing Marshall Fridges and other white goods......showing that he is still very keen on the world of business and innovation.


No Managing Director in the world lets his best staff just up-sticks and take his market share....-this just does NOT happen in the real world......specially not an innovator and slick-handed businessman like Jim Marshall.


Do you agree?

I"m pretty sure slavery was abollished in the UK a couple hundred years ago ......

[SoNic_real_one]

They still have the option to hire a "terminator"

[pinkmouse]

Happens all the time in the pro world, XTA from KT, Linea Research from BSS, Funktion 1 from Turbosound, just the first three that come to mind...

[Printer2]

Some of the air balancers that measure the airflow at my work left the company they were with and started up their own. Hard for the previous employer to say they do not know what they are doing otherwise it calls into question the certifications they produced while working for him (they are all licensed anyway).

They even have registered the company in the same city as their previous employer. Funny how that goes, might be because they all live here.

[eem2am]

Well yes i know it happens elsewhere, but having had this happen to him, why is Jim Marshall on the web praising out to the sky about the engineer who left him to set up Blackstaramps?

Surely you wouldnt so very publicly praise someone who was out after your market share.

I worked at a company that made wheel motors for electric cars and they split from the parent company, and believe me it was NOT amicable, it was hell between them.......there was no public praise....none.....there were security gaurds with viscious dogs hired to keep people out of their own workplace.

[Printer2]

Originally Posted by eem2am

Well yes i know it happens elsewhere, but having had this happen to him, why is Jim Marshall on the web praising out to the sky about the engineer who left him to set up Blackstaramps?

Surely you wouldnt so very publicly praise someone who was out after your market share.

I worked at a company that made wheel motors for electric cars and they split from the parent company, and believe me it was NOT amicable, it was hell between them.......there was no public praise....none.....there were security gaurds with viscious dogs hired to keep people out of their own workplace.

Some people have class.

[Simon B]

JFW.......

Chronology. An interesting term. WikiP:

"the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time"

April/May 2003 - publication date given at top of page for Jim Marshall interview.

2004 - date given on Blackstar site "four friends, all bandmates, were looking for a new challenge. Having worked together for years at the highest levels of the amp desiging industry, their dream was to create new and ....."

I'd like to be entertained with more amusing, and less easily debunked conspiracy theories than this one. Viscous guard dogs permitting.