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
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http://www.blackstaramps.co.uk/about/meet-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/interviews/jim_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?
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/meet-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/interviews/jim_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?
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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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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i dont think its relevant to say that Jim Marshall spoke those words in 2003, before Blackstaramps began.................
...........the fact is that those words are on the web NOW for all to see, and Jim Marshall surely knows that.
I dont know where you guys have worked, but at my places of work, if i went into the gaffers office and told him i was going to set up a rival company, and go after his market share, i doubt i would make it out of the office alive.
...........the fact is that those words are on the web NOW for all to see, and Jim Marshall surely knows that.
I dont know where you guys have worked, but at my places of work, if i went into the gaffers office and told him i was going to set up a rival company, and go after his market share, i doubt i would make it out of the office alive.
The words may be on the internet for all to see NOW, but so is the Gettysburg address. It doesn;t change the fact that said words were spoken BEFORE any changes in personnel occurred.
MArshall already has the Park brand if they want an alternative. The Park line was created to enable the Marshall company to sell more amps in a market without violating franchise agreements with Marshall dealers. Park models were essentially rebranded Marshall amps.
One of Marshalls chief designers was Ken Bran. Marshall made amps under the Narb brand for a time - Narb being Bran spelled backwards.
people have been leaving companies and starting their own since the beginning of time.
One doesn;t go to the boss and say "I am going to start a competing company." One goes to the boss and says, "Thank you for the time I have spent here, but I am going to leave and explore other opportunities." Then a year later, when your new company makes its debut, the old boss may not like you, but I doubt he will chase you down and kill you.
MArshall already has the Park brand if they want an alternative. The Park line was created to enable the Marshall company to sell more amps in a market without violating franchise agreements with Marshall dealers. Park models were essentially rebranded Marshall amps.
One of Marshalls chief designers was Ken Bran. Marshall made amps under the Narb brand for a time - Narb being Bran spelled backwards.
people have been leaving companies and starting their own since the beginning of time.
One doesn;t go to the boss and say "I am going to start a competing company." One goes to the boss and says, "Thank you for the time I have spent here, but I am going to leave and explore other opportunities." Then a year later, when your new company makes its debut, the old boss may not like you, but I doubt he will chase you down and kill you.
April fools prank post?
Amp designers leave and go to other companies or start their own all the time.
Marshall recently dissolved its decades-long relationship with Korg (formerly Unicord) as their US and Far East distributor. Korg now distributes Blackstar.
If you are wondering where the start up money came from that'd probably be a better place to look.
And if this allegedly great designer had anything to do with the TSLs then to hell with him.
Amp designers leave and go to other companies or start their own all the time.
Marshall recently dissolved its decades-long relationship with Korg (formerly Unicord) as their US and Far East distributor. Korg now distributes Blackstar.
If you are wondering where the start up money came from that'd probably be a better place to look.
And if this allegedly great designer had anything to do with the TSLs then to hell with him.
Even less point discussing it now, as it's just been announced that Jim Marshall has died - it's a sad day for rock 🙁
Very sad news. I hope he felt he'd had a good innings.
I only met him once, very briefly at a guitar show, maybe 7 or so years ago, where he was signing posters and I was getting one for my son.
A bit later on I'd gone outside for a smoke, and who should be there but Jim Marshall, on his mobile - "oh yes, I've had some soup and some bread". I sidled off to leave him to his conversation.
RIP Jim, I don't believe in heaven myself, but if I'm wrong you'll have plenty of old customers to have a chinwag with.
I only met him once, very briefly at a guitar show, maybe 7 or so years ago, where he was signing posters and I was getting one for my son.
A bit later on I'd gone outside for a smoke, and who should be there but Jim Marshall, on his mobile - "oh yes, I've had some soup and some bread". I sidled off to leave him to his conversation.
RIP Jim, I don't believe in heaven myself, but if I'm wrong you'll have plenty of old customers to have a chinwag with.
Well, Jim Marshall was an excellen pioneer of industry and superb contributor to the art of music.
I am now finding that i cannot get onto the Marshall Amplification website.
I get a link to post condolences to Jim Marshall, i go to that and it won't let me post my respects, and doesnt provide a pathway to the Marshall Amplifiaction website.
How do you get on to the Marshall Amplification website now?
I am now finding that i cannot get onto the Marshall Amplification website.
I get a link to post condolences to Jim Marshall, i go to that and it won't let me post my respects, and doesnt provide a pathway to the Marshall Amplifiaction website.
How do you get on to the Marshall Amplification website now?
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