1961 Fender Showman Amp
Marshall stacks were born to fill bigger and bigger venues with enough volume to satisfy thousands of screaming rock and roll fans. But a couple of years before Jim Marshall lifted Fender’s tweed Bassman schematic to build the JTM45 — and several years before the British amp maker dreamed of doubling it to create a 100-watt amp — Leo Fender and his team in Fullerton, California,
