The Story of the Marshall Amp

First shown about a year ago, the BBC have just repeated "Play it Loud: The Story of the Marshall Amp". If you missed it then, and can get it, it's available for the next 4 weeks at:

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Jeff
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Jeff Layman
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UK only....?

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legg

VPNs are wonderful things. Don't use the free ones.

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Phil Hobbs

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Phil Hobbs

Yep :-(

"BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only. " ...Jim Thompson

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As I said, all you need is a VPN with an endpoint in the UK. About $5 per month.

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Phil Hobbs

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Phil Hobbs

Which isn't strictly true. You just have to arrange it so that it looks as if you have an IP address in the UK which isn't all that hard to do.

(obviously you are breaking their T&Cs but I doubt if they will extradite you for watching a BBC programme without being in the UK)

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Martin Brown
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Martin Brown

** Marshall amps are famous because of the famous people who used them, which is what the doco is really about.

Jim Marshall was a drummer who ran a tiny music shop in West London. Early amps were copies of a Fender model, made to order using readily available parts - see JPEG.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and imitating another product's flaws goes one better. But inventing new ones and including them in your imitation takes the cake and Marshall amps did that too.

1970s versions were still mostly hand wired but also used a PCB and other trappings of mass production, so they looked professional. But every step forward was accompanied by another backwards.

Despite this and while relying on the famous name, Marshall still sells lots of valve guitar amplifiers, most of them far less reliable than the 1960s examples.

.... Phil

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Phil Allison

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