Marshall Music Factory - Lemmy

[Suburban Man]

Maybe a little known fact, but the Marshall factory (Milton Keynes, Bucks) has a small 'museum' of amps, guitars etc in and around reception.

Although it is primarily for the guitar nerds, in amongst the Les Pauls and Bluesman amps are a few pieces of Bass memorabilia, with pride of place going to the irredeemably individual Lemmy.

 

[Dood]

As a teenager, my mum took my friend and I down to the Marshall factory for a tour. An experience that I will never forget as a wide eyed and impressionable young Dood! Jim may have been in that day but we didn't get to meet him (although I did get to meet him on numerous other occasions at guitar shows, so much so that he remembered my name!)

 

On the tour, back then, Marshall number 1 wasnt in a glass case and Production Manager (i think) Steve Yelding dumped it in my lap whilst we were rummaging through the piles of amplifers I could only ever dream of owning. A surreal moment, but there was an inevitability that I'd end up with an old Marshall amp at some point. I have a 68-69 Super Bass that makes all the right noises!

[Cosmo Valdemar]

I don't recognise the bass...

[Hellzero]

20 minutes ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

I don't recognise the bass...

It's Lemmy's Rickenbacker signature model.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

1 minute ago, Hellzero said:

It's Lemmy's Rickenbacker signature model.

I meant the real one!