So I'm leafing through the November Vanity Fair issue when I come across 'The Rock Snob's Dictionary' with an entry on Marshalls:
"Marshall stack: Monstrous amplification system designed to put out massive guitar sound from a proscenium, and, quite possibly, to make up for musicians' penile shortcomings. The Marshall stack is built from numerous rows of squat amplifiers sitting atop four-speaker cabinets, each black fronted component bearing the scrolled 'Marshall' logo. Designed in 1962 by Englishman Jim Marshall to provide rock guitarists with dirty tone and devilish torque, the stack has served the Rock God needs of everyone from Jimi Hendrix and Pete Townsend to Van Halen and Guns N'Roses. 'In my fantasies I am Slash, a screaming croud before me and a Marshall stack behind me'."
"Marshall stack: Monstrous amplification system designed to put out massive guitar sound from a proscenium, and, quite possibly, to make up for musicians' penile shortcomings. The Marshall stack is built from numerous rows of squat amplifiers sitting atop four-speaker cabinets, each black fronted component bearing the scrolled 'Marshall' logo. Designed in 1962 by Englishman Jim Marshall to provide rock guitarists with dirty tone and devilish torque, the stack has served the Rock God needs of everyone from Jimi Hendrix and Pete Townsend to Van Halen and Guns N'Roses. 'In my fantasies I am Slash, a screaming croud before me and a Marshall stack behind me'."
