$200K 1963 JTM45 One Of 6 Prototypes

[ElvisNixon]

Saw this on TDPRI.

Gruhn ‘63 Prototype JTM45

 

[guitarbilly74]

Premier Guitar did a demo of it:



It sounds great. But come on, $200k? I know it's a historical piece but still...

 

[StingRay85]

No gutshots?

 

[Marcomel79]

No gutshots?

You can see an image of it somewhere at the end. All electrolytics and a few coupling caps have been replace at a quick glance. So not 100% original

 

[Brewster]

Thanks for sharing this with us, very cool indeed.

 

[BygoneTones]

Yeah right, whatever.

 

[nortiks]

A Ceriatone clone of it with a Mercury OT for $1700 would slide right on thru a blind A/B. Just sayin'....
But it is a cool piece of history to those of us left that still care about that sort of thing.

 

[StingRay85]

Cool amp but not 200K $ cool

 

[Jethro Rocker]

According to Ken underwood, Marshall never made any prototypes, they couldn't afford to. There certainly weren't 6 of them. Not having watched video, I call foul.
This may well be a very early JTM45 granted, and a cool find but that part I do not buy.

 

[Jethro Rocker]

Cool amp tho. Sounds like it was one of the first 25 or so, likely.