Six decades of Marshall and Hendrix, and the connection still crackles. Marshall has launched the Marshall x Hendrix 60th Anniversary Collection, a limited-edition stack built to honour one of the most storied relationships in rock history. Pre-orders are open now, with shipping beginning June 1.
The centrepiece is the 1959 Handwired Head, a 100W head delivering the same high-gain distortion tones Hendrix used to rewrite the rules of electric guitar. Paired with the 1960 AHW Handwired Angled Cabinet, loaded with 4 Celestion G12H 30 12-inch speakers, the combination recreates Hendrix’s signature Marshall stack setup, tight low-end, punchy mids, and stunning highs.
Completing the collection is the JMH-1 Fuzz Face Distortion, a limited-edition Dunlop pedal offered exclusively with the stack. It carries the same oil-in-water design as the rest of the collection and delivers the snarling, snappy tones that defined Hendrix’s legendary Isle of Wight performance.
The design language across the collection is unmistakable. Psychedelic, celestial artwork draws from the themes central to Hendrix’s creative world: space, the cosmos, and the colour purple. It’s visually striking and entirely fitting for a collection of this scale.
To mark the launch, recording artist Zach Person performed through the anniversary collection at Washington Hall in Seattle, one of the few remaining venues where Hendrix himself played. The performance demonstrates exactly what this gear can do in the right hands.
The Marshall x Hendrix 60th Anniversary Collection is priced at £3,799.99 and available for pre-order now at marshall.com.