Les Paul & Nigel Tufnel on Dennis Miller
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Nigel Tufnel and Les Paul on the defunct Dennis Miller talk show. I had this on an old video tape from years ago. Thought it would be interesting to share since the great Les Paul just passed away. RIP
I don’t know who this Les Paul guy is but he’s f-ing lucky to have played with such an influential guitar virtuoso like Nigel Tufnal
Tongue stuck so firmly in cheek it looks like half your face has the mumps.
U should say nigel is lucky for playing wit les paul
@@victorfernandes7319 it’s a joke bud
@@victorfernandes7319 It's called 'Humour'
nice!
Imagine being Les Paul and being able to tell your kids, grand kids, great grand-kids, and great-great grandkids that you shared a stage with the incomparable - the legendary- the immortal- the eternal - Nigel Tufnel.
It certainly gives you perspective.
Nigel Tufnel wearing a dress before it was cool.
@@annaiselin648 perhaps too much perspective
@@annaiselin648Too much, too much FN perspective.
@@areyouavinalaff Surely you can see it's a kilt - not a dress? Or were you just trying to be funny?
Incredible... it was like Nigel's guitar was sustaining... even when he wasn't playing...
Must have been his amp capo! 😂
I can still hear it
Could have gone and had a bite.
Hilarious he sustains in his sleep 😂
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Why on Earth be so surprised....... "These Amps GO TO ELEVEN"
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I can't imagine the nerves you would feel playing on live TV next to Les Paul.
well, that's when the acting talent of Chris Guest makes presence
Next to Nigel Tuffnell, you mean 😂
@@IndigoZ0
You're mixed up... Nigel was the guest sitting in with Les... the guy who's mom discovered fish sticks. Well first Mr Paul invented the Fish Log.
Then his mother borrowed an ax from neighbor Mrs Elizabeth Borden and her husband Gordon (the Fisherman) Borden, Lester's mom Mrs Paul ax whacked the Fish Log into Fish Sticks. And Kids loved 'em.
Soon after giving Lizzie her ax back, Mrs Borden whacked her husband Gordon the Fisherman some 40 times. She went to trial but her LA lawyers got her acquitted. She soon began dating her widower neighbor Mr Simpson. In a jealous rage he came after her with a knife but she picked up the ax and gave him a whacking of some 41 blows & he is now dead from cancer. Oh Well... I know a good rhyme if anyone wants to jump rope?
The Myth meets The Legend.
What a privilege to watch this guitar MASTER!!! Les Paul was pretty good too
I don't think Nigel has many Fenders, and most of them, can never be played.
Or even looked at!
@@kellyhiggins2867 dont even point
"You've seen enough of that one."
I don't care if this was posted 13 years ago I'm commenting on it. This is the best thing I've ever seen on RUclips. Hands down!!! :)
Did Les think it was Jeff Beck?
Nick Pelkey Ha! Ha! Ha!
Quite possibly. Les Paul and Nigel Tuffnel walking on set to do a guitar battle sounds like either the best or worst joke.
Wait, you mean that's not Jeff Beck?
(j/k)
The guitar playing doesn't fit, but the hair certainly does.
Nigel is actually a tasteful electric player. Dude has talent.
Nigel Tufnel: the undisputed global GOAT of guitar players.
Les Paul had a rare opportunity to learn from the best.
Boffum sucked
Yeah Chet Atkins was great wasn't he?
A friend answered an ad selling a 1950s Les Paul. The guy said "C'mon over and play it."
The guy who opened the door was Les Paul himself (inventor of electric guitar, of course).
He bought the Les Paul but first spent 3+ hours playing with the human Les Paul. That was 20 years ago. Still describes it as the highlight of his life (last time we spoke, anyway) -- just him, Les Paul, and two Les Paul guitars.
Thanks for posting this.
Beautiful piece...
I believe it’s called “ Lick my Love Pump”...
It's not in the saddest of all keys...
2 years later this comment still cracks me up. Thank you.
@@TheBudgetAquarist This is giving me a mini Stonehenge.....in my pants.
This should be titled, as it's one of the greatest pickers, 'Pick my Love Lump'.
Doug Lunn, on bass, told me that Les had no idea who Nigel was, or Christopher Guest, for that matter. That day, Christopher met Les dressed as himself, so Les was surprised to see this guy come out in a wig and a kilt. Doug said the final pricelessness of the evening came after the show, when some young Tap fans came up to Guest (still as Nigel), and said to him, "Man, that Old dude smoked you!" To which Guest replied, "of course he did, he's Fucking Les Paul!"
You just can't make this shit up... Had me in tears.. : )
I got a chance to meet Les before he died... single sweetest guy you could ever meet. Always quick with a joke and quicker with a hug.
Nigel obviously held back out of respect
@@mooniejohnson
Very cool😎
The closest I ever got to that was my guitar teacher actually being "Uncle" Bill Copperthyte (worked with Lawrence Welk for a minute before Les Paul & Mary Ford joined Mr. Welk)🎸🎶🙏
He lived with my family to the end of his life & I was blessed to learn the guitar from him.🎸🙏
He introduced me to how the guitar was meant to be played🎸❤
Isn't it great how he gave this old guy a chance to play some guitar on tv? So nice of him... giving an old guy a chance at fame.
thebatman101069 Lea Paul is a legend already.
mike youre dumb
Maybe he will even get a signature model one day!
@@mikesimonian990 Please. Nigel has a signature guitar. What's that Lea Paul got?
@@Schmiddelwutz2000 Yeah, that Fender company should do one!
The man who invented the electric guitar with the man who invented amps that go to 11...a match made in heaven.
The man who invented the electric guitar?...... I believe Paul Tutmarc died long before this was broadcast
Someone doesn't know their guitar history
Tweed amps go to 12 but he never knew.
...and also the amp capo😅
The electric guitar was invented by ElectroBoom.
What a Jazz Odyssey
That would be Derek's freeform jazz exploration. Takes things in a new direction.
"he wrote this"
all that rocket fuel
Nigel and Les Paul - whoever dreamed this up? (;-) Quite fun to stumble across this!
Christopher Guest plays Nigel SOO AMAZINGLY!!! He's so serious about his crazy ideas, that you just HAVE to take him seriously! "The new thing is an amp that goes to infinity... why put a limit? And a capo around an amp." Genius!
Agreed…
Christopher Guest is very talented. You mentioned his crazy ideas. Number 1, his Folding Wine Glass…Number 2,
his Amplifier Capo…Number 3, his Marshall amplifier goes up to 11, then a few years later he got it to up to infinity. Christopher along with Michael McKean and Harry Shearer are improvisational geniuses when they started Spinal Tap. Even though Spinal Tap is a fake band their talents are amazing when they tour. I believe they will continue to keep it going as long as their health holds out.
It is so clear that Nigel Tufnel is heavily based on Jeff Beck.
Christopher Guest really is an amazing musician it goes without saying. This totally made my shut-in quarantined rainy ass day 110% better
Great to hear Christopher Guest really playing as well as he possibly could, and holding his own and sounding really good with one of the most legendary guitarists of all time! and both being very respectful of each other!
Oh please! It’s a «wouldn’t it be fun if»-thing that flopped. No one got hurt, but it must have felt embarrasing. The playing was absoluely awful and not sounding good at all. He barely hit a single note that fit with the chord changes.
@@hepphepps8356 You get the Internet's "you must be fun at parties" comment for today. Also, you must be tone deaf. Also, you misspelled embarrassing which undermines your competence. Also, you suck. However, your comment serves to remind me that I've been on RUclips enough for today...so thanks for that at least.
@@hepphepps8356 Yeah, those changes! But it's a bit unfair to compare a swing jazz legend and a heavy metal hero when they're playing swing jazz together.
He can play a lot more than heavy metal,of course. Guest is surprisingly good guitarist but you prob know this. @@therealmusician
@@hepphepps8356 It was 12 bar blues. Most notes will work, even if holding them for more than a beat is a bad idea.
I'm amazed at Nigel Tufnel keeping it together during this performance, considering that jazz is based on fear! Legend!
Jeez, I'd be too scared to even TRY with Les Paul sitting there.
That's why you're playing in your Bedroom and Nigel is playing festival crowds.
@@bigassdummy46 I hope thats a joke 😂
But , dude, you're frickin' Mozart!
Would this be considered more Jazz-Blues, or Blues-Jazz?
Grass-blues really...
Life is Surreal i believe its pre pre pre pre pre pre metal core
"No, no, I think it's more of a Blues-jazz deal."
It's really influenced by Blues and Jazz, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Blazz piece, really.
It's a jazz standard, Sweet Georgia Brown
This is great. I'm only 26 so I wasn't aware of these sorts of things when they happened. I never thought something like this ever would have been.
Am I the only one that finds the fact that a joke band from almost 30 years ago, was better and had more talent than the vast majority of everything that's happened in the past 10 years?
And people say we've progressed.
They had more talent than the vast majority of bands of their time, too. Otherwise you'd never have heard about them.
That is so nice of Nigel to let Les sit in with his alternate band project !
He even let Les be center stage .. such British manners ! Nigel is no doubt
the greatest guitarist ever ... other than his guest star .. that is.
What Les Paul invented changed the world of music as we know it today. His playing style is from a different era. He was inventing it as he went. So dedicated Les Paul was to the guitar that after having his right elbow destroyed in a horrific car wreck, only one specialist in reconstructive surgery thought there was a chance to save his arm from amputation. But he would never be able to bend his elbow again. Les Paul through his pain told him to set his elbow in a permanent bent position as it would be when he played guitar. That’s what the doctor did. And Les Paul recovered and went on playing guitar for the rest of his life. That’s the kind of musician and man Les Paul was.
Nigel Tufnel is the most underrated fictional lead guitarist.
I honestly did not know that "Nigel" could play guitar, always thought it was all part of the gag. Fantastic jam with
Mister Les Paul himself. Great post, thank you!!
See, you watch videos like this, and you don't even know if it's a joke anymore. It's just amazing.
Me neither
Nigel = Jeff Beck
Steve Woan That is what made Spinal Tap great, the fact that they are not just great actors they are also good musicians!
All 3 of them are musicians in REAL life and have been their whole lives.
i love the sustain, i went out to get a bite to eat, and its still playing
Nigel held his ground rather well. Must've been hard to share choppage with the man himself.
I happened in to Spinal Tap on PBS in 1988! I knew it was a spoof but I loved Spinal Tap's sound!! Found a soundtrack in 1992! Hard to believe after all these years Charles McGill on "Better Call Saul" was David St. Hubbins from Spinal Tap 35 years later!!
I used to have this on VHS somewhere. So glad it still exists!
Nigel is magnificently nuts in the interview -- and obviously one Helluva guitarist!
a very less than average guitar player, actually.
@@morbidmanmusic Gee, I thought he was kinda good.
Classicaly trained.
NO! WTF I hit "dislike" by mistake, now I can't try to change it back because "this feature is not available right now". There are really only five dislikes because THIS IS BRILLIANT!
I hear ya. I got tons of old tapes like that back home. I could never erase any of it. There are always hidden gems there.
I just look at nigel and i'm on the floor.
A wonderful clip! Thanks for sharing.
I'd love to hear what Chris Guest's actual thoughts were on getting to play with Les.
Who's Christopher Guest?😅
That guy married to Jamie Lee Curtis. 🤣
@@imfpredicts
He’s Nigel Tufnel.
"A fat man fell into an amp and I wondered how can I get that sound....a capo!" How he can say this perfectly straight and not bust out laughing is genius. Love Tap!
I think Guest acquitted himself quite well on this.
rip les paul, without him, the solid body metal guitar wouldn't exist
And the Gibson Les Paul would have been the Gibson Tuffnel ;)
Hate to break it to you but the solid body metal guitar has existed since the 1930s, it was produced by what became the Rickenbacker company, it was known as the electric frying pan. Spanish electric guitar started being produced around the same time. Bigsby guitars were probably the first modern style solid body electrics. While Les did come up with "the Log" made with a 4x4 and "wings" of an Epiphone guitar, most accounts besides Les's say that he had very little to do with the actual design of the Les Paul guitar. He was the most popular musician of the day, so Gibson started a mutually beneficial endorsement deal with him on Les Paul guitars.
This is by no means the definitive story.. you can find it all in books and of course, the internet.
Life does not get any better than this!
RIP Les Paul. One of the greats.
Finding this video is essentially finding the equivalent of pure joy and rapture..
Nigel has influenced generations of guitarists!
A true legend!... and Les Paul
My mother was Les Paul's waitress about twice a week for ten years. She worked at a steakhouse called The Hanover Trail in Ramsey, New Jersey. Les lived in the next town over called Mahwah. My mother knew him when he was trying to retire. He always showed up with his best friend and neighbor, the great guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli. She remembers them both enjoying retirement.... but they didn't want to retire.
Wish this upload didn't cut out the part where they all came out of the alien pods.
absolute mad genius! It never gets old. Nigel can shred!
two absolute all-time guitar legends right here
He let Les Paul look at the guitar.
That's respect!! :)
Thanks for sharing. Les to me is like the classical music of the guitar. It's just proper, thoughtful, and pleasing to the ear.
This clip goes to 11. So glad I stumbled onto it
Hat's off to Christopher Guest (Nigel). He is good enough to improvise IN CHARACTER as Nigel and do a solid job with the tune.
I'm sure Nigel felt Les played a lot of mistakes
At least they were both in key...
@vdbdg you're very welcome... this was from the days of me recording all kinds of crap from tv, and when Les Paul died, I remembered having it on a video tape buried somewhere in my closet...
I guess not too many know that Les Paul was a Wizard with Electronics. He invented 4 Track Tape Recording Equipment.
Man this is a great video, thank you for the upload. Guitar legends, tasty licks and humour. If only there was more of this on TV these days.
This is a pleasant video segment .
Superb musicianship by the late GREAT Les Paul and the simple fun the two of them had. Guitar grooves and call-and-response. How can you not LOVE this!!
I have never seen anything more satisfying as a collaboration of this it's spinal tap meets the legend of the man who's guitar is the soul of rock and roll
Thank you for this!!! Remember being blown away when this aired.
you're welcome
Nigel always reminds me of Sabbath era Ozzy Osbourne.
god bless the wizard of waukesha, rip Les , thanks for everything, from a fellow wisconsin boy
This makes me really happy.
I do say so! He invented the amps that go to 11. It's one louder than those ones that only go up to 10 on the volume knob. He's the man!
Why not just... go up to ten and make that louder?
@@gdutfulkbhh7537These go to eleven.
Stupid
Artistically speaking, it was a bit like watching Charlie Brown try out for the Dodgers, but it was darned entertaining.
Autistically speaking?
I know, but the old dude was alright... he was trying at least. Not many can keep up with Nigel
1:56 Les demonstrates that he has actually watched "This is Spinal Tap."
Pity he didn't have another guitar handy to bow with...
Imagine jamming with Les Paul, and when it's your turn to solo, he just throws in some licks and sounds that are still 200 times more interesting than what you come up with...
I think it was very telling (and humble) that Nigel knelt to Les when meeting him. Very apropos.
This is really tasteful.
Man, that was fun. It’s a keeper. Thank you.
Thank you for posting this. Made my day,
I've been seeing spinal tap reference videos all over the place recently. It's awesome! Loved that movie!
Thanks for taking the time to find this, the batman. I really enjoyed it.
Never knew Nigel could swing like that!!
For not existing Nige has had some pretty gnarly guitarist moments.
The Gibson Les Paul -- Nigel Tufnel Signature Model has been in the works for a while I hear. hopefully it gets released.
No idea why there was never a Gibson Les Paul - Nigel Tufnel signature model. There needs to be.
the sustain would be too much for anyone
There is a signature Marshall amp head.
I had no idea that Christopher Guest really played wow
Dun fact: Nigel Tufnel signature Gibson Les Paul models have tone and volume pots/knobs that go to 11.
This is what I’d be like playing with Les Paul for real, what a man his playing was a dream. RIP to an absolute legend and legacy
Les could've been *great* had he played with Nigel more. And not died. That's a big one.
That 1955 Les Paul that Nigel is playing is now owned by Jullian Lage
hahahahahaha.. Nigel Tufnel is the funniest and Les Paul just amazing.
Nigel playing it straight on this occasion .. it is a shame, he could have played some funny 80s shred guitar stuff..but blew it
@@bradmodd7856 When you are in the presence of the Paul you do as the Paul does
I read the title, and my brain was like, _"Nigel Tufnel? Nigel Tufnel? Nigel Tufnel?... OMG it's Nigel from Spinal Tap"._ 🤦♂️😂😂😂
That guitar that Les guy is playing just went up in value from being played on the same stage as with Nigel Tufnel.
Why does the camera keep panning to that old guy? As a guitarist, I want to study Nigel Tufnel's agile fingers flying all over the fretboard in a virtuosic frenzy of musical perfection! Silly cameraman!
Nigel un grande entre los grandes.
haha, that was amazing. They should have made their own odd couple talk show or sitcom starring Nigel and Les. What a great pairing.
When I saw them, they had a couple guests come out and do Big Bottom with them, if I remember right, it was Adrien Belew and someone else I can't remember off the top of my head. It was awesome!
This is the greatest thing I never knew to look for.
'Nigel's' ability to ad lib in a pommy accent is just classic, he can improvise on the guitar and a cockney accent. I'd walk on stage unrehearsed with him anytime. Les Paul is just too cool for school......
"Nigel" AKA Christopher Haden-Guest is a musician and can play the guitar, piano, clarinet, Mandolin and I would guess others.
11/11/11 is Nigel Tufnel day. Celebrate it by taking that day to it's maximum elevenness!
Just glad the drummer lived
Real mean to not name the guy Nigel is playing with, just the guitar he has!
Pretty cool to have been 90-something and still play with anyone. It's not like he had to prove anything to anybody. He just loved to play.
Two legends. I wonder if Les knows who he's playing with.
There's a fine line between Les Paul and Nigel.