I thought they altered the Marshall amps in the movie to have an 11 increment on the pots and it was a joke, until I became a guitarist myself and bought a Marshall stack back in the 80s. Mine actually DID go to 11. 🤣 That 11 came in handy for me many times on stage when I needed one more loud.
Your first assumption was actually correct. The amp was altered to have the 11’s on the faceplate. Actually, as a TIE-IN to “This Is Spinal Tap” Marshall had ALL their amp models go to 11 for a limited time after the movie released. So the movie was responsible for your “11” amp as it was actually a continuation of the joke! In fact, those “11” amps are (obviously) HIGHLY sought after. Hope you still have it. If you sold it for the typical used price of whatever model it was, someone got a major deal!!
@@kidwajagstang Really? I never knew that. Actually my Marshall wasn't worth much because I bought the much cheaper solid state head (can't remember the model). That's interesting though. I didn't realize that the 11s were a limited edition thing. That was the only Marshal I ever owned. After that I got into a lot more blues and blues rock and started buying Fender amps and playing teles and strats.
I agree. who wants to fight with the action on a stupid acoustic anyway? What a boring instrument. lol. Never see women dancing to acoustic guitars, do ya? :) This is how one gets paid.
i totally! get!! what! you're! saying!!... like! Nigel! is a GOD! who goes up-to! #11(eleven!) & The! Real! GOD! is a GOD! who goes up-to! #20(twenty!)....... who! both! wanna try to maybe! one day! get to be! a GOD! who goes up-to! possibly! #30(thirty!) in the future!..... ; )
I think it's so cool to see all these famous rock guitar players and they are just genuinely giddy to meet Nigel. Would have been nice to hear Nigel play something.
How great was the movie Spinal Tap? When dozens of great musicians gather together for a product endorsement event, the most sought after guy in the room is the guy who's playing a fictional character from the movie. Sure, the photo seesions were probably suggested by the Marshall Reps, but those are genuine looks of joy on those guitarists' faces. They were excited meet Nigel.
naw he invented SPL competitions which are literally one bass note played through a subwoofer in the trunk of a car/truck. the basshead community calls them “burp boxes”
Christopher Guest is the best. So funny, my God ever since Spinal Tap came out I've been a huge fan. I named my dog in HS (1987) "Nigel". Love this guy!
Found myself on the freeway behind a car with a GOES 2 11 license plate. Somehow I managed to keep my car on the road. 😱😱 I wonder if the guy at the DMV who okayed the custom plate had even half a clue... 😲😨😂
Did you know.... That every Interview done with tap was improvised. Only a rough outline for the setting was written, then the guys filled in the blanks... Knowing that makes it that much funnier. Which also makes it seem more genuine... A perfect example is the "these go to 11" scene... He made it up on the spot and you can literally see his thought process in action... Again.... Geniusly done
There barely was an outline even because they didn't know what questions were coming in advance, "only thing" the actors had to do is to memorize the histories of their characters so they wouldn't improvise against each other and after that Reiner put them in generig rock star situations and asked questions. Most likely the first mockumentary to make it big, many viewers didn't even get they weren't real people after watching the movie.
That's how all of those Christopher Guest Michael McKean Harry Shearer movies were.....Best in Show and A Mighty Wind were the same type of improv.....perfect comedic trio
Just to keep the record for history... 08:59 - CC Deville 09:04 - Peter Frampton 11:53 - Jim Marshall 07:49 / 13:05 - Steve Lukather 13:08 - Michael Schenker 08:28 / 14:56 - Dweezil Zappa
@@FanFanBessie2 My fault. I misspelled Wyndham. It should have been "Windham". You can google that. "Windham Hill [Records] produced music ... nearly all of it instrumental, acoustic, and mellow." Spinal Tap was not generally associated with "mellow" :)
I only watched it 11 times. Then I wanted to watch it again, and then thought about the Devil Head. So I didn't watch it again. Now that there is the 20 Marshall Amp, I might watch it again.
I saw Spinal Tap near WVU Morgantown. The theatre might of had 100 people in the theatre and no one was laughing. They really thought it was a rockumentary about a band. Except for one fool (being me) laughing in the back of the theatre with a girlfriend. Who was becoming more and more embarrassed until she caught on. I miss that era and miss her.
One of the big questions is how Nigel stays in character spending about 15 minutes alone with him before the event he said nothing and just chewed on his gum I deposited him into a limo in the car tunnel of Guitar Center is it went around the block I walked outside to the front of the store and when the pulled up on Sunset Boulevard I'm the one you see opening the limo door for Jim Marshall his wife and Nigel great event
Nigel has a new Marshall amp that goes to infinity...🤘but he is still wanting more volume. His audiologist wrote him a note saying his hearing has not been affected by these amps. He could easily hear a cotton bud falling into a piece of felt. It's assumed that his hearing has been upgraded by mystic forces and his love of volume. 🎸🌈
@@focusstudios1296 a heavy Metal band consists of a satanic drummer (gemini) a demonic guitar player (Aquarius etc) this is how you create a metal band 🤘 this is how you create a rock God ( the God of thunder) If the God that killed Jesus and his annoying choir of lies doesn't start singing metal lyrics we are all headed for oblivion!
When I was on the road with my band sky king, in the early 80s, me, and my other Guitar playerTodd , would watch this is Spinal Tap almost every night after we got done playing…! I can still watch the movie and recite every single line in the entire movie…. And I’m sure Todd can also….🎶❤️❤️❤️🎶👍🏻🎸
I just love this guy Nigel, he's precious and perfect in this character. Straight face humour is over the top to me. 😂 Actually I kind of have a kindred and bonding spirit with Spinal Tap, as I have had two Spinal Fusions. Can't get any closer than that. I was going to try for eleven so I wouldn't have to go back every month or year for another, but my surgeon said no, he felt two fusions would do nicely. Spinal Tap and me can really actually relate on higher levels now because of the surgery. Well if we were to ever speak I am quite sure it would be cosmic and rather other worldly. Myself being humble I never bring that bond up to other people, no not a word. Wouldn't want to look as a braggart, we all have a image of our own devices to protect .☮️😂
Pepper Ann His British act is so good, he even says solicitor instead of attorney or lawyer… I just found out recently that they were all American! Mainly commenting because I also have had two fusions… Which of course I would never talk about, especially to a total stranger… Just keep a stiff upper lip, as the Brits say...
I love how this video is edited exactly like “This is Spinal Tap” was edited, where they would do something, then abruptly cut to an interview bit, and then back to doing stuff, so on and so forth
I wonder if Harry, Christopher or Michael realize the utter joy they bring to musicians? The rockers are truly star struck by them, because let’s face it, spinal tap may have been comprised of actors who played instruments, but they WERE a band, and they played their own instruments. True they played mostly in a movie, but they became BONAFIDE legends because of it. The line between fiction and reality for these guys has more than blurred. It has disappeared and they have become ACTUAL rock legends. If you think it strange, it is not. The Monkees did it.
Peter Frampton, Steve Lukather (who looks MUCH different today), Dweezil Zappa, CC DeVille, Michael Schenker, Nuno Bettencourt and Scott Ian (neither of whom were in the group photo), and Andy Taylor, sporting a super-mullet. Anyone else?
A funny thing was, I was an exchange student in Grenoble, France, from America, and me and my buddy made friends with some English folks. We would immitate the characters around them, repeating all the lines, and they said: you guys sound South African. But when we played the soundtrack, they honestly thought Spinal Tap was British.
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I love Nigel's fascination with the Swiss Army knife.
nigel is my favorite rock super star. master guitarist, so well read and eveni more articulate intelectual, yet still a bloke. he is. really is... i am so glad.
Is this ad-libbed? "Light is on, amp is on..." So THAT'S the reason for the light... God knows how many times the dog ran past and whacked a "set for 140db" guitar or bass with her tail. That's how you know the amp's on at our house if the light's not working. Very LOUD acoustic music?? LOL. True story, I was playing out with a guy who taught me sound geek stuff 20 years ago. The basement was carpeted in dark green rug. It rained, and no one mentioned to us their basement *tends to flood.* In the middle of all that power. One item quit working right away. An speaker gave an indication I didn't detect (drummer fan) until he said, get down and put your face up to the speaker. Now inhale. WOW. Blown speaker smell/burnt wiring is about as memorable as a corpse smell (I imagine). Cross between burnt plastic and singed rubber, plus some sort of adhesive. Lucky both the former teacher and bass player were competent electronics engineers. Which is when we figured out most of the rug was really damp. Damp enough to wipe out gear right and left, lol. Not wet enough to squish. YEAH, I'm with him. Last line is great. I won't spoil it for you...
It's believed that on this day the amps drew so much power that they blew the grid. It was either the amps or the hairdryers...it's best left unsolved. 🤘
In reference to the "guru" advice in the beginning. A clever lyric written by 'Prof' that gives a GREAT reason to "sleep late" can be found in his song 'Light Work'. Which states: "When people tell me I'll regret that in the morning, I sleep til noon, I sleep til noon." - Prof (Jacob "Jake" Anderson)
What is probably the most hilarious thing about the whole Spinal Tap material is that there are a lot of people who believe these guys are REALLY like this! Paul Stanley of KISS thought Spinal Tap was a real band and their movie was a real documentary of their North America tour! Of course he thought this when it first came out as a lot of people actually thought lol. It's those little things that Nigel says that really cracks me up the most, those little things he says and he says so seriously but they are just stupid and they don't hang on it long enough for you to really think about, they just slip them in and move on and then later you think about it and laugh again! "It's a bit ahead of it's time, so I said well then what about next week" LOL classic Nigel!! The part about making an acoustic louder cracked me up - " well how will you make an acoustic louder? I will make it electric" LOL.. Now he has his up to 20 Marshall and he is already wanting a 30!! lol. NO other movie has ever done this with it's characters, I mean c'mon, 30 + years later and these guys will still show up in character and they even play gigs!! I really think they should do another Spinal Tap movie and I bet it would be a big hit! I KNOW I would watch it and since they keep doing things like this even in 2019 they make appearances, there is obviously a demand for it!!
4 years later... Yeah.... NO! At the time, rock bands were filling football stadiums. Now they have trouble filling 1000 seat theaters. So, it wouldn't be a "hit".
1990? Fun to see Dweezil Zappa there, who was very young then.. In fact, his dad Frank was still living. One wonders if Frank himself was a fan of Tap and the lads.
When he says his idea was very loud acoustic music, it demonstrates his ability incredible ability to improv based on what he's built the character into
I saw Spinal Tap when it came out as a 15 year old. The “this goes to eleven” on one of the best. So I am not a musician. So I was, and my then girlfriend who also loved Spinal Tap, about jumping for joy when we stumbled on one of the Marshall amps that went to eleven was sitting in a pawn shop in Iowa City just off Iowa’s campus. This was 1991 and too rich for my blood but was still fun to stumble upon.
Christopher Guest totally captures the vibe of a rock star. If I didn't know about the movie I would be tempted to believe that he's really a clueless rock guitarist.
Nigel: A capo for an amplifier. Compression on the speaker cone. Squeeze it up and up and up. So we're talking maybe some sort of patent or something. One chap said, it might be ahead of its time, you see. And I said, well, what about next week? LOL
(Pulls out the Swiss army knife) "Can you see this?" or "so he had to go there every night for 18 nights?" I had that exact dark blue Charvel that dweezil is playing at 15:00 and Nuno is playing at the end. It was a Fusion Custom. What is strange is that I don't get how it got down to L. A. for this because it was in my room every single day. They would've had to have gotten it when I was on holiday with the family I suppose. At least they got it back to me, but I think I will be taking this video to the authorities as evidence. Dweezil and Nuno may want to lawyer up because they can't just break into people's houses like that. It's wrong. Also, Kip Winger in the video. Somebody said Andy Taylor was in the video, but I think they thought he was the guy with the mullet talking about Gilmour being a fan. That guy wasn't Andy. That was Pink Floyd's saxophone player on the momentary lapse of reason album/tour. He put the saxophone in his mouth when he played it!
The vacant look in his eyes is very special.
he's confused
Totally. Esp combined with the gum chewing
"I go shopping, yeah." His vacant stare is what really makes it fucking hysterical. Good to see a lost Blues Brother interviewing him.
THE Jim Marshall and wife, get out of the limo and nothing, Nigel gets out and the crowd cheers! Brilliant!
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I thought they altered the Marshall amps in the movie to have an 11 increment on the pots and it was a joke, until I became a guitarist myself and bought a Marshall stack back in the 80s. Mine actually DID go to 11. 🤣 That 11 came in handy for me many times on stage when I needed one more loud.
John Welch whatever...show a photo. I think they did it in his honor.
@@tomaswalsh-gomez8042 No. Marshalls went to 11.
Mine went to 12
Your first assumption was actually correct. The amp was altered to have the 11’s on the faceplate.
Actually, as a TIE-IN to “This Is Spinal Tap” Marshall had ALL their amp models go to 11 for a limited time after the movie released. So the movie was responsible for your “11” amp as it was actually a continuation of the joke! In fact, those “11” amps are (obviously) HIGHLY sought after. Hope you still have it. If you sold it for the typical used price of whatever model it was, someone got a major deal!!
@@kidwajagstang Really? I never knew that. Actually my Marshall wasn't worth much because I bought the much cheaper solid state head (can't remember the model). That's interesting though. I didn't realize that the 11s were a limited edition thing. That was the only Marshal I ever owned. After that I got into a lot more blues and blues rock and started buying Fender amps and playing teles and strats.
"How are you going to make acoustics louder?" "By playing electrics"
What's really funny is that's exactly what it's about, don't I?
I nearly pissed myself when he said that.
I agree.
who wants to fight with the action on a stupid acoustic anyway?
What a boring instrument. lol.
Never see women dancing to acoustic guitars, do ya? :) This is how one gets paid.
Channeling Yogi Berra on this one...
There are supposed acoustic guitars which are electric, just to mix things up a bit.
It is unbelievable how he stays in character. Unreal.
“Acting!!!” -Master Thespian, Jon Lovitz
“I’ve been studying my own music as well”
-Nigel Tufnel
How on earth does he do this with a straight face?
"No large devil heads"
He uses a face capo
kurt Cook I just asked the same question
@@pbg9208 great comment.
He is perfect for this role!
Nigel is god. not THE god, but some sort of minor deity.
Nigel's the god who goes to 11...lol
And on the 8th day he rocked the socks off his creation! XD
hahahaha
i totally! get!! what! you're! saying!!... like! Nigel! is a GOD! who goes up-to! #11(eleven!) & The! Real! GOD! is a GOD! who goes up-to! #20(twenty!)....... who! both! wanna try to maybe! one day! get to be! a GOD! who goes up-to! possibly! #30(thirty!) in the future!..... ; )
Lol
I saw Spinal Tap in the 90’s, Derek Smalls had a double neck bass. Both were 4 strings and tuned exactly the same. Comic genius.
Played on the song Big Bottom. Nigel and David are also playing bass😂
Tufnel and Frampton in the same room. Wow, two of the greats.
Don’t forget Michael Schenker..
I think it's so cool to see all these famous rock guitar players and they are just genuinely giddy to meet Nigel. Would have been nice to hear Nigel play something.
He actually played with Les Paul on the Dennis Miller show
Nigel represents the unobtainable, albeit comedic. I own a Shark Sandwich T-shirt…. they’re marketing geniuses, like KISS
“A capo for the amp” oh my God I just lost it when he said that!!!! 😱😱😱😂👍
A Warm Gun just saw another clip today where he shows it and explains it. It’s...rather large! 😂
Super Uber Extra Hilarious! A freakin' capo for the amp!??? Only Nigel & Co. could come up with that piece of idiocy!
@@NYCBG its genius man squeeze the key change out of the cone lol
How great was the movie Spinal Tap? When dozens of great musicians gather together for a product endorsement event, the most sought after guy in the room is the guy who's playing a fictional character from the movie. Sure, the photo seesions were probably suggested by the Marshall Reps, but those are genuine looks of joy on those guitarists' faces. They were excited meet Nigel.
"purely decibel related, no more chord patterns, just bursts of noise" Did Nigel secretly invent djent in the 90s?
he invented Drone metal too (loud new age)
Literally merzbow
naw he invented SPL competitions which are literally one bass note played through a subwoofer in the trunk of a car/truck. the basshead community calls them “burp boxes”
Not based on chords, just volume. Nigel basically describes most rock concerts.
The man is full of insight!
"One chap said it might be ahead of its time. And I said, well, what about next week?" Fucking brilliant!
has anyone seen Nigel and Jeff Beck in the same room
yes
I live with them. They have been known to frequent the same room. But never the loo. Jeff doesn't quite care for Nigel's puffiness.
@@theujexperience3564 😂
No , come to think of it ...
They are one and the same!
„Joe Satriani has technique and style. I got volume!“ (Nigel Tufnel). The greatest philosopher among musicians 😎
Christopher Guest is the best. So funny, my God ever since Spinal Tap came out I've been a huge fan. I named my dog in HS (1987) "Nigel". Love this guy!
That gathering got into the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of simultaneously appalling hairstyles.
I love the dreamy and oblivious look in his eyes and face when he listens to the questions
which is why I am not keen on the out takes as he is too sexualised on there.
All part of the comedy!
Found myself on the freeway behind a car with a GOES 2 11 license plate. Somehow I managed to keep my car on the road. 😱😱 I wonder if the guy at the DMV who okayed the custom plate had even half a clue... 😲😨😂
Maybe you'll see one that says 'GOES 2 30' one of these days.
‘If you cut your finger, you can look at your finger and say, “It’s cut.”’
Did you know....
That every Interview done with tap was improvised.
Only a rough outline for the setting was written, then the guys filled in the blanks...
Knowing that makes it that much funnier.
Which also makes it seem more genuine...
A perfect example is the "these go to 11" scene... He made it up on the spot and you can literally see his thought process in action...
Again.... Geniusly done
There barely was an outline even because they didn't know what questions were coming in advance, "only thing" the actors had to do is to memorize the histories of their characters so they wouldn't improvise against each other and after that Reiner put them in generig rock star situations and asked questions. Most likely the first mockumentary to make it big, many viewers didn't even get they weren't real people after watching the movie.
That's how all of those Christopher Guest Michael McKean Harry Shearer movies were.....Best in Show and A Mighty Wind were the same type of improv.....perfect comedic trio
He improvised so well that an 11 magically appeared on the amp.
Not the same month... or year... but exactly the same age. I laughed out loud. This man is a genius.
Just to keep the record for history...
08:59 - CC Deville
09:04 - Peter Frampton
11:53 - Jim Marshall
07:49 / 13:05 - Steve Lukather
13:08 - Michael Schenker
08:28 / 14:56 - Dweezil Zappa
Nuno in it as well playing with Lukather
11:52 Ian Scott of Anthrax
"We were talking to Wyndham Hill for awhile" is one of the funniest things Nigel has ever said. And he has said some seriously funny shit.
I don't get that joke, sadly.. I even tried looking it up - can someone plz explain???
@@FanFanBessie2 My fault. I misspelled Wyndham. It should have been "Windham". You can google that.
"Windham Hill [Records] produced music ... nearly all of it instrumental, acoustic, and mellow."
Spinal Tap was not generally associated with "mellow" :)
@@ericynot Nice!😂😂😂 thanks man👍
That really was Jim Marshall in the car with him😎 cool
Classic brilliance of humour and the catalyst of rockumentaries. Spinal tap will transcend the ages . Iconic 🤟
I must have watched Spinal Tap at least 30 times over the years ... never gets old ....
I only watched it 11 times. Then I wanted to watch it again, and then thought about the Devil Head. So I didn't watch it again. Now that there is the 20 Marshall Amp, I might watch it again.
That's a small amount of times for this classic
I would like your comment but it has 11 likes and I think it should stay there.
@@lawrencetaylor4101 ⁸
Jim Marshall was one of the nicest people that I ever had the pleasure to meet and he was a legend.
I saw Spinal Tap near WVU Morgantown. The theatre might of had 100 people in the theatre and no one was laughing. They really thought it was a rockumentary about a band. Except for one fool (being me) laughing in the back of the theatre with a girlfriend. Who was becoming more and more embarrassed until she caught on. I miss that era and miss her.
Might *have* had
I took a group to the premiere! The more one was a fan of rock, the funnier it was.
I miss you both and we've never met.
@Yirlani She looks like Rob Reiner.
How he keeps a straight face is beyond me, lol!
The interviewer would seem to have a harder time with that.
One of the big questions is how Nigel stays in character spending about 15 minutes alone with him before the event he said nothing and just chewed on his gum I deposited him into a limo in the car tunnel of Guitar Center is it went around the block I walked outside to the front of the store and when the pulled up on Sunset Boulevard I'm the one you see opening the limo door for Jim Marshall his wife and Nigel great event
Nigel has a new Marshall amp that goes to infinity...🤘but he is still wanting more volume. His audiologist wrote him a note saying his hearing has not been affected by these amps. He could easily hear a cotton bud falling into a piece of felt. It's assumed that his hearing has been upgraded by mystic forces and his love of volume. 🎸🌈
Awesome comment. He used it with Joe Satriani, but he did more of “this” than actual playing
@@focusstudios1296 a heavy Metal band consists of a satanic drummer (gemini) a demonic guitar player (Aquarius etc) this is how you create a metal band 🤘 this is how you create a rock God ( the God of thunder)
If the God that killed Jesus and his annoying choir of lies doesn't start singing metal lyrics we are all headed for oblivion!
When I was on the road with my band sky king, in the early 80s, me, and my other Guitar playerTodd , would watch this is Spinal Tap almost every night after we got done playing…! I can still watch the movie and recite every single line in the entire movie…. And I’m sure Todd can also….🎶❤️❤️❤️🎶👍🏻🎸
He's a genius really. As good a guitarist as Nigel is, I'm guessing that Chris was probably quite excited at the Marshall meet-and-greet.
Excellent comment
“Volume has always been one of your fortes”....well done interviewer!! 😂👍
I wish this guy was in charge of the world. Since we're all going to hell in a hand cart anyway, we'd still all go-but in a funnier way.✌
marshall stimulus plans everyone takes it to eleven
That interviewer is a trailblazer.. looks like every hipster in Silverlake NOW!
Lol he fucking does
Most innovative musician, and also has brilliant insight on Marshall Amplification. Ahead of his time.
I just love this guy Nigel, he's precious and perfect in this character. Straight face humour is over the top to me. 😂
Actually I kind of have a kindred and bonding spirit with Spinal Tap, as I have had two Spinal Fusions. Can't get any closer than that. I was going to try for eleven so I wouldn't have to go back every month or year for another, but my surgeon said no, he felt two fusions would do nicely.
Spinal Tap and me can really actually relate on higher levels now because of the surgery. Well if we were to ever speak I am quite sure it would be cosmic and rather other worldly. Myself being humble I never bring that bond up to other people, no not a word. Wouldn't want to look as a braggart, we all have a image of our own devices to protect .☮️😂
Pepper Ann His British act is so good, he even says solicitor instead of attorney or lawyer… I just found out recently that they were all American!
Mainly commenting because I also have had two fusions… Which of course I would never talk about, especially to a total stranger… Just keep a stiff upper lip, as the Brits say...
Just realized that I have had two spinal taps. No need to go to 11!
I'm also studying my own music...
Awesome to see Michael Schenker!
I love how this video is edited exactly like “This is Spinal Tap” was edited, where they would do something, then abruptly cut to an interview bit, and then back to doing stuff, so on and so forth
I wonder if Harry, Christopher or Michael realize the utter joy they bring to musicians? The rockers are truly star struck by them, because let’s face it, spinal tap may have been comprised of actors who played instruments, but they WERE a band, and they played their own instruments. True they played mostly in a movie, but they became BONAFIDE legends because of it. The line between fiction and reality for these guys has more than blurred. It has disappeared and they have become ACTUAL rock legends. If you think it strange, it is not. The Monkees did it.
I remember seeing a video where they met Metallica and James was behind David(Michael) pantomiming pulling his wig off 😂
Steve’s joke was missed I think. After hearing that “lick my love pump” would be in in e minor, he reacts with “oh, it’s a little happier tune then”.
D minor is the saddest key of all
Because that's up one key more, isn't it.
@@j_freed I read your comment in a British accent 🤣😅😆😉
Peter Frampton, Steve Lukather (who looks MUCH different today), Dweezil Zappa, CC DeVille, Michael Schenker, Nuno Bettencourt and Scott Ian (neither of whom were in the group photo), and Andy Taylor, sporting a super-mullet. Anyone else?
jaybone23 isn't Steve Lukather a big mesa guy?
Thought that was Rudy Sarzo on the right at 2:56
2:55 Fred Willard?
Is that Steve Vai standing between dweezil and lukather at 8:18 ?
@@georgetrapp6666 I thought it was Eddie with a wig
Im waiting for the official Marshall Tufnell Signature Model. I'll be first in line to buy.
"But there's no mushroom cloud", for some reason that made me laugh out loud!
A funny thing was, I was an exchange student in Grenoble, France, from America, and me and my buddy made friends with some English folks. We would immitate the characters around them, repeating all the lines, and they said: you guys sound South African. But when we played the soundtrack, they honestly thought Spinal Tap was British.
I love Nigel's fascination with the Swiss Army knife.
nigel is my favorite rock super star. master guitarist, so well read and eveni more articulate intelectual, yet still a bloke.
he is. really is... i am so glad.
So many of my guitar heroes in this video
Is this ad-libbed?
"Light is on, amp is on..." So THAT'S the reason for the light...
God knows how many times the dog ran past and whacked a "set for 140db" guitar or bass with her tail. That's how you know the amp's on at our house if the light's not working.
Very LOUD acoustic music?? LOL.
True story, I was playing out with a guy who taught me sound geek stuff 20 years ago. The basement was carpeted in dark green rug. It rained, and no one mentioned to us their basement *tends to flood.* In the middle of all that power.
One item quit working right away. An speaker gave an indication I didn't detect (drummer fan) until he said, get down and put your face up to the speaker. Now inhale.
WOW. Blown speaker smell/burnt wiring is about as memorable as a corpse smell (I imagine). Cross between burnt plastic and singed rubber, plus some sort of adhesive.
Lucky both the former teacher and bass player were competent electronics engineers.
Which is when we figured out most of the rug was really damp. Damp enough to wipe out gear right and left, lol. Not wet enough to squish.
YEAH, I'm with him.
Last line is great. I won't spoil it for you...
a lot of people who work on The Bomb work at Marshall, but there's no mushroom cloud nor skin things later
hopefully
"But the new amp goes to 20. It's really one of the greatest pieces since the one that went to 11... all the volume you can need and maybe more!"
That gathering of MULLETS was EXTRA ORDINARY
It's believed that on this day the amps drew so much power that they blew the grid. It was either the amps or the hairdryers...it's best left unsolved. 🤘
there is so much genius hilarity in this i dont even know where to begin....
In reference to the "guru" advice in the beginning. A clever lyric written by 'Prof' that gives a GREAT reason to "sleep late" can be found in his song 'Light Work'. Which states:
"When people tell me I'll regret that in the morning, I sleep til noon, I sleep til noon." - Prof (Jacob "Jake" Anderson)
Aside from the cleft chin, Nigel looks like a young Ozzy Osbourne.
Except for the mustache he looks like my wife.
Funny to see Frampton and Lukather in the audience watching "Nigel.
Could be Martin Freeman's brother, couldn't he?
Who?
@@superclan6660 Actor... In the Hobbit films and the Office. Look him up.
"Volume has always been one of your fortes." -(!)- one of the best lines, from the interviewer!
11:52 is that Schenker in the background? I bet he's quaking in the presence of Nigel
Word on the street is Yngwie will not come within 5 miles of Nigel...out of pure fear. Same with Vai, Van Halen, and Lynch.
The capo for the amp was invented shortly after this interview.
Its called MIDI transposition and Roland had the first commercial success with it.
I would listen to an audio book by Nigel.
Its funny that there is now the equivalent of a capo for an amp in reverse being the Digitech Droptune.
What is probably the most hilarious thing about the whole Spinal Tap material is that there are a lot of people who believe these guys are REALLY like this! Paul Stanley of KISS thought Spinal Tap was a real band and their movie was a real documentary of their North America tour! Of course he thought this when it first came out as a lot of people actually thought lol. It's those little things that Nigel says that really cracks me up the most, those little things he says and he says so seriously but they are just stupid and they don't hang on it long enough for you to really think about, they just slip them in and move on and then later you think about it and laugh again! "It's a bit ahead of it's time, so I said well then what about next week" LOL classic Nigel!! The part about making an acoustic louder cracked me up - " well how will you make an acoustic louder? I will make it electric" LOL.. Now he has his up to 20 Marshall and he is already wanting a 30!! lol. NO other movie has ever done this with it's characters, I mean c'mon, 30 + years later and these guys will still show up in character and they even play gigs!! I really think they should do another Spinal Tap movie and I bet it would be a big hit! I KNOW I would watch it and since they keep doing things like this even in 2019 they make appearances, there is obviously a demand for it!!
4 years later... Yeah.... NO! At the time, rock bands were filling football stadiums. Now they have trouble filling 1000 seat theaters. So, it wouldn't be a "hit".
"Now it's 20, exactly. All the volume you can need....... and maybe more." Lol Hilarious AF!
1990? Fun to see Dweezil Zappa there, who was very young then.. In fact, his dad Frank was still living. One wonders if Frank himself was a fan of Tap and the lads.
Of course he wasn't. Humor doesn't belong in music!
@@kensingtonliederkrantz1592 of course not! No humor in Magdalena… 😜
My favorite ST period was the Flower Power - Phychedelic era Tap. Triped many a times the light fantanstic to their inmortal hits!
"The music I'm doing now is purely decibel related." OMG I DIE I WANT HIM SO MUCH
"perhaps as loud as 30" lol
"yeah well my idea was to do very LOUD acoustic music"
Just found out Nigel was the guitarist for Lenny & the Sqiqtones 😮
When he says his idea was very loud acoustic music, it demonstrates his ability incredible ability to improv based on what he's built the character into
The kapo for the amplifier killed me😂
“First of all it’d have to be quite large”
Guest is brilliant - 5:47.. hilarious! No mushroom cloud with rock and roll, or 'skin things.'
Dave Edwards "i hope"
Oh you have him mistaken with Nigel. A lot of dudes make that mistake....lol
Glad to know I play the same amp as Nigel. Really a classic.
I saw Spinal Tap when it came out as a 15 year old. The “this goes to eleven” on one of the best. So I am not a musician. So I was, and my then girlfriend who also loved Spinal Tap, about jumping for joy when we stumbled on one of the Marshall amps that went to eleven was sitting in a pawn shop in Iowa City just off Iowa’s campus. This was 1991 and too rich for my blood but was still fun to stumble upon.
The mystery blade is a fish scaler
"I foresee having to go to volume 30, because what I'm doing now is making the audience deaf."
Spinal Tap was pure genius as far as a parady on heavy metal music.
When you've met enough metal heads, you swear blind that it's a straight documentary.
Christopher Guest totally captures the vibe of a rock star. If I didn't know about the movie I would be tempted to believe that he's really a clueless rock guitarist.
If we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? 21. Exactly.
A Nigel solo effort would be a huge pile of AWSOME
Been wanting to watch this for a very long time.
"There's no mushroom cloud with rock'n'roll" hahahaha
or that skin thing
Given the decline of rock and roll in recent years, I am.very worried.
underated talent
Nigel: A capo for an amplifier. Compression on the speaker cone. Squeeze it up and up and up. So we're talking maybe some sort of patent or something. One chap said, it might be ahead of its time, you see. And I said, well, what about next week? LOL
(Pulls out the Swiss army knife) "Can you see this?" or "so he had to go there every night for 18 nights?"
I had that exact dark blue Charvel that dweezil is playing at 15:00 and Nuno is playing at the end. It was a Fusion Custom. What is strange is that I don't get how it got down to L. A. for this because it was in my room every single day. They would've had to have gotten it when I was on holiday with the family I suppose. At least they got it back to me, but I think I will be taking this video to the authorities as evidence. Dweezil and Nuno may want to lawyer up because they can't just break into people's houses like that. It's wrong.
Also, Kip Winger in the video. Somebody said Andy Taylor was in the video, but I think they thought he was the guy with the mullet talking about Gilmour being a fan. That guy wasn't Andy. That was Pink Floyd's saxophone player on the momentary lapse of reason album/tour. He put the saxophone in his mouth when he played it!
This must have taken a long time to make. This humor could never be taken in under 20 takes.
11:51 This wouldn't be a proper heavy metal interview if Scott Ian was not in it.
I thought this was a sketch of comedy. Best interview everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
When is Spinal Tap going to go djent? Can you imagine how many strings... at least 11
Jason M. I wanted to like this comment, but the I saw there were already 11 likes... Can't spoil that!
I LOVE THIS MAN SO MUCH
Jim Marshall himself is standing in the background, left of Nigel, the older guy in the white jacket.
Lukather, Frampton et al were genuinely star struck
Do you know some of the other musos in the video?
He's rocking some seriously beautiful eyes.💘 Certainly doesn't look 42, which Guest would've been by then.