Nigel Tufnel

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(left) Nigel Tufnel plays his “World on Fire” guitar onstage with Spinal Tap at the Live Earth Concert at Wembley Stadium in London on July 7, 2007
Nigel Tufnel's “World on Fire” guitar, used during Spinal Tap's Live Earth performance, is headed to auction

By Jackson Maxwell Published

An Ernie Ball Music Man Silhouette at its core, the guitar features a working thermometer and a snow globe containing a figurine of former US Vice President Al Gore

Guitars
Marshall Spinal Tap JVM410H
Marshall has launched Spinal Tap amps that go to Infinity – here’s how ‘the loudest amp ever made’ came together

By Matt Owen Published

After starring in Spinal Tap II, the special-edition JVM410H brings a 40-year collaboration in the making full circle

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1991, a historic moment for electric guitar as Joe Satriani [pictured in a ball cap] jammed onstage with Spinal Tap, who are pictured here with Nigel Tufnel on the far left with a T-style, Derek Smalls in a yellow T-shirt with a headless bass, while a pouting David St. Hubbins cradles a Les Paul.
How Joe Satriani became Spinal Tap’s unofficial guitar supplier for the loudest movie of the year

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Satch and the Tap are old friends. And if you look closely, you might just catch Nigel Tufnel and David St. Hubbins playing his Ibanez signature models in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

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Spinal Tap
Spinal Tap play Big Bottom on Jimmy Kimmel with Tal Wilkenfeld and Thundercat

By Phil Weller Published

David St. Hubbins led a legion of bassists out onto the Jimmy Kimmel stage for a rendition of Spinal Tap’s 1984 track

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Nigel Tufnel wears a tartan kilt as Spinal Tap perform live with pyro and sparks lighting up the stage.
Nigel Tufnel on the return of Spinal Tap – with Marshall amps that go to infinity, new custom guitars, and a point to prove

By Joe Bosso Published

In a stupendously rare interview, Tufnel ruminates about birds, gear, Blind Bubba Cheeks and celebrity guests, and finds that it's true about what they say, blessed are the cheesemakers indeed

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Nigel Tufnel
Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel has been running a cheese shop where guitars can be used as currency

By Phil Weller Published

Cheddar for Charvels? Gouda for Gibsons? Tufnel has introduced a rather interesting bartering system...

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Christopher Guest and Michael McKean of Spinal Tap
For Spinal Tap’s reunion, Nigel Tufnel needed an amp that went beyond 11 – so Marshall made him one that goes to Infinity

By Matt Owen Published

Tufnel has a new amp – and some new guitars – to showcase in the forthcoming Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues – the legendary British metal band attempts a comeback, older, not any wiser but with a point to prove.
Every guitar featured in the trailer for Spinal Tap II, from St. Vincent’s Music Man to Joe Satriani’s Ibanez JS-3

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The Spinal Tap II trailer is finally here – and this is what Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls will be playing in the movie

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Spinal Tap (Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, and Christopher Guest) pose standing in a spotlight in Los Angeles in 1992
Spinal Tap discuss all-star guitar duels, (maybe) influencing the Beatles, and persevering through multiple sudden tragedies

By Teisco Del Rey Published

Fresh off of their sterling 1992 comeback album, Break Like the Wind, David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls reflect on (and bicker about) their remarkable creative arc, the tragic fates that befell many of their bandmates, and that humbling documentary they'd prefer to forget

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(from left) Nigel Tufnel, Jeff Beck, Joe Satriani, Steve Lukather, and Slash perform onstage
Spinal Tap once surprised Nigel Tufnel with an all-star guitar solo tribute – but he wasn't thrilled about it

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Explaining (well, bickering about, really) the star-studded Break Like the Wind, David St. Hubbins maintained that the collaboration was merely intended as a friendly gesture from admirers, and that Tufnel misunderstood it

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