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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
Rob Reiner arrives at the premiere of "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues" at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on September 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California
Rob Reiner and wife found dead at their LA home

By Matt Owen Published

Authorities have opened a homicide investigation after the couple were found dead in their home on Sunday

Artists
January 2026
The lost Ace Frehley interview, the year's best new gear and 2025's guitarists of the year – only in the new Guitar World

By Damian Fanelli Published

Includes a tribute to Space Ace and our guide to the biggest guitar news of the year, plus Nuno Bettencourt, 40 years of PRS Guitars and our first official transcription of Young Man Blues from Live at Leeds

Magazines
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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Troy Van Leeuwen and Josh Homme of QOTSA perform on Saturday Night Live with Will Ferrell on the cowbell.
From David Bowie going rogue to George Harrison x Paul Simon, EVH and SRV – the 50 greatest guitar moments in SNL history

By Gregory Adams Published

Saturday Night Live has presented some of pop-culture's most iconic moments in musical history. We document its legacy in guitar

Guitarists
Scott Reeder
Scott Reeder on the last days of Kyuss, QOTSA and what he told James Hetfield after that Metallica audition

By Andrew Daly Published

The veteran bassist enthuses about his Spinal Trap tribute album, his part in a James Hetfield lyric session and the heady days of desert rock

Bassists
Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) of Spinal Tap performs during day 3 of the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset on June 27, 2009 in Glastonbury, England.
11 real-life Spinal Tap moments from bass playing royalty

By Nick Wells Published

Bass legends Victor Wooten, Thundercat, Duff McKagan and more share their own moments of outrage, downright stupidity and absolute genius

Bassists
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

Guitarists
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

Bassists
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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