This was a promo video for music stores who carried Marshall amps. Circa 1990 and filmed at the Guitar Center in Hollywood. I claim no rights to the video and share for Spinal Tap lovers everywhere.
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 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 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.
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!
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!..... ; )
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”
@@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" :)
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.
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... 😲😨😂
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.
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
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 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!
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.
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. 🤘
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I love Nigel's fascination with the Swiss Army knife.
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 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...
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?
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
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 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.
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".
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
