When Did People Start Turning Things Up to 11?

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In the hilarious rockumentary This is Spinal Tap released in 1984, Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel proudly boasts of his Marshal amp, “This is a top to what we use on stage, but it’s very, very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to 11. Look, right across the board: 11, 11, 11.”
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@TodayIFoundOut 4 года назад

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@griplove 4 года назад

“Couldn’t you just make 10 louder” “But this one goes to 11...”

@justyouraveragefluff2298 4 года назад

"Why not make 1 as loud as 2 and 2 as loud as 3 and three as loud as 4 and so on?" "But this ones goes to 11.."

@rgerber 4 года назад

...but these go to elevan.....

@rgerber 4 года назад

@@justyouraveragefluff2298 really can't argue from this point.....

@Narinjas 4 года назад

Could you let me go up tp 100 (finer control) or maybe even 1000 or 1M.

@JohnSmith-bx1mp 4 года назад

No..don't look at it!

@MosoKaiser 4 года назад

Another bonus fact: Spinal Tap's rating on IMDB goes up to 11.

@SovereignMoney 3 года назад

Its true

@chrrrristopher495 3 года назад

I didn't know that despite being a fan of Spinal Tap for decades. Thank you for that wonderful easter egg!

@gordons-alive4940 3 года назад

So it is. You can't actually vote it an 11, though.

@MoldyStir-Fry 2 года назад

I just checked. Wow, that's amazing.

@tommyestridge9301 4 года назад

As at the Property Master on "This Is Spinal Tap" I had the "11" plates made by a Hollywood prop house and then put them on the Amp, Marshall had nothing to do with it.

@mikearcher9390 4 года назад

as the King of Jupiter I agree...

@billyjoejimbob75 4 года назад

There actually is a Tom Estridge listed as property master on that movie.

@jamesrobinson9176 4 года назад

@String Theorist some people just don't see stuff like that, too bad it's up tto 15 now

@Endorphins27 2 года назад

Figured. Easier

@foxinab0xgaming 4 года назад

Who coined the phrase "coined the phrase"?

@LickMyMusketBallsYankee 4 года назад

That's like looking up the etymology for the word etymology. I like it, and agree we need a video on coining phrases.

@kingjames4886 4 года назад

simons shirts.

@mikearcher9390 4 года назад

Don't know but SIMON IS 111% GONNA SCREW THEIR NAME UP!

@mikearcher9390 4 года назад

@@kingjames4886 They must love the name James for kings if they had 488 of them!

@bendito999 4 года назад

Sir Coin of course 👍

@will3346 4 года назад

Around the same time they started making small models of Stonehenge.

@NGinuity 4 года назад

That's about the time they started living in a hell hole and working on a sex farm, isn't it?

@kingjames4886 4 года назад

the real question is when simon started wearing shirts that come close to fitting him...

@kellyjackson7889 4 года назад

The druids then used them as stools

@oltedders 4 года назад

@@kingjames4886 Do you mean when you can see his nipples?

@scottmantooth8785 4 года назад

my Stonehenge is more Stonehengey than most because it has more stones in it and says so on the shipping label

@blupunk01 4 года назад

Hypnotist: You are all very good players. Players: [chanting in unison] We are all very good players. Hypnotist: You will beat Shelbyville. Players: [chanting in unison] We will beat Shelbyville. Hypnotist: You will give one hundred and ten percent. Players: [chanting in unison] That's impossible. No one can give more than one hundred percent. By definition that is the most anyone can give. - The Simpson S03E17

@TheRealKaiProton 4 года назад

Well mr burns had done it. The power plant had won it.

@mursuhillo242 4 года назад

Well, you know, in that specific house on Evergreen Terrace the residents obey the laws of thermodynamics.

@broc_ursal 4 года назад

It actually is possible to exert more than 100% of conscious effort. Just look at the stories of small women lifting cars off of husbands/sons because a jack stand collapsed, or rescue workers that lifted concrete slabs to save a life. Adrenaline is 1 hell of a drug.

@MonkeyJedi99 4 года назад

Colin Furze has been turning the INTERNET up to 11 since 2006!

@Bacopa68 4 года назад

Another bonus fact: The staggered passive pickup that has been on the Fender P-bass since 1949 and copied on many other basses was made from two pickups wired together from Leo Fender's electric mandolin project.

@tangydiesel1886 4 года назад

Jet engines can be set to 110%, so they can also "go to 11."

@tracytron7162 4 года назад

As well as WWII military aircraft; It’s know as WEP or War Emergency Power, and as such is only supposed to be used in emergencies, as moving the throttle past 100% has a high chance of burning out the engine if it’s left on too long or used too often

@tomcline5631 4 года назад

A lot of engine types can run over 100% steam engines electric engines nuclear reactors all kinds of shit. Emergency flank speed in Navy ship speak is over 100% and like you said military power in old piston engined planes from WW2 was over 100%. The B-47 ,and B-52 had water injection that boosted power above 100%.

@PeugeotRocket 4 года назад

I still laugh my ass off whenever I think of that Spinal Tap scene. That, along with the sandwich scene and when one of them gets stuck in the stage prop.

@kingjames4886 4 года назад

I still laugh my ass off when I think of the super tight shirts simon used to wear in these videos.

@PeugeotRocket 4 года назад

@Kyle Towers I've forgotten about that. I guess I need to watch it again this weekend. :)

@sschmidtevalue 2 года назад

Whenever I see those little hors d'oeuvres breads, I think of Nigel, trying to fold them.

@B3burner 4 года назад

“Can we have everything louder than everything else?!” - Ian Gillan (Deep Purple)

@jamescarter3196 4 года назад

Sounds like the first shot in 'the loudness wars'. I heard an engineer, maybe Alan Parsons, refer to modern recording-mixdown techniques (especially noticeable in remasters of older albums) as often being a situation of "everything is at the front of the mix".

@charlesstebbins7207 4 года назад

Sound is actually pressure waves moving the air. A decibel of sound is actually a measurement of how energetic 1 of these pressure waves is. At around 165 decibels, your eardrum fractures. At around 1,8000 decibels, your scull fractures & you die. I guess what I'm saying is... "louder isn't always better".

@B3burner 4 года назад

Charles Stebbins >>> Oh yes, indeed... I pretty much have my limit at “jet plane on the tarmac” levels.

@VonOzbourne 4 года назад

The irony being that the producers who were so good at escalating the Loudness War, apparently had no concept of what clipping was doing to their mix.

@silkwesir1444 4 года назад

Well, depending on how you want to say it, either no you can't, or yes, you asked for nothing, here is nothing.

@YouTubecanfuckagoat 4 года назад

“Dial back the suck! & Crank up the awesome!’ This is Spinal Tap

@thatguy4087 4 года назад

Really? 0:43

@jamescarter3196 4 года назад

Lol, I'm going to figure out how to deploy that joke at my trivia-hosting gigs. Next time I sound like shit on the mic (wish I had this joke available last week when my voice was stressed and I had to self-compress it to avoid the 'hooting' range), I'll make a joke about "Whoops, the 'suck' is turned up to six and it's only supposed to be at like, zero or less if possible. And hey, the 'awesome' was only at three but it should be at eleven."

@YouTubecanfuckagoat 4 года назад

James Carter Sounds pretty much like you just suck.

@SlckJwdBtnk 4 года назад

The single pickup Fender Esquire was before the two pickup Telecaster. The order goes. Esquire Broadcaster Nocaster Telecaster

@fenderbender9922 4 года назад

What! All these years I never knew that Leo Fender couldn't play the guitar. My mind is blown apart 🤯!

@bjornmu 4 года назад

I've read about some food products labelled to contain 110% meat (or some other number above 100). And this is not false advertising but correct! That's because it's dried, so 100g of the stuff is actually made from more than 100g of raw meat.

@cottoneyedJoe29 4 года назад

Valid point when I hear that 110% is impossible I always think wait so you are telling me that a vehicle can not drive at a speed of 110% faster than another vehicle? It absolutely can and why can't that also be applied to sound or any other comparison? In theory yes some things are impossible at over 100% but thats an awfully inaccurate falsehood when used as a blanket statement with what we do know let alone the untapped knowledge yet to be discovered.

@mikearcher9390 4 года назад

YOU READ BULLSHIT ARTICLES! AND DON'T GRASP PERCENTAGES! FINISH THE 3RD GRADE FOR A SECOND TIME AND TRY AGAIN!

@hydrationboi8861 4 года назад

@@cottoneyedJoe29 no it's that you can't go higher than 100% of you're own limit not someone else's limit

@Mirokuofnite 4 года назад

One chap said..."it might be ahead of its time..."...and I said..."well, what about next week?" -Nigel Tufnel

@IFY0USEEKAY 4 года назад

I had to move because my neighbors used to listen to music turned up to "11" all night long... Whether they liked it or not! 😉

@VolkerHett 4 года назад

My neighbours listen to good music, too! 😊

@jamescarter3196 4 года назад

That was the best reveal I've ever seen in a RU-vid comment. It was as good as a classic Mad magazine Al Jaffee fold-in. Excellent work and I look forward to stealing it! :)

@IFY0USEEKAY 4 года назад

@@jamescarter3196 😃 Thanks, if it brought a smile, spread it around!

@kingjames4886 4 года назад

did they wear shirts that fit them? or were they like simon in the past with shirts that were exploding off of them? maybe it was simon wells... wait, did simon start a shirt company?!

@macdaniel6029 4 года назад

antisocial...

@therealderjett 4 года назад

I never knew the story of how Fender started. I was shocked that he couldn't play. I guess that is why they were so good. He left the feel and sound up to people who were experts in just that and made adjustments bases on recommendation and not experience.

@muznick 4 года назад

"Why don't you just make ten louder?" ............"These go to eleven."

@jaredj631 4 года назад

It actually makes sense to go above 100% on machinery. The hundred percent mark would indicate the maximum intended setting for safety of equipment. With anything above 100% being outside of intended use for short durations.

@FalconX88 4 года назад

It also makes sense if there's more than one thing. For example a CPU with 8 cores can run with up to 800% if 100% is defined as full load on one core, like it's done under Linux.

@darthtortugas 4 года назад

Nigel Tufnel first made his appearance as the Guitar/Clarinet/Vocalist for Lenny and the Squigtones.

@valiroime 4 года назад

For those of you born after the turn of the century, that would be Lenny and Squiggy from Lavern and Shirley fame.

@kenlieck7756 4 года назад

Maybe. That LP came out sometime in 1979, and Spinal Tap made their first appearance as a band performing "Rock & Roll Nightmare" on the pilot of "The TV Show", which aired on July 24 1979. So you have roughly a 50/50 chance of being correct.

@markvicferrer 4 года назад

Maybe this is also referenced in Stranger Things as to why that girl has such strong superpowers.

@gspaulsson 4 года назад

A sign on some sausages at Sainsbury's: "Guaranteed 100% meat. Contains artificial colours and flavourings."

@1701spacecadet 4 года назад

That just means there is no filler like soya etc. Flavourings and colourings are permitted as they do not constitute the 'meat' of the sausage.

@robertt9342 4 года назад

Just need a faceplate with infinity and infinity+1

@yardwolves2773 4 года назад

I like your thinking, but a quick note: Infinity + 1 is really the same thing as infinity, however infinity^2 would be considered larger as it is a step up in magnitude.

@entangledmindcells9359 4 года назад

@@yardwolves2773 infinity^infinity

@yardwolves2773 4 года назад

Entangled Mindcells I think you just broke sound, and simultaneously brown noted the world

@skrioan3071 4 года назад

love how the whole bonus segment were all about cool guitar stuff

@TheHoagie13 4 года назад

5:09 *Christopher Guest* just reminds us that *"Duck-Face"* had been a thing LONG BEFORE the interwebs! 🤘😄🤘

@kevin7rxxx346 4 года назад

Jon Haugland actually Jimmy Page of Led Zep invented the duck face

@micahphilson 4 года назад

My favorite band is the Rutles. You may have heard of their fake mockumentary counterparts, the Beatles.

@1701spacecadet 4 года назад

All you need is cash!

@Niinsa62 4 года назад

I think I read somewhere that US Navy ships during World War 2 could go "Full speed", which meant something like "Go as fast as you can without breaking anything". And then they could go one notch further to "Flank speed", which meant something like "Go as fast as you can, and I don't care how". Sort of bringing it all up to eleven.

@JeffFrmJoisey 4 года назад

I got to meet and hang out with Les Paul a couple of times in the early 2000's. His son Rusty's band played every Sunday night at the neighborhood watering hole I frequented and Les would come to listen and watch Rusty's band. Rusty would hang with the regulars, hence.

@jmchez 4 года назад

I remember reading an article about the movie "This is Spinal Tap". In it the reporter interviewed some kids as to what they thought about the film and a whole bunch stated that the movie was OK but they had never heard about that band before. They thought that the movie makers should have selected a better band for their documentary. Number 1 choice was, "The Who".

@UmVtCg 4 года назад

My guitar Headrush pedalboard made by a company named Eleven indeed goes up to eleven.

@rodrigozamo 4 года назад

Actually the name is indeed a reference to the joke of the film. It was originally made by AVID, the makers of Pro Tools (Digidesign back in 2008) and was released as a rack processor called the 11 Rack to compete against the POD and the Boss line of products. Then they released the plugin version for Pro Tools, the 11 Plugin. What Headrush did was to take the 11 plugin under license, tweaked it, updated the engine and released it as a product. It is pretty much the updated version of the 11 Rack, but in a floorboard format. So the name of the company is Headrush, the name of the product is simply the Headrush Pedalboard but it's running the 11 plugin engine.

@UmVtCg 4 года назад

@@rodrigozamo Awsome, thanx buddy I didn't new that.

@terp2726 3 года назад

Great Bonus Facts! Nice tidbit on Fender.

@jamescarter3196 4 года назад

I'm reminded of one of my favorite film quotes, spoken by Alec Guinness in 'Kafka': "Before he died, Samsa was becoming much like you. More like you, in fact, than you are yourself."

@dickJohnsonpeter 4 года назад

You mentioned the "decade" control on the Les Paul and it made me remember that my JBL Decade 36 speakers have presence and balance pots, that do something similar. So I wonder if that is why they called those speakers "Decade".

@nine300 4 года назад

This is probably because we use a base-10 numeral system (10 fingers), so we see 10, 100, etc. as representing a complete unit and therefore 11 or 110 stands for the idea of "just a little extra." It represents a step beyond the limit of what was thought to be possible. Similarly, the number 12 has connotations of completion due to our 12-hour clock, 12-month year, etc., and I wonder if this relates to 13 being seen as unlucky. Both 11 and 13 are prime.

@bitset3741 4 года назад

Funny thing is, 0 is actually "infinite" or the very highest resistance. So really 0 should be "infinite". Most sound board actually have an infinity symbol by the 0 or lowest volume which is similar to mute.

@MonkeyJedi99 4 года назад

I had a bass amp in 1985 with all the knobs going to 11. I wish I remembered the brand.

@DenniWintyr 4 года назад

The BBC iPlayer's volume goes up to 11 ;) The Les Paul Recording Model's decade switch does have 11 positions... but it's different combinations of capacitors, to give different tones, not about turning any one thing up higher. VanHalen's first response to seeing Spinal Tap was, according to him, was thinking it was real, as everything that happened hit so close to home... the guys in Spinal Tap did actually go on tour with UK band Saxon for about six weeks to collect ideas

@TheChipmunk2008 4 года назад

Volume control on BBC's iPlayer goes to 11...

@TodayIFoundOut 4 года назад

I remember an old digital radio I had also did.

@elleblack8306 4 года назад

Lez... Lez Paul. Lol... Les Paul.

@christelheadington1136 4 года назад

Repeat after me Les Paul=Less Pawl.

@Dingomush 4 года назад

To those of us who formed garage bands in the late 80’s- early 90’s, Spinal Tap we’re our hero’s. You don’t know the frustration of playing a gig while a police radio bleeds through your wireless system, yes, mine did. Crank it to 11!

@Bagledog5000 4 года назад

I worked in a guitar store back in the day, I still have a framed "Now it goes to twenty!" poster in my practice room. It still makes me smile. Monkees fans sound like Philistines. ;-)

@AaronLitz 4 года назад

Great video as always! Not only is the information always great, but Simon's narration is infectiously fun.

@mikearcher9390 4 года назад

if he could stop saying 'LEZ' Paul...

@deanbuss1678 4 года назад

Man ! This one's really good too !! Keep it up Simon👍😁

@geoffreypiltz271 3 года назад

The loudest amp in the world was used by Motorhead, my ears are still ringing over 40 years later. I'm sure it went past 11 because when the headbangers down the front wanted it louder Lemmy refused because of the injuries it would inflict.

@aegisofhonor 4 года назад

on the hi-fi side of things, amplifier actuators actually sometimes start at negative infinity (maximum resistance to the line out signal so that such a low level signal is going to the amplifier that no sound can be heard by the human ear) and goes up to zero (no resistance to the line out gain meaning the amplifier simply amplifies the signal to it's maximum). So the idea of "turning up to 11 really should be turning it up to zero.

@Huttser17 4 года назад

And when I clicked, this video had been up for 11 hours. Felt I should share that.

@goodchessactor 4 года назад

Cool information about Fender. Could you do more?

@terrygrossmann2295 4 года назад

That was a great episode.

@RobKandell 4 года назад

I remember seeing that promo poster back in the early 90s.

@PaulMeranda 4 года назад

great ad-read today 👌

@iVardensphere 4 года назад

Many SSL audio mixing desks go to 11 on the master, as well.

@mikegerrish3459 4 года назад

One possible explanation of the 1 to 11 scale, is that there are 10 spaces between the numbers, as opposed to 9 spaces for 0 to 10, or 11 spaces between 0 to 12!

@mikegerrish3459 4 года назад

Fender amps, and possibly the earlier K & F (Kaufmann & Fender) amps, went from 0 to 12 in 1946.

@izzojoseph2 4 года назад

Favorite line in movie history!

@johnstevenson9956 4 года назад

I always thought it was hilarious that the lead gain on my Marshall goes up to 20. Now I know why!

@FeedScrn 4 года назад

Speaking of Eric Clapton changing his own strings... I once went to a concert where Phil Keaggy played... In the middle of a song a string broke... This guy switched out the broken string with his teeth... in front of thousands. He never stopped playing the song... he continued to play the guitar for the song - while he changed the string out.... It was almost perfect. I think that he missed only a couple notes in all.

@stivendog 4 года назад

Who is Lez Pool? Oh Les Paul lol gotta love the accent.

@phillipsams9857 4 года назад

If I remember correctly, it was The UNLV Running Rebels basketball coach in the 90's, who, made 110% effort mantra popular in sports.

@mikebrooka9395 4 года назад

You mentioned many music icons. Check out Leo Fender, Dick Dale, and the JBL experiments. It should be fun, but a bit long. In both study and content.

@Joopyter724 4 года назад

EDIT: I just saw a comment saying exactly this I'm no pilot but I heard planes and jets have a 110% throttle which when used overheats and speeds up wearing in the engine but can be used in emergencies (If you play war thunder you may know this as WEP)

@absalomdraconis 4 года назад

Of honorable mention: military vehicles have often featured a "max" power that is actually _less_ than maximum, because going above that lower level is considered too damaging for frequent use. Thus, they do have an "11", or possibly even a "12", "13", "14", or heavens help the maintenance crew, _"15"._

@klondike444 4 года назад

2: 38 "Among other gems from that piece include..." Ouch! No proofreader?

@charlesholzer5596 4 года назад

Have you done a video about when B.C and A.D. started being used and what year someone decided when year zero was?

@Oystein87 4 года назад

Actually the term is also often used because a normal volume control goes from "7 AM" to "5 PM" if you compare it to a clock. And amps with too little powertransformers stop at about "11 AM" before they run out of power. And there are ALOT of amps with too little power transformers :/ My amp goes to "4 PM" before out of power because it has a good transformer and alot of power.

@TheHareidGamer 4 года назад

Fun fact: On This Is Spinal Tab's IMDB site, their score is rated 8,0/11

@kkfoto 4 года назад

True

@Kitzy 4 года назад

Huh, I’ve always wondered why Clapton’s nickname was Slow Hand.

@jimmyjimjims7483 4 года назад

I thought you were saying "LezPool" instead of Les Paul, all I could think of was a pool of lesbians lol

@mikearcher9390 4 года назад

because it's impossible for Simon to do LEZ preparation for his 'job'!

@eljakimdeclerck1941 4 года назад

have had various music players that turned op to 12. Also I've seen 14, 20, 24 and 40 (old stereo amp)

@RangerHouston 4 года назад

*[This music is to be played loudly, preferably in a residential area]*

@pyjamacritic1171 4 года назад

Idea for a video: do police really draw round dead bodies with chalk at crime scenes? If they do then what's that all about? Thanks. x

@nerfninja661 4 года назад

It shows where bodies were located and how they were positioned upon the ground take a gang gunfight for example bad guy 1 kicks in the door opens fire on bad guy 2 and 3 guy 2 drops right in the living room while guy 3 managed to run to another room before expiring the way they fall and are positioned could give clues to what happened or what they were trying to do b4 death

@mikearcher9390 4 года назад

pre-camera days

@lilkris3008 4 года назад

My dad is a cop and no not anymore cops fuck crime scenes up a lot chalk powder everywhere wouldn’t help

@Amy-zb6ph 4 года назад

This just goes to show that people don't understand fractions. There is only a certain maximal level for any amp. Therefore, whether you divide these possible levels into 10, 11, or 100 pieces, you will only be able to put the maximal amount of sound through that amp. I had a hard time with fractions too. Here's a hint: take an auto shop class because sometimes the tools are in metric and sometimes they are in standard but they give you an easy way to deal with whatever you have. If only the math professors had told me that fractions were division. I learned that in auto shop. In any case, dividing any one thing's maximal power by 10 or 11 is infinitely less absurd than the notion of 110%. Percent means per cent or 100. This is supposed to imply that the limit is 100 and, if you get over than, instead of exceeding 100%, you need to put the highest number at the top, as 100, and calculate other things relative to that. If you don't want to do that, you're back to fractions against and, as I have previously stated, many people don't understand fractions. This is because they are truly weird when you first encounter them, just as many of the rules in English make learning just about any other language absurd at first. Numbers only seem harder because they are symbols. Imagine you were learning Hebrew, Chinese, or Arabic. Symbols only make the language seem more daunting at first. Having English as a first language makes most languages daunting at first. Imagine how everyone else feel trying to learn this language!

@P4T5H4RPify 4 года назад

I love Spinal Tap!

@cvasirocket1401 4 года назад

The RS-25 rocket engines on the Space Shuttle were throttleable to 110% and past that and so they were, for as , "you guessed it" , flying to LEO.

@jamienightingale707 3 года назад

Extra marks in school was where I heard about 110%...didn't get them but I heard of them. Nigel's awesome

@KelliFerSure 4 года назад

I came for Spinal Tap and I got education.

@PK-wr1qw 4 года назад

Best video you’ve done

@dracone4370 4 года назад

And now I'm wondering about the history of Rainboots, Wellingtons in the UK, and what happened to them. I know, weird thought, given the video subject, but that's what happens sometimes.

@willwragg9707 4 года назад

BONUS BONUS FACT: Leo Fender's amps went up to 12. Still do. (Don't tell Nigel)

@marvindebot3264 2 года назад

I thought it would be Disaster Area who had amps that went to infinity considering they are best watched from a nuclear bunker on a neighboring planet.

@yonimushermusic 4 года назад

You should do a "history of" series where you go through the history of bands sports teams Nations and so on. Just a thought

@BinaryReader 4 года назад

I thought that this video was about the seemingly rapid acceleration of humanities technical capacity.

@thatguy4087 4 года назад

In my 36 years of living in America I’ve never once heard this phrase before today

@jamescarter3196 4 года назад

Among rock musicians in this country and maybe others, it's just about the best-known joke of all time. Other than that, it's a cult phenomenon.

@j.a.weishaupt1748 3 года назад

I hear it all the time in American movies and tv series

@YeeSoest 4 года назад

Heeey, I found a typo! Can I keep it? You left out the word "lead" from the last sentence of the full page quote at 2:10 ;) So proud of myself:)

@brandonthailand2062 4 года назад

Since Spinal Tap of course

@DEATHBYFLYINGCDS 4 года назад

I'll check and see if Les Paul left any info in my area... My area being his hometown, and his two best museum exhibits.

@mikearcher9390 4 года назад

yet you let 'LEZ' slip by?

@DEATHBYFLYINGCDS 4 года назад

@@mikearcher9390 Um..... no, there is no z in Les Paul... look it up... Next time you try and correct somebody, make sure you're actually right.

@the.amazing.spatterman 4 года назад

4:52 definitely is

@michaelwalton4017 4 года назад

"Rock and roll!"😎🤟🎸

@silverdarlin 4 года назад

Spinal Tap is my favourite band!

@kingjames4886 4 года назад

simons old shirts probably tapped his spine... have you seen that shit?!

@silverdarlin 4 года назад

B A actually, it's Rainbow...

@shitbag. 4 года назад

1:50 Who is Ms. Zippy? Kidding. I watch almost all your vids dude.

@Tfin 4 года назад

It's Mrs.

@shitbag. 4 года назад

I agree. A wise man with glasses once said "Have a go at me in the comments"

@mikearcher9390 4 года назад

so you know he's the host of these...

@shitbag. 4 года назад

@@mikearcher9390 don't tell me what I know. It's petty.

@1blisslife 4 года назад

“Turning the Internet up to 11” - Colin Furze

@ViviSectia 4 года назад

I would guess the writers for Spinal Tap likely were making fun of Eddie Van Halen since his signature sound that so many guitarists around the time were trying to replicate was made by turning up everything on the amp to 10 and putting a boost in front of his amp to be even louder and more distorted than his amp would normally be on 10. That makes it even funnier that it hit the mark so well that Eddie wanted to make it a reality.

@AGH0STBUSTER5 4 года назад

As a hardcore train nerd, I appreciate the thumbnail pic

@numbr6 4 года назад

My theory is 11 comes from people being mistaken believing there are 10 numbers between 0-10 is10. It isn't, is 11. 10 is 0-9, then the next 10 is 10-19, etc. As, most people "how many numbers are between 0-10, and most would answer: 10. Okay, assuming this right, the other thing most people can't agree on is what is the first counting number, 0 or 1? If you did start at 0, then there are 11 numbers between 0-10. Now, enter someone who knows math, or is a lawyer, and they realize if they start the volume count at 1, then they need to go to 11 to have the same number of volume levels as dials that go from 0-10. This makes the most sense to me, after watching Simon's video, writing software, knowing math and a little about people's first answer to a seemingly simple question math question.

@TomGreene 4 года назад

RIP Les. -Wisconsin

@mikeaaron2112 2 года назад

Bonus super late to the game fact, Soldano amps always went to 11, not counting the Lucky13 that went to, you guessed it 13. Eddie Van Halen used Soldano amps in 1991, and based the 5150 off I want to say the Hotrod 100 or the SLO100.