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Nigel's hobbies include collecting guitars, (particularly noteworthy is his unplayed, unlooked-at foam-green six-string Fender Bass VI). He also plays mandolin, piano and does backing vocals. He is currently writing a classical piece in D minor, which he claims is the "saddest of all keys," provisionally entitled "Lick My Love Pump." A hobby is a spare-time recreational pursuit. ... The classical guitar typically has nylon strings. ... A Fender VI on a stand The Fender Bass VI, originally known as the Fender VI, is a six-string electric bass by Fender. ... A mandolin is a small, stringed musical instrument which is plucked, strummed or a combination of both. ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ...

Nigel has a great love for Gumby, carrying a figurine in his shirt pocket and wearing Gumby shirts frequently. He is also a self-proclaimed "fish nut", liking cod and canned tuna because it has "no bones". Gumby and Pokey This article is about the animated character. ... An example of a pocket as seen from the inside with some of its contents. ... A giant grouper at the Georgia Aquarium Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold-blooded; covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. ... the world is coming to the end!!!!! cod is going to eat up alive and do us hard up the emmm. ... A shoal of skipjack tuna Tuna are several species of ocean-dwelling fish in the family Scombridae, mostly in the genus Thunnus. ...

Tufnel was born in Squatney, East London. He got his first guitar from his father at the age of six, a sunburst "Rhythm King". His life changed when he met David St. Hubbins (played by the actor Michael McKean), who lived next door. They began jamming together in a toolshed in David's garden, influenced by early blues artists like Honkin' Bubba Fulton, Little Sassy Francis and particularly Big "Little Daddy" Coleman — a deaf guitar player, and wrote their first song, (Cry) All the Way Home. Before long, they had formed the Thamesmen, and the rest is history. East London area East London is the name commonly given to the north eastern part of London, England on the north side of the River Thames. ... Sunburst is a type of finish for e. ... David St. ... Michael McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, composer and musician, best known for his portrayal of Leonard Lenny Kosnowski on the sitcom Laverne and Shirley; as one of the members of Spinal Tap; as a Saturday Night Live cast member; and for other various appearances in... The term Jamming can refer to several things: Jamming as an electronic warfare (EW) - a technique to limit the effectiveness of an opponents communications and/or detection equipment, like Radio Jamming and Radar Jamming E-Mail Jamming- used by electronic political activists or hackers to disable e-mail systems... An average sized garden shed Modern secure bike sheds A shed is typically a simple, single-story structure in a back garden or on an allotment that is used for storage, hobbies, as a workshop or an office. ... A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. ... Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that most often follows a twelve-bar structure. ... The word deaf can have very different meanings depending on the background of the person speaking or the context in which the word is used. ...

Soloing Techniques

• Using a violin (as opposed to a violin bow, as perfected by Jimmy Page) to play his guitar
• Playing another guitar with his foot
• Classical music inspired solos
• Facial harmonics
• Turning amps to 11, which is "one louder" than 10.

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Quotes

• "You can't really dust for vomit"
• "These go to eleven"
• "I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really it's like a Mach piece."
• "What are the hours?"
• "It's like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none, none more black"
• "What's wrong with being sexy?"
• "We've got Armadillos in our trousers. It's really quite frightening."
• "In D minor which I always find is really the saddest of all keys."
• "(When asked what his D minor song is called) This, this is called ‘Lick My Love Pump’."
• "These amps go to 11. That's one louder."

"If I wasnt in the band i would probably be working in habadasherie" Vomiting (or emesis) is the forceful expulsion of the contents of ones stomach through the mouth. ... Look up up to eleven in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Trivia

• In September 2002, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary included the entry: "Up to eleven: Up to maximum volume" a reference to Nigel's amplifier that had controls that went beyond the usual maximum setting of 10.
• In homage to Nigel Tufnel, Marshall Amplifiers released a version of the classic JCM 800 amplifier head with controls from 1 to 20.
• In 2006, Tufnel appeared in an American television commercial for Volkswagen.

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External links

• The Ultimate Spinal Tap Discography - an illustrated guide to Tap's albums (both real and imagined)