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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Matt Owen

“It now goes to Infinity. Just think about that for a moment… Oh, my God, that’s literally infinity”: For Spinal Tap’s reunion, Nigel Tufnel asked Marshall to make him an an amp that went beyond 11

Christopher Guest and Michael McKean of Spinal Tap .

With the arrival of the long-awaited Spinal Tap reunion in the forthcoming Spinal Tap II: The End Continues comes some inevitable gear upgrades. After all, it’s been more than 40 years since Nigel Tufnel cranked his Marshall amp to 11. The band, somehow, had to find a way to better that.

But just how do you top an amp that goes to 11? Well, for the highly anticipated film, Tufnel (aka actor Christopher Guest) re-enlisted the help of Marshall, which ended up making him a new tube head that did just that.

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