When Guitar World asked Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel in an interview last year about his switch to Ernie Ball Music Man guitars, the man with the goes-to-11 Marshall told us, “They’re just really well-made. I can say to the people there, ‘I’m thinking of doing this or that,’ and they say, ‘Yeah, let’s go for it.’”
A good example of that can-do partnership is Tufnel's climate change-themed “World on Fire” guitar, which he used during Spinal Tap's performance at the 2007 Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium. An Ernie Ball Music Man Silhouette at its core, the guitar is loaded with some truly one-of-one custom flourishes (more on that in a moment), and is now set to go under the hammer via Gardiner Houlgate.
