“We did this show in Amsterdam. It was quite loud, so it was shut down after 20 minutes. The people started throwing wooden shoes”: Nigel Tufnel on the return of Spinal Tap – with Marshall amps that go to infinity, new custom guitars, and a point to prove

Nigel Tufnel wears a tartan kilt as Spinal Tap perform live with pyro and sparks lighting up the stage.

In a 1992 Guitar World feature that celebrated the release of Spinal Tap’s reunion album, Break Like the Wind, it was reported that lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel had been, at some point during the band’s hiatus, “mysteriously conscripted into the Swiss Army.”

It’s a claim that Tufnel, speaking via Zoom from his home in the U.K., now shoots down as totally bogus. “It’s just not true,” he says. “Someone said that, and it’s not a very good joke as well, but that’s a separate matter.”