NIgel Tufnel

This is the top to, uh, you know, what we use on stage, but it’s very, very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to 11.

It’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not 10. You see, most, most blokes, you know, will be playing at 10 – you’re on 10 here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up – you’re on 10 on your guitar, where can you go from there? Where?

Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?

11, exactly. One louder.

"...on 1967's "Rainy Day Sun" he played a Hofner Verythin through a Vox AC-30."

Nigel explains how he used a Pignose to escape being drafted into the Swiss Army: "...after about a month they let me play the song. The Swiss Army 'wake-up' song. 'You see,' I said, 'I play.' They said, 'Really?' So I went down the village to get a little Pignose and a good guitar, but they didn't have one [a good guitar]. I ended up playing some sort of weird Swiss cutaway"