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Nigel Tufnel is a fictional character in the 1984 mockumentary film ''This Is Spinal Tap''. In the film, he is the lead guitarist of the rock band Spinal Tap. He was played by actor Christopher Guest. ==Character biography== Nigel Tufnel was born in Squatney, east London. He was given his first guitar, a Sunburst "Rhythm King", by his father at age six. His life changed when he met David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) who lived next door. They began jamming together in a toolshed in David's garden, influenced by (fictional) 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 their first band, The Thamesmen. Tufnel's hobbies include collecting guitars; particularly noteworthy is his Sea Foam Green six-string Fender Bass VI with the price tag still attached, which he has kept in mint condition by not allowing it to be played, touched, pointed at, looked at, or talked about. He also has a Gibson Les Paul 1959 model, whose acoustic properties and carved flame-maple top he praises. He also plays mandolin, piano, and does backing vocals. He is currently writing a classical piece which he feels combines the musical characteristics of both Mozart and Bach (a "Mach piece") in D minor, which he claims is the "saddest of all keys." The piece is provisionally entitled "Lick My Love Pump'". According to Christopher Guest, Nigel has not yet completed the trilogy, and is still working on it. Tufnel 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 they have "no bones." Tufnel currently sits on the Editorial Board of his preferred in-flight periodical, ''Car and Driver''. His favorite cookies are Oreos, but without the filling. A rider in his contract requires a large plate of Oreo halves without frosting backstage. Onstage Nigel wears glam rock-inspired makeup and usually plays a Gibson Les Paul. Tufnel has stated that if he was not in the music industry he would like to either enter the field of haberdashery or become a surgeon. Tufnel's work outside Spinal Tap includes his appearance on the 1979 album "Lenny & Squiggy sing Lenny and the Squigtones", released on Casablanca Records four years before Spinal Tap. Lenny and Squiggy were fictional characters on the TV series ''Laverne & Shirley'', and Lenny, like Spinal Tap's David St. Hubbins, was played by Michael McKean. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nigel Tufnel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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