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In the hilarious rockumentary This is Spinal Tap released in 1984, Spinal Tap guitarist Nigel Tufnel proudly boasts of his Marshal amp, “This is a top to what we use on stage, but it’s very, very special because, if you can see, the numbers all go to 11. Look, right across the board: 11, 11, 11.”
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Sources:
http://www.spinaltapfan.com/articles/marshall.html
https://uniqueguitar.blogspot.com/2009/10/the-les-paul-recording-guitar.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/pictures/this-list-goes-to-11-eleven-trends-predicted-by-this-is-spinal-tap-20140306/amps-that-go-to-11-0920102
http://espanol.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Gibson-USA/Les-Paul-Recording.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_class_M-1
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5dgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=engineer&f=false
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/sep/22/film.film
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/history-of-the-expression-giving-110
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OrQHAQAAIAAJ&q=%22pull+it+back+to+eleven%22&dq=%22pull+it+back+to+eleven%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjU2t-vivPYAhVLPFAKHbYgD7MQ6AEIJzAA
http://www.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/les-paul-the-recording-model-1113
