Nigel Tuffnel of Spinal Tap fame
I Just read something I thought was really funny. You have to know Spinal Tap to get it though-
“Nigel Tuffnel once said (and lets face it, no one knows more about tone than Nigel Tuffnel) that the most important tip is to always wash your hair before you play. If you don’t, and your hair touches the strings, it will ‘dull it’, but if you do wash it, and your hair touches the strings, it will make ‘these beautiful harmonics wot sound like a little bird that’s just hatched from it’s nest’.”

Also, you have to watch the most epic scene of all-