So let this be a combo Spinal Tap Appreciation Thread / Is There Anyone You Know Who Doesn't Love This Is Spinal Tap Thread. Also, who's your favorite character? Mine is Ian Faith - so creepily and hilariously similar to every band manager I've ever known.
Go!
― Wednesday Already? Ah, Christ!, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Huge classic, obviously.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
I have the VHS version though.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Though that has a rough odor of urban legend.
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Movie or not, can we still take Aerosmith out back?
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Plot Outline: Three actors learn their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― jdchurchill (jdchurchill), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Not only that, there's another hour and a half "movie" made up of deleted scenes.
― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Spinal Tap is possibly my favorite movie (after Alien, of course). Its one of the few satirical treatments of metal that actually 'gets' the genre, and understands its place in the context of rock history. I love how the band is a perfect microcosm of all the most bloated aspects of rock trends from the British Invasion onwards. The film is really just a great satire of the rock and roll biz in general, and the human capacity for self-delusion in the face of failure. The songs are really convincingly well-done and hilarious, too.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
There was supposed to be a 'hilarious' BJ scene that got cut or unfilmed, purely because it wouldn't have been included in a 'real' documentary.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link
OTM, the movie has a lot of little stuff like that. My favorite is after the manager Ian tells the band that their Boston show's been cancelled, then says it's nothing to worry about, "Boston's not a big college town."
Tony Hendra really does a great job playing the manager.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I think it was Kiss that didn't find it funny (or maybe both of them). Maiden's Bruce Dickinson's got a pretty good sense of humor, I'm surprised he didn't find it funny.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Seconded.
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
It wasn't Bruce, it was Blaze!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Tap is to Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind as the Beatles are to Wings, Lennon and Harrison solo. And the new film will be Back Off Boogaloo in comparison. (not that that's bad)
It's one of the best movies ever made, ever.
― snotty moore, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Hugely OTM.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link
SPINAL TAP ($75.00) (1984) here's the rare 4 hours 45 minute version you've heard about! ...with all the scenes "not fit" for even the the new extended 'uncut' legitimate release - there's nudity! drugs! bad attitudes! plus lots more! 3 tapes; But please take note -- this is a 'bootleg' tape and the quality is not up to our usual standard there are visual dropouts some missing audio spots... we would recommend it for rabid SPINAL TAP fans only -- where else will you see this stuff? ; {the visual quality of this print is rated as B-/C
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― late adopter, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
almost every metal musician i've seen interviewed about spinal tap has been quite positive; inevitably the conversation leads to them describing how this or that bit from spinal tap actually happened to them.
as for kevin dubrow whining about it ... what HASN'T kevin dubrow whined about?
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 17 November 2005 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 November 2005 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 17 November 2005 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Thursday, 17 November 2005 03:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 17 November 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't understand what's so funny about this? I used to do the same thing, but only so that I could drink more beer onstage.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 17 November 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link
That's completely insane.
Tap is to Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind as the Beatles are to Wings, Lennon and Harrison solo. And the new film will be Back Off Boogaloo in comparison.
Good anology. Guest's other movies are great, as is a lot of Wings and Lennon's and Harrison's solo stuff. But the Beatles are the best band I've ever heard and Spinal Tap is the funniest movie I've ever seen.
― Nigel (Nigel), Thursday, 17 November 2005 04:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 17 November 2005 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 17 November 2005 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link
my fave moment: dancing dwarfs around the tiny stonehenge
fave subtle line: the argument about going on AFTER the puppet show
― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 17 November 2005 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link
speaking of...watch SNL in the 80s sunday night (no law and order!) and they showed a few moments of some classic clips from the season with Shearer and Guest, particularly the all-time classic synchronized swimming skit with Martin Short.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/84/84aswimmers.phtml
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 17 November 2005 06:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Even the music itself makes me laugh - there's a great bit at the end of one of the songs where Nigel plays a souped-up Mozart guitar solo. Also when he's playing his piano "composition" and talking about how there are all these melodic lines interwoven when in fact he's just playing these really retarded-sounding blocky chords.
― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 17 November 2005 07:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― barbershop raga (blunt), Thursday, 17 November 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 17 November 2005 08:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link
With ya there, that's a perfect moment of editing.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― M Carty (mj_c), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Is there a fan edit or something of just the outtakes? Meaning not interspersed with the original film
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Saturday, 9 November 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
The 2006 Special Edition double DVD has the outtakes on the second disk. But watch out cos there's a 25th Anniversary one without that.
― Noel Scott Emits (Noel Emits), Saturday, 9 November 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/zABnkDJ2yHwNigel explains Indonesian folk music
― calstars, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 00:42 (three years ago) link
"No, but it’s....you’ve got to understand that like in the world of rock and roll there are certain changes thatsometimes occur, and you’ve just got to, sort of, roll with them, you know. I mean you read... you read... yousaw exactly how many people who’s been in this band over the years, 37 people’s been in this band over theyears. I mean it’s like, you know, six months from now, I can’t see myself missing Nigel more than I mightmiss Ross McLochness, or Ronnie Pudding, or Danny Upham, or Little Danny Schindler, or any of those, youknow, it’s..."
"I can’t...I can’t believe it. I can’t believe that, you know, that, you’re lumping Nigel in with uh you know thesepeople you’ve played with for a short period of time..."
"Well, I’m sure I’d feel much worse if I weren’t under such heavy sedation, but still in all, I mean you’ve got tobe realistic about this sort of thing, you know...."
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 February 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zABnkDJ2yHw
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 27 February 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
“This is one you haven’t heard. If it sounds familiar, it’s not.”
― calstars, Saturday, 27 February 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
Let us bow our heads, in rock.
https://variety.com/2021/film/people-news/tony-hendra-dead-this-is-spinal-tap-1234923058/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
Sad. He's one of my favorite parts of the movie. Did not know about the allegations against him by his daughter. That sucks.
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 6 March 2021 00:26 (three years ago) link
May a cricket bat ever lay on his tombstone
― calstars, Saturday, 6 March 2021 01:43 (three years ago) link
;_;
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 6 March 2021 04:08 (three years ago) link
The stuff with his daughter is really rotten.
He wrote a great book about comedy, Going Too Far, that is very much worth searching out.
― incredible pant century (stevie), Sunday, 7 March 2021 08:14 (three years ago) link
"best leave it unsolved" still makes me laugh more than it should....doing yet another rewatch now.
had no idea that was Ed Begley Jr as the nerdy Thamesman drummer
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 May 2021 03:41 (two years ago) link
Listen
SHHH
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 January 2022 16:13 (two years ago) link
we love you
― peace, man, Friday, 14 January 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
Here lies David St. Hubbins, and why not?
― jimbeaux, Friday, 14 January 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
you're a haughty one, Saucy Jack
Here's the emotional centre of this film for me.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 14 January 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link
there's too much fucking perspective
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 January 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link
Some interesting info was discussed here: Battle of the LA Session Musos: the Wrecking Crew vs. the LA Mafia
― Presenting the Fabulous Redettes Featuring James (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 January 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
Barry Bostwick interviews Spinal Tap on SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-HOHzafV1E
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 14 January 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
“I can’t believe you’re treating the departure of Nigel like he was Stumpy Joe or Peter James Bond”
“Well I’m sure I might feel a little bit more if I wasn’t under such heavy sedation”
― calstars, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:01 (two years ago) link
that's actually my favorite bit of dialogue in the movie
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:02 (two years ago) link
I do slightly not-love This is Spinal Tap now - but not because of flaws in the film itself, but because of what I will call extrafilmic concerns.
Like my 10 friends in high school whose "sense of humor" consisted entirely of quotes from Monty Python and/or Spinal Tap.
And like the 10,000 corny-ass muso dudes who cannot possibly resist an ST reference. In 30mumble years of music-making I have carefully avoided mentioning the property of sustain because I know there's going to be some goofball who is going to do the movie quote in a bad accent.
And lord help me if the discussion of the increments on amplifier knobs comes up because I swear to god imma kill the next mofo who says anything about eleven
Yes, I get it, you watched a VHS tape. Cool. Now can we please get back to rehearsing the fucking song
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:08 (two years ago) link
I don't mind excess Spinal Tap quoting as long as you veer beyond the two obvious ones.
whenever I've been in a really bad theatre production, and I realize I'm in a complete piece of shit that is going to tank, I often have turned to the person next to me in frustration and asked "Are we gonna do stonehenge tomorrow?"
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:11 (two years ago) link
Okay, Stonehenge references get a pass from me.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
A Hawkwind biopic would not be far off from Spinal Tap.
― jimbeaux, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
an Anvil biopic already wasn't
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
otm
― Presenting the Fabulous Redettes Featuring James (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:26 (two years ago) link
obviously very different musically but the documentary on the UK pop group Bros. was definitely the that got closest to that perfect dimwit grandiosity of Spinal Tap
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:10 (two years ago) link
Fucking limmy.
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
RIP Ric Parnell, aka Mick Shrimpton -- the drum solo bit in this remains a top five moment in this film for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0QdAbGym8A
And I still love his physical comedy in the back of the shot here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkE-S_WbUJE
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 1 May 2022 16:55 (two years ago) link
Anyone who worked in a record store in the 80s will instantly recognize the absolutely spot on performance of Paul Shaffer as Artie Fufkin.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 1 May 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
RIP Ric / MickShould I ask if he…spontaneously combusted into a little green globule on his drum seat?
― calstars, Sunday, 1 May 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
Bizarre gardening accident
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 1 May 2022 19:08 (two years ago) link
Things like that happen all the time. They’re just not widely reported
― calstars, Sunday, 1 May 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link
The authorities said best leave it unsolved.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 1 May 2022 19:34 (two years ago) link
Wait, are you guys quoting something?
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 May 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
Withnail & I
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 May 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
“We want the finest dwarves available to humanity. We want them here and we want them now.”
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 May 2022 20:09 (two years ago) link
You can't really dust for vomit.
― Fifty Centaur (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 22:05 (two years ago) link
SEQUEL!
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/this-is-spinal-tap-sequel-rob-reiner-michael-mckean-1235265523/
The sequel will be in the style of Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz,” the legendary concert documentary that followed the farewell tour of the Canadian American rock group The Band. “Spinal Tap 2” will also feature real-life musicians in the film. No names have been revealed yet, but it will likely depend on the artists’ touring schedules.
Bono? Boaby?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 May 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
Honk like the wind?
― calstars, Thursday, 12 May 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
I have very low expectations for this
― calstars, Thursday, 12 May 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
It'll either be bone dry and hilarious, or suck so hard it'll drag the original down with it
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 13 May 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
"The Last Waltz" ripe for parody + Christopher Guest's wonderful tried-and-true lead-up to a big show at the end gives me hope for it.
― pplains, Friday, 13 May 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
I thought we already had a modern-day reboot with Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping?
― Siegbran, Friday, 13 May 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
I'm a style boy for liiiiife
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
The tour video they released after the 1992 shows already was a sequel, really, thanks to the various interstitial/where are they now bits.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 May 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
Plus, the "directors commentary" on the original, massively recommended
― Mark G, Friday, 13 May 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD94L7rzOm8
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 May 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
Just wanted to thank you for the display name nod there, C. Grisso.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 May 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link