Is there anyone who doesn't love This is Spinal Tap?

It wasn't Bruce, it was Blaze!

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.

Hugely OTM.

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

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?

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.

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.

my fave moment: dancing dwarfs around the tiny stonehenge

fave subtle line: the argument about going on AFTER the puppet show

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

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.

With ya there, that's a perfect moment of editing.

I think it is time for Tap to come back out of retirement. If you watch some of those current metal shows on Fuse or MTV, there is some comedy gold out there waiting to be mined.

it does, done by the cast, but not in character. it too is very funny. the deleted scenes are different, also - some overlap, but not much.

They should be so lucky.

I've heard it was loosely based on Saxon and Status Quo. The key word there, however, is loosely.

Not really an ILM question I suppose.

Wikipedia, our friend:

Guest became the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, of Saling in the County of Essex, when his father died in 1996. According to an article in The Guardian, Guest attended the House of Lords regularly until the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999 barred most hereditary peers from their seats. In the article Guest remarked:

"There's no question that the old system was unfair. I mean, why should you be born to this? But now it's all just sheer cronyism. The Prime Minister can put in whoever he wants and bus them in to vote. The Upper House should be an elected body, it's that simple."

As Guest's children are adopted, they cannot inherit his Barony under the terms of the letters patent that created it. The current heir presumptive to the title is Guest's brother, Nicholas Haden-Guest.

I laughed out loud just reading this description.

I seem to have an anthology on hard rock/metal or two around here in which a member of Uriah Heep, probably Hensley, proudly takes some credit. Status Quo and the Heep fit more closely than Saxon if there's any -fit-. They both started out as kind of lame and flailing psychedelic bands, although the Quo had an actual hit. Status Quo didn't have any members die. Heep had personnel problems early on, a bassist actually being electrocuted onstage. Later he died in a bathtup or something. Quo match better in the UL label's regard for them. Despite a big splurge for a feature in Billboard at the time of "Blue for You," Quo were treated with great disrespect in the US. Uriah Heep had it much easier, being arena head-liners for a short time.

They all make nice stories.

In the latest Entertainment Weekly there's a feature with Rob Reiner talking aboot each of the films he's made, and for the Spinal Tap blurb he says their keyboardist, John Sinclair, was hired away by Uriah Heap before he could be in the movie. He would call the filmmakers from the road, saying things like "We're playing a military base" and they would put it in the film. Reiner also credits Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as the inspiration for getting lost on the way to stage.

i will take you there. i will show you how

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/player.html?channel=1804&category=24333&title=05392_00

"these go to eleven"

prefer 'a mighty wind'

Heresy.

yeah no lie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMNhc1jMSaE

Olivia Newton-John in Grease and AC/DC gave very mixed messages on what Australians might be like, leading up to Road Warrior and shrimps on barbies

Don't forget about Jacko! And Crocodile Dundee. But I feel like most of these things (from a US vantage) were post-"Spinal Tap." C. 1984, I'm not sure what the the most obvious international Australia touchstone might have been. I'd say not "The Road Warrior" (too cult), and not even AC/DC (I'm not sure if the average American thinks of them as Australian, any more than the Bee Gees, tbh). Olivia Newton-John might have been the most prominent example at the time, especially post "Physical."

I'm not sure I'd ever heard of Barry Humphries/Dame Edna until "Finding Nemo."

The Bee Gees weren't really Australian though tbf.

That's where they formed and had their first success, though, right? But yeah, I guess they moved back out relatively quickly.

Similarly, of course neither Bon Scott nor Brian Johnson were born in Australia, but did Bon have an Australian accent? It's the accent (Americans, at least) think of as much if not more than the culture. I do think Olivia must have been the most visible and identifiable Aussie at the time, internationally.

Bon very much did have an Australian accent! All of the Young brothers were born in Glasgow, Angus had a 100% Aussie accent, George still sounded Scottish when he was in the Easybeats at least, I could occasionally detect a touch of Scottishness in Malcolm's accent.

Brian Johnson is definitely not Australian!

For sure. Geordie all the way, lol.

Whoa!

Ok, we're cool again...

I didn't know Paul Hogan had his own sketch comedy show. (I realize it was popular, but was it any good?)

Also, didn't know this per Wikipedia: "In the early 1990s, a Paramount executive pitched a concept of a Crocodile Dundee and Beverly Hills Cop crossover movie."

I realize it was popular, but was it any good?

No.

All I recall of it is Paul and his sidekick toasting bread with a blowtorch when they got up

The success of Crocodile Dundee took me by surprise because the Paul Hogan shows always seemed so kind of cheap and ramshackle - part of his appeal seemed to be that he was like some guy who'd wandered in from a pub and not at all like a professional performer.

Always confuse Paul Hogan and Bryan Brown.

I didn't know Paul Hogan had his own sketch comedy show. (I realize it was popular, but was it any good?)

I loved it, but I thikn I was 7 when it stopped screening in the UK

I think Paul Hogan had that comedy series withdrawn.

I remember it as being somewhat Benny Hill in content.

My favourite Crocodile Dundee thing is that INXS invested in it as a tax dodge (on the basis that Australian films always lost money) and it ended up being a roaring success and fucking up their tax minimisation dreams

I think Paul Hogan had that comedy series withdrawn.

I think he hosted links for compilation shows of it in later decades and that the 2006 best-of 2DVD is still in print.

I remember it as being somewhat Benny Hill in content.

I remember it as including a Benny Hill parody, of sorts.

The success of Crocodile Dundee took me by surprise because the Paul Hogan shows always seemed so kind of cheap and ramshackle

That seems to define Hollywood cinema of the 1980s, paradoxically done with big budgets.

Olivia Newton-John also English, fwiw

and Angus + Malcolm Young are Scots alongside Geordie Brian. Bon Scott was an Aussie of course.

Eh? Bon Scott was from Kirriemuir.

His nickname even came from "Bonnie Scotland"!

My favourite Crocodile Dundee thing is that INXS invested in it as a tax dodge (on the basis that Australian films always lost money) and it ended up being a roaring success and fucking up their tax minimisation dreams

― Cod:Shellfish (emsworth)

could make for a solid Producers-type movie

xxp well shows what I know. I thought the statue in Freo was because he was born there

Colin Hay, writer of the Australian national anthem ‘Down Under’ has kept a Scottish accent despite living in Oz/US for nearly 60 years.

(xp) There's also a statue in Kirriemuir.

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-p/0b/1a/f5/82/bon-scott-statue-kirriemuir.jpg

... their other famous son is J.M. Barrie btw.

writer of the Australian national anthem ‘Down Under’

Glossing over a somewhat famous copyright dispute there, mate