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

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

"he was the patron saint of quality footwear"

"It's called 'Lick My Love Pump'"

The 'Majesty of Rock' video was on VH1 the other night...This makes me CRY laughing every time I hear it:

The darning of the sock,
The scoring of the goal!
The farmer takes a wife
The barber takes a pole.

Also: I always say "Dobly" instead of Dolby. That never stops being funny

So I finally picked up The Return of Spinal Tap on DVD over the weekend for cheap -- bootleg DVD from all appearances, the original video was released back in 1992 or 1993 or so. It's not a sequel to the film outside of a few sketches but it's fun to see the live show they did in London in 1992; I was at the Los Angeles performance of the tour. Meanwhile the various 'where are they now' bits are good, and Nigel Tufnel's skill with inventions and helping ferrets travel wins on the comedy front.

Meanwhile they played Wembley Arena the other week -- "Big Bottom" with (apparently) Justin Hawkins and Andy Scott from Sweet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fWDumg3qeQ

have you guys read "Yes I Can" by Sammy Davis Junior?

Kerrang! reviewed the Wembley gig in this week's issue and gave it 1 out of 5. There's an astonishing bit at the end where the writer names the nadir of the evening being when "[a Tap member] throws a solitary cucumber into the audience," this being indicative of the poor effort made at a stage show

Hard to work out the level of ironing going on there.

i take back what i said about loving the rutles on here. i watched it again a while ago and didn't laugh once. i guess it was better when i was a kid. kinda wish i had the album though. still don't love spinal tap though i should see it again to make sure. i saw it, like, 20 years ago.

scott this is the weirdest most inexplicable opinion I have ever heard you express wtf dude

I don't love it either.

well, like i said, i should watch it again. i've only seen it once. i just don't remember laughing that much when i saw it. maybe i was in a bad mood. i kinda remember thinking: oh, i get it, they're dumb. and that was that. i'll get some good weed and watch it.

i did laugh when i saw guffman and the dog one. i remember laughing. maybe spinal tap just needed catherine o'hara for me to love it.

i take back what i said about loving the rutles on here. i watched it again a while ago and didn't laugh once. i guess it was better when i was a kid. kinda wish i had the album though. still don't love spinal tap though i should see it again to make sure. i saw it, like, 20 years ago.

― scott seward, Wednesday, July 8, 2009 6:29 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

rutles is unbelievably shit. i only saw it last year. dire.

tap is immortal though, wtf!

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