Fun fact: Years ago, they went on tour as Spinal Tap, but they also went as the show's opening act -- a folk trio called the Folksmen. They had different accents and costumes, and played different instruments. The audience didn't know who they were, and booed them off the stage. They are talented musicians. Look up their song "Short and Sweet".
They've done several tours as Tap, the first one just a couple of years after the film came out. Like the bands they're parodying, they just never seem to take the hint and go away. :D
I saw them on the 1992 tour at Lisner Auditorium in D.C. I'd been a fan since 1984 in college. Nigel flew in on a wire dressed as Spiderman and got 'stuck.' A FedEx driver also delivered a contract to him in the middle of the show. I don't remember the Folksmen appearing at that one.
@@LTDdmg I remember them coming to town and of all the places in or around the city of Vancouver BC they played Thunderbird Stadium the UBC football stadium which the bleachers hold 3500 people the rest of the people are just sitting on grass embankment and you can fit about 12 thousand total in the place. That's not even as big as swangard Stadium at like 4500 in the bleachers nevermind the 2 hockey arenas and 55k Seat BC Place. I remembered being just baffled why in the hell they would be having their concert there when there was concert Halls, the trade the Convention Center and of all the places they could have played Beyond even the stadiums 🏟
Harry Shearer is so talented and so funny. Way before this, or the Simpsons, or Le Show, Harry was part of the comedy group "The Credibility Gap." These guys would simulcast commentary for the Rose Parade on a local L.A. FM station. Hilarious. Made getting up early on Jan 1 worthwhile.
One of the greatest comedies of all time. They shot tons of footage and needed three editors just to cut it all down. The deleted scenes are practically a whole seperate film on their own.
And then there's the DVD commentary - the three of them do it in character, whining and bitching about how Marti did a hatchet job on them, and coming up with backstories for everyone in the film. It's like watching a whole new movie. :D
It's also worth noting that most of the movie's dialogue was pretty much ad-libbed (a trend Christopher Guest would continue in his own mockumentaries).
@@ComeOnIsSuchAJoyexactly, they thought the only way they can make it look like a legitimate documentary is if he was asking the questions that they didn't know he would ask and they would answer them, with him not knowing what they would say. They wrote the 17-year history of the band out so everybody was on the same page and not contradicting each other and then just stayed in character answering the questions based on that history. The Fast Cut outs are partly due to Rob Reiner losing it and laughing his ass off the answers. The "you can't dust for vomit" and "this piece is called lick my love pump" were the two main ones of the movie where he just lost it about 2 seconds after. In fact Christopher Guest was just sitting there messing around on the piano and he ran over there with a camera and had the guy film it. That scene with the piano wasn't planned out at all.
I’ve actually seen Spinal Tap live, they toured in character - their songs are brilliant :) they were also their own opening act but in the guise of The Folksmen
@@K1ng1995 Excellent. Harry Shearer performs the most Simpsons' voices by far. First noticed him in a special called The TV Show in the 70s. He played multiple characters in that one, also. That was also the first appearance of Spinal Tap. Best. Leo.
The Mime is Money actor is Billy Crystal, who was Miracle Max in "Princess Bride". Nigel, the "this goes to 11" guy, is Christopher Guest, who was the Six Fingered Man in "Princess Bride".
@@T1hitsTheHighestNote all the dialogue is ad-lib. They wrote the backstory to the band and the funny situations but they didn't actually write a script. They wrote the backstory and had the situations set up, but they didn't have a script of what the guys were to say. They answered in character.
You absolutely must must MUST watch A Mighty Wind! It's Spinal Tap but to folk music and brings back 3 of the band members in a new group AND also stars Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara! You will LOVE IT, I promise!
I adore the music from A Mighty Wind! The mockumentary is so poignant though, almost a little heartbreaking.....too close to what actually happened to so many folk acts.
Famously, Eddie Van Halen said that when he watched this movie, he had no idea it was supposed to be a comedy. It was so spot-on that he thought it was just a depiction of a band.
That is effin' hilarious, Gregg Helmberger. And with Eddie, he's not going to hear a song like "Sex Farm" or "Big Bottom" and think it's a joke.....he's going to think "Why didn't we write that?" lol
My brother watched it with me in the late 80's, and he went through the entire film thinking this band was real, and so was the documentary. When the little disclaimer rolled by at the end of the film, stating that it wasn't real, he turned to me, wide-eyed and stunned. He refused to believe it for a long time. Brilliant film-making.
@@goopah One guy I knew as a teenager had the Spinal Tap CD and he didn't know it's a joke, he listened to it seriously (probably because we are not native English speakers, so he didn't understand the lyrics that well) but I always found it hilarious, looking back. I had seen the movie on VHS but he didn't know about a movie
The limo driver "Are you reading "Yes I can," by Sammy Davis Jr?" is Bruno Kirby, known from other comedy films such as City Slickers and Good Morning Vietnam.
The actual title is All You Need Is Cash. It was an NBC TV Special featuring some of the SNL cast members along with George Harrison, Mick Jagger and Paul Simon.
@@scottwatkins9750 The titling is a bit confusing. If you Google All You Need Is Cash it's directs you to The Rutles. Perhaps it was listed differently for different markets. Eric Idle did a lot of stuff with Lorne Michaels/SNL. Best. Leo.
Rob Reiner made 4 films in the 80s that aren't just classics. They are a must see for every generation. Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride and When Harry Met Sally.
Theres a real Canadian metal band called ANVIL with a lot of similarities to Spinal Tap (plus their drummers real name is Rob Reiner) that has a real documentary about them "Anvil: The Story of Anvil", that sort of mirrors the beats of this movie. That band was also musically talented but not the brightest bulbs.
Rob Reiner got his start as part of cast on All in the Family. One of the best, most popular (and still relevant) sitcoms of the 1970s. And his dad is Carl Reiner (just passed recently), best friend and collaborator of Mel Brooks.. and was American Comedy Royalty.
I'm old enough to have watched later seasons of All in the Family when they first aired (too little to understand most of it) and I've been watching Rob Reiner and his movies all my life and it's literally just this moment, reading this comment, that it really clicked that Meathead was Rob Reiner. Now that I think about it, of course it is, but even watching recent reruns I don't think it ever occurred to me. My mind is blown. What a brilliant show that was.
Before All In The Family, he was a staff writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (worked with Steve Martin) and had bit parts in the films, "Where's Poppa?" (directed by Carl Reiner) and "Halls Of Anger".
The commentary track is just as funny as the movie and sometimes even funnier. Also, the DVD has deleted scenes that are feel like a second version of the film. And the band actually did tour.
I have a six hour rough cut on video tape, I'm assuming all that stuff has come out on DVD by now. It's a six hour rough cut......and none of the interview sections are in it.
"The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash" (1978) was the very first mockumentary, I believe. It's a parody of The Beatles' career (the more you know about their history, the funnier you'll find it) done by Eric Idle of Monty Python fame (his fellow Pythonite Michael Palin also makes an appearance, as well as several SNL cast members at the time, and even George Harrison himself has a cameo). It's definitely also worth checking out.
The actors who play the band members are Michael McKean, who was a regular on TV's Laverne and Shirley, Harry Shearer, who voices characters on The Simpsons, and Cristopher Guest, who has appeared in numerous movies and TV programs. They have released several albums as Spinal Tap which are actually pretty cool. I have This Is Spinal Tap, Back From the Dead, and Break Like the Wind... Very funny stuff!
Why you chose to use and old TV show like Lavern and Shirly as Michael McKean's example of work is baffling. Better Call Saul, which is known to be his best work would had been more appropriate exalple for him because of his age.
@@e.jamesshepard7183 Laverne and Shirley gave birth to Lenny and the Squigtones. Nigel Tufnel played guitar on the Lenny and the Squigtones album. This could be considered the true beginnings of Spinal Tap.
In 1984 I was in a 5-piece band called Best Cellar. We were a general business cover band with a few originals thrown in to keep ourselves entertained. We had seen Spinal Tap's first music video on the long-lost TV special called The TV show. We were aware of Tap when we all went to the movie together. We had never played for thousands of people or gotten lost on the way to the stage. But, this rang so true because it was so relatable even if we had not personally experienced all these zany moments. And, yes, Marshall amps have always gone up to 11 and always will. Best. Leo.
Finally someone reacting to this !!! This whole movie was improvised . Members from this do voice over for The Simpsons . Spinal Tap appeared on The Simpsons . They were also played a rock festival & came out with an album . This movie makes fun of every band where something goes wrong . If you search , every band will say that they've had a Spinal Tap moment .
They also did a one-day cross Canada tour on Canada Day (July 1st) in 1992, for Canada's 125th birthday. They started in Halifax, Nova Scotia, then Barrie, Ontario (where I saw them), then they flew to Vancouver, British Columbia.
@@hanoc101 di you eversee the Nigel Tufnel Signature guitars? One was basically shaped like a Marshall half stack, with4 built in MS2 or MS4 amps, and then if when he wanted to go to 11, he bolted on another cab part. And then he had a Musicman guitar which had a rev counterso he could see how many notes a second he was playing, as well as 4 humbuckers.
Trivia: Several rock stars have commented on what an uncannily accurate spoof of the rock and heavy metal world this film was. Ozzy Osbourne said when he first watched the film, he was the only person who WASN'T laughing; he thought it was a real documentary. U2 guitarist The Edge said, "I didn't laugh, I wept. It was so close to the truth." Marillion had five drummers in the space of a year between their first two albums, which guitarist Steve Rothery later admitted was "like Spinal Tap".
It is also absolutely mind blowing, that most of the feature film is improvised. McKean, Guest and Shearer are all master improvisation comedians; countless interviews with the group is essentially them setting up jokes for each other to finish. It's pure art. :)
It's no mockumentary, but DB Pennebaker's "Don't Look Back" is an actual historical document and probably the best rock movie ever. It covers Bob Dylan in his early, obnoxious 20's touring Britain and it is an amazing piece of work. Sitting through that, I totally got Dylan's appeal. He was mesmerizing in concert, and a real handful off stage. Worth a look.
FUN FACT as someone who is 45, a huge fan of the movie and feels like an idiot wondering how in the hell I never knew or even heard about till watching a reunion interview with the cast a few months back............... the sit-down interview segments are about 95% improv. They don't know the question that was coming, and the director (on and off camera same guy LOL) asking them, also didn't know what the answers were going to be. Obviously drawing the Stonehenge thing was planned along with the obvious others BUT They wrote this movie in a VERY unique way. They made and wrote up backstories for all the guys going back to childhood, then made sure each guy knew the backstory of the others and the story of the band. Then in what I can compare only to a pro-wrestling style, did the Interviews as their characters giving the answers they think the character would say. Most of the awesome lines were written, so to speak, while the camera was rolling. Made it really hard for them not to break up and start laughing screwing up the scenes. Like the line you liked, and Reiner called the honest explanation of the entire movie= "It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever" An example of how funny these guys were just on the fly is seen here where Spinal tap corners then OWNS the one and only Metallica ua-cam.com/video/KD94L7rzOm8/v-deo.html The guys in the band also legitimately wrote the songs and played them on the instruments
Simply cuz those bands made even MORE money after this film mocked the audience into eating their crap up until Nirvana swung the hammer. 'Smells like Teen Spirit' was an anti-establisment song provided by...the Establishment. Has no one gotten these inside jokes yet??? When 'Rock Star' came along, mocked Hair Metal AND "Alternative" College Crap, I knew exactly what had been happening since the Dick Clark/Alan Freed/Motown days. Lies. 🤣🤣🤣
You're actually one of the few that gets it!!! So many people and reactors talk about how these jokes aren't ok in today's woke world but that's the whole point of the joke! They aren't trying to normalize that type of behavior, they're making fun of it! Why don't people get that about movies from this period or any period of movies really?
Finally!!! Shan, you GET it!! I've seen this movie hundreds of times and still crack up. I know a lot of people don't "get" this movie but you my friend do and I appreciate that!
Nice! Make sure you watch it again. It's even funnier the second (third, fourth) time around. For some reason, the bit with the "small bread" is my favorite. Great job as always man!
When Ozzy first saw this movie, he thought it was a real documentary. There are some earlier examples of mockumentaries, both dramatic and comedic, such as Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run, but this movie really brought the form into the popular mainstream, and Christopher Guest's subsequent string of hilarious mockumentaries (in collaboration with many of his fellow Spinal Tap alumni) really cemented it.
On the deluxe DVD version, there's a commentary done by the guys in character. It's almost as funny as the movie itself. These guys are masters at improv comedy...and very talented musicians and song writers, as well. My all-time favorite movie.
You are going to have a good time with this. If this film comes with a "commentary", you may want to watch again, because these guys revisit their roles in the "commentary". It's a scream.
I am sure someone else will mention this, but the actors actually performed and recorded these songs. There are even live shows later on with them performing. They are pretty good!
My favourite mocumentaries are What we do in the Shadows, Borat, Popstars: Never Stop never Stopping. I highly recommend What we do in the Shadows first ....it goes up to 11 😁
Other mockumentories from these folks; A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, For Your Consideration, and waiting for Gutman. A Mighty Wind and Best in Show are excellent and very funny.
Shan, since you've now seen "Spinal Tap" keep in mind "Fubar" which was obviously influenced by the former. ( It's not 80's, but came out in 2002. Not a cult hit like ST, but pretty entertaining and comical. )
As others have already suggested, please check out "A Mighty Wind," which covers the folk music scene in the same style. And once again the music is excellent.
Shan, for another fantastic music mockumentary, watch “A Mighty Wind”. Michael McKean is in that one too. Absolutely brilliantly funny. It’s about a reunion of folk singers from the 60s.
"There's a fine line between stupid and clever, and they're walking it" "i just realized that these are all actors" Great insights into the process going on in this film. Pushing the moments with realism and absurdity, stupor and maestro. Great watchalong, reaction, and review Shan. Your talent, personality, and drive continue to be top shelf. Spinal Tap is my favorite of the Guest/McKean/Shearer films, my favorite mockumentary, and one of my favorite comedies. My favorite quote of the film: "They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry." For me it's a blanket statement for so much of music, and so much of grownup popular entertainment and culture in general.
Great comments, better than most reactors. You really dug in to why it's such a great film. If you want to see more of these guys, the same core crew takes aim at a couple of other genres in "A Mighty Wind" for the folk music scene of the 1960s, and "Best in Show" for the world of dog show enthusiasts. They are comic geniuses. The music in "A Mighty Wind" is fantastic as well.
@@oaf-77 "Lenny and the Squigtones" played for real on American Bandstand in about 1979, years before this movie, and their guitar player was......Christopher Guest. When Dick Clark went around the band asking people's names, Christopher Guest put on a fake British accent and said his name was Nigel Tufnel and he was from from England. It appeared to be made up on the spot, the birth of Spinal Tap. There is a clip of it on UA-cam. ua-cam.com/video/Pt8YzwJ08pk/v-deo.html
I'm so glad you're paying attention to the dialog, because that is 90% of the film. That and subtle sight gags. BTW as a sometimes touring professional, all these things have happened in some form. Also watch all the outtakes, it's a whole other movie, roughly 2 more hours! Look for all the well known cameos. You need to check out Best of Show and A Mighty Wind.
Glad you watched this. I recommended it awhile ago. (Cough.. cough.....told you so,) The comedy is so spot on. Also, Spinal Tap is a real band. They’ve recorded a bunch of albums. I saw them at a record signing once and they were 10000% in character.
Such a great movie! A couple fun facts: When "Break Like the Wind Came Out" (1992) Spinal Tap played live for a college broadcasters "conference" (NACB) in San Francisco! Pretty sure they had session musicians, but they played live, in character and did sing. Wish we had ez-phones back then. Priceless. Second one is if you care to look up the audio company Avid and you'll find a few products called 11 or a variation on that theme. Yup, Digidesign/Avid, one of the largest names in digital audio, went to 11 and beyond! The influence of this movie is vast and wide. Cannot think of another like it prior...
Spinal Tap's success gave way to the mockumentaries that came in the 90's. Waiting for Guffman is 1996 (so not quite the 80's you asked for) and features several actors from Tap is worth viewing. It's very funny especially if you've ever done or seen any local theater. One last piece of trivia: When Mark Knopfler agreed to write the music for Princess Bride he asked Reiner if there could be some call back to Spinal Tap as it was one of his favorite films. Reiner thought about how he could do this and the end result is in Fred Savage's bedroom on the shelf above the bed is Marty DiBergi's hat.
Most musicians love this film because they've had a lot of similar experiences in real life such as getting lost backstage, infighting, company execs, crooked managers, the grind of touring, the mono, etc. Michael McKean has been in a lot of things, IMDB lists 239 credits. He was the band leader on the Jiminy Glick TV show, voice-over work, tons of TV and movies.
If you like the Beatles, you must see The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash! Imagine, Monty Python and the first SNL cast doing the perfect parody of the Beatles entire career. Many other stars, and partially funded by George Harrison :)
This is one of my all-time favorite films. Thanks for the great reaction! I've looked for others before and yours is literally the only one on YT that I can find. So many cameos that are easy to miss in this one! "Oh no, if I told them once I told them a hundred times, put Spinal Tap first and puppet show last."
Love this movie and I can't imagine how many times I've watched it. Friend of mine lives on Stone Henge Court and the song gets stuck in my head every trip.
Excellent choice. This is such a great movie. They continued to make mocumentaries, my favorite after this is ‘A Mighty Wind’ (2003) Have you seen any takeshi kitano movies? I think he’s brilliant. Watch the crime drama ‘Sonatine’(1993) or the comedy ‘Kikujiro’(1999)
The DVD commentary is hysterical because it is all the band members in character years later watching the movie and commenting about it. (DVD also has the full versions of all their songs. Like The Monkees, Spinal Tap performed as actors in a pretend band, but toured and performed as a "real" band.) Christopher Guest went on create many amazing improv-style mockumentaries -- including Waiting For Guffman (1996) and Best In Show (2000).
This brought back a lot of great memories. I went to a Spinal Tap concert and it was one of the best concerts I’ve ever been too! My friends and I were in the front row and had a “Go, Nigel, Go!” sign. A giant stone henge prop fell on the drummer and killed him in the middle of the concert. A giant bottom with smoke coming out of it lowered out of the ceiling during the “Big Bottoms” song! Nigel played a guitar with horseshoes. Overall, it was like everyone in the audience was included in a big inside joke!
This movie was adlibbed. They shot hours of stuff and cut it down to the best stuff. The DVD has like an hour of unused scenes. The DVD also has commentary with the actors in character as the band. Tony Hendra, the manager, passed away last March. The soundtrack album for the movie was an all black cover. I saw Spinal Tap in concert and the stone hedge prop was too big for the stage. They recorded a couple albums for real, even though they are all actors, they also play music.
I'm sure it's already been mentioned, but you will need to watch the other movies these guys have done in a similar improvisational style like "A Mighty Wind", and "Best in Show". All so wonderful.
A few fun facts about this film: 1. I believe this is where the term 'rockumentary' originated. I could be wrong, but it was certainly the first time I'd ever heard it. I think this was also the first 'mockumentary.' 2. McKean, Guest, Shearer et al actually wrote the songs and performed their parts. They were mostly musicians before this. Chris Guest was a part of the Woodstock parody stage show "National Lampoon Lemmings" in 1973, where he did impressions of James Taylor and other famous musicians. 3. The script was created through sessions where the actors improvised material to fit the characters. There's a lot of talent here! 4. Tony Hendra, who plays manager Ian, was an early staff member and writer on National Lampoon Magazine. 5. "I almost wish this band was real." They are close enough! This film was so popular, they actually toured as Spinal Tap and made a couple of albums. You can actually buy Spinal Tap records.
Hi there . I love this movie.. there are so many famous cameos in it.. also.. they really are a "band" per say They do have albums out and have performed for live shows . Much love 💕
TISP is a masterpiece. Every time I recommend to someone. They are usually hesitant, but all report back to me that it was one of the funniest things they've ever seen.
Great ups. Japan has been a big concert market for Western bands since the 70's. Some live in Japan albums I own... Deep Purple, UFO, Savatage, Iron Maiden, Queensryche, Skid Row, etc
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Princess Bride:
his fingers go up to ELEVEN!
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Sting contacted them to say how much he loved the movie. He told them he didn't know whether to laugh or cry because it was all so true.
Fun fact: Years ago, they went on tour as Spinal Tap, but they also went as the show's opening act -- a folk trio called the Folksmen. They had different accents and costumes, and played different instruments. The audience didn't know who they were, and booed them off the stage.
They are talented musicians. Look up their song "Short and Sweet".
The Folksmen were featured in the mockumentary A Mighty Wind.
They've done several tours as Tap, the first one just a couple of years after the film came out. Like the bands they're parodying, they just never seem to take the hint and go away. :D
I love the 1992 album 'Break Like The Wind'...even got the BS t-shirt. :D
I saw them on the 1992 tour at Lisner Auditorium in D.C. I'd been a fan since 1984 in college. Nigel flew in on a wire dressed as Spiderman and got 'stuck.' A FedEx driver also delivered a contract to him in the middle of the show. I don't remember the Folksmen appearing at that one.
@@LTDdmg I remember them coming to town and of all the places in or around the city of Vancouver BC they played Thunderbird Stadium the UBC football stadium which the bleachers hold 3500 people the rest of the people are just sitting on grass embankment and you can fit about 12 thousand total in the place. That's not even as big as swangard Stadium at like 4500 in the bleachers nevermind the 2 hockey arenas and 55k Seat BC Place.
I remembered being just baffled why in the hell they would be having their concert there when there was concert Halls, the trade the Convention Center and of all the places they could have played Beyond even the stadiums 🏟
Time to watch the whole gang again in ‘Best in Show’ and ‘A Mighty Wind’
A mighty wind absolutely kills me. One of my favorite movies of all time.
Best In Show is awesome. One thing, I'm kinda familiar with dog shows so that might influence my opinion.
Definitely need to watch both of these sooner rather than later.
We have watched Best in Show so many times. My favorite of this genre.
Best to leave him on a high. Those two don't hold a candle to This is Spinal Tap and ruins the mystique of these great performaers
You would probably also recognise Harry Shearer's voice, since he's been multiple characters on the Simpsons since the start.
He also had Le Show. (syndicated) on non-commercial radio for years. May still be doing it...
Love him. So talented and funny. And a cucumber.
@Crap Tacular I love your name!!!
And Spinal Tap made an appearance on The Simpsons.
He was also "Handsome Dan" on Wayne's World 2.
Harry Shearer is so talented and so funny. Way before this, or the Simpsons, or Le Show, Harry was part of the comedy group "The Credibility Gap." These guys would simulcast commentary for the Rose Parade on a local L.A. FM station. Hilarious. Made getting up early on Jan 1 worthwhile.
One of the greatest comedies of all time. They shot tons of footage and needed three editors just to cut it all down. The deleted scenes are practically a whole seperate film on their own.
Yeah, if Shan wants to see a longer film, there are probably lots of unofficial cuts with various amounts of deleted footage re inserted.
And then there's the DVD commentary - the three of them do it in character, whining and bitching about how Marti did a hatchet job on them, and coming up with backstories for everyone in the film. It's like watching a whole new movie. :D
It's also worth noting that most of the movie's dialogue was pretty much ad-libbed (a trend Christopher Guest would continue in his own mockumentaries).
They have or had like a total of 40 hours of footage shot
@@ComeOnIsSuchAJoyexactly, they thought the only way they can make it look like a legitimate documentary is if he was asking the questions that they didn't know he would ask and they would answer them, with him not knowing what they would say. They wrote the 17-year history of the band out so everybody was on the same page and not contradicting each other and then just stayed in character answering the questions based on that history.
The Fast Cut outs are partly due to Rob Reiner losing it and laughing his ass off the answers. The "you can't dust for vomit" and "this piece is called lick my love pump" were the two main ones of the movie where he just lost it about 2 seconds after. In fact Christopher Guest was just sitting there messing around on the piano and he ran over there with a camera and had the guy film it. That scene with the piano wasn't planned out at all.
I’ve actually seen Spinal Tap live, they toured in character - their songs are brilliant :) they were also their own opening act but in the guise of The Folksmen
You should suggest A Mighty Wind to Shan. Best. Leo.
I've also seen them live. One of the most fun shows I've ever been to.
Did you recognize Mr Burns?
@@K1ng1995 Excellent. Harry Shearer performs the most Simpsons' voices by far. First noticed him in a special called The TV Show in the 70s. He played multiple characters in that one, also. That was also the first appearance of Spinal Tap. Best. Leo.
@@K1ng1995 I was saying Boo-Urns.
The Mime is Money actor is Billy Crystal, who was Miracle Max in "Princess Bride". Nigel, the "this goes to 11" guy, is Christopher Guest, who was the Six Fingered Man in "Princess Bride".
And the other mime is Dana Carvey from SNL & Wayne’s World!😀
My terrible town created Billy Crystal
They always call him the "Six Fingered Man" but that's just his one hand. When you consider both, they go up to 11.
@@radwolf76 Indeed they do!
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Christopher Guest's film Best In Show is so utterly funny. Must watch comedy.
(Waiting For Guffman and A Mighty Wind are also great.)
You should seriously do any of those movies!
Yes! All three are "mocumentaries" in a style stimilar to Spinal Tap with many of the same comedians in the casts.
Ha! I just suggested Best in Show too!
I really hope Shan does Best In Show.
@@fubar1217 - "I'll stab you with forks until you bleed, I sh*t you not, you freak."
God damn, that movie makes me laugh!
The actors ARE the writing team
I understand that a lot of the movie was ad-libbed.
And the musicians
@@T1hitsTheHighestNote all the dialogue is ad-lib. They wrote the backstory to the band and the funny situations but they didn't actually write a script. They wrote the backstory and had the situations set up, but they didn't have a script of what the guys were to say. They answered in character.
This movie is a massive hit in the UK. Most Brits report being shocked that the actors are all American because the accents are so on point.
I've seen this movie at least a couple dozen times and every time the "Stonehenge" scene totally cracks me up.
I have Stonehenge on my phone and its fun when it pops up when I have the songs on shuffle.
You absolutely must must MUST watch A Mighty Wind! It's Spinal Tap but to folk music and brings back 3 of the band members in a new group AND also stars Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara!
You will LOVE IT, I promise!
I adore the music from A Mighty Wind! The mockumentary is so poignant though, almost a little heartbreaking.....too close to what actually happened to so many folk acts.
It had an Oscar nomination for one of its songs.
The best is the DVD commentary where "the band" does the whole thing in character.
The same group did Best in Show, Mighty Wind, and Waiting for Guffman. All are hilarious mockumentaries
And For Your Consideration
@@rhinehold4268 Eh, I feel the formula started wearing thin on that one... and even more so in "Mascots."
Famously, Eddie Van Halen said that when he watched this movie, he had no idea it was supposed to be a comedy. It was so spot-on that he thought it was just a depiction of a band.
That is effin' hilarious, Gregg Helmberger. And with Eddie, he's not going to hear a song like "Sex Farm" or "Big Bottom" and think it's a joke.....he's going to think "Why didn't we write that?" lol
My brother watched it with me in the late 80's, and he went through the entire film thinking this band was real, and so was the documentary. When the little disclaimer rolled by at the end of the film, stating that it wasn't real, he turned to me, wide-eyed and stunned. He refused to believe it for a long time. Brilliant film-making.
@@goopah That's a really funny story! :D
@@goopah One guy I knew as a teenager had the Spinal Tap CD and he didn't know it's a joke, he listened to it seriously (probably because we are not native English speakers, so he didn't understand the lyrics that well) but I always found it hilarious, looking back. I had seen the movie on VHS but he didn't know about a movie
They all are all multi talented individuals; musicians, screen writers, actors, directors, comedians.
The drummer being replaced by "Stumpy Joe" is a pun on when Curly of the Three Stooges at one time was replaced by "Curly Joe."
and then later, Joe "Mama" Besser is a reference to Joe Besser who was replaced in The Three Stooges by Curly Joe DeRita.
The limo driver "Are you reading "Yes I can," by Sammy Davis Jr?" is Bruno Kirby, known from other comedy films such as City Slickers and Good Morning Vietnam.
Was also in The Godfather Part II and When Harry Met Sally.
And Young clemenza in goth father 2
The Rutles (1978) would be another rockumentary, by Eric Idle of Monty Python and friends. Best. Leo.
This and ‘The Last Polka’ are great music mockumentaries
@@oaf-77 Is that with the Schmenge brothers? The Happy Wanderers? Best. Leo.
@@michaelbastraw1493 that’s the one, it’s a classic
The actual title is All You Need Is Cash. It was an NBC TV Special featuring some of the SNL cast members along with George Harrison, Mick Jagger and Paul Simon.
@@scottwatkins9750 The titling is a bit confusing. If you Google All You Need Is Cash it's directs you to The Rutles. Perhaps it was listed differently for different markets. Eric Idle did a lot of stuff with Lorne Michaels/SNL. Best. Leo.
Rob Reiner made 4 films in the 80s that aren't just classics. They are a must see for every generation. Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride and When Harry Met Sally.
Then went on to direct Misery and A Few Good Men in the 90s. All in a row too...what a run
You would recognize Christopher Guest from this movie.
He was Count Rugen in The Princess Bride. The six fingered man that killed Inigo's father.
Billy Crystal was in both films too.
@@1nelsondj Crystal was the mime.
Nobody recognizes Christopher Guest. He looks completely different in every movie.
@@creech54 And Dana Carvey was the other mime.
@@reesebn38 Thanks! I didn't recognize him.
Theres a real Canadian metal band called ANVIL with a lot of similarities to Spinal Tap (plus their drummers real name is Rob Reiner) that has a real documentary about them "Anvil: The Story of Anvil", that sort of mirrors the beats of this movie. That band was also musically talented but not the brightest bulbs.
I worked with Ian Dickson of Anvil after he had left the band. He's one of the smartest people I've ever known and a hell of a nice guy to boot.
That also ended with a concert in Japan, if I remember correctly!
“Hello Cleveland!” Hahahahah I laughed like for 2 hours after that 😂😂😂
OMG - A Spinal Tap reaction?!? THANK YOU SHAN!!
Rob Reiner got his start as part of cast on All in the Family. One of the best, most popular (and still relevant) sitcoms of the 1970s. And his dad is Carl Reiner (just passed recently), best friend and collaborator of Mel Brooks.. and was American Comedy Royalty.
You say Rob Reiner but all I hear is 'meathead'
The 2,000 Year Old Man!😆
I'm old enough to have watched later seasons of All in the Family when they first aired (too little to understand most of it) and I've been watching Rob Reiner and his movies all my life and it's literally just this moment, reading this comment, that it really clicked that Meathead was Rob Reiner. Now that I think about it, of course it is, but even watching recent reruns I don't think it ever occurred to me. My mind is blown. What a brilliant show that was.
Before All In The Family, he was a staff writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (worked with Steve Martin) and had bit parts in the films, "Where's Poppa?" (directed by Carl Reiner) and "Halls Of Anger".
The commentary track is just as funny as the movie and sometimes even funnier. Also, the DVD has deleted scenes that are feel like a second version of the film. And the band actually did tour.
I have a six hour rough cut on video tape, I'm assuming all that stuff has come out on DVD by now. It's a six hour rough cut......and none of the interview sections are in it.
@@TTM9691 The workprint version? I have that version but it's 4.5 hours long.
yea what a suprising treat that was on the dvd i bought
"Not a dry seat in the house" is one of the most rock n roll lyrics in history.
OMG he is reviewing Spinal Tap, that is something I must watch. Let me just load a bowl and get my coffee and enjoy.
This is the kind of movie you can watch over and over and find new things and appreciate it more and more!
"The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash" (1978) was the very first mockumentary, I believe. It's a parody of The Beatles' career (the more you know about their history, the funnier you'll find it) done by Eric Idle of Monty Python fame (his fellow Pythonite Michael Palin also makes an appearance, as well as several SNL cast members at the time, and even George Harrison himself has a cameo). It's definitely also worth checking out.
The actors who play the band members are Michael McKean, who was a regular on TV's Laverne and Shirley, Harry Shearer, who voices characters on The Simpsons, and Cristopher Guest, who has appeared in numerous movies and TV programs. They have released several albums as Spinal Tap which are actually pretty cool. I have This Is Spinal Tap, Back From the Dead, and Break Like the Wind... Very funny stuff!
Why you chose to use and old TV show like Lavern and Shirly as Michael McKean's example of work is baffling. Better Call Saul, which is known to be his best work would had been more appropriate exalple for him because of his age.
Michael McKean's guest role in the two-parter Dreamland on X-Files is some of the funniest TV I've ever seen.
@@e.jamesshepard7183 Laverne and Shirley gave birth to Lenny and the Squigtones. Nigel Tufnel played guitar on the Lenny and the Squigtones album. This could be considered the true beginnings of Spinal Tap.
@@e.jamesshepard7183 Even more recently, Witchfinder Sergeant in Good Omens. Heh.
In 1984 I was in a 5-piece band called Best Cellar. We were a general business cover band with a few originals thrown in to keep ourselves entertained. We had seen Spinal Tap's first music video on the long-lost TV special called The TV show. We were aware of Tap when we all went to the movie together. We had never played for thousands of people or gotten lost on the way to the stage. But, this rang so true because it was so relatable even if we had not personally experienced all these zany moments. And, yes, Marshall amps have always gone up to 11 and always will. Best. Leo.
Yeah, well: ?v=bA51JRWtIm8&t=10m10s (to start with)
Finally someone reacting to this !!! This whole movie was improvised . Members from this do voice over for The Simpsons . Spinal Tap appeared on The Simpsons . They were also played a rock festival & came out with an album . This movie makes fun of every band where something goes wrong . If you search , every band will say that they've had a Spinal Tap moment .
They also did a one-day cross Canada tour on Canada Day (July 1st) in 1992, for Canada's 125th birthday. They started in Halifax, Nova Scotia, then Barrie, Ontario (where I saw them), then they flew to Vancouver, British Columbia.
@@DavidB-2268 " Bitch School !!! " 🎸🎼🤘
@@guitarman8462 Break Like the Wind. A classic album.
@@DavidB-2268 Royal Albert Hall show
“Puppet Show and Spinal Tap” gets me every time
“Spinal Tap should be first in the billing”
As a guitar player the amplifier conversation gets me every time.
@@hanoc101 di you eversee the Nigel Tufnel Signature guitars? One was basically shaped like a Marshall half stack, with4 built in MS2 or MS4 amps, and then if when he wanted to go to 11, he bolted on another cab part. And then he had a Musicman guitar which had a rev counterso he could see how many notes a second he was playing, as well as 4 humbuckers.
_The Rutles_ (aka _All You Need is Cash_ --1978) is a mockumentary that came before Spinal Tap. It's a spoof of The Beatles. It's very funny.
Trivia: Several rock stars have commented on what an uncannily accurate spoof of the rock and heavy metal world this film was. Ozzy Osbourne said when he first watched the film, he was the only person who WASN'T laughing; he thought it was a real documentary. U2 guitarist The Edge said, "I didn't laugh, I wept. It was so close to the truth." Marillion had five drummers in the space of a year between their first two albums, which guitarist Steve Rothery later admitted was "like Spinal Tap".
Ozzy was stoned most of his time he was with Sabbath, I bet he never knew what day it was most of the time.
It is also absolutely mind blowing, that most of the feature film is improvised. McKean, Guest and Shearer are all master improvisation comedians; countless interviews with the group is essentially them setting up jokes for each other to finish. It's pure art. :)
It's no mockumentary, but DB Pennebaker's "Don't Look Back" is an actual historical document and probably the best rock movie ever. It covers Bob Dylan in his early, obnoxious 20's touring Britain and it is an amazing piece of work. Sitting through that, I totally got Dylan's appeal. He was mesmerizing in concert, and a real handful off stage. Worth a look.
Harry Shearer (bandmember with the mutton chops) has voiced Mr Burns on 'The Simpsons' since 1989.
FUN FACT as someone who is 45, a huge fan of the movie and feels like an idiot wondering how in the hell I never knew or even heard about till watching a reunion interview with the cast a few months back...............
the sit-down interview segments are about 95% improv. They don't know the question that was coming, and the director (on and off camera same guy LOL) asking them, also didn't know what the answers were going to be. Obviously drawing the Stonehenge thing was planned along with the obvious others BUT
They wrote this movie in a VERY unique way.
They made and wrote up backstories for all the guys going back to childhood, then made sure each guy knew the backstory of the others and the story of the band. Then in what I can compare only to a pro-wrestling style, did the Interviews as their characters giving the answers they think the character would say. Most of the awesome lines were written, so to speak, while the camera was rolling. Made it really hard for them not to break up and start laughing screwing up the scenes. Like the line you liked, and Reiner called the honest explanation of the entire movie=
"It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever"
An example of how funny these guys were just on the fly is seen here where Spinal tap corners then OWNS the one and only Metallica ua-cam.com/video/KD94L7rzOm8/v-deo.html
The guys in the band also legitimately wrote the songs and played them on the instruments
actual Rock bands love this film , they couldn't believe how much they got right
Also, actual rock bands hate this film, because it reminds them of how much they got right.
Steve Tyler said he couldn’t watch it, it was too close to his actual life.
Simply cuz those bands made even MORE money after this film mocked the audience into eating their crap up until Nirvana swung the hammer.
'Smells like Teen Spirit' was an anti-establisment song provided by...the Establishment. Has no one gotten these inside jokes yet???
When 'Rock Star' came along, mocked Hair Metal AND "Alternative" College Crap, I knew exactly what had been happening since the Dick Clark/Alan Freed/Motown days. Lies.
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You're actually one of the few that gets it!!! So many people and reactors talk about how these jokes aren't ok in today's woke world but that's the whole point of the joke! They aren't trying to normalize that type of behavior, they're making fun of it! Why don't people get that about movies from this period or any period of movies really?
Best in Show and A Mighty Wind are tied as my favorites. Eugene Levy as Mitch in A Mighty Wind is just so brilliant.
Others have said it, but the DVD commentary is awesome. I saw the commentary on you tube and you can listen to it while you play the movie.
Christopher Guest (Nigel) went on to make a bunch of brilliant mockumentaries. You'd love them.
Try Best in Show first.
Best in show is probably his best.
Finally!!! Shan, you GET it!! I've seen this movie hundreds of times and still crack up. I know a lot of people don't "get" this movie but you my friend do and I appreciate that!
BEST IN SHOW and A MIGHTY WIND are favorites-the others that this ensemble have done are good as well
For your consideration: A Mighty Wind - Chris Guest & Associates
"'There's a fine line between stupid and clever,' and they're walking it." Best one-sentence review of this genius movie I've ever heard. Kudos.
Christopher Guest directed three mockumentarys in the exact same style : Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind (1996, 2000, 2003) !
Nice! Make sure you watch it again. It's even funnier the second (third, fourth) time around. For some reason, the bit with the "small bread" is my favorite. Great job as always man!
I died laughing the first time I saw this and the tiny Stonehenge dropped down.
That's the best part. And the argument after "It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel" 🤣
“I don’t think the problem was that the band was down I think it might have been that Stonehenge was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf”
Man it's been so long since I've seen this it's crazy to see some of the cameo's....Johnny Fever from WKRP in Cincinnati made an appearance.
RIP, Howard Hessman.
When Ozzy first saw this movie, he thought it was a real documentary. There are some earlier examples of mockumentaries, both dramatic and comedic, such as Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run, but this movie really brought the form into the popular mainstream, and Christopher Guest's subsequent string of hilarious mockumentaries (in collaboration with many of his fellow Spinal Tap alumni) really cemented it.
On the deluxe DVD version, there's a commentary done by the guys in character. It's almost as funny as the movie itself. These guys are masters at improv comedy...and very talented musicians and song writers, as well. My all-time favorite movie.
You are going to have a good time with this. If this film comes with a "commentary", you may want to watch again, because these guys revisit their roles in the "commentary". It's a scream.
They also shot so much improvised material that there is another approx. 90mins of unused material on the DVD
The writing is improvisation. It was all improvised save for some structured premises.
I am sure someone else will mention this, but the actors actually performed and recorded these songs. There are even live shows later on with them performing. They are pretty good!
They’re a real band and no one can tell me otherwise, they toured and sold our venues and they have several albums that are really solid.
Precursor to Tenacious D in many ways..
My favourite mocumentaries are What we do in the Shadows, Borat, Popstars: Never Stop never Stopping. I highly recommend What we do in the Shadows first ....it goes up to 11 😁
Popstar is extremely underrated. So so funny
Other mockumentories from these folks; A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, For Your Consideration, and waiting for Gutman. A Mighty Wind and Best in Show are excellent and very funny.
"There won't be a dry seat in the house" (as opposed to a dry eye) just a fabulous line from a great movie.
A classic movie, so many rockers I've heard have watched this movie and not found it funny because it hits a little too close to home lol
I can recommend rewatching the film with the commentary track; the actors do it in character.
Shan, since you've now seen "Spinal Tap" keep in mind "Fubar" which was obviously influenced by the former. ( It's not 80's, but came out in 2002. Not a cult hit like ST, but pretty entertaining and comical. )
Couldn’t click fast enough Shan. I knew you would love this movie.
Love the songs! Tonite I’m gonna rock you tonite!
As others have already suggested, please check out "A Mighty Wind," which covers the folk music scene in the same style. And once again the music is excellent.
Shan, for another fantastic music mockumentary, watch “A Mighty Wind”. Michael McKean is in that one too. Absolutely brilliantly funny. It’s about a reunion of folk singers from the 60s.
Even Geico will not insure a Spinal Tap drummer. Best. Leo.
"There's a fine line between stupid and clever, and they're walking it"
"i just realized that these are all actors"
Great insights into the process going on in this film. Pushing the moments with realism and absurdity, stupor and maestro.
Great watchalong, reaction, and review Shan. Your talent, personality, and drive continue to be top shelf.
Spinal Tap is my favorite of the Guest/McKean/Shearer films, my favorite mockumentary, and one of my favorite comedies.
My favorite quote of the film: "They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry." For me it's a blanket statement for so much of music, and so much of grownup popular entertainment and culture in general.
Great comments, better than most reactors. You really dug in to why it's such a great film. If you want to see more of these guys, the same core crew takes aim at a couple of other genres in "A Mighty Wind" for the folk music scene of the 1960s, and "Best in Show" for the world of dog show enthusiasts. They are comic geniuses. The music in "A Mighty Wind" is fantastic as well.
So glad you reacted to this, such a great film. You should check out what we do in the shadows, which is also a mockumentary type film.
Michael McKean played Lenny (as in "Lenny and Squiggy") on "Laverne and Shirley."
They had an album ‘Lenny and the Squigtones’ their song ‘Night after Night’ is hilarious
@@oaf-77 "Lenny and the Squigtones" played for real on American Bandstand in about 1979, years before this movie, and their guitar player was......Christopher Guest. When Dick Clark went around the band asking people's names, Christopher Guest put on a fake British accent and said his name was Nigel Tufnel and he was from from England. It appeared to be made up on the spot, the birth of Spinal Tap. There is a clip of it on UA-cam. ua-cam.com/video/Pt8YzwJ08pk/v-deo.html
I'm so glad you're paying attention to the dialog, because that is 90% of the film. That and subtle sight gags. BTW as a sometimes touring professional, all these things have happened in some form. Also watch all the outtakes, it's a whole other movie, roughly 2 more hours! Look for all the well known cameos. You need to check out Best of Show and A Mighty Wind.
Glad you watched this. I recommended it awhile ago. (Cough.. cough.....told you so,) The comedy is so spot on. Also, Spinal Tap is a real band. They’ve recorded a bunch of albums. I saw them at a record signing once and they were 10000% in character.
Such a great movie! A couple fun facts: When "Break Like the Wind Came Out" (1992) Spinal Tap played live for a college broadcasters "conference" (NACB) in San Francisco! Pretty sure they had session musicians, but they played live, in character and did sing. Wish we had ez-phones back then. Priceless. Second one is if you care to look up the audio company Avid and you'll find a few products called 11 or a variation on that theme. Yup, Digidesign/Avid, one of the largest names in digital audio, went to 11 and beyond! The influence of this movie is vast and wide.
Cannot think of another like it prior...
Spinal Tap's success gave way to the mockumentaries that came in the 90's. Waiting for Guffman is 1996 (so not quite the 80's you asked for) and features several actors from Tap is worth viewing. It's very funny especially if you've ever done or seen any local theater. One last piece of trivia: When Mark Knopfler agreed to write the music for Princess Bride he asked Reiner if there could be some call back to Spinal Tap as it was one of his favorite films. Reiner thought about how he could do this and the end result is in Fred Savage's bedroom on the shelf above the bed is Marty DiBergi's hat.
Most musicians love this film because they've had a lot of similar experiences in real life such as getting lost backstage, infighting, company execs, crooked managers, the grind of touring, the mono, etc.
Michael McKean has been in a lot of things, IMDB lists 239 credits. He was the band leader on the Jiminy Glick TV show, voice-over work, tons of TV and movies.
If you like the Beatles, you must see The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash! Imagine, Monty Python and the first SNL cast doing the perfect parody of the Beatles entire career. Many other stars, and partially funded by George Harrison :)
"It was actually someone else's vomit" LOL
This is one of my all-time favorite films. Thanks for the great reaction! I've looked for others before and yours is literally the only one on YT that I can find. So many cameos that are easy to miss in this one!
"Oh no, if I told them once I told them a hundred times, put Spinal Tap first and puppet show last."
Love this movie and I can't imagine how many times I've watched it. Friend of mine lives on Stone Henge Court and the song gets stuck in my head every trip.
Excellent choice. This is such a great movie. They continued to make mocumentaries, my favorite after this is ‘A Mighty Wind’ (2003)
Have you seen any takeshi kitano movies? I think he’s brilliant. Watch the crime drama ‘Sonatine’(1993) or the comedy ‘Kikujiro’(1999)
The DVD commentary is hysterical because it is all the band members in character years later watching the movie and commenting about it. (DVD also has the full versions of all their songs. Like The Monkees, Spinal Tap performed as actors in a pretend band, but toured and performed as a "real" band.) Christopher Guest went on create many amazing improv-style mockumentaries -- including Waiting For Guffman (1996) and Best In Show (2000).
One of the funniest movies ever, so many quotable lines.......Lick my love pump kills me every time 😂😂😂
I still listen to their music
In D minor.....ROFL
Best in show is hilarious you need to watch that
After this you need to check out Waiting For Guffman, Best in Show & A Mighty Wind for more Christopher Guest & co improvisation films.
"Did the drummer explode again? Oh, the movie is ending, ok.." had me crying laughing, sir :-)
Whooo one of my favorite reactors watching one of my favorite movies!!!
This brought back a lot of great memories. I went to a Spinal Tap concert and it was one of the best concerts I’ve ever been too! My friends and I were in the front row and had a “Go, Nigel, Go!” sign. A giant stone henge prop fell on the drummer and killed him in the middle of the concert. A giant bottom with smoke coming out of it lowered out of the ceiling during the “Big Bottoms” song! Nigel played a guitar with horseshoes. Overall, it was like everyone in the audience was included in a big inside joke!
This movie was adlibbed. They shot hours of stuff and cut it down to the best stuff. The DVD has like an hour of unused scenes. The DVD also has commentary with the actors in character as the band.
Tony Hendra, the manager, passed away last March.
The soundtrack album for the movie was an all black cover.
I saw Spinal Tap in concert and the stone hedge prop was too big for the stage. They recorded a couple albums for real, even though they are all actors, they also play music.
I'm sure it's already been mentioned, but you will need to watch the other movies these guys have done in a similar improvisational style like "A Mighty Wind", and "Best in Show". All so wonderful.
Absolutely love this film!! It hits home as a musician! Some of the things are too spot on!
The majority of the dialogue was improvised!! Great stuff
This is one of the best movie reaction videos on UA-cam! You're an entertaining guy. And the movie was a blast.
You should watch "The Rutles", I think you will like it.
A few fun facts about this film:
1. I believe this is where the term 'rockumentary' originated. I could be wrong, but it was certainly the first time I'd ever heard it. I think this was also the first 'mockumentary.'
2. McKean, Guest, Shearer et al actually wrote the songs and performed their parts. They were mostly musicians before this. Chris Guest was a part of the Woodstock parody stage show "National Lampoon Lemmings" in 1973, where he did impressions of James Taylor and other famous musicians.
3. The script was created through sessions where the actors improvised material to fit the characters. There's a lot of talent here!
4. Tony Hendra, who plays manager Ian, was an early staff member and writer on National Lampoon Magazine.
5. "I almost wish this band was real." They are close enough! This film was so popular, they actually toured as Spinal Tap and made a couple of albums. You can actually buy Spinal Tap records.
Hi there . I love this movie.. there are so many famous cameos in it.. also.. they really are a "band" per say
They do have albums out and have performed for live shows . Much love 💕
Hilarious movie! That scene with the Stonehenge gets me every time I end up rolling with laughter.
One of my favorite comedies of all time. I'm SO glad you're reacting to this. 😀
TISP is a masterpiece. Every time I recommend to someone. They are usually hesitant, but all report back to me that it was one of the funniest things they've ever seen.
Great ups.
Japan has been a big concert market for Western bands since the 70's. Some live in Japan albums I own... Deep Purple, UFO, Savatage, Iron Maiden, Queensryche, Skid Row, etc