I agree. They actually give a humorous look at how hard the lifestyle really is. While it all seems really fun and glamorous, it's hard, exhaustive work! I think every kid that is looking to start a band should watch the movie.
I was friends with one of the top guitar/amp techs in the business before he passed away. He worked with Blackmore, Iommi, Springsteen among others. I once asked him how close "Spinal Tap" was to the truth, his reply was "closer than you will ever know!".
I believe 'This is Spinal Tap' to be a perfect film. I would challenge anyone to find something wrong with it. I have played in many bands and there is so much in the film that rings true. It is utterly brilliant!
Thanks for this, I had no idea about lots of this, including Nigel Tufnel day 11-11-11. Line for line and visual gag for gag, IMHO this is spinal tap is the funniest movie of all time. Michael McKean turned out to be an excellent dramatic actor playing Jimmy McGill’s brother Chuck in Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad prequel. I’m old enough to remember him first as Lenny of ‘Lenny and Sqiggy’ in the 1970s sitcom ‘Laverne and Shirley’
And I am old enough to recall when Michael Mckean played Lenny Koznowski on Laverne and Shirley as well as being old enough to know that Rob Riner played Michael Stivic on All In The Family. 😁 Some of the best shows from the 70's imo. 👍🏻🙂
@@kindoe66 thanks, I’m not a Meathead, I just forgot to mention it. Did you know that Eric Cartman on South Park is loosely based on Archie Bunker?. Norman Lear produced and wrote some truly Groundbreaking series back then, mostly spin-offs of All in The Family.
@@batgurrl Lol,oh no I wasn't trying to say you're a meathead, just was adding to the comment about the post. And no I didn't know about the South Park character you mentioned, I dislike that show.
@@kindoe66 I’m sorry I didn’t word it properly. I thoroughly enjoyed your comment but just added in ‘meathead’ to indicate I too watched the show.😂😂Sorry about the misunderstanding. I guess I messed up.☮️😆🤔 I stopped watching South Park decades ago myself, but now you know😆
I saw them perform at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert in 1992. It was only a short one, but a great one. And I was not aware of them being a fictional band, there was nothing amateurish or out of place, they really rocked Wembley stadium hard and good!
The actual phrase is... In response to a question of why don't you just make 10 louder? A pause, a minor amount of confusion and then he responds "but this one goes to 11" completely missing the point of the question
Spinal Tap is definitely a historic band. Nigel is the highest ranked guitarist. Just add David St Hubbins and you have the greatest twin guitar attack. So many anthemic songs children will sing for generations.
The "trapped in a stage prop" incident actually happened to Screaming Lord Sutch, an English musician who basically stole Screamin' Jay Hawkins act. He would emerge out of a coffin. But, one night the crew put it face down rather than up and he couldn't open the lid.
This is spinal tap was funnest movies of 80s. Michael McKean is one of most underrated actors , he has over 200 acting credits he can sing play guitar , piano and harmonica .He can do a very good English , Scottish and Australian accent.
I remember seeing the Spinal Tap movie with an old boyfriend when it first came out. My BF was about 10 years older than me, so had 10 more years of listening to music/going to concerts in the big hair 80s, and we had lots of notes to compare. I can't remember ever laughing so hard at a movie in my life! They really seemed like a _real_ band! And I believe much of the move was AD LIBBED! Ever since then, I cannot watch any other band's music videos, or see a band in concert, without mentally harkening back in some way to Spinal Tap, even through the grunge era and beyond. It is truly one of the most priceless pieces of movie history ever created. I don't know if Rob Reiner and the guys realize the utter brilliance of, and lasting legacy, of that movie. But may Spinal Tap forever live on!
This was really great! Thanks for covering this. I know it's going to age me, but I have "This is Spinal Tap" on VHS. I like watching it once in a while. It still cracks me up!
That’s awesome. The DVD is great too. Nigel, David, and Derek give a running commentary track which is hilarious. The premise is that they hate Marty DiBergi because This Is Spinal Tap was a “hatchet job”, making them look bad.
Last night saw the Band "You Am I" perform a tribute set of just Spinal Tap music...right down to Stone Henge...fantastic...as close as we would get to seeing a Spinal Tap live show!!!
With no clue who these guys were, I joined the Australian Blues Brothers Revival and did a three month tour (81 gigs in 90 days) and learned every reference, and even screamed "Hello Cleveland" when we entered bigger venues. Thanks Styne! Such an education. $0.02
I always thought that it was not just one band that Spinal Tap was doing the parody/spoof on, but was multiple bands. There’s a little bit of the most famous bands in Spinal Tap.
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull has confirmed that some of the events in This Is Spinal Tap were eerily close to things that actually happened to Tull. Anderson also notes the similarity between the name Derek Smalls and Derek Small, a fictional character mentioned in the sleeve notes of the Thick As A Brick and Passion Play albums, and Derek Smalls has been shown smoking on a pipe in poses very similar to mid-70s photos of Anderson smoking a pipe. Harry Shearer told Anderson that this was a coincidence and the just came to his mind. Anderson then asked Shearer if he owned a copy of Thick As A Brick. Shearer hesitated and before confirming that he did.
Spinal Tap - is the Best Band in Rock'N'Roll History! Why? Their music is LOUD! They Revolutionized Rock by going to 11 instead of measly 10!!! Their Stonehenge Saga is unbeatable, epic and very long! I am sure it is still going on... My super heroes! :-)
The only actual Musician in that band. He was an impressive act in Rock, Country or Jazz. A nice guy too, but as Chuck Norris said, "Smoked too much".....
Side note* @ 4:41, in this clip the drummer featured did not die as per the media hype, his real name is Clifford Main and he along with the lead singer, real name Chuck McGill also in this clip, would leave music and each start their own successful law firms in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Black Sabbath was where Stonehenge started, during the Born Again tour. It was so big, they had to rent a stadium just to store it. Same thing, except confusing feet for meters
Nigel's unmarried uncle's longtime friend, a women's haberdasher, taught him to play bouzouki left-handed. Derek Smalls' first band was an RnB outfit called The Stolling Roans. David St. Hubbins did not know what a guitar was prior to Spinal Tap.
Anybody that ever performed on stage has had a 'Spinal Tap Moment'. That's when they are about to perform/are performing and things just keep going horribly wrong. It's become a common expression among musicians, from what I understand.
I am probably going to offend somebody by saying this, James Hetfield gets the all-time 'STM' award. No performer has ever had Anything go so seriously wrong as the pyro accident. Thank heavens he didn't end up a 'green globule' on stage!
@@angusfan1212 Not caused by an accident but I saw the bass player for the Angels a take a half full magnum of champagne in the face from someone in the the crowd. The lead singer saw it coming, ducked, Chris Baily never had a chance.
@@glenchapman3899 Oh yeah, for sure Glen. Two Bands that I think of are STATUS QUO ( Rick Parfitt's Blonde hair ) & JETHRO TULL ( Stonehenge ) Ian Anderson dancing around it, playing his medieval flute.
In Ronnie James Dio’s project Hear ‘n Aid, that features many heavy metal legends, Michael McKean can be seen among the chorus of rock singers, chanting ‘We’re Stars”. I was pleasantly surprised to see him there
YAAAASSS!! And St. Hubbins made the observation that he was glad to meet people like Yngwie J Malmsteen who separated himself from all the other Yngwie Malmsteens out there with that middle initial, J.
The "One Night World Tour" was at Wembley Arena, not Wembley Stadium. They played Wembley Stadium in 1992 for the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert and 2007 for Live Earth. The "One Night World Tour" was June 30th 2009, and they opened for themselves as The Folksmen. It was awesome.
The weird coincidence is that the movie's gag about Stonehenge mirrored a thing that happened to a tour Black Sabbath did around a year prior for their Born Again album. It had a song called Stonehenge, and they wanted a replica of some of the stone monuments for the stage...but someone had misinterpreted the requested foot measurements as meters for the pieces, making all of the pieces roughly nine times too large (45 feet high instead of the 15 it was supposed to be) and unable to be brought on tour. They were only able to use some of it for one show, and they had a dwarf that crawled on top of it, and then a loud baby scream was broadcasted and the dwarf stood up and fell backwards off the replica into a pile of mattresses. (Also, it was actually Sharon Osbourne's dad who designed it and subsequently was responsible for screwing it all up). Principle photography for the movie and the recording of Spinal Tap's song were all already completed before the Sabbath incident even occurred...so it was all a big, weird coincidence.
Exactly. And Christopher Guest was an important member of the Lemmings show which included several if not most of the first Not Ready for Prime Time Players and writers who started SNL. His Positively Wall Street is a brilliant Bob Dylan parody.
Spinal Tap are the musicians band. All of the jokes have happened at some point to every gigging musician on the planet. Gear problems, girlfriend problems, management problems.....they're universal. And the film is still to this day, incredibly funny and true to life.
Inducting to Rock and Roll hall of fame could be the subject of a movie. If the movie is as good as the first it would advertise the Hall of Fame for decades.
I used to tour with an English rock band that was big in the 70s and 80s. Every time we saw a picture of Spinal Tap one of the guys in the band would say, "I don't like those guys. They think they're funny. But they're not funny." I would love to bump into Guest and ask him.
There's an early version of that scene, used as a demo to get funding for the movie as a script wouldn't capture the feel and mood of the movie, dating from 1982. It could also be a coincidence.
Defending the final version of the “Smell the Glove” album cover: “It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none - none more black. REMINDER: This was made 6 years before the Metallica Black album 🤣🤣
Spinal Tap shared the bill with Metallica at a British music festival a few years later - It's documented on Metallica's '2 1/2 years on the road" DVD, and Spinal Tap confront Metallica about where they got the idea for a black album. Check it out, it's hilarious too. Spinal Tap: "Of course, yours sold better than ours. Maybe ours would have sold more if we were allowed to write "Metallica" on it..."
That was based on Floyds Wish you were Here, which the band wanted released in an unmarked black vinyl cover. The label wouldn't play ball, so put a sticker on it.
R.I.P Ric Parnell (aka Mick Shrimpton). Now finally dead in real life, and finally reunited with Spinal Tap's many other not so fortunate deceased drummers.
The only fictional band I ever saw live. They did a gig at CBGB and my NYC friends and I went to see them. Definitely one of England’s loudest bands! They played all album hits from the soundtrack plus “Rock’n’Roll Nightmare” and “Christmas with The Devil.” Great show!
Not a bad video, but I’d argue your facts regarding the origins of the band. They made an appearance on the Lavern&Shirley show as Lenny&The Squigtones way back in the day. The band featured all 3 main members of Spinal Tap and Chris Guests’ name in that band was also Nigel Tufnell.
This is Spinal Tap was completely ad libbed! 14 years ago I saw them in concert in Seattle…imagine the whole line of us before the show finding out the concert was going to be UNWIGGED AND UNPLUGGED!! Nooooooo!!!!
@@petedepledge3359 It was a great night. The Folksmen were superb! "this is by one of your young English Bands" cue Start Me Up! And Spinal Tap, simply immense. A brilliant gig!
They played at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert. Where there amps wouldn't work for about 10 minutes. Had to tell jokes to fill the time before they got them working. The set never made it to the dvd release only the llve broadcast
What do you think about Spinal Tap?
It happens true
Get me out of this Hell Hole 🕳 🔥🥁🎙🎵🎸🤩🤘
Almost as good as the Rutles. A lot better than rip offs Bad News. And they played the Freddie Mercury tribute concert
Mozart 🪬😆💨
One of the greatest masterpieces in cinema and just all around a great experience!!!!!
I know they're a fictional band, but, they deserve to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame!
You beat me to it.
Their songs are actually quite good for that genre
They're actually a band. .been a Ric Parnell fan for a long time.
I agree. They actually give a humorous look at how hard the lifestyle really is. While it all seems really fun and glamorous, it's hard, exhaustive work! I think every kid that is looking to start a band should watch the movie.
If the Dave Clark deserves to be in the Hall, then Spinal Tap should be there too.
I was friends with one of the top guitar/amp techs in the business before he passed away. He worked with Blackmore, Iommi, Springsteen among others. I once asked him how close "Spinal Tap" was to the truth, his reply was "closer than you will ever know!".
My favorite quote: Nigel Tuffnel , nobody plays like him. Nobody even tries .
I believe 'This is Spinal Tap' to be a perfect film. I would challenge anyone to find something wrong with it. I have played in many bands and there is so much in the film that rings true. It is utterly brilliant!
These guys are the real deal as musicians. Perfect casting, perfect movie!
I love that they are a fictional band a real one at the same time, touring and rocking!
Just like The Monkees. 🤣
@@aisforapple2494 they are more real than The Monkees 😆
@@Emi_Alvarez The three Dudes may be Real Actors,
but Ric Parnell was a real musician.
The video appears to overlook that fact.
Thanks for this, I had no idea about lots of this, including Nigel Tufnel day 11-11-11. Line for line and visual gag for gag, IMHO this is spinal tap is the funniest movie of all time. Michael McKean turned out to be an excellent dramatic actor playing Jimmy McGill’s brother Chuck in Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad prequel. I’m old enough to remember him first as Lenny of ‘Lenny and Sqiggy’ in the 1970s sitcom ‘Laverne and Shirley’
And I am old enough to recall when Michael Mckean played Lenny Koznowski on Laverne and Shirley as well as being old enough to know that Rob Riner played Michael Stivic on All In The Family. 😁
Some of the best shows from the 70's imo. 👍🏻🙂
@@kindoe66 thanks, I’m not a Meathead, I just forgot to mention it. Did you know that Eric Cartman on South Park is loosely based on Archie Bunker?. Norman Lear produced and wrote some truly Groundbreaking series back then, mostly spin-offs of All in The Family.
@@batgurrl Lol,oh no I wasn't trying to say you're a meathead, just was adding to the comment about the post.
And no I didn't know about the South Park character you mentioned, I dislike that show.
@@kindoe66 I’m sorry I didn’t word it properly. I thoroughly enjoyed your comment but just added in ‘meathead’ to indicate I too watched the show.😂😂Sorry about the misunderstanding. I guess I messed up.☮️😆🤔 I stopped watching South Park decades ago myself, but now you know😆
@@batgurrl lol it's all good honestly. 😂😁🤣
The in-character commentary on the DVD/Blu Ray is almost funnier than the film itself.
Gotta love how they pop back into character so easy, treating the world like it's always comicon.
I saw them perform at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert in 1992. It was only a short one, but a great one. And I was not aware of them being a fictional band, there was nothing amateurish or out of place, they really rocked Wembley stadium hard and good!
Short and Sweet, you might say.
Yes indeed. Could have done with more of them and less of Elizabeth Taylor…@@doodlebob3758
"Turn it to eleven" is one of the most understood universal phrases out there.
I’ve always thought it was a reference to his 11 fingers in the movie The Princess Bride…
@@tooruoikawa8985 That is an eerie connection, my friend. Another great Reiner flick. Thank you for pointing that out.
The actual phrase is... In response to a question of why don't you just make 10 louder? A pause, a minor amount of confusion and then he responds "but this one goes to 11" completely missing the point of the question
@@sequoia1171 Yes, I know, but that wasn't the point of my comment 😆
"Have a good time...All the time" and "You can't really dust for vomit" are equally as iconic
Spinal Tap is definitely a historic band. Nigel is the highest ranked guitarist. Just add David St Hubbins and you have the greatest twin guitar attack. So many anthemic songs children will sing for generations.
"Lip My Herpes" is a GREAT track.
The "trapped in a stage prop" incident actually happened to Screaming Lord Sutch, an English musician who basically stole Screamin' Jay Hawkins act. He would emerge out of a coffin. But, one night the crew put it face down rather than up and he couldn't open the lid.
I wonder if it was a prank from the stage crew?
Fun Fact: Nigel Tufnel is also credited as the lead vocals on a "Lenny and the Squigtones" record. A Laverne & Shirley spin-off album.
As a guitarist myself I can't begin to tell you how many brands of equipment have incorporated the volume going to 11 joke
"The authorities said about the untold truth of Spinal Tap is 'best leave it unsolved really.'"
Reports of lip herpes outbreak among male members of the band and crew are greatly exaggerated.
This is spinal tap was funnest movies of 80s. Michael McKean is one of most underrated actors , he has over 200 acting credits he can sing play guitar , piano and harmonica .He can do a very good English , Scottish and Australian accent.
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I remember seeing the Spinal Tap movie with an old boyfriend when it first came out. My BF was about 10 years older than me, so had 10 more years of listening to music/going to concerts in the big hair 80s, and we had lots of notes to compare. I can't remember ever laughing so hard at a movie in my life! They really seemed like a _real_ band! And I believe much of the move was AD LIBBED! Ever since then, I cannot watch any other band's music videos, or see a band in concert, without mentally harkening back in some way to Spinal Tap, even through the grunge era and beyond. It is truly one of the most priceless pieces of movie history ever created. I don't know if Rob Reiner and the guys realize the utter brilliance of, and lasting legacy, of that movie. But may Spinal Tap forever live on!
Jekku thats bc they are a REAL band ?
Beautifully said Jekku.
I'm fairly certain that Reiner and all involved in Spinal Tap are aware of the significance of what they've created.
This was really great! Thanks for covering this. I know it's going to age me, but I have "This is Spinal Tap" on VHS. I like watching it once in a while. It still cracks me up!
That’s awesome. The DVD is great too. Nigel, David, and Derek give a running commentary track which is hilarious. The premise is that they hate Marty DiBergi because This Is Spinal Tap was a “hatchet job”, making them look bad.
Last night saw the Band "You Am I" perform a tribute set of just Spinal Tap music...right down to Stone Henge...fantastic...as close as we would get to seeing a Spinal Tap live show!!!
Let's start a movement. Spinal Tap into the Rock Hall of Fame! They deserve to be there. C'MON!!! Let's turn it up to eleven!
Definitely... I mean it is already in the Library of Congress...
Update: Nigel is currently working on an amp volume control which goes all the way up to infinity! This could change music forever. . .
With no clue who these guys were, I joined the Australian Blues Brothers Revival and did a three month tour (81 gigs in 90 days) and learned every reference, and even screamed "Hello Cleveland" when we entered bigger venues. Thanks Styne! Such an education. $0.02
Any trouble finding your way to the stage ?
I always thought that it was not just one band that Spinal Tap was doing the parody/spoof on, but was multiple bands. There’s a little bit of the most famous bands in Spinal Tap.
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull has confirmed that some of the events in This Is Spinal Tap were eerily close to things that actually happened to Tull. Anderson also notes the similarity between the name Derek Smalls and Derek Small, a fictional character mentioned in the sleeve notes of the Thick As A Brick and Passion Play albums, and Derek Smalls has been shown smoking on a pipe in poses very similar to mid-70s photos of Anderson smoking a pipe.
Harry Shearer told Anderson that this was a coincidence and the just came to his mind. Anderson then asked Shearer if he owned a copy of Thick As A Brick. Shearer hesitated and before confirming that he did.
Spinal Tap - is the Best Band in Rock'N'Roll History! Why? Their music is LOUD! They Revolutionized Rock by going to 11 instead of measly 10!!! Their Stonehenge Saga is unbeatable, epic and very long! I am sure it is still going on... My super heroes! :-)
Hi from Sacramento! My fav band and movie
No joke but when I was in university for audio engineering. My xtra credit question on my final exam was “what’s higher then 10?”
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Rest in peace Ric Parnell. Spinal tap drummer died in Missoula Montana last week.
The only actual Musician in that band.
He was an impressive act in Rock, Country or Jazz.
A nice guy too, but as Chuck Norris said,
"Smoked too much".....
@@danielhutchinson6604 so, his own vomit this time
rip
@@zimriel Marlboro last time I saw Him outdoors.
...how could I leave this... behind?!?
Wow!! I never would have thought that Chuck McGill from Better Call Saul was in Spinal Tap.
Nigel played on the Lenny and Squiggy album. Geez that's a mouthful.
“They were so bad the crowd were still booing when we came on”
Side note* @ 4:41, in this clip the drummer featured did not die as per the media hype, his real name is Clifford Main and he along with the lead singer, real name Chuck McGill also in this clip, would leave music and each start their own successful law firms in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Please can you leave the conspiracy theories alone lol
Black Sabbath was where Stonehenge started, during the Born Again tour. It was so big, they had to rent a stadium just to store it. Same thing, except confusing feet for meters
Nigel's unmarried uncle's longtime friend, a women's haberdasher, taught him to play bouzouki left-handed. Derek Smalls' first band was an RnB outfit called The Stolling Roans. David St. Hubbins did not know what a guitar was prior to Spinal Tap.
Oh Man, I was smiling and chuckling all the way thru this.
"You're a naughty one, Saucy Jack "
If you go to their website it announces that their Unstoppable Force tour has been canceled.
I hope Spinal Tap live forever - 40 years later they are still hilarious! Rock & Roll! 😂🤣🤘🏻🎸
One of my all time favorites!!
The fact the Spinal Tap hasn't even been nominated for the Rock Hall is entirely criminal. I blame Jann Wenner.
Wenner met with Tufnel and St. Hubbins but he now has aggressive lip herpes.
Anybody that ever performed on stage has had a 'Spinal Tap Moment'. That's when they are about to perform/are performing and things just keep going horribly wrong. It's become a common expression among musicians, from what I understand.
Exactly - People trying to guess who the band is based on are better discussing which bands they are not based on lol - It would be a shorter list.
exactly ive had stuff fall over, blow up and even the state police show up flashing badges
I am probably going to offend somebody by saying this, James Hetfield gets the all-time 'STM' award. No performer has ever had Anything go so seriously wrong as the pyro accident. Thank heavens he didn't end up a 'green globule' on stage!
@@angusfan1212 Not caused by an accident but I saw the bass player for the Angels a take a half full magnum of champagne in the face from someone in the the crowd. The lead singer saw it coming, ducked, Chris Baily never had a chance.
@@glenchapman3899 Oh yeah, for sure Glen.
Two Bands that I think of are STATUS QUO ( Rick Parfitt's Blonde hair ) & JETHRO TULL ( Stonehenge ) Ian Anderson dancing around it, playing his medieval flute.
"How many times have I told you! It's Spinal Tap, *then* Puppet Show! (Nigel pointing up at the marquee)
Its amazing how Rob Reiner went from Tap to Shindler's List. So talented
In Ronnie James Dio’s project Hear ‘n Aid, that features many heavy metal legends, Michael McKean can be seen among the chorus of rock singers, chanting ‘We’re Stars”. I was pleasantly surprised to see him there
YAAAASSS!!
And St. Hubbins made the observation that he was glad to meet people like Yngwie J Malmsteen who separated himself from all the other Yngwie Malmsteens out there with that middle initial, J.
“Spinal Tap fills a much needed void in British music.”
Well someone had to step up once Led Zeppelin broke up
Christopher Guest broke character when he heard the 2 word review of the Shark Sandwich album, Shit Sandwich
Where did they print that?
@@BronsonTheCat It's in the film, when Marty lists off the reviews Tap's albums got over the years.
I never knew this! Link us in the film where this occur.
The "One Night World Tour" was at Wembley Arena, not Wembley Stadium. They played Wembley Stadium in 1992 for the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert and 2007 for Live Earth. The "One Night World Tour" was June 30th 2009, and they opened for themselves as The Folksmen. It was awesome.
Warmer than hell !!! A classic !!!
I saw Spinal Tap in concert at The Greek Theater in Los Angeles in 2001. Their opening act was The Folksmen(A Mighty Wind).
The band that inspired Guest HAS to be Sweet. And if he says different, he is lying.
The moment he describes SCREAMS Steve Priest.
Soundgarden's cover of Big Bottoms hit me like a train the first time I heard it. You can also hear the Spinal Tap influence in the song Big Dumb Sex.
One of the best movies, documentaries, dare I say, rockumentaries, ever….
Saw the UK Premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1984.
I love Spinal Tap, both the band and the movies!
Absolutely LOVE Spinal Tap🥰❤️❣️❣️❣️❣️
You're not in a real touring band until you have a Spinal Tap moment on the road.
The weird coincidence is that the movie's gag about Stonehenge mirrored a thing that happened to a tour Black Sabbath did around a year prior for their Born Again album. It had a song called Stonehenge, and they wanted a replica of some of the stone monuments for the stage...but someone had misinterpreted the requested foot measurements as meters for the pieces, making all of the pieces roughly nine times too large (45 feet high instead of the 15 it was supposed to be) and unable to be brought on tour. They were only able to use some of it for one show, and they had a dwarf that crawled on top of it, and then a loud baby scream was broadcasted and the dwarf stood up and fell backwards off the replica into a pile of mattresses. (Also, it was actually Sharon Osbourne's dad who designed it and subsequently was responsible for screwing it all up).
Principle photography for the movie and the recording of Spinal Tap's song were all already completed before the Sabbath incident even occurred...so it was all a big, weird coincidence.
One of my favorite movies.
Harry Shearer was a a member of the original cast of Saturday Night Live as a writer
Exactly. And Christopher Guest was an important member of the Lemmings show which included several if not most of the first Not Ready for Prime Time Players and writers who started SNL. His Positively Wall Street is a brilliant Bob Dylan parody.
They toured the world, and elsewhere
HELL YEAH!!! Great video!
Spinal Tap are the musicians band. All of the jokes have happened at some point to every gigging musician on the planet. Gear problems, girlfriend problems, management problems.....they're universal.
And the film is still to this day, incredibly funny and true to life.
Inducting to Rock and Roll hall of fame could be the subject of a movie. If the movie is as good as the first it would advertise the Hall of Fame for decades.
I used to tour with an English rock band that was big in the 70s and 80s. Every time we saw a picture of Spinal Tap one of the guys in the band would say, "I don't like those guys. They think they're funny. But they're not funny." I would love to bump into Guest and ask him.
They are a pastiche of several bands including Saxon and Iron Maiden.
The scene were Nigel plays guitar with a violin is from led Zeppelin
@@anthonyscully2998 Oh sure! Led Zeppelin is definitely in there...
A lot of Black Sabbath and KISS too
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 yes there is a little bit of all seventies hard rockers
Or they are a pistachio and are just nuts.
I know who the band was that argued about their bass.
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho was their drummer.
Welcome to Costco
I love you.
It was the British rock band Saxon that he got the idea from after listening to them check in..
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I played in a pretty popular band in the 80’s and toured with some big names and yes we got lost under the stage in Louisville Kentucky!
I’ve set my life to “11” ever since.
The tiny stonehenge was inspired by Black Sabbath taking a stonehenge stage prop on tour that was *too large* for most of the venues they played.
There's an early version of that scene, used as a demo to get funding for the movie as a script wouldn't capture the feel and mood of the movie, dating from 1982.
It could also be a coincidence.
Defending the final version of the “Smell the Glove” album cover: “It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none - none more black.
REMINDER: This was made 6 years before the Metallica Black album 🤣🤣
Spinal Tap shared the bill with Metallica at a British music festival a few years later - It's documented on Metallica's '2 1/2 years on the road" DVD, and Spinal Tap confront Metallica about where they got the idea for a black album. Check it out, it's hilarious too. Spinal Tap: "Of course, yours sold better than ours. Maybe ours would have sold more if we were allowed to write "Metallica" on it..."
@@afloydianslip8613 LOL
That was based on Floyds Wish you were Here, which the band wanted released in an unmarked black vinyl cover. The label wouldn't play ball, so put a sticker on it.
@@afloydianslip8613 what!? Holy crap that's amazing! Lmaoo Going to find it now. thanks!!
@@LonesomeTwin oh wow didn't know that! Thanks!
My ex sister in law thought it was a genuine documentary.. love the film !
Nothing fictional from the beginning! That is why. Truly legit...Fan since 1984.
R.I.P Ric Parnell (aka Mick Shrimpton).
Now finally dead in real life, and finally reunited with Spinal Tap's many other not so fortunate deceased drummers.
We miss him in Missoula Montana. Tis where he made his final stand for the last twenty years.
Bizarre gardening accident?
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Nah. He just got sick and old. He didn't have Keith Richards level medical care
Round TWO in the works!!! 40 years later. Can't wait!
"There's such a fine line between stupid and clever." 😅
That first part....sounds like Chris Squire and YES.
I always tell people my fave film is “This Is Spinal Tap”, though it troubles me that I don’t know whether to file it under T or S.
The only fictional band I ever saw live. They did a gig at CBGB and my NYC friends and I went to see them. Definitely one of England’s loudest bands! They played all album hits from the soundtrack plus “Rock’n’Roll Nightmare” and “Christmas with The Devil.” Great show!
Best band ever! Wonder how many drummers they've gone through now?
Not a bad video, but I’d argue your facts regarding the origins of the band.
They made an appearance on the Lavern&Shirley show as Lenny&The Squigtones way back in the day.
The band featured all 3 main members of Spinal Tap and Chris Guests’ name in that band was also Nigel Tufnell.
"You can't really Dust" for vomit. RIP Eric "Stumpy" Joe
Test in peace Mick Shrimpton (R. J. Parnell of Atomic Rooster)
Rest not test. Damn iphone
Spontaneous combustion 🤣🤣
@@thedonofthsht76-58 it’s not as uncommon as you think 😆
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I see a likeness to the glam rockers sweet, and in an interview with Iron Maiden I heard them say things that were said in Spinal tap
One of my favourite films ever, they even had Meatloaf as a roadie. Keep it turned up to 11 :)
This is Spinal Tap was completely ad libbed!
14 years ago I saw them in concert in Seattle…imagine the whole line of us before the show finding out the concert was going to be UNWIGGED AND UNPLUGGED!! Nooooooo!!!!
I always thought Spinal Tap was inspired by the band The Sweet.
"He was so bad, they were still booing when we came onstage"
“Have... a good... time... all the time. That's my philosophy, Marty.” - Viv Savage.
I absolutely love Break Like The Wind!
Christopher Cross….eat your heart out! Spinal Tap Breaks Like The Wind!
HELLO CLEVELAND!!!!!!!!
1:25 Reiner as Wolfman Jack 3:03 Nigel Tufnel with guitar legend Les Paul on Dennis Miller show
Rob Halford in his autobiohraphy writes he thinks the movie contains many Judas Priest anecdotes. But he also adds many other bands think the same.
The One Night Only World Tour was at Wembley Arena, not Wembley Stadium.
Supported by the folksmen. Awesome gig.
Goodnight Wimbledon!
@@petedepledge3359 It was a great night. The Folksmen were superb! "this is by one of your young English Bands" cue Start Me Up! And Spinal Tap, simply immense.
A brilliant gig!
1:58 - The Midnight Special was a television show that was on for many years, and that was hosted by famous radio DJ Wolfman Jack.
Should be in the rock and roll hall of fame!!!
"This piece is called Lick My Love Pump"
Played in such a melancholic key
They played at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert. Where there amps wouldn't work for about 10 minutes. Had to tell jokes to fill the time before they got them working. The set never made it to the dvd release only the llve broadcast
While that unknown band may have been the initial inspiration, the band and movie are based on multiple bands.
If you look at my profile pic you can guess how I felt about this. Thanks Grundge, rock on! \m/,