I may have mentioned this story here before, I tell it every time the topic of Spinal Tap comes up.
It’s the early 90’s, and I am having a water cooler discussion (remember those) with a co-worker about who is telling me about the previous night’s “Tonight Show”.
Him: The band Spinal Tap was on it
Me: I love Spinal Tap! Sorry I missed it.
Him: I had never heard of them
Me: You’ve never seen the movie? I think you would really like it.
Him: Uh, I don’t think so. Last night they said the director did a real hatchet job on them
Me: They aren’t really a band…
Him: Yes they are, they played a couple of songs
Me: well, yeah they actually can play, but its a fictitious band for the movie…
Him: No, the movie is a documentary
Me: It’s a parody of a documentary , the guitarist is Christopher Guess from SNL, the singer is Lenny from Laverne and Shirley
Him: huh?
It went back and forth like this for a while. While the mockumentary is a well established genre now, at the time he just couldn’t wrap his head around the concept. (and he was a guy who actually had a good sense of humor, IMO)
@DrWorm
I got the DVD and the out-takes are like six hours of them riffing on the concept; I guess the movie itself was just selected from this embarrassment of riches.
I swear I thought I was only remaining Spinal Tap fan.
I saw them in concert, live, twice. Once as Spinal Tap, once as the actors, billed as “Unwigged and Unplugged”. They even did a Q&A with the audience. It was great both times.
Almost entirely unrelated: I was at a forest preserve this spring that had (I think) dry-erase signs for events/rented shelters, and someone brought a marker and wrote
PUPPET SHOW
SPINAL TAP
on one. It was amazing. I’m still sorry I didn’t take a picture.
I’ve already ordered mine.
https://www.amazon.com/Copernicus-This-Spinal-Tachion-Packing/dp/B003L2H18I/
@blaineg I like the description of length as “over 2000 vertebrae”
This is awesome. I love Spinal Tap.
I may have mentioned this story here before, I tell it every time the topic of Spinal Tap comes up.
It’s the early 90’s, and I am having a water cooler discussion (remember those) with a co-worker about who is telling me about the previous night’s “Tonight Show”.
Him: The band Spinal Tap was on it
Me: I love Spinal Tap! Sorry I missed it.
Him: I had never heard of them
Me: You’ve never seen the movie? I think you would really like it.
Him: Uh, I don’t think so. Last night they said the director did a real hatchet job on them
Me: They aren’t really a band…
Him: Yes they are, they played a couple of songs
Me: well, yeah they actually can play, but its a fictitious band for the movie…
Him: No, the movie is a documentary
Me: It’s a parody of a documentary , the guitarist is Christopher Guess from SNL, the singer is Lenny from Laverne and Shirley
Him: huh?
It went back and forth like this for a while. While the mockumentary is a well established genre now, at the time he just couldn’t wrap his head around the concept. (and he was a guy who actually had a good sense of humor, IMO)
POPSOCKETS! SPROCKETS! DAVY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
@DrWorm
I got the DVD and the out-takes are like six hours of them riffing on the concept; I guess the movie itself was just selected from this embarrassment of riches.
@DrWorm Have you thought about trying out to be their drummer? I understand they need one…
@DrWorm on a similar note, i gave up trying to convince my in-laws that Best In Show was not a real documentary.
The answers to the questions are hilarious.
Hey carl669 they are measuring tape length in horses in the comments,
I swear I thought I was only remaining Spinal Tap fan.
I saw them in concert, live, twice. Once as Spinal Tap, once as the actors, billed as “Unwigged and Unplugged”. They even did a Q&A with the audience. It was great both times.
I even did this shirt design not to long ago…
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/this-beer-goes-to-11z
@ACraigL Was that the show where they did performances of both Spinal Tap and The Folksmen (from “A Mighty Wind”)? No shows were anywhere near me.
@DrWorm Yes! And even combined a few, doing a folksy version of Sex Farm, very barbershop, very funny.
So is this what you use to fix your case holding your axe when it starts to break from all the wear and tear of touring and doing gigs?
I have so many questions:
Is it Heavy Duty?
Will it seal a Big Bottom?
If I listened to the Flower People, will they gimme some money to buy it?
Is Amazon the only place to get this, or can I get a roll the next time I visit a sex farm?
Will they ship to Cleveland?
@JT954, they’ll ship it… but it’ll never get there.
@JT954 it’ll get 11% of the way to Cleveland.
@JT954 I don’t know. What are the hours?
Almost entirely unrelated: I was at a forest preserve this spring that had (I think) dry-erase signs for events/rented shelters, and someone brought a marker and wrote
PUPPET SHOW
SPINAL TAP
on one. It was amazing. I’m still sorry I didn’t take a picture.
Apparently it is on sale, too. $8 vs $10.
“There’s a fine line between clever, and stupid.”
I saw them open for themselves as The Folksmen in New York. Brilliant!