Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap

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2009/03/13 16:34:53 (permalink)

Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap

Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/26425682/behind_the_wigs_the_return_of_spinal_tap


This many years later, This Is Spinal Tap still attracts new fans. Is there something eternal about the slapstick that can exist in a rock band?
Shearer: There is something eternal about the striving of the mediocre. You root for them despite your better judgment. There's something timeless about that story.


You could have beaten it into the ground.
Shearer: And we still might.
McKean: Give us time. It's only been 25 years.










just rented and watched "best in show" again, after several years....
just too funny, seeing nigel as a country boy from north carolina, with his bloodhound....

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    auto_da_fe
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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/13 17:21:12 (permalink)
    Mighty Wind was pretty funny too if you like the genre.

    "Its blowin' you and me"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0hyExZ9Dfo

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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/13 23:34:28 (permalink)
    I watched that movie but I had no idea that was Nigel.

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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/15 14:45:24 (permalink)
    There is something eternal about the striving of the mediocre. You root for them despite your better judgment. There's something timeless about that story.

    Isn't that the whole premise behind American Idol?


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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/15 18:58:39 (permalink)
    yea, kinda. but add to it the humiliation, the arrogance and the downright insane, i only ever watch it when they show all the crackers that have no idea how bad they are.

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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/15 19:12:02 (permalink)
    I've never seen a single minute of it, or even a second, AFAIK. Sounds like a freak show. I don't think I could watch that without curling toes.

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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/15 22:39:44 (permalink)
    Dm is the saddest key of all.

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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/16 13:00:05 (permalink)
    I own:

    Spinal Tap
    Waiting for Guffman
    Best In Show
    A Mighty Wind

    Don't own:

    For Your Considerstion

    Also own (as a cst member):
    The Princess Bride
    A Few Good Men

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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/16 13:01:53 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: bapu

    I own:

    Spinal Tap
    Waiting for Guffman
    Best In Show
    A Mighty Wind

    Don't own:

    For Your Considerstion

    Also own (as a cst member):
    The Princess Bride
    A Few Good Men

    Funny, Funny Man.


    I met one of his cast (fairly well known star) and was told that CG really lets his cast improvise (no real script, per se).
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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/17 10:47:57 (permalink)
    i think that one fact (improv) is the strongest part of the whole thing..
    these guys work as a team, so well, but it's the improv where the heart of the thing really is.

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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/17 10:52:58 (permalink)
    Yeah most people don't realize it's mostly unscripted, and in only a few takes. They edit it forever, though.

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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/17 11:17:02 (permalink)
    Big Bottoms - with them all playing basses - what a great song.

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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/18 00:18:27 (permalink)
    I liked everything I heard Tap do.

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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/18 07:24:52 (permalink)
    Listen, to what the flower people say.
    Listen, its getting closer every day.

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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/19 02:08:51 (permalink)
    The girls dancing in the back just put that over the top for me.

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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/21 10:02:25 (permalink)
    AHhhh Spinal tap, couldn't believe this movie when i first saw it many years ago, Just flicking channels on the TV late at night and there it was in all its glory, I thought what in God's name is this. made me laugh for weeks. At first i thought they were serious, but then thought these guys cant be serious. Great movie cant wait to see the next one. cheers
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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/21 13:21:00 (permalink)
    "You're sweet, though you're only four feet
    and you still got your baby teeth.
    You're too young and I'm too well hung
    but tonight I'm gonna rock you..."

    Don't think even Prince could get away with such nasty lyrics...



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    RE: Behind the Wigs: The Return of Spinal Tap 2009/03/21 16:09:40 (permalink)
    Their unwigged tour comes to my city in mid May - alredy bought tickets.

    Guest is not only hilarious, but actually writes quality tunes (depite being parody; there's quality there, especially in the later bits - A Mighty Wind has a couple knockout tunes, for example).

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