Haha, it’s true! That’s awesome! Hahahaha!

I think they call that retro-scripting. I know some tv shows that were designed like that; like Home Movies and Dr Katz.

Alice Cooper once said, "There were too many things going on there. Little things, that just a writer wouldn't know about. Somebody talked".

I remember hearing somewhere that the late, lamented Eddie Van Halen cried watching this.

Lenny Kravitz banned this movie from his tour bus because how accurate it was.

Many bands loved it too, also many of the incidents were based on things that happened to bands

I agree, best comedy ever made. If you haven't already then check out the band audio commentary on the DVD/BluRay release, just as funny as the movie itself.

@@1977Suspiria No lie......you just gave me an idea for something to put on my Christmas list. in the words of ZZ Top, "And I thank you."..... TIST was one of the few movies that I saw in the theater before very much was known about it. Needless to say, it is now difficult to imagine a world where Spinal Tap never existed. This movie was so influential and appreciated by countless musicians, metal or otherwise.

I was fortunate to see Guest, McKean and Shearer in concert as themselves, where they performed Tap songs, and Mighty Wind songs and told hilarious stories. McKean’s beautiful wife, and brilliant actress in her own right, Annette O’Toole came out and performed Kiss at the End of the Rainbow with him, which she co-wrote.

@@ronbock8291 Oh I didn't know he was married to Annette O'Toole. That concert sounds awesome. Sorry I missed it.

There's also a third album from 2012 - "Back From the Dead"

Spinal Tap performed on Saturday Night Live multiple times. First heard " Big Bottoms " on that show. Three bass guitars to enhance that bottom sound. What a hoot.

That makes that one episode of the Simpsons where Bart and Milhouse went to see them in concert all the more hilarious.

On the movie's IMDb page the rating is on a scale that goes to 11. :)

The BBCi player volume control goes up to 11.

BTW, for a brief while I sold shoes at Macy's Herald Sq, and did in-fact sell "quality footwear" to Michael "David St. Hubbins" McKeon.

Have you watched the 4 hour workprint ?

@@EarthdogGFX Excerpts, not the whole thing, but thanks for the reminder!

Michael McKean (David St. Hubbins) was a cow f**ker in Boston Legal.

Came here to say all the same things! Nicely done!

Look for Lenny and the Squigtones on Dick Clark, it’s on KZfaq someplace. It’s when Christopher Guest debuted his Nigel Tufnel character.

Did you ever see David Gilmore on stage with Spinal Tap playing Big Bottom?

@@nellgwenn No, but that's hysterical. Spinal Tap is really an entity unto themselves in every sense, but I always said if they sounded like ANYBODY it was a cross between Floyd and Van Halen (or Poison maybe).

Soundgarden covered Big Bottom at some of their live gigs, you can search for a vid on here. It's quite surreal seeing the late, great Chris Cornell singing about mud flaps, but they transform the song into an incredibly heavy headbanger, it's really quite something.

In this case you are still waiting.

I'm not sure they recognized it was a film.

They didn't realise it was British humor done by Americans.

They’re too young to recognize most of them.

Another fun fact, the quick cut as soon as Nigel tells him the piece was called lick my love pump is because Rob Reiner just burst out laughing

I like to think that the "Lick my love pump" is a Mozart reference to his song "Leck mich im arsch".

There’s a piece of poop sliding out of my poop hot pocket as we speak boys and here’s an update through the wormholes of the internet as this shitstorm unfolds

Can you blame them? After all, "Mime is money"...

I think they never caught on and they think Spinal Tap is real.🤣 Was a great reaction anyway. Christopher Guest is married to actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

Finally I found the Comment I was looking for!!!!

Anjelica Huston was the Stonehenge designer, Patrick Macnee from The Avengers is one of the industry people at the party in the beginning, Paul Benedict from The Jeffersons was the hotel front desk man.

Holy shit, I never knew it was Billy and Dana. It's hard to see them with all that makeup.

I was going to suggest the Anvil story, too.

His fingers go to 11 👋🖐☝️

and an English Lord- the Marquis of Hayden Guest.

And their album from 2012 - "Back From the Dead"

There's actually a video somewhere on KZfaq of Spinal Tap's drummer auditions

Airheads cameo.. Lemmy

Yo that's pretty cool lol

Everything's folded.....

Elton John (wouldn't you know) claimed to have had a similar freak-out re backstage catering - "when the bread won't fit on the cheese"

His fingers? They go to eleven.

@@notabritperse 𝘩𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘩𝘢 that's brilliant! 😹

Ooo I haven't seen for your consideration. Mighty have to try and hunt it down.

Also from Christopher Guest, Waitinng for Guffman

more recently, he plays Chuck in Better Call Saul

A lot of it wasn’t pickiness. Van Halen used to ask for one colour of M&M’s not because they wanted one colour but to see whether the venue would actually read the rider & would do what they were told to do, as they had lots of pyros & effects & they knew that if the venue was so sloppy that they couldn’t even do the rider properly they probably couldn’t be trusted with the more important stuff like making sure the safety was on point. It was about seeing how professional the venue was.

Some bands have those just to be sure the riders were actually read. (Or what Nathan posted while I was typing)

I've seen the 'behind the scenes' myself both as a musician and sound engineer and never demanded odd stuff. I know from other larger bands that they sometimes had a reason for this though. One said that he asked for a quite rare honey type. If the organizer actually tried to do this less relevant task, the odds of the rest being well organized were higher. So this was an extra way to test organizers. I preferred some quiet before going onstage but never needed to ask. A band member preferred specific simple food to have some routine in different places. Though funny enough, a few times organizers did something extra without us asking just because they assumed :P

Its been decades most people know those aren't demande per se. They put those to check if people in charge even bother to read the real and neccesary demands

It wasn't just about pyros and the obviously dangerous stuff. I remember seeing in some documentary that in some venues the stage structures might not even take the weight of all the gear or the electrics might not be up to task. (Can't remember which band, though.) When you get down to it, on a stage with just the sort of necessary equipment, it literally weighs a ton and uses loads of power, etc. So, before they even set up or unpacked their gear and did all the work, they could go to the backstage and simply see whether the candy bowl contains a specific colour or not, etc. Instead of then spending time arguing with the venue manager, or whoever, whether the structures can support all the weight and whether it's all proper, etc., you know, technical stuff that would be a hassle to get into and difficult to prove, they could just point at the simple, obvious breach of contract and cancel the gig before they had to do all the work for nothing or work in dangerous situations and invite a crowd of people in there.

Bill Crystal and Dana Carvey!

Kramer from Seinfeld is helping unloading the truck in the beginning.

@@jmuduke99 and Angelica Huston as the woman who designed Stonehenge.

I don’t think they recognized it as a comedy.

@@johnmoreland6089 I was going to say, was it just me or did it seem like this one went over their heads?

😂😂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

The bass player actor is Harry Shearer, and along with an incredible comedic history on public radio he’s regularly done the voices for half a dozen characters on The Simpson series since its beginning.

@@gsparkman He was also Handsome Dan in Wayne's World.

To be fair, Prince did it before either of them.

I could be remembering wrong, but I thought Prince did his in 1987 or so. Spinal Tap was 1984.

@@timprice5747 Prince did his in the very early 1980s. I believe either 1980 or 1981. I know he recorded it before his 1999 album and that was released in 1982. It's possible it might have been 1978 or 1979 but I think it is more likely to be early 80s. 1987 was when Prince did his Sign of the Times album. Also Prince's Black Album was never officially released so it is possible 1987 may have been when the bootlegs of it started to surface but it was recorded long before then.

Rob Reiner directed this. Guest did direct the others.

@@elizabethmuhleisen357 yes correct. My bad.

Waiting for Guffman is my favorite, too.

The outtakes are brilliant. Especially the stuff about Derek's divorce.

I don't think they knew that was rob Reiner.

these guys think they were real rofl

" Best in Show " for the win.

😂😂

I always thought the name Fufkin was a nod to Martin Scorsese from the movie The King of Comedy where Robert De Niro plays Rupert Pupkin.