Subby, your headline is.......

This got greenlit?

THank you subby for inadvertently pointing me to the rock-group update of Who's on First...I heard it when I was a kid and was never able to find it.

You try googling words like Who, Yes, Guess Who and see if you can find what you're looking for.

Did they know it went to 11?

Well, you know what they say: the larger the waistband, the deeper the quicksand.

Before it get's changed...check my timestamp:


"Aerosmith and Eddie Van Halen didn't get why "This is Spinal Tap" was funny. when it first came out, and didn't think mini-Stonehenge was funny"

jaylectricity: Before it get's changed...check my timestamp:


"Aerosmith and Eddie Van Halen didn't get why "This is Spinal Tap" was funny. when it first came out, and didn't think mini-Stonehenge was funny"

Haha, I'm retarded. I meant "Before it is get is changed"

Earguy: THank you subby for inadvertently pointing me to the rock-group update of Who's on First...I heard it when I was a kid and was never able to find it.

You try googling words like Who, Yes, Guess Who and see if you can find what you're looking for.

The Band aswell. If you are talking about the Slappy and Skippy bit.

There's a lot of stuff in the original demo that made it into the final film, but a few gems that didn't.

Love the bandmate who went to Namibia and recorded an album called "Does Anyone Here Speak English?"...and the revalation that "Lick My Love Pump" was originally written for clarinet and bass clarinet.

The King is not amused

No mention of National Lampoon's Lemmings? (new window)

Watch all the parts if you've never seen 'em.

Here's some better links, with Christopher Guest doing James Taylor and Dylan (new windows). Bonus John Belushi and Chevy Chase in the band.

mini-Stonehenge is still not funny. there are so many better scenes/jokes in that movie. why that one gets the most attention from mouth breathers is beyond me.

Bill_Wick's_Friend: There's a lot of stuff in the original demo that made it into the final film, but a few gems that didn't.

Love the bandmate who went to Namibia and recorded an album called "Does Anyone Here Speak English?"...and the revalation that "Lick My Love Pump" was originally written for clarinet and bass clarinet.

The commentary track has some great moments too--McKean, Guest, and Shearer are in character throughout. Among the gems are the acknowledgement that Marty tried to join the group onstage with his saxophone ("...God, it sounded like he was tuning a bobcat") and the fact that Janeane wrote a children's book, the title of which is too brilliant to reveal here.

I think the Namibia bit was a parody of Ginger Baker's Nigerian sojourn.

\Tap into Namibia

EVH needs to be laughed at every chance we get

mini-Stonehenge is still not funny


you fail


anything that is in jeopardy of being trampled by a dwarf is funny.

GypsyJoker: The commentary track has some great moments too--McKean, Guest, and Shearer are in character throughout.

That's the MGM dvd release.

The Criterion original has them as themselves.
They also appear in the Sullivan's Travels Criterion dvd commentary.

The guys from Judas Priest said they thought it was a real documentary until someone told them.

FTFA: Eddie Van Halen reportedly watched Tap with a highly amused audience, yet personally didn't find much to laugh at. "Everything in that movie had happened to me," he groused.

So that's why it's funny Eddie. Have a drink and watch it again.

As a life-long theatre/concert tech, I find every bit of that movie to be hilarious, even the parts that hit way too close to home.

I know a few "musicians" who still don't get it, but they're exactly the type of musicians being parodied so I don't really expect them to ever get it.

Most musicians, while talented, are somewhat dumb. EVH, case in point.

Article contains a few mistakes.
From the article:
The film's infamous mini Stonehenge set is rooted in a real incident. When Black Sabbath ordered a Stonehenge set for their Born Again tour, the measurement was mistakenly translated, as Geezer Butler recalls: "The people who made it saw 15 meters instead of 15 feet. It was 45 feet high and it wouldn't fit on any stage anywhere so we just had to leave it the storage area. It cost a fortune to make but there was not a building on earth that you could fit it into."

As it turns out, the Stonehenge scene in the movie was actually shot in 1982 whereas the Black Sabbath tour started in 1983! Black Sabbath had little people around their Stonehenge set as well. It was simply a case of life imitating art. Link to an Interview with Ian Gillan (new window)

lo these many years later i can confess --

i was stunned/dazzled/dazed/confused by my 1st screening of Spinal Tap which remains the most blistering parody of any subject in any medium i've ever seen

no less so for the sound of members of that 1st screening audience biatching on the way out that it had been a "stupid movie" because it was about a band "they'd never heard of"

i've also never admitted to feeling personally wounded to have witnessed that day the utter old-testament-style decimation of my most favorite sacred artform, album-oriented-rock, from which it has never fully recovered ...you bastards!

que sera sera

Earguy: THank you subby for inadvertently pointing me to the rock-group update of Who's on First...I heard it when I was a kid and was never able to find it.

You try googling words like Who, Yes, Guess Who and see if you can find what you're looking for.

THIS.

Greatest.movie.ever. Thanks for the article, subby!

/love that EVH story about how it hit so close to home, he "didn't get it"
//"Hello Sprungfeld!"

i remember reading in a book about the movie [i forget the title of the book, but it was part of a series anyway] that Steven Tyler of Aerosmith didn't think it was funny, because some of the stuff in the movie actually happened to him and/or Aerosmith at some time.

Lumber Jack Off 2008-05-29 03:05:40 AM

mini-Stonehenge is still not funny. there are so many better scenes/jokes in that movie. why that one gets the most attention from mouth breathers is beyond me.

Yes because with a name that refers to masturbation, you are obviously the final authority on all cultural references in todays media and the best judge of what is and is not humor. I also really love the "mouth breather" refrence which shows you for the pompous ass that you are.

DIAF asshat.

Third_Uncle_Eno: i remember reading in a book about the movie [i forget the title of the book, but it was part of a series anyway] that Steven Tyler of Aerosmith didn't think it was funny, because some of the stuff in the movie actually happened to him and/or Aerosmith at some time.

As I recall, Steven Tyler was also singlehandedly kept the Peruvian economy afloat at that point as well, so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for not seeing the humor in the situation.

No pics of Valerie B. or Liv Tyler?

That's, interesting. punctuation; in your headline subby

Margaret DuMont didn't think the Marx Brotehrs were funny either.

Ace Frehley's Ghost: As I recall, Steven Tyler was also singlehandedly kept the Peruvian economy afloat at that point as well, so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for not seeing the humor in the situation.

I dunno, even FUBARed, I wouldn;t say Aerosmith lacks a sense of humor. Weird.

/will buy GH: Aerosmith upos release date

troymccluresf: Ace Frehley's Ghost: As I recall, Steven Tyler was also singlehandedly kept the Peruvian economy afloat at that point as well, so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for not seeing the humor in the situation.

I dunno, even FUBARed, I wouldn;t say Aerosmith lacks a sense of humor. Weird.

Well, I've never done cocaine myself (I was always more of a weed and valium type) but from what I remember of ST's description of his state when he saw the movie it sounds like he was in something of a paranoid state... paranoia is not conducive to teh funnay.

I remember see John Waite "Missing You" saying he was once on tour bus watching Spinal Tap and nobody laughed. It just hit to close to home.

Also Robert Plant was once asked about a Zeppelin reunion in the 80's he replied that he was against it because it would "turn into one of those Spinal Tappy things where one of our girlfriends would end up managing the group"

Another small bit of trivia from the movie. What was the name of their record company? Polymer. What record company distributed the sound track? Polydor.

I always thought it seemed too much like a documantary to be funny.

/same with Dazed And Cunfused.

Crewmannumber6: I always thought it seemed too much like a documantarydocumentary to be funny.

/same with Dazed And Cunfused Confused.

/why can't I proofread anymore?

Lumber Jack Off: mini-Stonehenge is still not funny. there are so many better scenes/jokes in that movie. why that one gets the most attention from mouth breathers is beyond me.

Well, when this mouthbreather saw the Stonehenge thing for the first time one stoned, lazy afternoon in 1986, one of his nads got sucked back up into his taint and stayed there for a couple of weeks.

That's funny, right there. Yessir.

/I wish I could laugh like that again.

Crewmannumber6: same with Dazed And Confused.

Painfull but funny movie. It was as though someone had filmed my childhood and showed all the parts we thought we kept hidden. I also kept thinking things like "Hey, I knew that guy" and "Whoa, I had that exact shirt" every couple of minutes.

Billygoat Gruff: EVH needs to be laughed at every chance we get