Christopher Guest shares the real-life inspiration for Spinal Tap
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Christopher Guest was at The A.V. Club’s comedy festival earlier this month to take part in The Modern School Of Film live-event series. Toward the end of the event, a curious audience member wanted to know if any of Guest’s previous work was autobiographical. Guest was happy to oblige and told the story of the real-life hotel lobby encounter that inspired the fictional band Spinal Tap.
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Christopher's British accent is one of the best I've ever heard an American do
He's really nailed the dim-witted British boy like no one else.
Perhaps it’s because of this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Haden-Guest
English father.
@@mattjackson9859 lmao I can't believe I never noticed that before 😂
He is very gifted at that. And it's a particular struggle many "more serious" actors. Goes both ways too; lots of great British actors don't speak convincing Yank. Granted, it's a downgrade for them, but still ...
Every tour I've ever done, there wasn't a single gig-not a single one-where there wasn't at least one directly relevant reference to Spinal Tap. They covered the entire spectrum.
I loved the girlfriend that wants to manage the band and ends up on stage stereotype the best.
Made a rule over 30 years ago to never play in a outfit where there was a relationship between anyone!!!!
@@ix-Xafra Which is why it's an absolute miracle Fleetwood Mac completed Rumours like they did. Not that they didn't have problems after, but it's just astonishing they finished it at all.
@@rollomaughfling380 I remember an interview with Lindsay Buckingham, where he said they had to "take our feelings about each other, and put them in a corner, so we could get on with finishing the album".
@@rollomaughfling380 what were the issues? Of course I know band...but i never knew their backstory....whats the 5 dollar tour story?
Did you get stuck under the stage and couldn't find the entrance/exit?
"This is Spinal Tap" is my 11th favorite film of all time.
I can't like your comment because it has 11 likes
Why don’t you just make 10 the highest and call it the 10th best movie?
Henri Spaan ........................but this list goes to 11
It's one better than The Song Remains the Same
True story: If you go to the IMDB page for that movie, the score is out of a possible *11* instead of the usual 10. Check it out: www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/
His cockney accent is *so good* (from a lifelong Londoner)
he's a Baron though and member of the lord's chamber right ?
When I was young we lived next to a woman who was from London, I presume. She had a loverly lilt of an accent. Her brother once visited and he was pure cockney and I could not for the life of me tell what the hell he was saying. It barely sounded English.
Thomas Dupont He was, but the Lords with inherited titles don’t serve anymore. But he is the 5th Baron Hayden-Guest.
Oh Ok, thank you for the info ( i don't know much about these topics), I saw on wikipedia his family was pretty interesting though, that aristocratic uncle who died in the Spanish civil war for example....
@@SvenTviking From what I remember when the decision was made that hereditary lords could not serve in the House of Lords, 90 Lords were allowed to. IMHO total bollocks to do that.
How does this guy not have an Oscar…?
I turned the volume on this interview up to 11.
I instinctively turned up the volume on my phone when I read this lol
Why not just have it go up to 10 & make that setting louder?
@@thesouthernerwithadhd2710 ...This interview goes up to 11.
HAAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHHAHHHHAHAHA
😆😆😆😆
Always tell my guitar students that D Minor is the saddest key of all time. I can never tell them why.
Because it makes people weep, instantly.
@@206Vin what I meant to say is I can't tell them the title of the song! Lick my love pump. Lmao
@@bobbyfikesmusicfun just tell them it's a song that is a combination of Bach and Mozart
@@grouchocatman true!
It's a Mach piece.
He turned the delivery of this answer into a brilliant piece of improv comedy, just by the use of his voice and impeccable timing. He’s as great a performer as he is a writer.
you realise hes told that story probably 100s of times in interviews before, right?
@@timothy790110 and it's hilarious every time.
Yeah, it’s a funny story well told. But the furthest thing from improv.
Were there that many crickets that they needed a laugh track? Crings.
Thank you. That’s all I was trying to say and this nimwit that’s responding to me is an idiot.
"I don't think I've ever been happier - except for the night I met my wife."
Well-played, Mr. Guest. Well-played.
Especially if you know who his wife is. ;)
Indeed.
Bloody brilliant! He’s comparing the birth of a million dollar idea to the night he met the love of his life. Without that chance encounter, many of us might not otherwise know Chris Guest.
Jamie Lee Curtis
@@thoso1973
Best rack in Hollywood ever.
Trading Places is a classic.
There is an interview where Harry Scheer admits to taking some of the moves of the bassist of Saxon. He claimed to have hung out with them at a few of their shows. And the Saxon dude told him “whenever you’re playing an open string note with your right hand, make sure to pump your LEFT fist in the air!’ Which, if you watch, Derek Smalls did a lot. They even had the same moustache.
I always thought Nigel's passive arrogance was inspired by Ritchie blackmore
@@WhereThereDude There is nothing passive about Blackmore's arrogance, lol.
@@hansgrueber8169 got me there ! lol
Hard to believe when you can't even spell the name right
@@WhereThereDude , the passive arrogance, plus the look, come straight from Jeff Beck!
He way he 'nails' Nigel Tufnel's english accent gets me every time...fucking brilliant!! :)
When you find someone who doesn’t know Spinal Tap, tell them it’s a legit rockumentary and watch with them. It’s twice as funny!
Actually a friend of mine who went and saw the movie when it first came out thought it was a legit rockumentary and walked out annoyed after 15 minutes. Later he learned it was a parody and returned to see it and loved it.
I watched it with my wife a few months ago; she'd never seen it or even heard of it before, so I let her have it cold.
Nearly an hour in :
"This isn't real, is it?"
@@handpaper6871 Funny. I introduced it to a female friend of mind and we watched it together. I told her it was a parody but she still didn't laugh which annoyed me.
Are you the scottish lad that does guitar tuition on Ewetube Ross Cambell?
First time I heard of it was a segment on something like Entertainment Tonight, and I was a little kid and it totally came off like a real band to me. Then I saw a clip of them on SNL doing an extra-loud-and-heavy version of "Big Bottom" and was really puzzled, trying to imagine what the audience for this music must be like.
This guy is instantly likeable. Great delivery of a story.
Christopher Guest is actually such a cool dude for giving such a long, insightful and entertaining answer to the relatively short question. He could've totally been like "nah, nothing autobiographical." But he really goes the extra mile and adds so much and leaves everyone entertained. class act.
An interviewer's dream. Understanding that there is an audience who went out of their way to hear what you think, and then delivering, is classy and considerate.
His eyes smiling at the end when he mentions his wife is simply the best.
His wife is Jamie Leigh Curtis, which is why he's smiling.
That's what makes a christopher guest satire so clever. The wealth of absurdity without ever leaving the realm of reality.
Has there EVER been a performance more worthy of an Oscar than Christopher in Spinal Tap?
“....this one’s called ‘suck my love pump’..” 🤣
Yeah I have a contender, Richard E Grant in Withnail and I.
Like Spinal Tap, Withnail and I gets funnier the more you watch it and although both are cult films Spinal Tap is more cultish for its classic one liners. Both films are a study of British self eccentricity. Withnail is more subtle in some respects but I would give both films 10 out of 10. Both do everything I want a movie ie never know what is going to happen next, mentally stimulating, never boring, interesting storyline, well made and humour that takes thinking to realize fully.
I think many of us have had drunken/drugged up weekends away in our 20s and Withnail nails the sweaty 'horror' others see.
Yes, Val Kilmer in Tombstone, and Denzel Washington in Malcolm X.
Yes.
@Atlantis Rising yes 👍 thanks for the correction. That’s kind of embarrassing, but it’s been a few years since I’ve actually watched spinal tap 😁
Jon Anderson of Yes told a story about going to see Spinal Tap and laughing himself silly because he saw so many things that had already occurred in his career.
I remember Rick Wakeman talking about how the bit where the third clam never opened up actually happened to them too
Mobus Dorphin hands down my favorite scene in the movie lol
I think it’s great and a testimonial to Jon’s humor and humility that he could laugh at all of it- I hear they offended so many others who couldn’t watch it and took themselves way too seriously
Genesis tells the story about The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, and they had four screens behind them to tell the story of the lamb, but they only ever came close to working on about four occasions. That, and a drunk naked roadie running across the stage.
There's also a behind-the-scenes video of Yes making their 1977 record Going for the One that has this whole *ridiculous* band meeting about their stage look and costuming for their upcoming tour that used to make the VHS nerd underground rounds back in the early '80s. I think one of the guys may have seen it and maybe passed it around because about 10-12 years ago, I'd shown it to my writing partner on CZcams, had a great laugh, and a few weeks later, my partner asked for the link because Mckean (could have been Shearer) wanted to see it again. I may a couple of the details wrong, but if you see the original Yes band meeting video, it's just a riot on its own.
It's 1977, and Yes are going up against a punk rock backlash to prog, new wave at large is rearing its head in a meaningful way, and Yes' manager is talking about adapting, getting smart, coordinated modern outfits, and you have Steve countering about how on the previous tour he had this shiny leotard with big sleeves and cuts down the sides allowing him plenty of freedom of movement . . . I love Yes dearly, but this is a maybe 10-15 minute segment that is absolutely Spinal Tap in a shot glass.
Guest has give us so much laughter. He’s a gift.
An amp that goes to 11 and 6 finger hands That would be a guitar legend!
Especially if he used one of those Ibanez 7-string guitars!
The one scene that cracks me up every time. When they get lost trying to find the stage . They run into the same guy twice 🤣
That actually happened to real rock bands and artists. The Stonehenge joke is also directly inspired from a Black Sabbath concert set piece that was made too large and couldn't enter the stage as planned.
Getting lost backstage, that's happened to so many bands in real life!😂
Guest has said that Nigel Tufnel's hair was molded after Jeff Beck's hair.
not just his hair but his whole face.
I was convinced Nigel Tufnel and Jeff Beck are the same person since 1984
Apparently Jeff Beck burst out laughing in the cinema when he first saw Nigel. Just must have seen something familiar
And the accent. Listen to an old 70s Jeff Beck interview.
I thought he looked like JB as well.
too funny!! this guy is an absolute legend.
Great save there at the end! Man, I could sit in front of Christopher Guest, with my legs crossed like a child, turn the volume up to 11, and listen to him tell stories all day long!
My girlfriend bought tickets to see Spinal Tap at The Beacon Theater in N.Y.C. Still one of the best shows I've seen. The show started with them coming down from the ceiling suspended by cables. Of course Derek's got stuck and he was left swinging 5 feet off the floor. He timed his swings perfectly and was at the mic to sing the chorus to "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You" and then swing back. They got him down at the end of the song. I remember seeing giant Marshall amps that had to be 20 feet tall lining the back. I haven't checked to see if that show ended up on you tube....I guess I will now.
I was there too.Remember the fleet of gold limos behind the Beacon?
I think I was at that show. They opened for themselves as The Folksmen
I'm jealous, that would have been awesome to see.👍👍
@@devitorules That was not the show I saw. At least I don't remember them coming out as the Folksmen.
@@johnnyd63
I didn't go around back. I did meet Kurt Loader from MTV .
I remember chatting with Tommy Lee ( Motley Crue ) at a back stage party some 30 yrs ago. He said he went to the premier of Spinal Tap with Herman Rarebell ( Scorpions ) and Herman was super pissed and wanted to leave within minutes. He was convinced the movie was mocking his band. Tommy convinced him to stay, but Herman was fuming the whole time and didn't laugh once during the show. However, if you go take a look at Saxon's Let Me Rock...very Tap-ish. Nigel-Beck does make sense too.
I always felt the Scorpions were one of the prime targets for Spinal Tap but I still dig them. I saw the Blackout tour when they opened for Iron Maiden. They rocked!
I've been mini-binging on Spinal Tap clips on CZcams.....my wife, who has never seen the movie, was actually laughing!!!
Stephen Jones
So it became a comedy number.
Have you heard the DVD commentary? It's all three of them in character, bitching about the movie, tearing every scene apart, and complaining about how Marty DiBergi shafted them. It's like watching a whole new film. It's fucking exquisite.
Stephen Jones I've cracked up watching it in a bar, with no subtitles, no sound, and stone sober :)
Break like the wind! I didn't get that as a kid...
As a fan of tap, and an archaeologist, I smirk whenever I here the word "Stonehenge". Also the guys have amazing English accents!
the little children of Stone'enge...
Can’t tell how many times when noodling about on my guitar, trying to compose a rock riff . I inevitably end up wandering right intro to ; Tonight We’re gonna Rock You Tonight .
Dah dah, dah DUH duh, duh dah dah duh dah duh duh...
(neener neener neener neener!!!)
I😙😙😙💋💋❤Chris Guest. He is a comic genius! I especially love Best in Show. That is a movie that deserves a full sequel.
For me, it's 'Waiting For Guffman'.
When Rob Reiner is suggesting he make the highest number 10 and make that the loudest for the amp that goes to 11, the long pause Chris gives before answering is golden! "It goes to eleven, don't it?"
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@@omnipop4936 he really got to emote in that. He felt a lot of love for the character, I think.
And I fell permanently and irretrievably in love with one Parker Posey.
@@devodavis6747 Would you want to meet her at a Starbucks, or at the one across the street?
Amazed by the authenticity of their accents.
wow i never realized that he was The Six Fingered Man until just now
Great save at the end by mentioning the wife.
The best English accent by an American.......My understanding was the band whose image they used was Saxon.
Clem Fandango Christopher Guest's family up to his father were in the house of lords in England. His accent is good cause it's his dads
His father was British and he shared time between the states and Britain growing up so he should be able to pull off either accent.
He is aristocracy in Britain, his wife, Jamie Lee Curtis, is Lady Haden Guest.
www.imdb.com/name/nm0551346/ Kills it on Buffy.
Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango
Spinal Tap is the greatest band that never was... They are just as integral to rock n roll as any other rocker out there. We must cherish the time we have left.
Who doesn't get a thrill listening to "The bigger the cushion, the harder the pushin'?"
Hmmm.....the Rutles give them a run for the money....
Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, KISS, Slipknot, DEVO, New York Dolls, and more, are all fantastic stage characters and no matter their rank, Spinal Tap is just as valid in rock history.
I must have watched this clip 100 times. I love it!
Every time I play a gig with my band I always go to the stage shouting "ROCK N ROLL! ROCK N ROLL!"
Not "HELLO, CLEVELAND!"…?
This is pure gold.
It's always interesting to see how many people will reject an artist's explanation of his work in favor of their own. People really want things to be what _they_ see, not what it actually is or isn't.
You're welcome, but this is hardly a YT phenomenon. I've seen it pretty much all my life. People just tend to be arrogant when it comes to things like this.
Umm, no.
Nah that's Bufter!
This is like a fundamental question in the arts for a hundred years. My view has is that a piece of work simply IS, regardless of anyone's intent. The audience and the artist have equal claim to meaning.
We are all just creating our lives so why not make ourselves the star!
He was also great during his time on SNL
"YOU! YOU! Iknow you, I know you!"
Watching this I realized that I never really knew what Guest's actual voice sounded like. His roll in A Mighty Wind is probably the closest.
According to Chris Slade, lately of AC/DC, the bass player who left his bass at the airport was Colin Pattenden of Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
So, the inspiration for the Tap was the band that did "The Mighty Quinn" and "Blinded By The Light"…?
😮 I’m shocked - I always assumed it was Grand Funk Railroad.
@@JamesDavidWalley That was Manfred Mann. Manfred Mann's Earth Band was heavier.
I've seen it stated in other places that Guest has said the band was the Sweet, although I've not seen an actual interview where he says that. I would have guessed it might have been the band UFO, who was a good second tier British band with a slightly wonked out bass player, Pete Way. It's easy to picture this incident happening to him and UFO...
What an amazing improv comedian. One of the greatest. Hilarious story!
He is the best! Spinal Tap is one of my favorites and I even saw them live in their. Break Like The Wind tour…it was amazing!!!
This guy's Brit accent is amazing. I grew up with people who talk like that. The only Brit I can think of who does a flawless Yank accent in return is Charlie Hunnan in 'Sons of Anarchy'. I didn't know who he was when I started watching and was amazed to find out he was British. Some others you can tell, even the lauded ones
Charlie lost himself so completely to his American accent that he had a tough time figuring out how to talk for some time. There were articles complaining about his speech in the sword-slinger movie he did after SOA, and I remember him talking about it.
Hugh Laurie does an astonishing American accent as well.
I was shocked to learn that abt Charlie. Also Damian Lewis in Billionions and the actress who plays Beth in Yellowstone. Changing accents amazes me.
Henry Cavill is pretty good, too...
Both Daniel Day-Lewis and Christian Bale have always impressed me with their American accents since their natural Irish and Welsh accents are so strong when their NOT in character.
2:16 "except for the night I met my wife " for those who don't know, Christopher is married to Jamie Lee Curtis
I didn't know that.
Was watching Trading Places last night, I'd be fucking ecstatic the night I met her too!
@@mkeysou812 there's definitely solid reasoning behind giving her the nickname "The Body"!
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........sigh.
I could listen to this man for hours. What a wonderful comedian.
Nigel’s voice and mannerisms is based off of Pete Way of UFO. Unmistakable.
Dee Snyder called Pete the ‘Arthur’ of Rock & Roll
You nailed it.
christopher guest is one of the very few Americans who can do an English accent...then again his Dad was English...
simon lloyd renee zellweger, bill hader, chris d' elia, fred armisen....
@@GUITARTIME2024 Fred Armisen's isn't that good, sorry. I love him, but he's nowhere near as close as Guest.
Julianne Moore has given a few very good English accents.
He grew up partially in England
yes, you would expect the fifth Baron Heyden Guest to do a good English accent. Its a fine line
Such a pro, answering questions with A PROJECTOR SHINING DIRECTLY INTO HIS EYES!!! Whoelever set this stage needs to be fired.
Probably an ex tap technician.
Oh! Bless him ❤
Love this, years back my 1st band we would usually sound check with the song "big bottom" other bands would crack Up. Great fun plus people are still using the quotes from the film
No way Nigel Tufnel is not based on Jeff Beck ....good Lord! They're twin brothers !
That had never dawned on me until this morning. I was watching the Siskel and Ebert movie review and that's the first time it hit me.
In one scene he's reading a hot rod magazine.... 100 percent it's Jeff Beck
I always thought he looked like Steve Howe as well
Regardless of what Christopher Guest says, Nigel Tufnel is based on Jeff Beck.
Its actually the other way around.
Maybe some Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore is a asshole and a extremely nasty individual based a lot of accounts and stories that have come out from his former bandmates. Nigel i cant pin point who the inspiration could be it could be a amalgamation of all sorts or just him trying to play some jackass. Jeff beck has never been that guy on a rock star trip
@@PolyQuasi Well you can look at Nige and ask how much Blackmore but the answer is none. None Blackmore.
FYI, Nigel the serious musician can't be based on Jeff Beck. Jeff Beck is actually part of a comedy act! See: czcams.com/video/Ne-SMy83qk0/video.html
One of the greats.
im so happy he lightened up a bit.
Spinal Tap Moment-I was the lead singer in a rock band with a guy who was a good drummer, but had a huge ego. In the middle of our set he asked who in the audience (this is at an Iowa bar with about 25 people who came to see us, mind you) would like an autographed drum stick from the drummer? No one replied. Then, started telling me during the show I was too loud. Yes, a drummer. So we went outside during break and beat the hell out of each other on Main Street. The bar caught it on video and threatened to call the cops. We finished and got the hell out of there. But we finished. Another time I showed up for a gig and they replaced me. I was 30 and being replaced by the bass players friend who was in his mid 70's. They didn't tell me. So I was forced out and the very next day I got on the phone and cancelled the remainder of the 15 gigs I had booked for us. You can imagine their surprise when they came to do shows and had been cancelled.
Yeah, Spinal Tap moments are generally funny. Also, how shite a guitarist were you that you got bumped by a geriatric?
After seeing "This is Spinal Tap" I was convinced that Uriah Heap was the template for the band.
I had a friend who toured with UH
decades ago and the stories he told about that band were hilarious.
It could be them. Uriah Heep was a touring band in 1974.
Nigel Tufnel was based on Jeff Beck
Right before he said he had never been happier, I envisioned him watching them, experiencing true joy, yet, no hint of a smile.
Absolutely brilliant
I always thought he sounded like he was doing an impression of Jeff Beck with a bit of Steve Marriott mixed in.
Athough "This Is Spinal Tap" was directed by Rob Reiner, Guest obviously learned a great deal about movie making from it: hire the best people and get out of their way!
I think I read something with Guest saying that he liked to set up the scene for the actors - what he wants to happen in the scene, maybe a few ideas, and leaves a lot of it up to the actors and their characters. The actors really have to be able to improvise and still stay true to their characters, so I'd think he knows the actors very very well.
So brilliant. Superb accent...
Thank you!
Decades ago I read that the Scorpions 🦂 went to a movie theater to see Spinal Tap. They left halfway through the film because they were mad and depressed thinking the film was about them
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That would be a weird conclusion to draw, since they clearly imitated a British band and Scorpions is German. 😆
@@thoso1973 That's true but I've heard so many bands say that they have had their "Spinal Tap" moments. Maybe the Scorpions thought they had one too many.
The thing about improvisation acting is that you get results that people will find familiar, as it's based on real life and real characters one met. Plus (and this is also a very huge one) there is the lesser known fact that ALL humans have a overlapping sub conciousness that we all share, where all our memories and experiences are available for study through the lens of imagination.
reminds me of a bass player we had, he could jam when his bass wasn't at the pawn shop, looking back on it i wish i would have had more compassion for him, he was a very good bass player but had a lot of money troubles.
As someone who's entire grown up (kinda) career has been touring with bands i can truly say that Spinal Tap is an absolutely true documentary of road life and band behavior. Scouts honor. Especially the bread.
Come on Chris, you know as well as I do that you owe everything to Bufter 😂😂😂
Black Sabbath actually made a life sized trilithon for the Born Again tour that turned out to be too large for the vast majority of venues they played in on that tour.
I saw that tour , the pieces on the stage were enormous. . I brought my camera , yea those pictures are in box somewhere in the basement . I was 20 at the time .
@@835g Dig 'em out & post 'em!!
@@835g Saw it too!
There's a YT video where Ian Gillan recounts the Stonehenge incident. It's titled ... "The Stonehenge Connection - Black Sabbath and Spinal Tap"
This guy is a good story-teller.
What an answer! Legend.
intravenous De Milo and Shark Sandwich are landmark metal albums. Thanks Tap!
You just gonna diss Smell The Glove like that?? SMDH.
Stonehenge was endanger of being trampled by a couple dwarfs ! lmao
in danger
Being squashed
Making a big thing of it was the idea.
Tristram Coffin but he’s not as confused as nigel. It’s not his job to be as confused as nigel.
....NO we're not gonna faaakin do Stonehenge!
Brilliant man, there.
If I meet someone and they love spinal tap they are instantly a friend .
September 15, 1974: Gary Thain (bassist for Uriah Heep) is severely injured at a show at Moody Coliseum in Dallas Texas. He allegedly suffers electric shock and burns. (Mr. Thain also has a serious drug habit at the time, as documented by a lot of reports.)
The next scheduled gig on the '74 Heep Tour? Los Angeles, CA...later cancelled.
It was rock n' roll. Now go figure.
One thing I loved about the movie Shakespeare in Love was the way it showed how a genius draws inspiration from just hearing random things on the street. If Christopher did nothing else in his career (and Best in Show is not nothing), his immortality still would have been assured simply by being there to witness the English band checking in at the hotel, processing what he saw and heard, and then pushing the idea to the outer limits.
Harlan Pepper, if you don't stop naming nuts!
Barry Gibb got the opening percussion sound in Jive Talkin from driving over a bridge in Miami. This sort of inspiration is around on a daily basis. Some are better at perception than others. You are so right about Guest.
Well, now we know it was a British band that visited L.A. in 1974.
That narrows it down to about 350-400 bands.
Amazing story!
They got everything by observation and real life, I mean you know how many drummers spontaneously combust every year????
I can't like this because there are four thumbs up already, and speaking as a Drummer that's the end of the count-in so we should be about ready to ... [spontaneously combusts]
Oh, only about three or four at most.
I have heard that dozens of people spontaneously combust each year; it's just not really widely reported.
The first time I watched Spinal Tap I watched it with my sister and we knew little about it and we were stoned. I thought it was real the first time😂 Definitely believed that there were some hair metal bands that were fathomably that ridiculous!
As ridiculous as some people thought they looked, they made some great hard rock/metal. Those were the peak, very best years for the genre.
It was aimed at pre-hair bands. Led Zeppelin. Deep Purple. Etc.
Apparently at the premier of the film in London, Iron Maiden walked out because they thought it was about them and Judas Priest didn't understand how it was supposed to be funny. It was so much like their reality at the time
I loved Judas Priest back then and always will, but I saw Spinal Tap and a Priest interview after and they were pretty close. It can really be modeled after any or most rock/metal band that tend to go to 11.
In the 80's there were metal bands that were every bit as ridiculous as Spinal Tap!
This guy is a true gem.
I've attended 16 Iron Maiden concerts over the past 40 years, and several times Bruce Dickinson has greeted the audience with 'Hello Cleveland!" regardless of the city we were in, which was never Cleveland. Well played, Bruce!
Rescued himself right at the end.
I like the story better when he includes the punch line:
"Well, go back and get it!"
"What, *me* ?"
They're coming back!
What a wholesome way to end that bit. Man I really want to know who that band was.
The Stonehenge stage bit had to be lifted from Black Sabbath's Ian Gillan fronted "Born Again" tour. They literally had a full Stonhenge set with a little glowing eyed devil druid. (At least how I remember it)
My money for the band he saw in the Los Angeles hotel lobby in 1974 is on Black Sabbath on their 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' tour and that would make the bassist who was the inspiration for Tufnell - Geezer Butler.
I was gonna say he was talking about Geezer Butler in the hotel!
I remember reading somewhere about Geezer “losing” a bass while on
tour in the States.
Cat Hat But he's doing a cockney accent and Geezer has a brummie (Birmingham) accent.
yeah, could be, they were certainly in Cali in ‘74, and all 4 guys were dumb as boxes of rocks, so I could see the conversation going on 15 minutes.
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I wish he could play that Spinal Tap character again. Maybe he could be the manager of his child's band in a new movie.
10000000 times yes
Great story!!!!!
The band he's talking about was The Sweet.
Nice try there, little Willy. Why don't you just go home?
@@JeffBoen 😏
@@JeffBoen Uh, Little Willy won't go home. You can't push Willy cause Willy won't go.
Or was it Slade?
Figuring you're joking.
But, ...are you joking?
I can't say his name. I believe he is still alive.
He was, is extremely successful. Intelligent. Had worked in Theatre.
Actually had worked with some Oscar winners.
I worked for this guy in the late 80's.
At that time movie rental was big. I ran into this gentleman at the end of the day.
"How you doing?"
Good, you headed home?
"After I rent a movie, what's that?"
This is a great movie, you want to borrow it?
"Yes, thanks. You saved me a trip to the rental store.......?"
He brought the movie back the next day.
"This was horrible, really, Stupid Movie."
He and his wife had started to watch Spinal Tap, never realized it was a satire comedy.
I didn't say a word, beautiful.
I played in a band with a drummer who thought it was for real. Good drummer, complete idiot.
@@pretorious700 I think that's all drummers, at least all good drummers 😎
I would love to meet him and even find out if we can trace our common ancestry.
I found a distant cousin who's an amazing Texas Blues Guitarist, Moses Guest.
Thank you, Baron Haden-Guest.
Derek Smalls seems to be 50% Lemmy Killmeister and 50% Terrace "Geezer" Butler. Christopher Guest was funny as hell portraying Nigel!
Steve Dawson from Saxon is a proovable inspiration. Shearer toured with Saxon in '82.
@@frankirons9337 I heard the same but the Stonehenge scene must have surely been based on Black Sabbath's Born Again tour.
I still haven't heard the part where he says what band..but I always thought it was Uriah Heep!
That would the late Gary Thain I think, if it's 1974.
The BBC interview of Jeff Beck is clearly the inspiration for the “but it goes to 11” scene.
CG is a literal genius of comedy IMO. Still, as creative as he is, I'd really rather him get the gang to do a legit Spinal Tap reunion more than anything else. Them, at their current age, still trying to be relevant... it would be the greatest thing ever.
There is a reunion show here on YT. They did it in 2009. It's a one hour show.