“Well it certainly puts things in perspective…”
“Too much! Too much fucking perspective!”
In a deleted scene set in a hot tub, Nigel reveals that David used to bring home sailors, much to Davids embarrassment.
I’ve always liked that the volume sliders on the various BBC websites, iPlayer etc all go up to 11.
Marty DiBergi: “This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.”
Nigel Tufnel: That’s just nitpicking, isn’t it?
This is my favorite line,it is far from nitpicking, which is why I love it.
We hope you like our new direction.
Hey, that’s nothing… in 2007 they had “every bass player in the known universe” on stage for the song: Spinal Tap at Live Earth
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy nod there, I think.
Or is it the other way around?
IIRC it’s in the DVD commentary, although I can’t remember the specific scene.
I think it’s funny that a 35-post thread from 2003 has three contributors who were later banned.
Maybe not such a good idea to be turning things up to 11. 
Well, you know dozens of people spontaneously combust each year…
The mods felt that they were cases best left unsolved…
I also like that those three actors were also the Folksmen in A Mighty Winds. A talented group of guys. I believe they wrote the music for that as well.
I saw this film at a preview sponsored by KY-102, a local rock station. I was in the front row and (I swear this is true) the rest of the audience appeared to be unaware that it was a comedy. They apparently just thought it was a documentary about a rock band they kind of thought they knew, but hey - free tickets!
So I’m laughing my head off, the situation made ten times funnier because so many of these people didn’t get the jokes! When the discussion about the fates of the various drummers was happening, I was laughing so hard I had to run out to the lobby to resume breathing.
Oh, and every musician I’ve ever met knows this movie. The “11” scene is so funny not because of the line, but the cow-like expression on his face as he utterly fails to understand “Why not just make 10 louder?”
A favorite scene of mine. I love that they can’t quite agree on a key for singing at Elvis’s graveside.
If you have a chance, check out Unwigged and Unplugged Live, a fun evening with Guest, McKean and Shearer playing all their “hits”.
I’ve been so deep in discussions of climate change (and xkcd’s recent treatment of same), I thought this thread might’ve been resurrected because of a reference in xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline .
Look at 2200 BCE.
Thanks! I’ll look for it.
Some critics didn’t realize that the movie was fiction, and criticized Rob Reiner for making a full-length movie about a band nobody had ever heard of. THAT to me is true art. 
I first saw it on opening weekend, and our city’s reviewer said only that one of their drummers died “in a manner too revolting to relate.” I never heard an audience howl that loudly, when they said “it was someone else’s vomit that he choked on”, again until I saw “About Schmidt” on opening weekend and also didn’t know about the full-frontal nude scene featuring
Kathy Bates
My brother worked at the theater, so I got in free, and within a week or so, they were seeing senior citizens at that movie, because they wanted to find out if the movie really was as funny as everyone said it was.
On a very tragic note, I have not been able to watch the movie since Tony Hendra’s daughter made very credible accusations that he had molested her. :eek: He’s the blond guy who played their manager, Ian Faith.
Most people don’t remember that This is Spinal Tap wasn’t a big success at the movies and back in the 80s cult video releases were few and far between. Mostly when I mentioned it to people, having seen it at the movies, they had never heard of it and that was the end of it. No internet, no downloads, no streaming not even trailers.
Much later it appeared on video but plenty of people never knew what it was. One Saturday evening a while later I was strolling through the local huge video store looking for something to borrow. I spotted a group of long haired high school age “slackers” looking through the live music videos. And there was This Is Spinal Tap. I asked had they seen it and they replied that they didn’t even know the band. The case gave no hint of the pleasures within. I told them it would make them legends if they took it back to their waiting friends, got really stoned and watched it. A brief recounting of Stumpy Joe’s death had them convinced. I suggested that they not let on that it was a spoof documentary and let their friends work it out.
One of the next few Saturdays I bumped into them again and they rushed up to me like a long lost elderly uncle to recount tales of the night they and their friends discovered a classic they had no idea existed. Information was at a premium in those days.
Fear Of A Black Hat (1993) a fantastic double-feature suggestion very much in the same vein, also has a tragic amount of attrition…