I searched for that in netflix, and all I get is little league movies.
No one? No one? Beuller? Beuller?
It was in A Mighty Wind. When Mitch gets off the bus, there is a solemn sounding acoustic guitar on the soundtrack. Playing Lick My Love Pump. Funnily enough, this movie also has Spinal Tap reunited and reinvented.
The guy who plays the keyboardist (who doesn’t actually get to do much besides play) is credited as David Kaff. He’s actually David Kaffinetti, pianist with the '70s prog-rock band Rare Bird.
Ade: My name is Vim Fuego! I let my guitar speak for me! {awful wailing solo}
Rik {sotto voce}: That’s because you’re incoherent most of the time.
With the exception of Bruno Kirby singing like Sinatra in the hotel room in his underwear, right? Right? Please?
Okay, my favorite quote that no one has mentioned:
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: Well, that’s just nitpicking, isn’t it?
Good one.
Best line from a song: “Not a dry seat in the house.”
Saw this at a preview screening at UCLA. Harry Shearer (Derek) spoke afterwards. It attracted a big crowd that knew it was supposed to be a comedy and laughed all the way through. My favorite bit from Shearer’s Q & A:
The biggest challenge in the songwriting was being able to “convey the impression of interminable length in less than a minute”
And now a “life imitates Spinal Tap” trivia question: which real-life rock drummer actually did die in a bizarre gardening accident?
Oh good, nobody’s taken my two favorite lines yet.
“There’s a fine line between stupid and clever.” (or is it the other way around?)
and Derek Smalls’ description of his role in the band:
“We have these two visionary geniuses, who are like fire and ice, and my role in the band is to act as a mediator, sort of like lukewarm water.”
Is it yes.
“The problem, as I see it, is that we had a giant Stonehenge that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.”
IIRC, the drummer for Toto accidentally inhaled a fatal amount of some sort of pesticide while spraying his garden.
I love Nigel’s solo where he uses an entire violin to play his guitar, instead of just the bow (ala Jimmy Page).
Pure genius.
We have a winner! Jeff Porcaro, it was. No word on whether the police said his death was one of those things “best left unsolved”: still my favourite line.
The funniest part is that, in the middle of the solo, he tunes the violin!
Favourite part/quote not yet mentioned - while standing at Elvis’ grave, and trying to sing Heartbreak Hotel. And the comment:
“This puts things in perspective.”
“Yeah, too much fucking perspective”.
Ditto. My roommate had never seen the film and was a bit confused as to what I was laughing about, to say the least. I quickly abandoned my quest to find that one song and watched the whole movie with him.
“We are not going to do a free form jazz exploration in front of a festival crowd!”
On the t-shirt front, I’ve got a Tap tour shirt from their On Tour with Shure gig. My mom accepted it as payment for some web design and gave it to me for my birthday two years ago. It starts more conversations than anything else I own.
Any of you guys ever been to Shank Hall in Milwaukee? They have a Spinal Tap shrine there!
Anything funny that happened must’ve been after I fell asleep.
Oh, you’ve got to see that one. Kirby is crooning away in a hotel room, which is funny enough on it’s own. But then Mckean comes around the corner and just falls over laughing. IIRC, he even falls out of character and tries to say something in his normal voice. They never told him what was going on, just sent him into the room for his reaction.