Thanks for this. We saw Spinal Tap at The Warfield in San Francisco. They played everything; did the Guitar Solo, Nigel hitting the strings with ping pong balls while the other two were shown on monitors leaving, getting a facial and having dinner to return to the stage at the end, Stonehenge, etc....our faces hurt from laughing so much.
you are so lucky and im so jealous. im not sure how much, if any was scripted, but jeebus, how quick witted are they,,and to stay in caractar ,amazing. too much perspective !
took me this long to realize "king tut's tomb" was a tribute to the big comedy hit song of the 70s before Tap, Steve Martin's King Tut. Steve's playing music now.. funky tut paved the way!
They stayed in character but when David St. Hubbins told Nigel that meeting him was his no. 1 moment in Rock 'n' Roll, Christopher Guest had to laugh sincerely. I love that moment. 🥰 21:21
How am I just finding out about this now?! Right around this time that this aired, I was in high school and my friends and I were OBSESSED with Spinal Tap. We even dressed up as the members for Halloween and nobody knew who we were but that was ok in our book. I would've loved to have seen this back in the day!
Wow - Derek Smalls! AKA Harry Shearer. I saw his wife perform a very small but very wonderful event in rural Illinois - USA. She was very funny - as much as Derek - but she had her own too. She's from Wales.
Of course King "Tut" belongs on this list. Dude had the 14th biggest hit of 1978. Also rumored to have had an incestuous relationship and dude changed his name. Dropped Nigel off the front. Total rock star move(s), if you ask Jerry Lee Lewis. Tut channeled into Steve Martin and dropped his own name into the lyrics way before any hip hop artists or rapster thought to do it. Dude's a pop culture icon. Yeah,thats it.
Freak accident. Drumstick bounced off his snare and shot straight thru his eyeball socket. Man, it was so hot, it sizzled for just a sec! Now there's a 40 odd year old band called "Mac". Mick Fleetwood's a God! Smiles
@@MRTHEOZONER This account of Mick's demise is probably correct. Of course, there's a conspiracy theory that suggests that he didn't actually die on this occasion, but retrieved the drumstick from his eyeball socket and ate it. He continued with the soundcheck, only needing one drumstick throughout the Tap's version of 'The Chain'. Then he left for a Vindaloo curry or two and was finally seen off by a Led Zeppelin falling from the sky.
He had a drug overdose but came back from the dead. Being inspired by this awakening experience, he wrote the lyrics to their hit song, "Kickstart My Shaft".
Nigel just views all of history (recorded & unrecorded) as being the history of rock 'n' roll, because rock 'n' roll is everything to him. He's just more advanced than everyone else, so that's why he looks like the dumbest...
