What is the worst concert/performance you've ever seen live?

@VilleHalonen

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure I've ever seen bad-bad-bad ones (apart from some high school bands), but when I finally saw The Smashing Pumpkins in 2000 or so, they'd entered a phase in their music which left me so unsatisfied that I just stopped listening to the band for almost 20 years.

@LornWandrr

Жыл бұрын

TIAMAT, some 5-7 yrs ago. The band was trying their best but Johan Edlund was absolutely shitfaced on booze, drugs and/or medication and didn't even seem to know where he was. I cried in disappointment.

@mraustinworking

Жыл бұрын

So, not exactly the question, but back in the day when I was in a band, we got a last minute show one night that was supposedly at a bar, but it was a little early in the evening, like 6pm. That was kinda weird, but we were trying to play as much as humanly possible, so we happily loaded up our massive drum kit, two half-stack guitar rigs, and a full bass rig, and went on our merry way to the gig. Turns out, the "bar" was actually a restaurant, who thought they were hiring a tasteful, folky acoustic duo to make pleasant background music for their guests, instead of an alarmingly loud metal band. SOMEHOW they even let us set up and start sound checking before they politely kicked us out 😂

@mclane2112

Жыл бұрын

Motley Crue a couple of years ago, I went for the openers and didn't make it halfway through the crue

@VilleHalonen

Жыл бұрын

@@mraustinworking Quite a Spinal Tap kind of story!

Christopher Guest is Jamie Lee Curtis's husband and has done some brilliant mockumentories, especially , Waiting for Guffman ( based on a small town musical) Best in Show ( based on a dog show) and A Mighty Wind ( based on a folk tribute concert) All well worth a look 😊😊😊

@jksgameshelf3378

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, they would absolutely love Chris' films, especially "Best in Show" (Simone will lose her mind over all the dogs in that one) and "Waiting for Guffman". And they all start Canadian comedy legends Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara, so, win-win!

@garyneedham3961

Жыл бұрын

Christopher Guest is also Lord Hayden Guest. He went to the House of Lords with Jamie Lee Curtis as Lady Hayden Guest. The House Of Lords has now been reformed, so they probably won't let them back in.

@professionaljackass

Жыл бұрын

@@garyneedham3961 Guest was also the 6-fingered man in "The Princess Bride" and was the doctor in "A Few Good Men."

@rhinehold4268

Жыл бұрын

One of the great things about A Mighty Wind is that the three Spinal Tap leads all play in a 60's folk band together during the movie. All of the Christopher Guest mockumentaries are worth it, especially Might Wind and Best in Show.

@williamburnham3659

Жыл бұрын

@@rhinehold4268 well said 👏 👍

I have NEVER seen George laugh that hard and that many times. This movie is just a masterpiece.

@johnbernhardtsen3008

Жыл бұрын

me neither, his hardest laugh was justifiable though, when the dwarfs danced around the miniscule Stonehenge!

@michaelsegriff3362

Жыл бұрын

It’s always interesting to see what hits George’s funny bone, as opposed to what strikes Simone’s.

@BuccWylde

Жыл бұрын

Watch his reaction to Tropic Thunder.

@Dylan_Platt

9 ай бұрын

@@johnbernhardtsen3008 you're absolutely right. It's the best gag in the movie.

"It's not a big college town" is one of the funniest lines in the whole thing and it's a total throwaway, few people notice it.

@melenatorr

Жыл бұрын

And it's also one of the early warning signs to us that the band is going downhill - all the little seeds are so skillfully and subtly planted that you don't really notice first time watching. But on re-watches, it becomes more and more clear. By the time we're at the "Where are they now" moment, I'm really feeling for them.

@dr.juerdotitsgo5119

Жыл бұрын

"We toured the world and elsewhere"

@SenorPlaid

8 ай бұрын

What's the difference between golf and miniature golf? The walls.

@dani-ell-ah

3 ай бұрын

I like Derek's line that always seems to slip under the radar as well. When theyre discussing the Stonehenge prop being too small and Ian tells the guys it's no big deal and they're making too much of big a thing about it and Derek goes 'making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea'

The DVD commentary track for this movie was amazing, all the actors were in character the entire time which was amazing when they got to the metal detector part. "Why was it wrapped in tin foil?" "Well you have to keep it fresh!"

@donsample1002

Жыл бұрын

And they still think 11 is louder.

@ronsonroll

Жыл бұрын

I remember years ago see a TV spot for the Film in the style of those time life ads...lines like "not available in any shops, or over the phone".

@ThePorpoisepower

Жыл бұрын

Pastel black really

@nooneinparticular1491

Жыл бұрын

"If Viv could play that [the metal detector tone] he'd still be in the band."

@M4EOzzy

4 ай бұрын

It's like space without the stars.@@ThePorpoisepower

Yes, "it turns up to eleven" started with this film, and yes, some manufacturers have run with that gag. I've got a distortion pedal where the dials go to 11 :)

You need to look around, these guys dedication to a bit is just epic, they do full interviews and have done shows and such all totally in character, all of them are just legend tier comedians.

@ThePorpoisepower

Жыл бұрын

When they showed up for Metallica's Black Album...

@ghosthead84

Жыл бұрын

The fact they do the commentary track and other special features for the DVD in character is amazing, such a great listen.

@TomVCunningham

Жыл бұрын

Actually, due to some legal issues, if they don't appear in character every few years, they lose the rights to these characters.

@l34CoNCreepy

Жыл бұрын

@@ghosthead84 the part when they are at fran dreschers party, there is a 3d style painting on the wall Nigel - "i tried to climb into that painting thinking it was a portal of some sort" the commentary is great. they slowly realize the movie is taking the piss

@fubar1217

Жыл бұрын

@@ghosthead84 “Pastel black”. LOL

The Stonehenge fiasco actually happened to Black Sabbath in 1983, but instead of being too small, it was grossly oversized due to feet being mistaken for meters. It was way too big to bring all of it into most venues. What they did manage to get onstage was so large it cramped the band to the front. To make matters worse, management also decided to hire a dwarf and put him in a devil costume (the latest album, "Born Again", had a poorly-designed picture of a devil baby on the cover, earning its place in several "Worst album covers" lists). They had him crawl around on top of the Stonehenge piece like a baby, then stand up and fall off, backwards, then the band start playing.

@stutallis5673

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure I remember something about a real band getting lost backstage too, might have been KISS but i'm not sure

@NGC6144

Жыл бұрын

@@stutallis5673 I think many bands thought the movie was about them in some way because this stuff happens to all of them. I read Jon Anderson of Yes told his bandmates at the time to see this movie because it's about them. Ozzy Osbourne didn't find it that funny because it was too realistic.

@nkfd4688

Жыл бұрын

This would explain that bit they did on the Simpsons when Spın̈al Tap played in Springfield. They had this huge inflated devil hanging over their stage, but it couldn't remain inflated and it started drooping over the drummer 😆

@ndogg20

Жыл бұрын

@@NGC6144 So Ozzy was upset because it was too realistic. Spinal Tap is to old arena rockers what Saving Private Ryan is to WWII vets.

@NGC6144

Жыл бұрын

@@ndogg20 Not at all. When Spinal Tap came out in 84, Ozzy was in the midst of his earlier solo career, around the time of Bark at the Moon.

The bulk of this movie is improvised. It's truly one of the funniest movies ever made. Pure brilliance.

Spinal Tap was on a Simpsons episode as well, and I believe they lost another drummer there. Fun fact: When Reiner approached Mark Knopfler (of Dire Straits fame) to score the Princess Bride, Knopfler agreed to do it only on the condition that the hat Reiner wore in Spinal Tap appeared in the movie somewhere. Hint: It's in Fred Savage's room.

@moisie23

Жыл бұрын

Mark Knopfler is also in a bbc radio documentary with spinal tap talking bout their history ms how they inspired him. I think (part of) it is still on KZread.

Christopher Guest makes a series of amazing mocumentaries, Best in Show is a great one.

@Hapsard

Жыл бұрын

A Mighty Wind was another that included the three from Spinal Tap as a folk band.

@jculver1674

Жыл бұрын

Yes, they HAVE to do Best In Show now, it's hilarious.

@JL-1123

Жыл бұрын

Best In Show and Waiting For Guffman are two of my all-time favorites, absolute masterpieces.

@facts2741

Жыл бұрын

I prefer "Waiting for Guffman", but really can't go wrong with any of the stuff he did with Catherine O'Hara.

@bm1554

Жыл бұрын

Best in Show is so funny, and Eugene Levy/Catherine O'Hara is such a classic comedy pairing

The "Hello Cleveland!" bit actually happened to Dee Snider from the band Twisted Sister" a few years after this movie came out. He got separated from the band and got lost trying to find the stage. When he finally found the sign marked STAGE ENTRANCE, he ran out on stage, arms raised, ready to rock... to nobody. It was completely empty. They were playing at a venue that had two theaters/concert halls, and he didn't know that. It had to be such a mind****.

Fun trivia: the stonehenge builder was Anjelica Huston

"This goes to eleven" did indeed originate from this film, as did "Hello Cleveland!" And clearly it takes a lot of its...Beats...from the rise and fall of the Beatles, their start as a skiffle band, their experimentation with acid and Indian musicality, and introducing a girlfriend to co-manage the band but completely eroding their friendship. Although, I tend to think the ex-Beatles ended up making their best music on their own, or near the end when they were already separating themselves for the most part.

@tiarnanquinn5403

Жыл бұрын

Definitely they blended a few things. They also spoof Zeppelin, with the crotch shots and violin on the guitar. but today I clicked the whole framing is similar to The Last Waltz, especially the scene with the band name evolution. The dead drummers definitely alluding to Zeppelin and The Who. And so many other generic band type hijinks from those eras. Or atleast what I've read and heard about. I wasn't born.

@stuartkinzel8195

Жыл бұрын

The saying "go to eleven" was around before the movie. They just took it to it's hilariously logical conclusion.

@steelyspielbergo

Жыл бұрын

@@stuartkinzel8195 wiki says: "Up to eleven", also phrased as "these go to eleven", is an idiom from popular culture, coined in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap

@stuartkinzel8195

Жыл бұрын

Seeing as how I've heard people say crank it to eleven BEFORE the movie ever came out, I don't think it originated in the film. The film took many tropes and stories from real life rock and roll and applied them all to Spinal Tap.

@stuartkinzel8195

Жыл бұрын

@@steelyspielbergo And Wiki is never wrong, right?

This movie had no script. Just outlines. They wrote and performed all of the music themselves. Years later the movie became so popular they did indeed tour a couple of times and released a couple of albums. They did many interviews in character.

@grelch

Жыл бұрын

Not only did they tour, but they would open for themselves in the guise of a folk band from the 1960's called The Folksmen. They later made a film starring the Folksmen called A Mighty Wind.

@joelwillems4081

Жыл бұрын

@@grelch "Old Joe's Place" and "Wanderin'" are great songs! They are the icing on the cake.

@kingretard

Жыл бұрын

@grelch Even before the movie Michael McKean was performing on American Bandstand with Lenny and the Squigtones (playing his character from Laverne & Shirley), and their guitar player was Christopher Guest in character as Nigel Tufnel. The video is pretty easy to find on KZread.

@parkinsaw

Жыл бұрын

Also I think in a few interviews they stated they had enough takes/scenes to make about a 5 hour film.

The failed arm-crossing at 1:37 is a low key brilliant bit of physical comedy. Glad you both picked up on it.

@MrLovegrove

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure they were laughing at the line about it being 17 years and 15 albums later. Not sure how the arm thing is supposed to be physical comedy, much less brilliant, but I guess if it makes you laugh....

@dereknolin5986

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree. The arm thing is 100% intentional and brilliant. It conveys Marty DiBergi's awkwardness in front of the camera.

@notabritperse

Жыл бұрын

@@MrLovegrove Thanks for setting things straight, Mr. Cinebinge's Dad.

@jp3813

Жыл бұрын

@@MrLovegrove Why would they laugh at the years and albums? Prince released 38 studio albums in 37 years.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

As is his cap: USS _Oral Sea_

The amount of bands that have similar stories to Spinal Tap is what makes it the greatest music movie of all time.

I saw them live about ten years ago and they were awesome, they even supported themselves as the Folksmen! 😂

Yep. As a rock musician of over 40 years this is amazingly accurate. I've lived this life. The guitarist is the spitting image of a guy I used to play with. What's really impressive is their English accents and they're really playing live. A real classic. ✌️♥️🇬🇧

@dnish6673

Жыл бұрын

TBF, Guest is part British.

@coot1925

Жыл бұрын

@@dnish6673 does he normally have an English accent?

@dnish6673

Жыл бұрын

@@coot1925 No but he’d have a lot of exposure. His dad probably did.

@coot1925

Жыл бұрын

@@dnish6673 never the less, bloody good acting. The attitude of the characters is uniquely British, especially the bit with the sandwich which was exactly like the kind of petty wining that goes on backstage. I played the original famous Marquee club in London 3 times and the toilet never flushed despite all the big names having played there. It was disgusting. That was really something to moan about, especially as I always got a wobbly belly before going on stage. 😂✌❤🇬🇧

@SirWussiePants

Жыл бұрын

Can confirm that this is scarily more documentary than Mockumentary. Many musicians point to this movie as the best movie representation of being on the road. I think our manager learned everything he knew from Ian Faith

The "cold sores" were actually meant to be herpes! There's a four hour cut of this movie (you can find on various special editions) there was a whole subplot about a female warm-up band. The visual (but unspoken) joke was that throughout the movie who had sores on their lips kept changing based on who was sleeping with the female singer, and the only person who never got sores was the drummer. When they were having a band meeting about ditching the warm-up band, all the members had cold sores and wanted to ditch the warm-up band while the drummer (who never had a sore on his lip) was like "What? They're great! We should keep them.". IIRC, that jokes ends later in the movie where you find out that warm-up band was actually becoming more famous than Spinal Tap.

@mikeroman5208

Жыл бұрын

Cold sores actually are herpes.

@amandab4978

Жыл бұрын

Cold sores ARE herpes! 🤣 Caused by Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV), transmitted by oral or genital contact.

@hellyoung2091

Жыл бұрын

Cold sores are herpes lol.

@MrTBoneSF

Жыл бұрын

@@hellyoung2091 They were questioning if those were cold sores on their lips, and the point was yes they were and there was a big subplot devoted to it in the film that was cut from the theatrical release. It's mentioned in the commentary that because of the unexplained cold sores, some test audiences thought the film was implying that Nigel and David were secretly lovers.

@joelake7986

Жыл бұрын

@@Matt_Mosley1983 Yes, somewhere around 4 hours. I saw it years ago, and the version I saw was pretty poor quality. In those days it was called "This Is Spinal Tap Workprint".

Every line, every freakin' line has become iconic. Started the mockumentary genre, really. Pretty much everyone in it went on to big things if they weren't there already. And yes, they did tour after the film came out, singing all original songs. You can have no idea how this affected the culture. Massive, just massive.

@ClicheGuevara-2814

Жыл бұрын

...and it was all improvised, except the songs.

@glitterfulspace

10 ай бұрын

i've learnt yet another amazing fact about this film, i was saying to my mum last month how spinal tap should''ve toured with their music that's so brilliant they actually did that!!

@splitimage137.

10 ай бұрын

It didn't start the mockumentary. In 1978, Lorne Michaels of SNL fame approved a TV movie made by Monty Python's Eric Idle, of a real fake history of a fake real band: THE RUTLES. The movie was called ALL YOU NEED IS CASH and I saw it on NBC one night in 1977 on my big-ass console color TV>

@blortmeister

10 ай бұрын

@@splitimage137. Yes. Absolutely. But The Rutles didn't break through in the same way. When I say "started the mockumentary" I should have said "kickstarted:. It was after the success of Spinal Tap that the broader public became aware of the mockumentary as a genre. I'm glad you mentioned The Rutles, because it was a great entry into the genre, but I really don't think it had the same impact on the broader public that Tap did.

@splitimage137.

10 ай бұрын

@@blortmeister You are correct, of course. I just had to give The Rutles a little love, in case someone else reads this and checks it out. (If so, then my work here is done ;)

20:30 I love when George loses it 😂

The actors played their own instruments, sang themselves, and even went on a promotional tour as Spinal Tap. The movie's soundtrack was released as a Spinal Tap album, ... well, because it is.

@Bikebrh

Жыл бұрын

I still have the T-shirt from their 1992 tour....

@ShootAUT

Жыл бұрын

@@Bikebrh _That_ is just awesome. 😁

The movie is full of real inside jokes: The Originals and New Originals bit was referring to The Yardbirds and New Yardbirds who became Led Zeppelin. Nigel does a solo rubbing a whole violin on his guitar- which is a play on Jimmy Page using a violin bow on Dazed and Confused. The band resurging in Japan could be Deep Purple who had a big live album filmed on tour in Japan. The girlfriend breaking up David and Nigel is a nod to Yoko Ono being blamed for driving Join Lennon and Paul McCartney apart and breaking up The Beatles. The choking on vomit is a poignant reference to the 27 club- with Mama Cass, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison etc all dying from drug overdoses essentially choking on vomit. The dead Drummers are an homage to Keith Moon of the Who and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, the pod that wouldn't open and the Stonehenge bit are likely references to Jethro Tull and other "prog" bands from the early 70s....the more you rewatch it the more REAL bands you connect to

@dr.burtgummerfan439

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention the Christy Minstrels and the New Christy Minstrels, and The Seekers and The New Seekers.

@treetopjones737

Жыл бұрын

Of course that myth is nonsense, the Beatles just were at the breaking point and ready to move on to solo projects. Paul was the one to announce he was leaving. John & Paul were on good terms at what became the end of John's life.

@treetopjones737

Жыл бұрын

Jimmy had been in the Yardbirds, "New Yardbirds" assembled as a means of fulfilling tour contracts put together by the Yardbirds.

@mournblade1066

Жыл бұрын

Cass Elliot didn't choke on vomit; she died of a heart attack. Jimi Hendrix, Bon Scott, and John Bonham all choked on vomit.

@BuccWylde

Жыл бұрын

@@mournblade1066I think Cass had a piece of undigested ham sandwich in her throat when she nodded off causing acute apnia which in turn resulted in her myocardial infarction.

I worked as a tour manager in the late 80s, and every touring band with a VCR had a copy of this with them. Everything that happened to Spinal Tap has happened - more or less - to every band, just not all of them to the same band. I did see Tap live on Canada Day as part of the MuchMusic Great Canadian Party in 1992. I saw them at Molson Park in Barrie, mid-way through their one-day cross-Canada tour. They started in Halifax, then Barrie, then finished the day in Vancouver. Marshall did make amps that went to 11 for a time. The iMDB page for this movie also has a rating bar that goes to 11.

@rolandcooke

8 ай бұрын

That IMDB thing is epic. :D

You guys also need to check out A Mighty Wind. The same 3 guys are in a folk band called The Folksmen involved in a tribute variety folk concert. Very similar feel, lots of improvisation, and features a ton of great comedic improvisational actors, including Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins, Parker Posey, and the AMAZING coupling of Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy. Very funny, and also very sweet movie.

All the actors who play the band members are from the USA. Their English accents are flawless!

I honestly thought George was going to hurt himself laughing. Great reaction.

Michael McKean recently had an amazing role in Better Call Saul as a lead character. Emmy worthy performance.

@Madbandit77

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@dbadbt

Жыл бұрын

I like reminding people that he was Lenny of Lenny and Squiggy on 'Laverne and Shirley", which starred Penny Marshall, Rob Reiner's former wife.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

He played bandleader and harpist Adrien van Voorheis on Jiminy Glick.

@GamerWho

Жыл бұрын

And Fred in Short Circuit 2

Christopher Guest plays Nigel. He also plays the six fingered man (Count Rugen) in Proncess Bride. Also of note: he's been married to Jaime Lee Curtis for almost 40 years.

@richardrobbins387

Жыл бұрын

Eleven 🖐☝️🖐

@EfftupSmith

Жыл бұрын

@@richardrobbins387 hadn't thought of that before. cos he has 6 fingers on 1 hand, his fingers go up to 11.

@Scottie_S

Жыл бұрын

@@richardrobbins387 YES!!

@dnish6673

Жыл бұрын

He's a chameleon, all of his mockumentary roles (Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman) plus he was in A Few Good Men as the lax medical examiner, Night at the Museum - Smithsonian as Ivan the Terrible, Little Shop of Horrors as the kind of weird customer who notices the plant in the window. He's so talented that it's kind of amazing he isn't a bigger name. He seems to choose pretty few roles considering he's probably a guy most producers would hire.

@VonBlade

2 ай бұрын

So what you're saying is he's the luckiest person to ever live.

George asked at one point if these guys actually toured and yes they did, with some audience attendees actually not knowing it was all humor. Much of the dialogue in this movie was improved. The singing and playing was actually the actors. Great movie. A little bit of side trivia - I think it was and amnesty international tour that had Peter Gabriel, Sinead O'Connor, and others all on a bus traveling to the next city trying to think of songs that they all knew that they could sing together and they kept coming up with the Spinal Tap songs ... It kind of makes me smile to think of Sinead O'Connor singing Sex Farm or Big Bottom.

@Yookeroo

Жыл бұрын

I believe they’ve played gigs with their folk alter egos opening.

@Dabbleatory

Жыл бұрын

@@Yookeroo Correct, they have actually been their own opening act!

@hellomark1

Жыл бұрын

They've released a couple of albums even, including the black album, you used to be able to get it, and like in the movie, it's not bad! It definitely grows on you too, right from the first song titled "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight"

@chriswhinery925

Жыл бұрын

@@hellomark1 Most of Spinal Tap's music is too over the top for me even though I love the movie, but Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight is unironically a jam.

The DVD commentary for this movie is hilarious. They do it completely in-character and it almost feels like a sequel in and of itself.

Believe it or not, Spinal Tap were the 3rd band to perform at the Freddie Mercury Tribute in 1992.

@jasonremy1627

Жыл бұрын

I remember that!

@claymccoy

Жыл бұрын

Freddie would approve.

@wavydavy7489

Жыл бұрын

Didn't they do one of those televised 'cause' gigs (Live 8 or something) and there was a technical failure when their sound system failed. Harry Shearer was asking if anybody in the crowd knew any good jokes to pass the time. 🎸🤘

@OneThousandHomoDJs

Жыл бұрын

@@jasonremy1627 No lie, I still have the VHS that I made. I recorded it when I was in college, the whole show. I remember being blown away that thousands of people were going to be exposed for the first time to not just Metallica and Extreme, but *Spinal Tap*......😁😁

The absolute best part of the Spinal Tap DVD is the audio commentary. The three main musicians are there IN CHARACTER throughout the entire commentary, talking about what REALLY happened when Marty DeBerg filmed this Rockumentary. It is like watching This is Spinal Tap new for the first time because the concept forces you to put new humor in scenes we've seen twenty+ times. Hands down the best audio commentary ever (Casablanca is runner up, IMHO).

@porgyt7177

Жыл бұрын

It IS one of the funniest commentary tracks Ever!

@matthewhetzler4912

Жыл бұрын

It’s hilarious. The way they think Marty DiBergi did a hatchet job on them. “We have heard that people watch this film and LAUGH!”

@markwilliams6394

Жыл бұрын

The extras on the DVD are great too like them rolling the cheese downhill, which has absolutely nothing to do with the movie. The best of cd commercial with songs on it like Bent for the Rent. Funny stuff.

@DrLipkin

Жыл бұрын

Tropic Thunder honorable mention.

@tristramcoffin926

Жыл бұрын

It is among the best commentaries in my collection, too. Another I would add to it and Casablanca is Peter Bogdanovich's on Citizen Kane.

If you want to see a real version of this...Watch "Anvil: The Story of Anvil"... It's uncomfortably real. An actual documentary of the band Anvil. If this didn't come out way after Spinal Tap, you would think they based Spinal Tap on The Story of Anvil.

“Is this the beginning of big in Japan?” No, that’s a real phenomenon. There were (and continue to be) a number of bands past their prime in the States/UK that have absolutely massive followings in Japan.

20:12 Georges laugh here makes me so happy. That has to be one of the most genuine heartfelt laughs I have heard someone have in years.

@lordjimbo2

10 ай бұрын

For my money it's one of the funniest scenes in movie history. One of maybe a half-dozen times that I've laughed so hard at a film that it hurt. The dopamine surge made it tough to find anything amusing for like an hour afterwards, so I had to watch the movie again because I was just numb.

When Ozzy Osborne saw this movie he was convinced that he'd toured with them

There's a blooper reel that came with the DVD which is close to another two hours....all improv, all hilarious. What a funny movie!

"I'm big in Japan" was definitely a thing from the 70s on. A lot of bands that went on to become major successes had Japanese releases years before they made it in NA/EU.

@samswords9993

Жыл бұрын

Check out the Canadian 80's band Alphaville and their song "Big in Japan."

@Harv72b

Жыл бұрын

@@samswords9993 The song title actually comes from a UK punk band called Big in Japan. The phrase itself is almost as old as rock & roll.

@snowdenwyatt6276

Жыл бұрын

Probably most notably Cheap Trick who were "big in Japan" and only started to have US success when tracks from a live album made exclusively for the Japanese market started to be played by an LA DJ.

@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t

Жыл бұрын

@@snowdenwyatt6276 Yeah, I remember when I eventually heard the album version of I Want You To Want Me, and ws like "yeah, no wonder that didn't chart".

The “Lick my Love Pump” moment made me spit soda all over the poor guy in front of me at the theater, luckily I was only 14 so I didn’t get my ass kicked.🤣

@boretrk

Жыл бұрын

That name is pretty on brand for something that takes inspiration from Mozart, after all he wrote a song called "Lick me in the arse"

I learned, many years after I should have, that the actors spent a year creating a full backstory for everyone and learning the group's complex history so that they'd be able to improvise more easily. SO MANY jokes are specific to certain bands or legends that you'd need an older person there to point them all oot.

@fubar1217

Жыл бұрын

Right….wasn’t the backstage food fiasco based on Van Halen’s requirement for only brown M&M’s in their rider?

@OneThousandHomoDJs

Жыл бұрын

@@fubar1217 Yep, I've heard that.

@treetopjones737

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, fun to recognize some of what they're satirizing.

These situations are based on real stories. As a gigging musician for over fifty years I can assure you all this stuff happens to all of us all the time!

I dont think you noticed but in the song Big Bottoms all three guitarists are playing bass. It is the little things that are never pointed out that are the funniest. There are so many "blink and you miss it" gags in this movie.

This movie has one of the best (if not the best) "director's commentary" where the actors comment about the events of the movie in character. It's hilarious and a must watch (hear really)

"A fine line between stupid and clever" - Indeed! Don't worry, when it comes to reactions, you're very much on the clever side ;)

The lady with the beautiful smile was Fran Drescher. She was on an American TV show, The Nanny, in the early '90s.

This movie is a fantastic feat of improvisation. There was so much material that the bonus dvd has a near feature-length outtakes and deleted scenes video. The dvd commentary by the actors, totally in character, is brilliant. And yes, the movie was taken by some people as real - I spoke to a girl who had gone in thinking it was real and got slowly suspicious until the ‘it was someone else’s vomit’ line and she knew she’d been had.

@sean---the-other-one

Жыл бұрын

@@ThreadBomb Not sure which bit you mean

@inapickle806

Жыл бұрын

I saw it when it came out and heard multiple people talking about never hav8ng heard of the band before when we were exiting. My friend and I were in hysterics.

@sean---the-other-one

Жыл бұрын

@@inapickle806 I love how open and guileless some people can be, but I do worry for them.

I've said it before, but I do really want to see you two do When Harry Met Sally. You are correct that the Stonehenge woman was Anjelica Huston. The label woman, Bobbi Flekman, is future "Nanny" star Fran Drescher. She also co-starred in Weird Al's cult classic UHF, which you should watch as well. Dana Carvey also plays the other mime waiter who isn't Billy Crystal. The other WHMS actor, playing the limo driver, is named Bruno Kirby (RIP). Michael McKean (David St. Hubbins) would go on to be in Clue (yet another suggestion, which I'm sure you've gotten before), and recently in "Better Call Saul." This is indeed the origin of "This goes to 11" and also "None more black," if you've heard that one in pop culture. The movie was one of the first inducted to the DVD iteration of The Criterion Collection, which is a famous US home video label that licenses important classic and contemporary movies and releases them in special editions. That DVD had a traditional commentary by Reiner, Guest, McKean, and Shearer. When MGM later released the film on DVD themselves, they couldn't license that track, and the cast didn't want to tell the same stories, so that release (and the later Blu-ray) have a commentary where Guest, McKean, and Shearer comment on the movie in character as Spinal Tap.

@elrac7333

Жыл бұрын

The DVD I have also has the band commenting on the menu, which is completely black. The menu is about 20 minutes of them talking about the black menu.

@chadsmith3363

Жыл бұрын

So many cameos: Sir Dennis is Patrick Macnee, who is most famous as John Steed in the classic British adventure show from the 60s: The Avengers. The promoter who wants them to kick his ass is Paul Shaffer, a legend in the music business but best known as David Letterman's band leader for decades. The guy in the hotel lobby who gets Ian's name wrong is Howard Hesseman. Done tons of TV shows and movies but best known as Dr Johnny Fever from WKRP in Cincinnati. Tons more I'm forgetting, for sure!

@Harv72b

Жыл бұрын

@@chadsmith3363 Ed Begley, Jr. as John "Stumpy" Pepys, their first drummer. The janitor who tries to give them directions to the stage in Cleveland is played by under the radar comedian Wonderful Smith. Fred Willard plays the liaison officer at the Air Force base. And on and on...basically, if you assume anybody with a speaking role is famous in _some_ circle, you're probably right.

@davidterhune8277

Жыл бұрын

Michael McKean also played Lenny on "Laverne & Shirley" and was a Not Ready for Prime Time Player on "Saturday Night Live"

@Madbandit77

Жыл бұрын

@@Harv72b People thought the janitor was played by musician Bo Diddley for some reason. Ian is played by the late British humorist Tony Hendra, who worked with Guest on the National Lampoon Radio Hour. Hendra also worked as an contributing editor for National Lampoon Magazine during their heyday.

Simone thought they were about to start making trouble in the neighborhood. 😂

Yeah, some amp manufacturers have made dials that go to 11. Marshall even had an ad with Nigel & the JCM 900 that goes up to 20. On the first generations of tube (valve) amps that are played on huge albums (and still today) there was no “gain” control. There was just a volume & to get the amp to distort, you had to crank up the amp. So you’d turn the amp full up to 10 to get it to crunch and distort and it sounds amazing. So the “these go to 11” (hes showing a Super Lead Plexi in the film) came from that idea that you needed to crank them & if everybody was going to 10, they’d go to 11 to be louder…fundamentally misunderstanding amp power, wattage, etc lol. Later, amps started adding a ‘Master Volume’ so the ‘volume’ essentially became a ‘gain’ knob…meaning you could get the pre-amp to distort, but you didn’t have to have the overall volume at such high levels. Randall Smith (Mesa/Boogie) started modding Fenders amps with this, then Marshall created the JCM 800 that had a ‘gain’ knob, etc and a bunch of companies now have a dedicated pre-amp ‘gain’ section along with a ‘master volume’. Pre-amp gain vs power-amp gain is a discussion that has millions of pages of guitar forum comments.

I'd like to point out the woman George said had a pretty smile is Fran Drescher, also known as The Nanny.

This reaction goes to 11. From what I heard, Spinal Tap was based on a number of bands, but especially Saxon.

@markstoudenmire4935

Жыл бұрын

Black Sabbath's 1983 tour played a large role as well.

Simone's British accent at the end ("I don't know, what are the hours") made my jaw drop! It was *really* good .... and that's coming from a Brit!

I was living in LA in the early 2000's when they re-released ST and was lucky enough to win tickets on the radio to the Hollywood premier, followed by a concert at the House of Blues. They dropped the mini Stonehenge from the ceiling during the song. Hilarious.

They are the real deal. Even though they made the movie as a gag, they made and produced an album with music. And they have sometimes performed in concert. It's every bit as hilarious as you can imagine.

@AdamConus

Жыл бұрын

Two albums! I have them both.

@StormhavenGaming

6 ай бұрын

@@AdamConus Bit late to this, but technically three albums. They released Back From The Dead in 2009.

If you want to wee more like this, the same core group of people did a few other mockumentaries--"Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind" being the two best. The first pokes fun at dog show fanatics, while the latter takes on folk music bands of the early 60s reuniting. Both are absolutely brilliant. Must see.

Loved seeing that the humor translated to a younger crowd. George seemed to be truly into it and laughed really hard At several points. Great choice

There's an extended cut of this that runs for another hour and fills in a lot of the backstory, including the coldsores and Nigel's replacement, amazingly, it's all as good at this and well worth watching.

Fun Fact: July 1st 1992 Spinal Tap did a 24 hour Canadian Tour to celebrate Canada Day. they played St. Johns Newfoundland, Barrie Ontario, and Vancouver BC in one day.

This is THE Mockumentary of all time! While there have been many other really great ones (several helmed by Christopher Guest), there is nothing that beats this one. An additional fun thing related to the "going to 11" . . . if you go to the IMDB page for this movie, you will notice that the star rating . . . yeah . . . Also, Jamie Lee Curtis watched this film when it originally came out and said "I'm going to marry that man" . . . and she did five months later . . . and they remain married to this day. I do remember when I first saw this movie, I had a moment somewhere in the middle where I suddenly shouted "OH MY GOD! THAT IS COUNT RUGEN THE SIX FINGERED MAN!!" . . . it completely blew my mind that that was the same person. Favourite song is absolutely "Stonehenge"

This movie owes a lot to The Rutles, a mockumentary on a and based on a group like The Beatles. The songs were so close in style they were sued, but also had George Harrison in a cameo role.

@scottcharles3126

Жыл бұрын

The members of the Beatles were mostly supportive, John Lennon loved it and George Harrison is in it. If any suing was done, it would have been by ATV, the rights holders.

@28:40 “Did amps actually go to 11?” The Marshall amp company actually released a new line about 10 years after that (the JCM900 series) with controls that went to 20, and ran an ad campaign featuring Christopher Guest as Nigel Tufnel noting that “… That’s nine louder, innit?”😂😂😂

@RobertDPore

Жыл бұрын

But we can't serve it alcohol unless someone makes one that goes to 21.

What We Do In The Shadows, a Taika Waititi mockumentary on a group of vampires living together dealing with daily struggles. Also, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (not technically a mockumentary, but hilarious anyway)

1:27 That's actually the movie's director, Rob Reiner. (He also directed Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally, and The American President, among others)

@treetopjones737

Жыл бұрын

Carl's son, and well known for playing "the Meathead" Michael on "All in the Family" before going on to direct.

My top 3 rock mockumentaries of all time would be: 1. "The Rutles - All you need is cash", a fake Beatles documentary from no one less than the great Eric Idle of Monty Python. 2. "Bad News" + "More Bad News" (both can be found here on youtube), similar in style but more low budget and even more weird, clearly an inspiration for this one. 3. "Spinal Tap" - We just saw it, what a classic. I just recently realized that the actor Michael McKean who played the lead singer is the Saul Goodmans Brother in Better Call Saul.

@klausmogensen8691

Жыл бұрын

" I just recently realized that the actor Michael McKean who played the lead singer is the Saul Goodmans Brother in Better Call Saul." I just now realized that too :-D

@88wildcat

Жыл бұрын

@@klausmogensen8691 There are still some of us around who are old enough to remember him from Laverne & Shirley (though I can never remember if he played Lenny or Squiggy) which is where he first made it big.

@dngillikin

Жыл бұрын

He played Lenny.

@chrispeel3123

Жыл бұрын

Bad News from the Comic Strip Presents. I remember them. Most of the Young ones crew and French and Saunders as well. They did a great piss take of the Famous Five as well.

@mrtveye6682

Жыл бұрын

@@chrispeel3123 Oh, then I have to check out The Young Ones (and probably more from The Comic Strip). I guess all that stuff was never aired over here in Germany. Only new about Bad News cause a friend who had it on VHS showed it to me.

"A blues/jazz festival ... on the Isle of Lucy." What a brilliant improvisation by (I think) Harry Shearer. (Say "Isle of Lucy" out loud.)

I first saw this in high school in 1984. It has been a cult favorite of mine and my two best friends since then. If you've seen a lot of rock documentaries from the 70's and early 80's you will definitley see some deep cuts. I have the Black Album on CD, bought it when it came out in the 90's. Those songs are hilarious (tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight). I also saw them perform live in San Francisco. They all came down on cables from the top of the stage doing Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight. When the bass line came down Derek Smalls came down halfway and his cable got stuck. He had to do the whole song in mid air. When he had to sing the chorus line, he had to plank out horizontal just so he could reach the mic. I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. The people who did bit parts in this is amazing. My favorite is Paul Schaffer, the band leader for David Letterman, plays the DJ promoter that doesn't have anybody show up at the record signing and wants them to kick his ass.

There is a really funny "mockumentary" type film by Albert Brooks called Real Life. In the film Brooks sets out to record a real family's day to day life. It is brilliant!

@michaelbuhl4250

Жыл бұрын

I love that movie!

I've introduced several people to this and I am proud to say that I got 1 of them to believe it was a documentary for a real band. One of the proudest moments in my life.

The guitarist Nigel Tufnel is played by Christopher Guest who was in (at least) 2 other Rob Reiner films, The Princess Bride as the 6 fingered man, and A Few Good Men as the medical expert brought in to the trial (a smaller part).

BTW, all 3 mimes from that party were cast members of SNL: Billy Crystal, Dana Carvey, and Mary Gross (as were Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, and Michael McKean). Also, after this movie came out, Marshall actually made an amp that went up to 11. It was the same as the usual one, it just had a face plate that listed the top level as 11. Also, the guy who said "Kick my ass!" was Paul Shaffer, who was the bandleader for Late Night with David Letterman and The Late Show with David Letterman.

Man would I love to see a day when you guys do Walk Hard: A Dewey Cox Story

@jculver1674

Жыл бұрын

George would absolutely lose it at the scene where Tim Meadows' character is trying to warn Dewey way from trying pot.

@waynecanning4122

Жыл бұрын

He don’t want nothing to do with that

@TropicalHat420

Жыл бұрын

You mean Spinal Tap? cause ya I agree, but hoping the thought of "mockumentary" music type films takes me to that thought. Also an excuse to make anyone watch Dewey Cox.

If you want to know how influential "goes to 11" is look at the IMDB score for this movie.

Documentary maker, Marty Di Bergi, is played by Rob Reiner, who also directed this masterpiece of humor, LOL. He also directed another bunch of classics like When Harry Met Sally, Misery and of course The Princess Bride in which some of the same actors had parts as in Spinal Tap: Billy Crystal (Miracle Max in TPB, Harry in WHMS, and the mime in TIST), Christopher Guest (Count "the six fingered man" Rugen in TPB and Nigel Tufnel in TIST), Bruno Kirby (Jess in WHMS, the limo driver in TIST).

There was an album 'Break Like The Wind' and tour in the early 90s. The cold sores was a storyline involving groupies that was cut

This is where "turn it up to 11" comes from The band wrote the songs and played their own instruments. There was no script, the actors improvised their lines. They did go on tour in character. There are loads of extra footage that you can find online. Watch the audio commentary from the DVD. Spinal Tap does the commentary.

The Stonehenge scene is the one that made me fall in love with this movie. I nearly had an accident the first time I saw the little triptich descend from the rafters. Love your reactions.

The lady at 15:49 played the head nurse in Halloween II.

20:33 - I HAVE NEVER SEEN GEORGE LAUGH THIS MUCH BEFORE. BRILLIANT!

Most heavy metal bands not only loved this but said how accurate this actually was to reality. The soundtrack and their 'Break Like The Wind' album

The actor that played Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) has been in a lot of movies. You saw him in The Princess Bride as the six fingered man, and in A Few Good Men as the doctor that they questioned in court.

@Madbandit77

Жыл бұрын

He also had a bit part as a cop in the crime comedy, "The Hot Rock", starring Robert Redford.

@GamerWho

Жыл бұрын

And "customer" in the Little Shop of Horrors

As a British person, I really rate the London accents. I know Haden-Guest can naturally speak in a British accent but he clearly wasn't using his own. As for Derek Smalls - Mr Shearer has nailed it. David St Hubbins having a melt-down in pure Estuary is magic to the ear.

Just in the opening party. The woman with the nice smile is Fran Drescher aka “The Nanny” (famous 90s sitcom) Yes, the mime was Billy Crystal. And the limo driver is the same actor who plays Billy Crystal’s best friend Jesse in “When Harry met Sally”. I don’t know his name off the top of my head. Nigel is Christopher Guest who is the six fingered man in “The Princess Bride”. And the documentary film maker is Rob Reiner the actual director of this film, as well as the director of “When Harry met Sally” and “The Princess Bride”. It’s like playing the match game 😂😂😂

I believe this is the film that started the mockumentary style. At the very least it popularized the style. Such a classic film.

@0lyge0

Жыл бұрын

It's not even close to the first, even The Rutles skits and movie were following on a long tradition of mockumentaries. But it did make them much more well known and is probably the first or second one people think of.

@robertpearson8798

Жыл бұрын

Possibly, but five years before there was a made for TV movie mockumentary of The Beatles called “The Ruttles: All You Need is Cash.”

@Johnny_Socko

Жыл бұрын

@@smiffy68 Hey, I loved The Ruttles when I was a kid! But it was difficult to find, it only ran on PBS in my city once or twice, and home video wasn't a thing yet.

@annaclarafenyo8185

Жыл бұрын

"Take the Money and Run" was the first mockumentary.

@robertpearson8798

Жыл бұрын

@@annaclarafenyo8185 I’m not familiar with that one but the 1950’s short “Swiss Spaghetti Harvest” could also be an early contender.

I’ve never seen George laugh so hard as during the Stonehenge song…classic

Fun fact: if you go to Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles, they have a gigantic guitar the size of a building with a dial that goes to 11. It’s a photo op spot.

This movie was actually a total bomb at the box office, but was one of the most successful video rental titles of all time

@Madbandit77

Жыл бұрын

It was a modest hit with a $4.7 million gross against a $2 million budget.

3 Albums to their credit - and yes, they went out and toured just like they were a real band - many did not get the joke.

The first time I showed this to my band mate, I didn't tell it was a spoof. He nearly cried thinking it was real. He still holds a (minor) grudge against me to this day!

One of the main things that make this movie so epic is the fact that none of them are English!

19:18 The sculptor of the Stonehenge prop is a very young Anjelica Huston

Quick items: Prior to this movie, drummers were basically dropping like flies. Keith Moon of the Stones, John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, and Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys died in the decade before the movie was made. Spinal Tap's final drummer was "Joe Besser" which was the name of one of the many replacements for Curly Howard in the Three Stooges. The wife is essentially Yoko Ono, the wife of John Lennon and a point of massive contention with The Beatles.

I remember hearing the story that the musicians in Foghat insisted that the writers of Spinal Tap had to have been secretly recording them because there was no other way that the zodiac obsessed girlfriend in the movie could have been so similar to one of the band members' girlfriends.

@Madbandit77

Жыл бұрын

Truth is stranger than fiction nowadays...

The Mockamentary NOONE needed, is now a a legendary movie 🤘😎🤘

Christopher Guest is also the 6 fingered man in The Princess Bride and the Doctor in A Few Good Men. (Also both Rob Reiner films). And Billy Crystal is one of Rob Reiners best mates so he did a cameo, as well as Bruno Kirby who's the limo driver (who was in When Harry Met Sally and City Slickers with Billy Crystal) Michal McKean is the lead singer whos also a comedy legend and recently played Saul's older brother in Better Call Saul The woman with the "nice smile" is Fran Drescher who went on to star in the Nanny This is definitely where "This goes to 11" comes from. a large part of this film was improv as well. Its just a stellar cast and an absolute classic!

when Spinal Tap came to the UK they announced their tour with an advert for 'Drummer Wanted'; they also performed at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium.

I love this film. It makes me laugh every time. A similar mockumentary film you might enjoy is The Rutles-All you need is cash (1978), which is a parody of The Beatles career.

It was a stroke of genius to react to this movie. I saw it at the cinema during its' theatrical release during the 80s and it's remained one of my favourites.

How awesome to see ANYONE doing Spinal Tap!!! Good spotting, by the way, George (Harry Shearer) and Simone (Billy "Mime is Money" Crystal - the other mime waiter is Dana Carvey). I'm only part of the way through this video but, so far, neither of you seems to have realized that Bobbi Flekman is Fran Drescher (The Nanny) - I'd have thought her voice/accent would give her away in a second - and the rockumentary's director, Marty DiBergi, is director Rob Reiner. Incidentally, the guys in the band - Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer - wrote and performed all the music themselves. If I'm not mistaken, they had been doing this stuff as a lark at parties and what-not before they got the idea to make this film.