I love how the band can turn on American accents and are able to pose as actors for this interview. Pure Genius

@rationalmuscle

2 ай бұрын

That was damn funny

@danielc1978

2 ай бұрын

@@rationalmuscle because it's true.....

@mebeasensei

2 ай бұрын

But I couldn't take Nigel seriously, especially when he was serious.

@Tony-zp8xn

2 ай бұрын

@@robertconahan187 🧐 Looks like you didn't get the same memo as the rest of us.

@jennycraigadventures3314

2 ай бұрын

@@robertconahan187umm….ya think?

When Nigel used the actual violin instead of the violin bow (an obvious Jimmy Page reference) on the guitar and then tuned the violin I absolutely LOST IT. Genius!!!

@random__joe

3 ай бұрын

The 1st time i watched this I ate some shrooms and I was laughing so hard I was crying pretty much from start to finish. Nigels's solo is the stuff of legends

@seancollins3106

2 ай бұрын

watching him tune the violin is one of the low key funniest parts of the movie!

@deadshot4245

2 ай бұрын

funniest member of the group by far love nigels energy anytime i wanna poke fun i try and grab that same energy

@rdhorsey9081

2 ай бұрын

I hope it wasn't hard to clean up.

@DrDeuteron

2 ай бұрын

@@random__joe my 1st shroom movie was Apocalypse Now! 60' screen, ...This is the End, my only friend.

"The authorities said, 'best leave it unsolved, really'"....hahahaha

@PaulTheSkeptic

2 ай бұрын

Well, you can't dust for vomit. Technically about a different part but it seemed prudent all the same. The bizarre gardening accident of their first drummer was best left unsolved but their second drummer choked of vomit of undetermined origin.

@derricklarsen2919

2 ай бұрын

I dont think its funny you making fun of the tragic death of their drummer .

'Genius' is an understatement. A bucket list movie for sure... but give yourself enough time to watch it at least several times to catch all the things. No Joke.

@100hooker

3 ай бұрын

I saw this for the first time in the early 80s My oldest brother sat down and got up within 20 minutes and said, this is stupid. I showed it to my middle brother and he got 100%. Actually caught “Not a big college town” the first time. Saw them live on the Break Like The Wind tour at Universal Amphitheater. Had the best time. 😊

@mplsmark222

3 ай бұрын

The first four or five times I watched this film was on vhs and dvd. Then I got a chance to see it at a screening on the big screen. I noticed a number of things that were not so apparent on video. The sequel is in production as of March 2024, I can’t wait to see what the guys have come up with. Though I would not be surprised if there is a bit of sadness at the end.

@PaulTheSkeptic

2 ай бұрын

Yeah it's definitely a movie that benefits from multiple viewings.

@GhastlyCretin

2 ай бұрын

​@@mplsmark222 I just hope Rob Reiner doesn't turn it into a political thing. Since the 80s he's become unbearable.

@MajorSeventh

Ай бұрын

@@mplsmark222 Christopher Guest's films tend to have bittersweet endings, it's true. The sequel apparently will have cameos by Elton John, Garth Brooks and Dirk McQuickly.

"No we're not going to do f*cking Stonehenge!" Greatest line in movie history.

@jimdaw65

2 ай бұрын

Stone'enge 🙂

@slackthompson9231

2 ай бұрын

I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.

@jimdaw65

2 ай бұрын

@@slackthompson9231 No-one knows who they were, or what they were doing.

Watch it several times. Then watch it with the cast 'in character' doing the commentary. It will elevate the film 100 times. Simply, one of the funniest and greatest comedies ever.

@random22026

3 ай бұрын

GREAT suggestion! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

@DoubleSupercool

3 ай бұрын

I am genuinely surprised they are sitting there so calmly with that backstabber, Marty DeBirgi, after he did them so wrong.

A whole lot of talent on that couch.

"Goes to 11" is always a good laugh and a meme that permeates guitar gear culture.

@gustinian

2 ай бұрын

Fact: The BBC's online streaming service iPlayer has always had a volume control that goes to 11. That's one louder.

@NoxiousRob

2 ай бұрын

On IMDb it's the only movie that is rated out of 11

@PaulTheSkeptic

2 ай бұрын

Marshal made amps that go to 11 because of this. Limited runs.

Michael McKean is a damn genius. The variety, quality of work and range this guy has is truly off the charts. Why he is not considered the world's greatest actor is beyond me.

@alexkx8599

3 ай бұрын

Squeaky!

@samdustinchris

3 ай бұрын

A lot of chicanery in show business

@goratgo1970

3 ай бұрын

And is a great satellite technician in Used Cars

@misterschubert3242

3 ай бұрын

​@@goratgo1970 he even built and installed a pacemaker in another man's chest...!

@santosmadrigal3702

3 ай бұрын

My favorite line... OMG ... Now that I look back , that's one of my favorite movies .

The greatest mockumentary ever made.

@napoearth

2 ай бұрын

It was the first successful one. All that came after are trying to ride it's coat tails.

@howardscarr9518

2 ай бұрын

The Rutles: "All You Need is Cash" comes close. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pXmr27Wvl8ndfKg.html

@PaulTheSkeptic

2 ай бұрын

@@napoearth Is it the first one ever? Or just the first successful one?

@napoearth

2 ай бұрын

@PaulTheSkeptic probably both. it's the first I'd ever heard of. I'm 56, maybe there were some before. I don't know.

@PaulTheSkeptic

2 ай бұрын

@@napoearth Hm. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of something but hell, I don't know.

As a musician myself, this and Blues Brothers are two movies I like to watch again every so often. After watching this I feel like I'm due to watch the movie again soon.

@shable1436

3 ай бұрын

It's always better to watch it with your friends, or band mates especially

I saw SP in SF in the 90’s. Derek Smalls had a double neck bass, both necks were 4 string and tuned the same. Comic genius.

@josephasghar

2 ай бұрын

I’m laughing so hard at this 😂

@PaulTheSkeptic

2 ай бұрын

Lol. I'm a musician and I never noticed that. That's funny. It's just a big old showy backache. Doublenecks are heavy. They might be good for a song or two but you wouldn't want to do a whole show with one. Or a whole tour.

@karmicselling4252

2 ай бұрын

Ahead of his time. Good musical instrument redundancy. Covers him perfectly if he breaks a string or one of them goes out of tune. 😃

@PaulTheSkeptic

2 ай бұрын

@@karmicselling4252 Doublenecks sure are heavy. Most touring musician prefer to have a backup. Plus, bass strings break very rarely. Like, VERY rarely.

@GhastlyCretin

2 ай бұрын

Lmfao 🤣

absolute gold. They created a masterpiece!

One of my favorite movies of all time. This was a parody of heavy metal music, but every metal head, including me, absolutely loves it!

@danielc1978

2 ай бұрын

I cannot look at Deep Purple's album covers from the '70's w/o thinking, "That's so Spinal Tap..." (I don't think that's a compliment....)

@jungfeller

27 күн бұрын

Rob Halford mentions it at least half a dozen times in his autobiography, he loves it

Best left unsolved 😂

@TheGoodChap

3 күн бұрын

Yea authorities love having unsolved cases in their books 😂 especially when it's an extremely bizarre incident

Genius,pure genius.

As a 🇬🇧 they nailed that accent. Like the rest of the movie, near perfection! 👍

@jimdaw65

2 ай бұрын

Indeed. It's a specific Estuary accent, not generic "stage-school" English.

@pup1008

2 ай бұрын

@@jimdaw65 Yep, in fact that is my exact accent! I thought they were English for years! 😁

@jimdaw65

2 ай бұрын

@@pup1008 There's only one giveaway moment, when Derek Smalls, talking about Nigel and David being fire and ice, says he's half-way between the two, warm "wat-her", not wawter or wa'ah.

@pup1008

2 ай бұрын

@@jimdaw65 I know what you mean. It was peculiar that they picked that exact accent up, as you say it's not even strict Cockney or general London? The only thing I can think of is that had been analysing the way *Mick Jagger* talks as he is or was bang on "Estuary" &, in fact, born only about a mile from actually being in it!

@jimdaw65

2 ай бұрын

@@pup1008 Maybe Black Sabbath brummie would have been indecipherable to an American audience 🙂 I'm the founder, and so far only, member of the Dick Van Dyke Defence League. He was paid to do a U.S.-friendly version of cockney. If he'd done authentic cockney he'd have been thrown off the set due to the cost of subtitles for American viewers in the 1960s..

This video is 10:14 minutes long ........ Why doesn't it go to 11......?

@saraloking5993

2 ай бұрын

This should be the top comment! 😂

As a rocker chick, this is one of my favorite movies of all time! They nailed it! 🤘 🎸

@TheLochs

3 ай бұрын

U Rokk!

Not only is the movie a true classic, but the albums they put out are really good too!

When so many bands refer to the film for events that happened to them, you have it right!

This is one of my favorite movies!They nailed it with everything in music industry

I love how laid back and sweet these guys seem in real life but so ruthlessly funny in the film...

This movie was hilarious the first time I watched it at 16, and it became 10x funnier while actually being in a band. They nailed it, they really did.

The fact that they are actually good musicians is what made it great. If it was just actors miming,it just wouldn’t have been as good.

"What are the hours?" Classic ending.

@peternoble3691

2 ай бұрын

Yup, perfection 🤌

*Derek Smalls* smoking a pipe was sheer genius! 😂

@Palindromeater

2 ай бұрын

I always wondered if they got that from bassman Duck Dunn from the Blues Brothers movie, which came a few years before

When is Peter Jackson going to edit the other 48 hours of film that ended up on the cutting room floor and make "Get Back Spinal Tap"?

@karmicselling4252

2 ай бұрын

He will do that once he has finished editing the 96 hours of film that ended up on the cutting room floor after making "Let's Be The Rutles Naturally".

@lw1391

2 ай бұрын

First he's got to edit the footage for that puppet show they opened up for

Guest's resemblance to Jeff Beck is amazing.

@Nghilifa

3 ай бұрын

He asked Jeff Beck for "permission" to use his mannerisms as inspiration for Nigel Tufnel.

@shable1436

3 ай бұрын

​@@Nghilifaand why not some of the stones😂

@keithjohnston5936

3 ай бұрын

Because he wanted to emulate Jeff Beck.

@jimnewl

2 ай бұрын

I always thought Beck was legitimately a moron because of Guest's portrayal lol.

@tcvt64

2 ай бұрын

In the interview, he reminds me of Paul Simon.

Christopher Guest is the most British sounding man in the universe - 5th Baron Haden-Guest of Sailing (in the County of Essex).

One of the first movies on VHS that I bought as a kid with my own money. The commentaries, out of character on the Criterion release, and in-character on the special edition are great. Also the even better extra feature is the cut of all the footage they didn't use in the original. It's like a bonus TiST movie!

People watching this old interview might be interested to know that Rob Reiner has been working on a Spinal Tap sequel for the past 6 months. He is almost finished principle photography. No title, or release date yet. But it is definitely happening, and will probably be released late this year or early next year.

@cherylcouch-thomas8250

2 ай бұрын

Sadly, Fred Willard won't have a part.

This really makes me want to go back and watch the film for the eight millionth time. I believe the sequel begins shooting this month. Can't wait for that either.

@ogelsmogel

3 ай бұрын

Sequel? Are you serious?

@rockturtleneck

3 ай бұрын

@@ogelsmogel Yes, I believe it was actually supposed to be done last year but the writer's strike got in the way. Plenty of ripe material for a bunch of over-the-hill rock stars!

@ogelsmogel

3 ай бұрын

@@rockturtleneck Wow. I didn't know. I hope they got something good planned out..

@markvigil8667

2 ай бұрын

check out the work print version, it's longer than the original movie, and with a lot of never before seen parts

Right up there with Jaws and Empire strikes back in the great films of all time. 👍

"I specifically said... Spinal Tap AND puppet show"!!

All of these guys are amazing. Michael McKean’s voice is incredible. And his transformation, wow.

Not only comedic geniuses but musical geniuses. This is still my favorite comedy after all these years.

I was talking to my bass player before a big gig . I said " I'm stuffing for this one". He said " Yeah, both sides"

The beautiful piano piece at the beginning that Nigel was playing. So what’s it called? Nigel. “ Lick my love pump “. 😂😂😂😂

A brilliant film the best thing Rob Reiner ever did.

@Woozlewuzzleable

3 ай бұрын

The Princess Bride is great too.

@DavidOakesMusic

3 ай бұрын

@@Woozlewuzzleable I love best in Show and A Mighty Wind too.

@brianmiller1077

3 ай бұрын

@@DavidOakesMusic Those are Christopher Guest led movies. Reiner isn't in them

@brianmiller1077

3 ай бұрын

Stand by Me and Misery are also excellent.

@Woozlewuzzleable

3 ай бұрын

@@brianmiller1077 Oh yeah, great modern classics. I didn't know he did Misery.

It’s a fine line between clever and stupid

If you've ever been on the road, you've lived almost every scene in this movie!

Happy 40th Anniversary to a stone(d) cold classic movie!! 🥂🎸

Man, they cut off the piano playing at the best part, when he names his "Mach" song.

@smelltheglove2038

2 ай бұрын

Seriously.

Damn. I thought I knew EVERYTHING about this group and This Film. Why have I Never seen this wonderful clip before? It was likely NEVER released until Now!

Saw them live when they did a tour. They kicked ass and were fukn hilarious at the same time. Great sound. Great musicians.

Still the funniest movie I've ever seen

This movie,is the greatest rock parody,ever! The guys work off of each other wonderfully!

Every couple of years or so (give or take a couple of months) I get the itch to watch this again, and I STILL pick up on little things for the first time.

HELLO CLEVELAND!!!!😂

Genius film, incredible cast, very funny in a tongue in cheek way.

Still one of the funniest movies ever made. The music is brilliant, the staging of the concerts hysterical - Stone'enge! and the characters totally believable. I've met many people in management in the music industry and the late Tony Hendra, who played the manager Ian Faith, absolutely nailed it.

Thank you. Honestly, this is truly fucking excellent.

The perfect rainy Saturday movie

I'm from the U.K and I was fooled .good job.

When my husband and I went to see this masterpiece in the theatre in ‘85, there were two young guys behind us who were totally bummed that it wasn’t about a real group. They were almost as fun as the film.

I'd enjoy it immensely if they stayed in character for every interview. 😊

its a work of art

In Brazil virtually no one knew about Spinal Tap, and there was no internet when I first saw the movie on satellite. Immediately fell in love with the songs of this band I never heard of and went crazy trying to find their "albums" Shark Sandwich, Intravenus de Milo, etc. on local record stores. Then that Simpsons episode made it worse, like "See? I'm not crazy! This band really does exist!"

Let's not forget, most of it was improvised 😎

Legends, all.

They're so young and attractive! Love these guys! ❤

I did sound for a British HM band Elixer in 1988. Spinal Tap was on rotation on the tour bus.

It's hard to overestimate Spinal Taps cultural impact. There is even a guitar shop in Stockholm called These Goes To Eleven (TGT11) I also really enjoyed the "follow up" Christopher Guest Mockumentary series. Highly recommended. Pure genius 🤟🏻

Ozzy back in the day said this movie wasn’t funny. He said everything in that movie is true.

Fingers crossed for the new one…. 🤞

Proud to be another musician called Nigel. 🇬🇧🏆🇺🇸

I am not a Brit either. But I saw them at the Isle of Lucie festival when they were at their head banging best before the free form jazz period and the Jack the Ripper phase. Best damn show I ever saw. They were not stinkin’ up the great outdoors as some people calm.

@danielc1978

2 ай бұрын

the free form jazz period gets overlooked, unfairly to me...Kiss did the Elder, Def Leppard did their grunge album in the '90's, and U2 did their techno album, but that period of Tap is always dogged; people just want their bands to do the same type of music over and over. Had I been older, I would've been at the front row of that event...(I would not have sat through that stupid puppet show, though!)

@danielc1978

2 ай бұрын

"Saucy Jack" is a whole other story, though....

@Buster_Piles

2 ай бұрын

You're a naughty one ... Saucy Jack. Such a haughty one ... Saucy Jack. They just don't make 'em like that anymore. 🤧 good days, good days.

The scene in which a big row over the Stonehenge fiasco occurs, resulting in Tap's manager Ian Faith quitting. Bassist Derek Smalls' question and guitarist David St. Hubbins' answer just afterward are priceless!

Excited for the new Spinal Tap film!

@Robin838

2 ай бұрын

I hope it's in Dubly

I love the Isle of Lucy concert bit during an interview. It took me a couple of years to decipher that.

"You can't dust for vomit."

Saw them on tour when they relased "Break Like the Wind." The loudest concert I have ever been too.

I can't stand Rob Reiner, but there's no denying that Tap is one of the greatest films of all time.

@JB-lp9xr

2 ай бұрын

Let me guess; you don’t like his politics. Get over it dude. Mel Gibson is a right wing lunatic but I am not shy about loving his work as a director and actor. Music and movies are way more fun when you leave the politics at the door.

Great news folks, just heard they are in the middle of making another spinal tap, filling as we speak, CANT WAIT,

The Stonehenge part. "Making a big deal about it would've been a good idea" 😂

When we watched it together on a ski trip in the 80's my boss at the time thought this was all real! I was cracking up inside during the whole thing because of that alone!

There are some movies you can watch multiple times and love them. Goodfellas is one and Spinal Tap is another.

This is awesome

The Melba toast bit still slays me. Nigel is *such* a child.

I rarely think deleted scenes should've made the final cut, but the Zoo scene should've been in, This Is Spinal Tap, it is hilarious!

Look how young they are

Danos are ridiculously good, some of the best fretboards I've ever seen and the sound-- diamond clean and feral as a hellcat with trash. Such amazing guitars.

If you like Spinal Tap, you should also watch - Bad News/More Bad News from The comic strip presents …..😂❤

@marknewbold2583

2 ай бұрын

And The Rutles

@dougkeith7339

2 ай бұрын

@@marknewbold2583 Here I am in the Ratskeller. Literally, a cellar full of rats.

The Jazz Trilogy in A need I say more.

@dougkeith7339

2 ай бұрын

I am not performing freeform jazz before a festival audience! (Next scene) The bass player wrote this one!

Been in bands of various levels. Tap isn’t a spoof.

fantastic

40 years... 40 fucking years... Where has the time gone?

"Goodnight Springton, there will be no encore"

They are making a Spinal Tap 2!! looking forward..

"What's wrong with being sexy? " 😂

I've lost count of the amount of British bands who have proudly said "this was about us".

I love this film.

I watched Spinal Tap early on in my music career as a very young man. I then spent the next 34 years as a musician, laughing at life!

The quintessential mockumentary hands down 🙌

My exact inner structure done in a t-shirt 👕.

Wow. That was special.

When Harry speaks I can only hear Reverend Lovejoy😂

@andrewphippsphillips1455

2 ай бұрын

Or the newsreader Kent Brockman

What's often been said about all of Christopher Guests works when music is involved is that it works because the people playing the music (Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, etc) all are legitimate fans of the music they're playing in the films and a good majority of the time they write/play all the music themselves.. They're fans of the music, the artists, and this history. That what makes it so good. They aren't faking.

If the movie was released in 1984, why does the year timestamp in the upper left say 1983? Otherwise, it was fun to see these guys being interviewed - the chemistry and banter was there, and I might need to watch “This is Spinal Tap” again in the near future.