It's funny, it's silly, it's stupid...but, as a musician myself, these guys have actual talent. They're actually adept at playing their instruments and singing / harmonizing with one another. I honestly wish that I could play & sing as well as they do.

These guys are freakin genius!!

" I loved me a lass who's hair was long and brown as the finest stew ". you gotta love a lyric like that.

I really hope they release a concert DVD. Sounds great.

Okay, let me rephrase that: Chris Guest has been a professional musician-comedian since the EARLY 70s, when he performed with Second City as seen in such music videos as "Highway Toes" and "Positively Wall Street", both of which songs he wrote and performed in front of a paying live audience. Michael McKean who had known and played with Guest since 1967 invited him to play on his Lenny & Squiggy record which was released in the LATE 70s. Happy now? Smooches.

Saw them last night in Houston. Fantastic show! Such genuinely talented guys.

I love these guys and all their movies together!!! Too great.

For the record, these guys have been professional musicians and entertainers since the mid 1970 at least. Their 1984 movie Spinal Tap is an uncontested classic. Chris Guest, on the right, is the director of "Best in Show" and "Waiting for Guffman", among other mockumentaries. So there's no need to "keep it in the garage".

saw them in dallas too! so much fun! we are going to watch a mighty wind this week. loved the show!

Very much like a Tenacious D show, actually. Kudos to the Tap boys for skillfully rearranging much of the music. It's good to hear different takes on "standards" in a set. On another note, I don't know what everyone is complaining about. Have these people ever seen an acoustic show?

@sophiew1967

2 жыл бұрын

These were the originals well before Tenacious D..in fact here in the UK Rik Mayall Ade Edmondson & Nigel Planer made aBritish Spinal Tap in1982 ..check it out i

I got a chance to see Spinal Tap around 1992 and it was really a fun show to see. They had to play down their musical abilities to really be the Tap. Got to see Big Bottoms with three basses of course and Nigel play his guitar solo with a violin. Overall a great night, still have the ticket stub to show for it.

Thanks for posting this! Always wished I could see these guys live :]

Even when they do an interview they still have issues. I love it.

What an excellent tour this was!

Saw them in Baltimore and loved them. Great concert guys. Big Bottom was awesome.

I saw them at the Ryman in Nashville last weekend. Fantastic show. They had Bela Fleck and Delbert McClinton on stage with them for several songs.

Saw the show at the Fox Theater (Foxwoods). The one bass , jazz version of "Big Bottom" was great :-) They rock.....

This looks great! Hope I get to see them in concert!

Awesome musicians. Awesome set.

I love these guys! It's great to see them perform as themselves not as their characters though.

Top of their generational heap these gents, would love a 2023+ Spinal Tap-etc tour

Saw them in Boston. Comedy and great music. Fantasic show.

Get to see them tomorrow in Portland! Woo hoo!

Love to see them actually play and sing :)

Oh man!!!!! Im going!!! See you in Oakland! JB

wish i could've been there, when they introduced them at the beginning I would've gone crazy hahah

Love all the Christopher Guest movies and hope there are many more to come. Curt's idea of a Liverpool spoof has already been done i.e. "The Ruddles"

I think one of their earlier works, a vid called: "Butterfly Hands of Danger" is actually their best work to date.

Going to the show in AC on May 24th, can't wait!!!

"It's better in a hell-hole." I think that says it all.

Dang I wish I could be up there to see these guys!

Loved the Seattle show. There were two bad speakers on the stage that were turned off (they were unnecessary anyway) and the sound was fine after that. They were great but also quite spontaneous, working out a couple of bugs (unless the bugs were planned, I don't think so) as we watched. I was on a high the whole show, fantastic!

ph, i never get tired of these guys

I'll see you there. I'm so pumped.

These guys are geniuses.

If you are going to see them, you better be a big fan of A Mighty Wind. That seemed to get as much play as Spinal Tap material.

I wish my hair was as brown as the finest stew :(

they are so good.

They were musicians long before they were actors...Also, lets see, they wrote, performed, and produced all the music from their movies -that's a lot more than what most 'musicians' these days do. Their music has been praised by the likes of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Robbie Roberston, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, etc.

Very cool. See you in Chicago.

Just bought my tickets today!

epic! the guy on the left is one of the voice actors in the Simpsons :D rofl

Saw em in Boston at Wilbur Theatre... amazing. profoundhound is right... Big Bottom jazz rendition was excellent. Harry Shearer is hilarious.

The greatest metal trio since .....since....since......??????

these people ROCK

Are you serious?? They're all famous! Not only are they Spinal Tap, but they've also done a ton of other stuff. The guy on the left is Harry Shearer, known for doing a ton of voices on The Simpsons, the guy in the middle is Michael McKean, he's been in a ton of movies and is one of my fav actors, and the guy on the right is Christopher Guest who's directed such films as A Mighty Wind, Waiting For Guffman, and Best in Show.

Haha, too true. I love their harmony at the end of that song ... PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE....

I loved the Lenny characture from Laverne & Shirley. However my favorite character was as a spook on X files. My God, that was classic!

Talent!

These guys are a pretty good tap cover band

hey these guys are pretty cooool :)

Saw them in Oakland last night and thought it was a pretty good show! Yeah there were technical difficulties and who cares? This is Spinal Tap!! It could be apart of the show. JB

best band in the biz these days

cool music..great mojo

these guys BLOW

I' m .a lover of Brjtish folk music & their harmonies together are just lovely !👍can I.be the 14 th drummer ?

You can hear the principal Skinner in Harry Shearer's voice during the Celtic Blues

@nwajoe He doesn't hate anyone, he just keeps his on and off stage persona seperate. From an interview he did a few years ago: On film, Guest is a hilariously droll comedian. In person he is serious and almost dour. "People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. "I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living."

The music and the whimsy led me to think of another You Tube video called A DRIVING FOOL Episode 3.

I would of liked to see this

Harry played acoustic bass during the Return of Spinal Tap show, they had an acoustic part of the show. Not sure why he isn't playing it here though.

Saw them last night at the Beacon....Elvis Costillo made a guest appearence....It was funny as hell

I used to love music, Spinal Tap, and anything Christopher Guest did. Now I am baffled, and slightly suicidal.

Thanks guys -- I was indeed aware of that fact. I actually met Shearer once, and he really does sound a lot like Skinner!

nice!!

the one in the middle was Lenny on the Laverne Shirley show, ever heard of it?

Hot Lunch Productionz. They Make Your Dreams Come True.

inspiring

was really hoping they would go into a couple verses of "Big Bottoms". Caught them live, front row, in Anaheim about 15 years ago. Nobody like them!

what happened? its not available any more? i want to seee!!!! TAP RULES!

These guys were really funny. If you expect Guest to be effusive, your not paying attention to his oeuvre. Their musicianship in Portland was amazing. Really funny.

Weird to see Chuck McGill on that stage! :)

@usselpasoable

6 жыл бұрын

geez chuck, that amp must have been frying your brain.

the Tap!!

long live the Tap!

Hehe. McKean looks like my geometry teacher! xD

< so silly!

What type of bass is that 5 string?

They're in Philadelphia, PA on May 5th, that's not close to Pittsburth? Isn't that in the same state?

Christopher Guest always looks pissed off about something.

@adventuressurvivalinthailand

6 жыл бұрын

Growl60 is he the Brian Wilson of Spinal Tap? It's either an act or he may have some issues ?

@shawnuel

4 жыл бұрын

Adventures & Survival in Thailand He doesn't suffer fools easily. But his humor is also just very deadpan.

welllllllllll there's always something cooking at old joe's place. too funny lol

Oh my god.

How can Chuck tolerate being around all of that electrical equipment?

I think the greatest irony here is that Clear Channel owns ALL of the House of Blues venues and yet we have the antithesis to mainstream rock n' roll represented in Spinal Tap(circa 1980's). If these guy's weren't great comedians I'd be disenfranchised.

we're opening 4 'em in DC - i think - near Cd anyway -i think- In a parellela Universe !

you can see his chord and also hear his playing.

Anyone grew up watching 'Laverne and Shirley' tell the truth. Did you ever think Lenny had this in him? I know he was a Lone Wolf and all but this is wonderful stuff.

@kidlitfanful

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't appreciate it at the time, but I get now that the songs were incredibly solid. They're parody, but they're not so over the top that they don't land.

@softshoes

2 жыл бұрын

@@kidlitfanful They land because they really did love the stuff they were parodying. You can't hit so close unless you do.

snl cast - one of them was in cast 2 times

Because he is. I think he does Mr. Burns too.

Thanks.

yes

sounds like early grateful dead, nuts

Actually, the one on the left is Harry Shearer.

To be perfectly honest, Spinal Tap was created as a joke and you can't go into something like this and do something serious such as this. Spinal Tap has been famous for the live gimmick of the costumes, awesomely funny music and on stage antics. And without it, frankly. They are nothing. But on the other hand, kudos for continueing on guys. Bring on the album! Bring back the costumes and Tap back into the UK!

@professor2442 Yeah, seems as though many actors (and actress's) seem more comfortable playing someone else...

Haha I'd love to see people's reactions when they watch this and hear that voice not knowing Harry Shearer plays him.

even king diamond played at the house of blues.

Where's the bass audio?

Principal Skinner / Squiggy / The Baron

Of course it's real. You realize that the three of them are actors, right? It's kind of like the Blues Brothers...actors/comedians who do okay at the singing and guitar playing.

This is in L.A.