The Official Monthly Spinal Tap Appreciation & Quotation Thread

On the 11th of each month we celebrate the band direct from hell, Spinal Tap! Post favorite scenes, band members, quotations, or just kick back and enjoy the sights, the sounds, the smells, of a hard-working rock band appreciation thread.

But hey — enough of my yakkin’. Whaddaya say? Let’s boogie!

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Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top... number... and make that a little louder?

These go to eleven.

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I think we’re stuck with a very, very stupid and a very, and a very dismal looking album, this is depressing.

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I really think you’re just making a much too big thing out of it.

Hey, I was off reading a really interesting thread. I'm baaack :D :hi:

Marty: Your first drummer was uh....
Nigel: The peeper....
David: Joe stumpy Pepys...great great...uh...tall blond geek..
with glasses uh...
Nigel: Uh.. good drummer.
David: Great look, good drummer.
Nigel: Good, good drummer....
David: Fine drummer....
Marty: What happened to him?
David: He died, he, he died in a bizarre gardening accident some
years back.
Nigel: It was really one of those things...it was...you know...the
authorities said...you know...well best leave it unsolved,
really...you know.
Marty: And he was replaced by...uh....
David: Stumpy Joe - Eric Stumpy Joe Childs.
Marty: What happened to Stumpy Joe?
Derek: Well, uh, it's not a very pleasant story..but, uh,
David: He's passed on.
Derek: he died. uh...he choked on..the ac- the official explanation
was he choked on vomit.
Nigel: It was actually, was actually someone else's vomit.
It's not....
David: It's ugly.
Nigel: You know. There's no real....
Derek: You know they can't prove whose vomit it was...they don't
have the facilities at Scotland Yard....
David: You can't print, there's no way to print a spectra-photograph
Nigel: You can't really dust for vomit.

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"crappy"? Either way it's a complete catastrophe! :hi:

mikey_the_rat

Look this, this miniature bread. It’s like... I’ve been working with this now for about half an hour. I can’t figure out.

Awesome scene! :thumbsup: :hi:

"I mean, look at that. Would you want to be holding that in your hand? OK - that's Exhibit A."

mikey_the_rat

And then in here there’s a little guy, look! So it’s, it’s a complete catastrophe!

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As Nigel's bitching about the food and pointing to it, note that several cigs have been snuffed out on cheese crackers!

mikey_the_rat

Good eye! :thumbsup:

My favorite subtlety is the herpetic lesions and how they change positions on their faces from scene to scene!

Sick and wrong and hilarious! :rofl:

There are way, WAY too many scenes in that movie, such as the dried-out snack and deli trays one uses to create that staple of any touring musician's life: The Bandwich.

mikey_the_rat

"bandwich" That's awesome!

Ever gotten lost trying to find your way to the backstage entrance? :rofl:

More than once. Seriously. Many of the venues you get to play have been so hobbled and cobbled together over the years (adding audience seating and increasing backstage area) that there are: stairways to nowhere, hallways to nowhere, looping corridors, you name it. Additionally, there are times when the Green Room (performers' private room, where the fixings for The Bandwich reside) is in a separate building from the performance hall.

Never been late to start, but came damn close a few times.

mikey_the_rat

Or maybe TOO close to be funny? :evilgrin:

I am a musician as well (guitar) and while I've only ever had regular gigs and have never been on a tour, I think being a musician deepens one's appreciation for the movie.

Though my band plays funk and R&B (I'm the bassist), we have a sub-set of the group that plays traditional jazz (good for dinner, letting the older generation foxtrot a little, etc.). This five-piece subgroup (main band is a nine-piece) we have named "158 West" in honor of disastrously wrong MapQuest directions from several years ago. We made the gig with (honestly) five minutes to spare. Best quote from that trip, when we stopped at a convenience store to get oriented:

Clerk: "Ya'll got your directions from the Internet, didn't you?"
Us: "Yes."
Clerk: "Internet's wrong."

"Internet's wrong" is now forever among the band lexicon.

mikey_the_rat

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I play with a guy who has a band just like yours. They do mostly weddings I'd say, but they did get invited to play at the inaugural ball in '04 (along with a lot of other bands as well). They did it for their resume :D

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1WC-sfyRipg (with interview)


Christmas with the Devil

The elves are dressed in leather
And the angels are in chains
(Christmas with the Devil)
The sugar plums are rancid
And the stockings are in flames
(Christmas with the Devil)
There's a demon in my belly
And a gremlin in my brain
There's someone up the chimney hole
And Satan is his name
The rats ate all the presents
And the reindeer ran away
(Christmas with the Devil)
There'll be no Father Christmas
'Cause it's Evils holiday
(Christmas with the Devil)
No bells in Hell
No snow below-
Silent Night, Violent Night
So come all ye unfaithful
Don't be left out in the cold
You don't need no invitation, no...
Your ticket is your soul

That’s what it is, It’s me, I did it, I fucked up, I fucked up the timing, that’s all, I fucked up the timing, I’ve got no timing, I’ve got no timing, I’ve got NO timing. You know what I want you to do? Will you do something for me?



"Disk an' Dat" :rofl:

Mick Shrimpton


All hail Marty DiBergi

Reality speaks its own language.

http://www.spinaltapfan.com/articles/tapviv.html

You gave me a Jea9! :rofl:

Do you know about this, and we don’t know about this? What are you talking about?

vary nice. And how did get that, eh? By exploiting the workers!

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You need to recalibrate your quoting device.

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Clever girl. (spot THAT one!)

It gives us a chance to let our hair down, although I see you've got a head start in that department. I shouldn't talk, though, I'm getting a little shaggy myself. I'd better not stand too close to you, people might think I'm part of the band. I'm joking, of course.

We are such fans of your music and all of your records. I'm not speaking of yours personally, but the whole genre of the rock and roll.

It's a great genre.

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We have a slight problem with your reservation. Nothing serious, I’m afraid.

Who's going to get the choice ones in this scene? :shrug:

You are, you twisted old fruit!

You peeker, cheeky monkey!

Well, it’s a good-sized room, sir. It’s a, it’s a ‘King Leisure’. We can get you a—something.

"Tucker"? Another homophobic slur? :shrug:

I will, I’ll take care of it.



I don't know. Maybe it's a british thing? I tried looking up homophobic slur and tucker on the google, and I keep getting references to Tucker Carlson!

:shrug:

See, that sort of thing I think I could probably... muster up

mikey_the_rat

Freeum!
Museum!
Seeum!

LOVE THAT PART!

...and why not?

Good one! :hi:

Great line! :rofl: :hi:

Where did that appear?
That’s not real, is it?
You can’t print that!

Christopher's laugh is so not acting. Highlarious moment!

I was listening to the Live Earth London feed on Sirius when Spinal Tap came on. The DJs were obviously 20-somethings who had NEVER seen Spinal Tap. They didn't understand why "those little guys" were carrying "little rocks" on stage & then dancing around them. "Kind of looks like a mini-Stonehenge." :spray: :rofl: Then after that song ended, of course they flew in the top stone, which was angrily waved off stage. "Ooh, that was a big mistake. Someone's in trouble. Why can't they get their act together?" Which, I kid you not, led to a short discussion of just who Spinal Tap was (some band from the 70s, but I don't remember any of their hits. Other DJ: I don't remember them at all, why are they here if they're not famous); then the coup de grace--What was it about that comment about the drummer still being alive? Why did the audience laugh???. Unfortunately, no comment about the "Turn it up to 11" signs I later saw on the video feeds. I would have died laughing for sure.

I really thought at some point the DJs would admit that they were playing along with the joke, but the comments they kept making & their dismissive tone over the music (I can't believe this band was ever famous, what were they thinking back then?) made it clear that they'd never seen the movie.

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dg

I would kill for a transcript/audio/video.

Unbelievable! That's wizard!

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I was DYING! It was such a perfect Spinal Tap moment & I would have loved to send the audio to the Spinal Tap folks.

dg

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:toast:

It looks sort of... frizzy.

:pals:

We gonna do Stonehenge tomorrow?

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so he won't trod upon it-

the audience was laughing-
I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. 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*.

And it appears someone caught it, too. :thumbsup:

but I have to go sit down in the lobby and wait for the limo

-------------Would anyone be jealous if I told you I have a pair of undies that are signed by Nigel and David? (Seriously, I do!)

it depends on what they smell like.

Sounds like a new album: Smell the Boxers.

That's okay though, I got this baby:

A temeah original!

"It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why."

The first time I saw the movie, that caught me totally by surprise. Just when you were starting to think there was a sensitive artist beneath Nigel's daft exterior...

...Nope!

Isn't that what the sign said?

Probably not--it's a new band that temeah and I are forming. It's actually Spinal Capricorn ('cause it turns out we're both goats), but we shortened it to Spinal Cap.

Our first album will be called "Smell the Lounge."

and place it in the Lounge.

Since Tap really was a riff on the Rutles, we could legitimately riff on Tap! We need to have some brainstorm sessions-- album titles, variant phrases. I willnt recover from this! (Okay, a WIP) :rofl:

Bag another 11th! I need to work on Cap design! :thumbsup:

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I was being rhetorical in asking the question but I'm glad that a few people caught that line.

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