Mind blown. And if they had each given it TWO thumbs up, well, let's see...I was never good at higher math, but I think 11 is the highest recorded number in human history anyway, right next to infinity.
In a recent interview I learned this movie was ad lib, with the exception of the band’s history. I can’t believe that much brilliance came out of improv.
I mean, could you imagine actually reading a script like this? This kind of stuff only comes from multiple people trying to one-up each other on the spot.
I remember an interview with Eddie Van Halen saying that he didn't think this movie was very funny when he saw it first bcuz alot of the stuff happened to him in real life.
I heard somewhere probably a RUclips video, that the scene where Nigel has problems with the food before a show was based on an actual occurance where Eddie Van Halen did that same type thing.
@@ghostownaproach I think it was David Lee Roth. Van Halen had a contract that only certain color M&Ms were permitted and required, and the unfavored colors had to be removed. It was done as a test to see if the promoters at each venue had read the contract. If they found the wrong M&M, they trashed the place.
I'm a bass player and got to jam with the drummer (rick parnell, one who's in most of the movie) a few times. Phenomenal drummer. Sadly he passed away not to long ago.
One of my favorite little details comes later in the film when they're doing the sound check before the album and Jeannie show. While playing, they call to each other for "Gimme Some Money" as "GSM" and David/Michael McKeen does a perfect Roger Daltey "My Generation" stammer on "You know what I n-n-n-n-need."
“It’s also one of the smartest and most clever. It’s a *comedy* that pretends to be a *documentary* ... It’s all done subtly, they never go for the obvious laugh... the relationships of the band that we pick up almost at the corner of the screen...” Merchant and Gervais got so much from US comedy here for the UK Office.
One of the funniest movies ever and maybe always will be. I was born in 1966 so grew up listening to a lot of what they make fun of in the film. And I think that I still don't get ALL of it because there is just so much there. Such a smartly written and executed film and it rewatches very well too!
I saw Täp play the halftime show at the Poulan Weedeater Bowl in Shreveport, LA in 1979. They had so many amplifiers that they shorted out the stadium’s electrical system, delaying the game two hours.
No one had ever seen anything quite like this before. They couldn't believe it. No, really--they thought it was a real documentary. They thought this band was running around trying to make it. Some still do, to this day. It's genius warped the world... and lead to similar inspiration in other forms... WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, BEST IN SHOW, A MIGHTY WIND, MASCOTS, FOR YOU CONSIDERATION ... and these were just the ones TAP master Christopher Guest gave us.
Never been a fan of movie critics, but Ebert was the exception. Even when I disagreed with him, he always brought an interesting perspective. If I was on the fence about going to see a movie, Ebert's opinion on it would be the only one that mattered to me.
At the time - so many people didn't get it. The word "mockumentary" didn't exist (you're welcome, "The Office") and folks thought this was a real band. Kudos to these two cats for catching on to the brilliance early on.
One of the funniest things I remember was seeing it opening night in high school with a bunch of friends, and NOBODY in the audience was laughing, thinking this was a real documentary about some group they never heard of. Of course we were in on the joke and kept getting glares from everyone else wondering why we laughing our a$$es off the whole time.
And Spinal Tap's songs are actually quite good, lyrics and all. "Twas the ultimate mutation. Yin was searching for his yang. And he looked and he saw that it was good, ha ha ha ha." Lol
One of the most underappreciated jokes in this movie is how -- in the early montage showing the band's history -- it becomes clear that they have no core musical convictions of their own. At every step of the way, they've simply jumped on whatever bandwagon they thought would bring them attention in the moment. In the early '60s (the "Gimme Some Money" phase), they do the whole Yardbirds/blues-rock fusion thing; in the late '60s, with "Listen to What the Flower People Say," they go all-in on heavy-handed, pandering hippiedom; and, of course, in the early '80s, it's on to kinda-sorta-demonic-or-something heavy metal. It's a brilliant sequence; the only thing that might have made it funnier would've been if there'd been a disco phase around '77.
Arent both Siskel and Ebert passed away now? Watching this made me remember how much i liked them...best movie critics ever. Don't really like critics much, beauty can be in the eye of the beholder mostly, but these two were usually correct about duds and flops.
The dvd commentary for this movie is fucking fantastic. It's the three main guys in character. It's like a whole nother movie! I hope you check it out if you're a fan of Tap.
Siskel and Ebert hated each other. I used to think it was just playful banter for the camera until I saw some behind the scenes footage. Oh, and Spinal Tap is a genius movie, something they could both agree on.
It's quite true, you have to have humor intelligence to LOVE this great freakin' movie. I've known people who didn't 'get it' and I just smiled that I did. Lost on the way to the stage is just gold. Pod above was nutz. Only thing I found disappointing is that it ended. So I had to get up off the floor and catch my breath.
For the first, oh, nearly 40 years of my life, and I'm 40 now, I considered Guest the star of this movie. In retrospect, I underrated McKean. He doesn't have the funniest scenes, but his acting performance is terrific. His character had the most depth. Still extremely funny while letting Nigel be the complete dunce.
"I'm lucky to work with two great visionarys in this band. David and Nigel are like fire and ice. I see my role as somewhere in the middle. Sort of like luke warm water..." - Derek Smalls.
It's crazy how underrated Rob Reiner is as a Filmmaker. This film, Princess Bride, Stand by Me, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men. Dude was on quite a hot streak from this film til A Few Good Men. Also, i really miss Siskel & Ebert.
@@spencerhensley5495ven after North he made The American President, and Ghosts of Mississippi I've heard is decent. It's really since the 90s that he's become a forgettable to bad filmmaker. I mostly think of his classic run through the 80s and 90s as movies that had some of the greatest screenplays ever most of all, but he certainly did justice to them.
I remember seeing “This is Spinal Tap” in the theatre. I loved it so much. On our way out I turned to my girlfriend and deadpanned, “They could have at least picked a better band to make a movie about”. The guy in front turned and stared at me. I think the guy in front of me thought I was being completely serious.
@Lloyd Bonafide What is it you have against Spinal Tap? Widely regarded as one of the greatest comedies of all time? Did they cut your lines from the movie or something?
@@djavidianmx1832 Especially, since the first drummer John “Stumpy” Pepys died in a bizarre gardening accident. It was the second drummer who choked on vomit.
You can thank streaming for that. I'm not against technology by any means, but the royalties that were normally gotten on the sale of physical media dried up.
Decades ago I read about an English dinner party which had Sting and Sinead O'Connor,and they were repeating the lines to each other and shrieking with laughter. That's what's so great about ST, the more you know about music, the funnier it is. Ever since, I can't stand watching music-themed films where the actors are clearly just miming the playing of their instruments. Harry really was playing (or knew how to play) that bass solo while stuck in the pod.
geekrockrats how bizarre was it that legendary drummer Jeff Porcaro dies in 1990, 6 years AFTER this came out, on his lawn, rumored to be "a gardening accident." Not the drugs. No sir. A favorite drummer. I figure he would have loved this movie.
What amazes me about "Spinal Tap" is how they actually made TWO movies worth of scenes and jokes. When you watch the DVD with the bonus disc, you discover that the 'deleted scenes' from the film are so extensive that it's like watching a WHOLE NEW "Spinal Tap" movie that was filmed at the same time but that you never even knew existed. These scenes go on for as long as the feature length film and are just as funny!
Has anyone made an extended version with both the original and bonus material? Strange that there's so much cutting room material, given the movie's running time of only 85 minutes. Such a brilliant and funny mockumentary!
@@campbellmanderson943 There is a bootleg called This is Spinal Tap The 4 1/2 Workprint. It is hard to find but it turns up every now and then on ebay or other second-hand sites. It is worth having. apersonofinterest.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/this-is-spinal-tap-mark-2-the-elusive-4-5-hour-workprint/
I remember seeing "This Is Spinal Tap" in the theater. On our way out, I heard a guy behind me say "They could have at least picked a better band to make a movie about". Turned around and looked at him. I believe he was being completely serious. It had apparently escaped him that this was satire.
lol, you hear these stories. But I thought as a band. they actually were pretty good. Sex Farm, Stonehenge, Jazz Odyssey ... they weren't bad songs. Sure they were parodies of a lot of 70s music, but the movie wouldn't have worked if they were BAD bad. I guess it just proves that there's a fine line between ... oops someone says it just below.
When Noel and Liam Gallagher saw a stage show of spinal tap the opening band was the clansmen(?) the folk rock pastiche group that shearer et al do in another film. Allegedly Liam growled at Noel, who are these fucking muppets? He had no idea that tap were the alter egos of the group currently on stage.
While the movie is absolute gold, a good number of professional musicians didn't find the movie funny at all because it hit far to close to home. Stars ranging from Sing to Dio felt the movie was far too real to be funny.
I seem to remember reading somewhere about Ronnie James Dio praising this movie for actually being accurate about what life on tour for a real band is like. "Everyone has been lost in the tunnels under the stage at least one time..."
I actually used this gag when I was in a group of patients being led through the corridors of a gloomy NHS hospital: "Wooo Rock n Roll!!". Everyone got the joke. That's how famous this film is.
@Michelle M - Yes, the Sun-Times is an embarrassment now. After the Daily News closed, it was the best paper in the city, now it's like the Penny Shopper.
I liked them best when on PBS, Thursdays at 8 PM, then I could plan which movies to go see on the weekend. When they switched to syndication, the air day-time moved around so much it was hard to find and sometimes wouldn't air until late on Sunday, which made it less useful.
That's the thing I miss most now that streaming is big. Commentary tracks were sometimes hidden gems. The spinal tap one is a good example. The anchorman commentary is another (there are all kinds of people who have nothing to do with the movie on it). The Armageddon ones where Ben Affleck trashes there movie and pisses off Micheal Bay is another haha.
It works, because it seizes upon the pretentious nature of rock bands who act like what they are doing is the most important musical endeavor in history
Exactly. "Every cut is a hit." And the really subtle joke on wanting to do private work with the London Philharmonic, songs (actually a musical trilogy, lol) based on the life of Jack the Ripper, lol. You could tell that the players really appreciated the genre they were parodying very well.
My favorite moment in the movie is when Chris Guest is playing a guitar solo using a violin. He stops in the middle of it to tune the violin. Now THAT'S pretentious!!!
@@thohangst Actually, he was making fun of Jimmy Page's violin bow guitar solos, which were a feature of Led Zeppelin's shows. Supposedly, Page was so offended or appalled by the scene in the movie that he never used the violin bow again. I've actually heard there were a lot of musicians were MASSIVELY offended when the movie first cam eout, because they didn't get the joke (seeing as they kinda WERE the joke).
The Scorpions used to joke about being the “real Spinal Tap”.. And Ian Gillian, whos Black Sabbath actslly had a Mammoth Stonehenge set that crowded them off the stage, remarked laughingly in an interview that it was a “true Spinal Tap moment”...
I think S&E are more or less right in how they review this, but there is one point I disagree with- The best comedies are usually ones that you CAN approach from a smart place, but you can also approach from a dumb place. Tap I think qualifies in this regard.
Like 95% of the entire movie's dialogue, The line was improvised Rob Reiner himself said that 1 line the absolute perfect description of the movie as a whole= "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever"
I showed this movie to my girlfriend, back in 1987 or so. About half-way through, we paused it to get snacks. I asked her what she thought of it so far (as she hadn't been laughing a lot). She said, "well, it would be a lot funnier if it wasn't real." We only lasted another week or so............
In 1986 my brother and I were playing in a rock band. On an off night, we rented This is Spinal Tap on VHS and watched it with our respective girlfriends. The girls didn't get it at all. My brother and I were laughing so hard we had to pause the tape to breathe.
Todd Rundgren did the album Deface The Music which was a straight out Beatles tribute band. Could easily be mistaken for lost Beatles tapes. ruclips.net/video/Qwex3FO_JXA/видео.html
@@KOSMICKEN09 Having no rut, obviously. Uh, I think the kid was trying to write "Rutles", but he didn't have anyone to spell it for him. He should be pitied, not made fun of. The same goes for Matthew, with his "Ruttles".
The true test of Spinal Tap is that you watch it today and it’s still relevant, still funny, and still as fresh, unique, and entertaining as it was when it first came out. Total masterpiece.
If Siskel gave it 1 thumb and Ebert gave it 1 thumb and you put them together it would go to 11 thumbs.
Mind blown.
And if they had each given it TWO thumbs up, well, let's see...I was never good at higher math, but I think 11 is the highest recorded number in human history anyway, right next to infinity.
Hahaha
Sounds about right to me lol
I see what you did there. nice
E X C E L L E N T---------------------------- 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
"I woudn't worry about it. Boston's not a big college town." Ian Faith
They're becoming more...selective in their appeal.
Gko Gko 🤣🤣🤣of course it’s not. There’s no Harvard, Boston U, MIT, etc.
Oh, hi, Liam? It's Ian. Right, Ian, how you doing?
One of my favorite lines in the film. Quick, name a US city that's MORE of a college town than Boston ha ha ha.
Eric van Bezooijen even more impressive is the fact this movie was ad lib
In a recent interview I learned this movie was ad lib, with the exception of the band’s history. I can’t believe that much brilliance came out of improv.
They had to develop each of their character's history, and that of the band, so that their improv would make sense
I mean, could you imagine actually reading a script like this? This kind of stuff only comes from multiple people trying to one-up each other on the spot.
They're all naturally brilliant performers
You can almost see Guest and McKean break character during the "shark Sandwich" review.
@@brianmiller1077 "*chuckles* they didn't print that"
What a blast from the past! I used to love watching Siskel & Ebert (RIP) as a kid.
This Is Spinal Tap movie here => twitter.com/3895325dde0fc845c/status/822791310893404165
I remember an interview with Eddie Van Halen saying that he didn't think this movie was very funny when he saw it first bcuz alot of the stuff happened to him in real life.
I heard somewhere probably a RUclips video, that the scene where Nigel has problems with the food before a show was based on an actual occurance where Eddie Van Halen did that same type thing.
@@ghostownaproach I think it was David Lee Roth. Van Halen had a contract that only certain color M&Ms were permitted and required, and the unfavored colors had to be removed. It was done as a test to see if the promoters at each venue had read the contract. If they found the wrong M&M, they trashed the place.
Here lies David St. Hubbins, and, why not?
Okay, that's too much fucking perspective.
The Patron Saint of Quality Footwear.
I envy us
That was such an exquisitely stupid line. Only someone very clever could've written something that stupid.
Can I raise a practical question at this point, thohan99? Are we going to play Stonehenge tomorrow?
I'm a bass player and got to jam with the drummer (rick parnell, one who's in most of the movie) a few times. Phenomenal drummer. Sadly he passed away not to long ago.
Did he spontaneously combust? (RIP, Ric.)
@@joadbreslin5819no one knows. The authorities thought it best unsolved.
..yes, but it wasn't his own vomit..does that make it potential homicide?
One of my favorite little details comes later in the film when they're doing the sound check before the album and Jeannie show. While playing, they call to each other for "Gimme Some Money" as "GSM" and David/Michael McKeen does a perfect Roger Daltey "My Generation" stammer on "You know what I n-n-n-n-need."
Listening to S&E talk about what a brilliant premise a comedic mock documentary is is mind-blowing.
Here it is in 2024, and I'm still amazed by the sheer number of gags in this movie! "Ying was looking for his Yang" 🙂
“It’s also one of the smartest and most clever. It’s a *comedy* that pretends to be a *documentary* ... It’s all done subtly, they never go for the obvious laugh... the relationships of the band that we pick up almost at the corner of the screen...”
Merchant and Gervais got so much from US comedy here for the UK Office.
And they acknowledged it. Years ago. Sorry, if you were under the impression that only you noticed.
Just watched it this weekend again and it still holds up!
One of the funniest movies ever and maybe always will be. I was born in 1966 so grew up listening to a lot of what they make fun of in the film. And I think that I still don't get ALL of it because there is just so much there. Such a smartly written and executed film and it rewatches very well too!
Man how I wish these two were still around. At least we have these clips to enjoy.
“We’re cancelled here”
“At the hotel?”
I saw Täp play the halftime show at the Poulan Weedeater Bowl in Shreveport, LA in 1979. They had so many amplifiers that they shorted out the stadium’s electrical system, delaying the game two hours.
I used to love this show!
No one had ever seen anything quite like this before. They couldn't believe it. No, really--they thought it was a real documentary. They thought this band was running around trying to make it. Some still do, to this day. It's genius warped the world... and lead to similar inspiration in other forms...
WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, BEST IN SHOW, A MIGHTY WIND, MASCOTS, FOR YOU CONSIDERATION
... and these were just the ones TAP master Christopher Guest gave us.
The first satire of rock music in a comedy documentary was The Rutles.
It's amazing how long the clips were compared to now.
"David!....'Smell The Glove' is here!
Hello Janine.
One of my favorite lines.
Never been a fan of movie critics, but Ebert was the exception. Even when I disagreed with him, he always brought an interesting perspective. If I was on the fence about going to see a movie, Ebert's opinion on it would be the only one that mattered to me.
The only opinion worth anything should be your own. Unless you're a brainless lemming, then I concur.
Have a good time, all of the time. That's my philosophy Marty.
At the time - so many people didn't get it. The word "mockumentary" didn't exist (you're welcome, "The Office") and folks thought this was a real band. Kudos to these two cats for catching on to the brilliance early on.
Here lies David St. Hubbins ... and why not?
A comedy Rockumentary!😂❤
I knew a guy that thought Spinal Tap was a real band. I gave him crap to no end for it.
Not a real band? I saw them live in '82 - Smell the Glove tour.
"i got everything...more than you did"...and now we know why Roger Ebert is lovingly remembered, and that other guy is just some guy.
Siskel was joking. He is also lovingly remembered.
Pretty amazing how "right" they got this one - and they both agreed. Hindsight shows they hit the nail on the head.
Simply brilliant
They should both shake hands with themselves. Goodnight and thank you.
that song is fucking kick ass they play while the bass player is stuck.
One of the funniest things I remember was seeing it opening night in high school with a bunch of friends, and NOBODY in the audience was laughing, thinking this was a real documentary about some group they never heard of. Of course we were in on the joke and kept getting glares from everyone else wondering why we laughing our a$$es off the whole time.
And Spinal Tap's songs are actually quite good, lyrics and all.
"Twas the ultimate mutation. Yin was searching for his yang. And he looked and he saw that it was good, ha ha ha ha." Lol
I wonder if they liked Children of the Corn
Yeah....don't really care. THIS IS SPINAL TAP!!!
Elaine Snow sucked in comparison. I remember zero of that one.
Michelle M from what I remember, it was pretty dreadful
One of my top 5 movies, no doubt, including crime, drama, whatever, you could put this movie against anything
One of the most underappreciated jokes in this movie is how -- in the early montage showing the band's history -- it becomes clear that they have no core musical convictions of their own. At every step of the way, they've simply jumped on whatever bandwagon they thought would bring them attention in the moment. In the early '60s (the "Gimme Some Money" phase), they do the whole Yardbirds/blues-rock fusion thing; in the late '60s, with "Listen to What the Flower People Say," they go all-in on heavy-handed, pandering hippiedom; and, of course, in the early '80s, it's on to kinda-sorta-demonic-or-something heavy metal. It's a brilliant sequence; the only thing that might have made it funnier would've been if there'd been a disco phase around '77.
I miss these guys
Also one of the most quotable movies
Great sound. Is this in Dubly?
🎵Big bottom drive me outta my mind! How can I leave this...behind?🎶🎸
Arent both Siskel and Ebert passed away now? Watching this made me remember how much i liked them...best movie critics ever. Don't really like critics much, beauty can be in the eye of the beholder mostly, but these two were usually correct about duds and flops.
Yes, Gene died in 1999 at age 53 of a brain tumor, Roger died in 2013 of thyroid cancer.
I could barely hear this video someone needs to turn it up to 11!
"If I told them once I told them a thousand times 'Spinal Tap first, puppet show second' "
You are all witnesses at the new birth of Spinal Tap Mark II
There was a story back in the day that DLR himself loved this movie...but thought it was a documentary about a REAL band he'd never heard of
"Hello Cleveland!"
Kind of funny the movie they review after Spinal Tap stars Jamie Lee Curtis the wife of Christopher Guest,(Nigel)
And the weird thing is Christopher Guest was an actual Lord and Jaime Lee Curtis became a lady when they married.
I know that sounds b.s but it’s true
Great review... one of the funniest movies EVER.
RIP to the greatest.
They were ahead of their time.
Ian: I have a bit of bad news. The Boston gig has been cancelled. Which one? All of them. But, don't worry, if's not a big college town anyways."
My wife and I were the only people in the theatre who laughed at that line when it debuted in our city.
I rarely ever agreed with Ebert, but this is one of those rare occasions.
If Siskel sneaks up the left stairway, and Ebert sneaks up the right, why do they come down to their balcony seats from the opposite sides?
"I mean, yeah... we're saying she should have to smell the glove, but not like, over and over..."
The dvd commentary for this movie is fucking fantastic. It's the three main guys in character. It's like a whole nother movie! I hope you check it out if you're a fan of Tap.
"You can't really dust... for vomit..."
Siskel and Ebert hated each other. I used to think it was just playful banter for the camera until I saw some behind the scenes footage. Oh, and Spinal Tap is a genius movie, something they could both agree on.
It's quite true, you have to have humor intelligence to LOVE this great freakin' movie. I've known people who didn't 'get it' and I just smiled that I did. Lost on the way to the stage is just gold. Pod above was nutz. Only thing I found disappointing is that it ended. So I had to get up off the floor and catch my breath.
Funny how the next movie has Jamie Lee Curtis, who is married to Christopher Guest who played Nigel in Spinal Tap. 😂👍
Chris Guest - genius!
For the first, oh, nearly 40 years of my life, and I'm 40 now, I considered Guest the star of this movie. In retrospect, I underrated McKean. He doesn't have the funniest scenes, but his acting performance is terrific. His character had the most depth. Still extremely funny while letting Nigel be the complete dunce.
The very end - I don't want to be forward, but... snap! lol...
The review for "Shark Sandwich", just 2 words....Shit Sandwich.
I have a practical question to raise at this point: Who hated each other more - Nigel and Janine, or Siskel and Ebert?
funny how you watch WWII videos which are remarkably good, and then videos like this from the 70's look like they were filmed with a box camera
"I'm lucky to work with two great visionarys in this band. David and Nigel are like fire and ice. I see my role as somewhere in the middle. Sort of like luke warm water..." - Derek Smalls.
"So you're saying that when you play, you feel like a preserved moose onstage?"
@@pronkb000 I'd probably work with children.
@@selectorken "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."
@@Revelwoodie "if it looks stupid but it works, then it ain't stupid." The military
Funny funny funny,should have gotten an Oscar
It's crazy how underrated Rob Reiner is as a Filmmaker. This film, Princess Bride, Stand by Me, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men. Dude was on quite a hot streak from this film til A Few Good Men. Also, i really miss Siskel & Ebert.
If only he hadn’t of made North he would still be one of our very best filmmakers. Fortunately everything he did from 1984-92 was great.
@@spencerhensley5495 "of made"? Seriously? Go back to school.
Too bad he's such a hard left nutcase in real life!
@@spencerhensley5495ven after North he made The American President, and Ghosts of Mississippi I've heard is decent. It's really since the 90s that he's become a forgettable to bad filmmaker. I mostly think of his classic run through the 80s and 90s as movies that had some of the greatest screenplays ever most of all, but he certainly did justice to them.
He's still a MEATHEAD
I remember seeing “This is Spinal Tap” in the theatre. I loved it so much. On our way out I turned to my girlfriend and deadpanned, “They could have at least picked a better band to make a movie about”. The guy in front turned and stared at me. I think the guy in front of me thought I was being completely serious.
Bravo, sir. ; )
Cool I saw this movie on DVD in 2009 from my library 😊
That . . . is brilliant! That is perfectly in line with the humor of this amazing film! I hope she laughed!
I see what you did there
nice
Haha, well done.
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.
I've used thst line several times in real life since
Movies like this...I always say they're so stupid that they're funny.
@@TheLocutus70 I always say stuff like This Is Spinal Tap and The Simpsons is stupid humour written by very clever people, and that's not a criticism.
@Lloyd Bonafide I think it's safe to say you're in a very, very small minority.
@Lloyd Bonafide What is it you have against Spinal Tap? Widely regarded as one of the greatest comedies of all time?
Did they cut your lines from the movie or something?
"Our first drummer died after choking on vomit...
Not his own,someone elses"
They decided it one of those crimes, better left...unsolved.
Well we don't know who's Vomit.
YOU ARE WRONG!!!! John “Stumpy” Pepys was the first Spinal Tap Drummer. who died in a bizarre gardening accident.
@@djavidianmx1832 Especially, since the first drummer John “Stumpy” Pepys died in a bizarre gardening accident. It was the second drummer who choked on vomit.
@@jamesconroy7030 Ok! I was wrong!
About something that NEVER HAPPENED in tbe first place
Sorry didn't mean to shout
"How much more black can it get? The answer is none, none more black. "
Metallica ripped off their album cover, lol.
JB Metallica was CLEARLY the inspiration for ST. Proof: "Some kind of Monster." Funniest thing I ever saw.
Spinal Top was created in 1979. Metallica's first album was released in 1983.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 millennials!
Death sells!
"Rockers pushing 40", lol now rockers are pushing 70 and still at it, 40 is nothing.
Now they're pushing 80, and in the meantime a lot of them have started pushing up the daisies.
Pushing 75 ;)
@@squamish4244 Hey, what matters is you're here, in the "now", baby! And seemingly of sound mind and a body capable of posting here, so "kudos"!
Damn right!!!
You can thank streaming for that. I'm not against technology by any means, but the royalties that were normally gotten on the sale of physical media dried up.
I've done my time in bands, and this film is so real it hurts.
Decades ago I read about an English dinner party which had Sting and Sinead O'Connor,and they were repeating the lines to each other and shrieking with laughter. That's what's so great about ST, the more you know about music, the funnier it is. Ever since, I can't stand watching music-themed films where the actors are clearly just miming the playing of their instruments. Harry really was playing (or knew how to play) that bass solo while stuck in the pod.
I completely understand the rock stars who watched this and thought it was a straight documentary.
I’ve been a musician all my life and this movie gets more real with each passing year.
Played for 26 years. Very accurate.
@Lloyd Bonafide Still bitter that you got passed over, huh, Phil? Go whack off to a Lita Ford album cover and relieve some of that dad-stress.
The authorities said it was one of those things that was better left unsolved...
A bizarre gardening accident
geekrockrats how bizarre was it that legendary drummer Jeff Porcaro dies in 1990, 6 years AFTER this came out, on his lawn, rumored to be "a gardening accident." Not the drugs. No sir.
A favorite drummer. I figure he would have loved this movie.
The official ruling was that he choked 'on vomit'. It wasn't actually his vomit, it was somebody else's.
You can't really dust for vomit.
The stonehenge prop sequence just about killed me when I saw it. The build up and delivery was sublime.
My wife to be laughed so hard she fell off the couch and kept laughing
@@brianmiller1077 twas funny that.
@@brianmiller1077Yeah, that never happened.
Angry Spinal Tap: "...our Stonehenge was in immanent danger of being crushed, by a dwarf."
My favorite comedy of all time. I give it an 11.
What amazes me about "Spinal Tap" is how they actually made TWO movies worth of scenes and jokes. When you watch the DVD with the bonus disc, you discover that the 'deleted scenes' from the film are so extensive that it's like watching a WHOLE NEW "Spinal Tap" movie that was filmed at the same time but that you never even knew existed. These scenes go on for as long as the feature length film and are just as funny!
ita...the bonus material is a whole 'nother movie and just as funny!
I'd love to edit the film with the unused footage.
Has anyone made an extended version with both the original and bonus material? Strange that there's so much cutting room material, given the movie's running time of only 85 minutes. Such a brilliant and funny mockumentary!
@@campbellmanderson943 There is a bootleg called This is Spinal Tap The 4 1/2 Workprint. It is hard to find but it turns up every now and then on ebay or other second-hand sites. It is worth having. apersonofinterest.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/this-is-spinal-tap-mark-2-the-elusive-4-5-hour-workprint/
The DVD also has an additional in-charachter audio commentary track. Runs for the entire length of the film and is equally funny.
I remember seeing "This Is Spinal Tap" in the theater. On our way out, I heard a guy behind me say "They could have at least picked a better band to make a movie about". Turned around and looked at him. I believe he was being completely serious. It had apparently escaped him that this was satire.
lol, you hear these stories. But I thought as a band. they actually were pretty good. Sex Farm, Stonehenge, Jazz Odyssey ... they weren't bad songs. Sure they were parodies of a lot of 70s music, but the movie wouldn't have worked if they were BAD bad.
I guess it just proves that there's a fine line between ... oops someone says it just below.
Either that or he was the best troll on the planet.
And these people vote in federal elections.
When Noel and Liam Gallagher saw a stage show of spinal tap the opening band was the clansmen(?) the folk rock pastiche group that shearer et al do in another film.
Allegedly Liam growled at Noel, who are these fucking muppets? He had no idea that tap were the alter egos of the group currently on stage.
@@highdownmartin So Liam's an idiot? Shocker!
The scene where the band is attempting to harmonize over Elvis's grave with one of his songs is hilarious.
"Same key I think..." 🤣
"Sounds fucking barbershop raga", lol.
Nigel Tufnel:
It really puts perspective on things though, doesn't it?
David St. Hubbins:
But too much! There's too much FAHkeen perspective now.
Since my baby left me...
............ left me.
I just realized Ed Bagely was the drummer behind Michael McKean in that 60s clip. Both are in Better Call Saul.
'Ed Bagely' - as in 'Ed Like-a-bagel'
@@thesprawl2361 Oh look at you, The Sprawl. Jumped right on that bagel thing you casual master of wit.
@@co2metal Thanks chum. I'm going to take that as a compliment solely to annoy you.
@@thesprawl2361 That won't be enough to annoy me, The Sprawl.
@@co2metal Then I'm just going to take it as a compliment.
To anyone who's played in a rock band "This Is Spinal Tap" is comedy gold.
Right up there with Monty Python or the best of Mel Brooks.
While the movie is absolute gold, a good number of professional musicians didn't find the movie funny at all because it hit far to close to home. Stars ranging from Sing to Dio felt the movie was far too real to be funny.
@@frankphillips6001 I didn't know that. Thanks for the insight!
Or it's "sea of retarded sexuality".
100% true. Espicially on the shit thats going on in todays world. On really bad days, I need to pull out my dvd's and watch one of these movies.
Eddie Van Halen said he thought the movie was more realistic than comedy.
I seem to remember reading somewhere about Ronnie James Dio praising this movie for actually being accurate about what life on tour for a real band is like. "Everyone has been lost in the tunnels under the stage at least one time..."
Hahahaha, I remember that !!!
That scene was apparently inspired by a video of Tom Petty walking through a door expecting the stage and finding himself in an indoor tennis court.
I actually used this gag when I was in a group of patients being led through the corridors of a gloomy NHS hospital: "Wooo Rock n Roll!!". Everyone got the joke. That's how famous this film is.
I have never laughed at a movie scene more than that one. Still kills me.
The getting lost backstage scene actually happened to KISS at a concert where the elevator took them to the wrong floor. 😆
Kind of funny the following review is for a Jamie Lee Curtis movie, since she eventually married Christopher Guest.
The whole reason why I scrolled down the comments, was to see if anyone else caught that too.
He's great!
Taylor Carlson in 1984, about when this came out, married since, apparently.
Taylor Carlson She is also pretending to be something she isnt
@@kingofallwhites hush now. No one wants to hear the truth.
"This is Spinal Tap" is one of the most brilliant movies ever made.
Uncle George, let's not get crazy....
Athletic - Dashole he's right though
No. It is the most brilliant
@Lloyd Bonafide Yeah, he plays multiple characters on his radio show. That's real hard to get.
A real documentary of Maroon Five would probably be funnier, albeit unintentionally.
"You should have seen what they wanted her to smell. It wasn't a glove believe me.."
"What's wrong with being sexy?"
@@Nightdare "IST. Ist."
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand,
Or so I have read.
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo. I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo.
Bands back then had so much more poetry in the lyrics.
Ytgyyg
"Or so I have read" 😂 Genius!!!!
Big bottom, big bottom. Talk about bumcakes my girls got em. Big bottom drive me out of my mind. How can I leave this behind?
Man, I never wanted to live in a world without Siskel & Ebert. I didn't always agree with them, but dang, I sure miss them now!
But, God, I love this movie for a MILLION reasons. Or at least eleven...
TXSugarMagnolia have you seen the Sun-Times? It's ALL ads! There weren't any interesting articles or reviews like there used to be.
@Michelle M - Yes, the Sun-Times is an embarrassment now. After the Daily News closed, it was the best paper in the city, now it's like the Penny Shopper.
Fuck cancer. It got them both.
I liked them best when on PBS, Thursdays at 8 PM, then I could plan which movies to go see on the weekend.
When they switched to syndication, the air day-time moved around so much it was hard to find and sometimes wouldn't air until late on Sunday, which made it less useful.
The DVD version has an additional commentary audio track that's almost equally as funny because the actor's remain in charachter throughout.
I know. It's actually my favorite part of the DVD. =)
That's the thing I miss most now that streaming is big. Commentary tracks were sometimes hidden gems. The spinal tap one is a good example. The anchorman commentary is another (there are all kinds of people who have nothing to do with the movie on it). The Armageddon ones where Ben Affleck trashes there movie and pisses off Micheal Bay is another haha.
"That movie was such a hit piece. We've heard that people saw the film, and they actually laughed!"
Can I raise a practical question at this point? Are we gonna do "Stonehenge" tomorrow?
No we're not gonna do fucking Stonehenge!
Pat McCann 18 inches...
leave it to a man to not be able to differentiate feet from inches, lol!
*NO WE'AH NOT GONNA FACKIN DO STONE ENGE*
Don Hawk 😠...NO WE'RE NOT DOING FACKING STONEHENGE!
Fuck the napkin!
It works, because it seizes upon the pretentious nature of rock bands who act like what they are doing is the most important musical endeavor in history
No that's just Pink Floyd
VCR Time Machine your sentence works because it’s only use of punctuation is in t, he wrong place...
Exactly. "Every cut is a hit." And the really subtle joke on wanting to do private work with the London Philharmonic, songs (actually a musical trilogy, lol) based on the life of Jack the Ripper, lol. You could tell that the players really appreciated the genre they were parodying very well.
@@MMWechsler Saucy Jack...He's a naughty one..
You are right and it is the same for any career whose work is largely a matter of opinion.
My favorite moment in the movie is when Chris Guest is playing a guitar solo using a violin. He stops in the middle of it to tune the violin. Now THAT'S pretentious!!!
Yes, a nod to the ostentatiousness of prog rock, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Yes, etc. Brilliance.
Definitely the best part
@@thohangst Actually, he was making fun of Jimmy Page's violin bow guitar solos, which were a feature of Led Zeppelin's shows. Supposedly, Page was so offended or appalled by the scene in the movie that he never used the violin bow again. I've actually heard there were a lot of musicians were MASSIVELY offended when the movie first cam eout, because they didn't get the joke (seeing as they kinda WERE the joke).
Kohntarkosz exactly. It hit too close to home. Sometimes a parody really captures a truth even though it is exaggerated a bit
The Scorpions used to joke about being the “real Spinal Tap”..
And Ian Gillian, whos Black Sabbath actslly had a Mammoth Stonehenge set that crowded them off the
stage, remarked laughingly in an interview that it was a “true Spinal Tap moment”...
You can’t dust for vomit👌
One of the great ad libs of all times, bar none.
"We'd love to sit around and chat, but we gotta sit down in the lobby and wait for the limo."
lossratioband my absolute favorite line
delivered by Howard Hesseman
Duke Fame......great name for a Rocker!
*waves vaguely* oh, something something EnormoDome
3:08 I don't know why I laugh hysterically every time I see Ed Begley, Jr. grin into the camera in that scene.
cepson He looks so happy and we know he winds up DEED! It’s sad and hilarious.
He reminds me of the "twisted old fruit" hotel receptionist.
And that little inadvertent shoulder shrug at the end...
@@zosothezephead837 he was just as God made him
"There's a fine line between clever and stupid."
This was one liner heaven between us drunken band mates. It never gets old.
My friends & I have been using that since the movie came out. 😄
I think S&E are more or less right in how they review this, but there is one point I disagree with-
The best comedies are usually ones that you CAN approach from a smart place, but you can also approach from a dumb place. Tap I think qualifies in this regard.
Good point
You might say they managed to be both stupid and clever.
there's a fine line, between stupid, and clever...
the Simpsons also nails this
Like 95% of the entire movie's dialogue, The line was improvised Rob Reiner himself said that 1 line the absolute perfect description of the movie as a whole=
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever"
I showed this movie to my girlfriend, back in 1987 or so. About half-way through, we paused it to get snacks. I asked her what she thought of it so far (as she hadn't been laughing a lot). She said, "well, it would be a lot funnier if it wasn't real."
We only lasted another week or so............
I've made pretty much every GF I've ever had watch this movie with me. :-D
In 1986 my brother and I were playing in a rock band. On an off night, we rented This is Spinal Tap on VHS and watched it with our respective girlfriends. The girls didn't get it at all. My brother and I were laughing so hard we had to pause the tape to breathe.
The real version is the story of Anvil, life unfortunately imitating art
Six years _earlier,_ the mockumentary The Rutless by Eric Idle was released. A great inspiration for Spinal Tap, without doubt.
Rutles - what is Rutless 😂
Todd Rundgren did the album Deface The Music which was a straight out Beatles tribute band. Could easily be mistaken for lost Beatles tapes.
ruclips.net/video/Qwex3FO_JXA/видео.html
@@KOSMICKEN09 Having no rut, obviously. Uh, I think the kid was trying to write "Rutles", but he didn't have anyone to spell it for him. He should be pitied, not made fun of. The same goes for Matthew, with his "Ruttles".
The true test of Spinal Tap is that you watch it today and it’s still relevant, still funny, and still as fresh, unique, and entertaining as it was when it first came out. Total masterpiece.
To be fair, though, most of the people it's parodying are now dead, or near as dammit.
How much more black could this be? The answer is none. None more black.
YES ,,,,none more black !
And it's the inspiration for Jack Black.