So many great things about the film that's 35 years old now.
The video I linked is a 22-minute interview by Harry Smith with the geniuses behind the classic.
Everyone seems to have a favorite Beetle. Who's your favorite member of Spinal Tap?
Michael McKean (as David St. Hubbins)?
Christopher Guest (as Nigel Tufnel)?
Harry Shearer (as Derek Smalls)?
Some truly great tidbits - some I'd heard, some not - in this interview (which includes Rob Reiner), including their favorite moments, what made them laugh while making it, the struggle they had trying to sell it to studios ("Maybe you should wink? In the first 30 seconds of the film?" Shearer says, "No, I don't think we'll do that."
Also, that the film was pretty much ALL improvised after they'd made a 20-minute version (that nobody seemed to get ... at all).
And one subtle thing that McKean references as one of his favorite things about the entire project: That someone (he can't remember who did it), at some point, put an umlaut over the N in Spinal.
Happy Friday, all.
May 1 interview. - (
New Window )
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The Stonehenge part is hysterical
David St. Hubbins is my favorite lol
Me too. Named after the Patron Saint of Quality Footwear.
Here lies David St. Hubbins. And why not?
Kills me every time.
NO, WERE NOT GONNA FUCKING DO STONEHENGE!!!
The authorities thought it best to leave it...unsolved...
This one's called Lick my Love Pump - ( New Window )
This particular hot summer night, me and my jam buddies dragged an extra bass amp up there and 3 basses.
You know what came next.
:)
This particular hot summer night, me and my jam buddies dragged an extra bass amp up there and 3 basses.
You know what came next.
:)
Hernias?
“Look, this one’s never been played, still got the ol’ tagger on it.”
““This one here?”
“Well don’t touch it...”
“I wasn’t going to touch it, I was just pointing...”
“Well don’t even point at it. It can’t be played! It can never be played! Right, I think you’ve seen enough of that one.”
“Well then if you fold it and you keep folding you get this. And I don’t want this, I want larger bread. I mean would you eat that? No. A that’s exhibit A. Then you come over here and there’s a little guy in here. But who’s in this one? No one, there’s nobody home! It’s a complete catastrophe!”
Lick my love pump
Lick my love pump
It’s a trilogy. In D Minor. Which is the saddest of all keys, really