Favorite member of Spinal Tap?

:shrug: ;)

You don't know where he is, do you? I didn't think so.

:P

I saw them live, too. "Stinkin' up the great outdoors!"

I saw them in 1989 on the "Break Like the Wind" tour. Absolutely brilliant.

they were #84 on MTV's "top 100 metal bands of all time"

But am I the only one who finds the film pretty much wholly unamusing? I "get" the jokes, and I understand the parody, but it's never inspired more than a smirk and a chuckle from me.

I'm sure that I'll get lectures about my lack of a sense of humor blah blah blah, but the film just doesn't do anything for me.

YMMV, of course...

And my dog seems to be unimpressed, although it is unclear whether she is leaving the room because the movie offends her sensibilities or she just can't stand my hysterical laughter.

I know it's really not that funny, but it still cracks me up. :rofl:

Marty: It's very nice.
Nigel: You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of...
Marty: What do you call this?
Nigel: Well, this piece is called "Lick My Love Pump."

In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...

He died in a bizarre gardening accident...

You can't really dust for vomit.

It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever.

Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported.

"Its better left unsolved"

Philly's not really a rock-n-roll town anyway.

and of course:
Marty: Why dont you just make 10 louder?
Nigel: This one goes to eleven.



about 10 years ago, some company (i forget who) produced an amplifier with dials numbered 1 to 20. They got Nigel to do the magazine ad, with the quote "well, thats nine more, isnt it?"

and we have seen it a zillion times. It really is funny if you have ever worked in the music biz. Lots of inside jokes.

There are just so many times in that film where I'm forced to go "OMG - I KNOW A GUY JUST LIKE THAT", or "Yup, I've played a job like that"

I lived in a college town for ten years, and I knew a ton of musicians during that span, so I'm not entirely outside the universe of the "in" jokes, but they still don't tickle my funnybone all that much.

Thanks for the observation, though--I suppose that it's just not my movie.

And a great satire. The girlfriend becoming the manager - how many times have we been through that? LOL

something nearly every band has gone through.

"That was about to be crushed by a dwarf!"

The mini Stonehenge and the big see-thru pods (Derek was trapped in his), too funny!

I can't pick a favorite member. They're all funny.

"Saint Hubins, the Patron Saint of Quality Footwear." :headbang:

Tall blonde geek with glasses

"Gimme Some Mon-aaay..."

I mean, seriously!

(could be cuz Christopher Guest is just so amazing, no matter what he puts his improv mind to)

Tufnel is God.

"You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?"

"Lick my Love Pump."

:7