@@ArmyJames, you can’t really lay the breakup of Spinal Täp at her feet like so many in the press do. Her art and David’s love for her was a beautiful part of the Spinal Täp story. It was really the media, the record companies, and the utter lack of any quality music that’s to blame.
@@modularmuse funny either way, the scene emphasis how low Spinal Tap has reached when they don't have sound engineers to check all the cables, or they stopped caring.
The amphitheatre this was filmed at, was a pretty hot spot for a while back in the early 80's, many up and coming bands played there, Quiet Riot, Ratt, Poison, Stryper, Twisted Sister. Magic Mountain used to have Metal Concerts and all the local top acts would play there. I lived close by and practically lived at Magic Mountain during the summer. It was around $13 to get into the park in the early 80's. Sometimes it ws free, if you donated a library book or can food.
I’ll never forget seeing Winger at Six Flags 😂😂😂 they were on their way out of popularity, I was in 6th grade, we only went because we had season tickets and they happened to be there. The crowd was more sparse than this scene. I had second row seats and will never forget it looked like Kip Winger was stuffing his pants. So the airport scene always hits too.
I forgot about this scene until listening to a podcast review a jazz concert where the bass overwhelmed the band and they referred to this scene. Brilliant!
Played a gig behind a bar with two picnic tables full of old people and kids. We did a blues jam and one of the old people fell asleep. Paid our dues we did.
Kurt Cobain's personal journals were published after his death. At one point Cobain writes about his fears that Nirvana will go from megastars to yesterday's news. He writes: "I can see it now, Puppet Show And Nirvana."
Filmed at Magic Mountain in Southern California at the "Tom McCann Theater". Motley Crue will never admit this, but we saw them there about two years before this was filmed. I'll bet it was one of Motley Crue's first outdoor performances ever (1981 or 2ish..). Vince was still lighting Nikki's boots on fire on stage and there was a huge pentagram behind them. I felt it was a bit too 2112 for my liking. "LIVE WIRE" off the original release is still the only song of theirs that sustains for me. But whatever. They rocked a whole generation of kids and that's pretty damn cool. Also, the album cover for "Too Fast...." is super cool in that it was an homage to the Stones "Sticky Fingers" just like The Clash had previously done with "London Calling and the first Elvis Presley album; for those who don't know...👏👏✌✌😎😎🍻🍻 for the record, i'm an old school Orange County So Cal surf punk dude. Metal was never my scene, but several of my friends were part of the original full-on Southern California metalhead scene (Metallica's first gig at Radio City was just a few blocks away from our high school -CHS'83. I remember the fliers for it and then hearing all about it the following week..). Anyways, back to Motley Crue. One night at the Troubadour in Hollywood, Nikki Six showed up. This was just a little after their first album started blowing UP. I was not a "longhair". Here in the O.C. we fashioned ourselves more like the Mods in Quadrophenia with the end result being... we fit in everywhere. One of the girls we were with at the club started freaking out when Niki walked in. After a few minutes, I approached him and asked him for his autograph. I don't think the band had really reached "rock star" status yet, but everyone at the Troubadour knew who he was. The guy was SO COOL to me. It was obvious I wasn't part of the 1980's longhair Hollywood heavy metal scene exploding on Sunset at the time. And he could've been a total dick if he wanted to. Instead, he was super polite and respectful to me and signed a cocktail napkin for me; which I gave to one of the young ladies we were with that night. I'm sure she still has it. If you're a fan of Motley Crue, you should know that Nikki Six is a pretty awesome dude. He could of been a total dick in front of all those hipster people at the bar if he wanted to (longhairs and punks didn't get along AT ALL back then in Hollywood..). But Niki was super kind, polite, and friendly to me when I asked him for his autograph that night. Just thought his fans would like to know that ! 👏👏✌✌🍻🍻😎😎
Funny how The Folksmen had the same issue: a set that was going to end up very brief. "Ladies and gentlemen Spinal Tap will perform a song for the first time ever...The Skeletons of Quinto."
They should have said, “I’ve never heard of ‘Puppet Show’. Do they play rock?” Then it’s broken to them that it’s not a band’s name, it’s an actual puppet show,
Heard a rumor that Derek's working on a sequel to Jazz Odyssey: Odd Jazzedy. And I heard he's going to debut it at a jazz/blues festival... or was it a blues/jazz festival?
I just noticed after years of watching - Janine applies eye-makeup to David. He comes out in sunglasses.
I was at this gig...for what it's worth, the puppet show was amazing.
There's a bootleg out, _Spinal Pup,_ that includes the last eight minutes of the puppet show.
It def was a moral builder
Even with a smaller dressing room.
That comment was COLD.
In Stockton? Damn I feel sorry for ya.
_"Oh, we've got a bigger dressing room than the puppets? Oh, that's refreshing."_ David St Hubbins.
That puppet show crowd is unforgiving.
They are savage, puppet fandom
They came there for the puppets, they aren't there to see the new birth of spinal tap mach 2.
Yep, they pull the strings.
@@AO-bl7cc Are the puppets in the long cut?
On the bass, Derrick Smalls, he wrote this...
+MWorsa We've got a bigger dressing room than the puppets.
Well that's refreshing.
+MWorsa You are witnesses at the new birth of Spinal Tap, mark II
love that line. Blame disguised as credit
Geoff Poole I hope you enjoy our new direction.
One of the most brilliantly subtly funny aspects of the scene is Janine playing the tambourine on stage.
Yep. Noticed that from the first time I saw this in 1984, in a theater full of my crowd - Sydney metalheads.
With those prototypical early 80s Pat Benatar boots.
She was the Yoko Ono of Spinal Tap.
@@ArmyJames, you can’t really lay the breakup of Spinal Täp at her feet like so many in the press do. Her art and David’s love for her was a beautiful part of the Spinal Täp story. It was really the media, the record companies, and the utter lack of any quality music that’s to blame.
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"He wrote this"
acknowledgement and condemnation in one convenient package
1:36 I love the random 60 Hz hum like someone's plugging in a cable right in the middle of it.
Always cracks me up
I think its the other way around. The cable leading into one of the instruments got accidentally detached.
@@AO-bl7cc Could be that as well, who can say?
@@modularmuse funny either way, the scene emphasis how low Spinal Tap has reached when they don't have sound engineers to check all the cables, or they stopped caring.
@@AO-bl7cc Exactly. It's one of the funny points in the movie.
“Can you play the bass line like Nigel used to on big bottom?” “Oh yeah I got two hands”.
second best line in the film (the other is also Viv's)
You can't perform Big Bottom with less than three bass lines.
"fewer"
In a movie FULL of gems, this bit is fantastically hilarious. "He wrote this." Lol.
What's sad is that is Jazz Odyssey *actually* starts off pretty solid.
Yeah very Santana-ish circa early 70s
@@christophermerrill9443 That's what I was thinking!
Then it meanders into neverland.
Sounds like something off the "Relayer" album by Yes.
@@chriswakefield9538 Hardly.
It's a nice little set isn't? That's a cozy 10 minutes.
Should've brought the puppets back for an encore.
Which means they did 35 minutes of Jazz.
The tambourine really completes the experience.
I don't care what THEY say, Jazz Odyssey is a work of art.
and so is this comment.
Viv's keyboard playing on Jazz Odyssey sounds like he was heavily on Mendocino rocket fuel.
Festival crowd= 43 in attendance 😂
I have to ask: Did you actually count?
@@cugamer8862 Well I counted around 43. So indeed a festival crowd.
I count 50, hard to see at the bottom left
The amphitheatre this was filmed at, was a pretty hot spot for a while back in the early 80's, many up and coming bands played there, Quiet Riot, Ratt, Poison, Stryper, Twisted Sister. Magic Mountain used to have Metal Concerts and all the local top acts would play there. I lived close by and practically lived at Magic Mountain during the summer. It was around $13 to get into the park in the early 80's. Sometimes it ws free, if you donated a library book or can food.
This was a great concert; it generated the seeds for "Saucy Jack."
Free form Jazz odyssey in front of a festival crowd
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thejulianexperience pahahahahahhaah I love Mars Volta but spot on dude hahahaha
As a musician, this is a very accurate documentary about the music business.
Viv is the absolute best band member. Always down. Makes it work.
AND a hit with the ladies......
@@matthoward1174 He's got two hands.
@@tuttt99 He gets them in Doubley....
@@matthoward1174Dubly Assmos these days
For me this is the funniest scene. When Vic comes in with the hammond as Derrick hits the wah on the bass: bloody hilarious
To this day my friend and I make the same pose as the guy at 1:30 when we’re watching anything we don’t like.
🤣
I love that too. He could have simply left but decided he needed to stay for the duration in that pose.
Same here. Been doing it since the '80s.
I’ll never forget seeing Winger at Six Flags 😂😂😂 they were on their way out of popularity, I was in 6th grade, we only went because we had season tickets and they happened to be there. The crowd was more sparse than this scene. I had second row seats and will never forget it looked like Kip Winger was stuffing his pants. So the airport scene always hits too.
Were they any good live?
I remember that little venue in the park, even before it was a Six Flags. It was always empty.
Maybe my favorite line in this hilarious movie. “Spinal Tap first, puppet show last.” 😂😂😂
How many bass players does it take to screw-in a lightbulb? -None, the keyboardist can do it with his left hand.
I forgot about this scene until listening to a podcast review a jazz concert where the bass overwhelmed the band and they referred to this scene. Brilliant!
Was the puppet show any good
The puppets got a smaller dressing room in exchange for getting top billing.
I always wanted to see that damn puppet show.
They could have used the set from Stonehenge.
"I told them once, I told them a hundred times"
I love this entire movie, but this scene is my favorite out of all of it.
"It's a morale builder, isn't it?" Haha!
I just saw a clip of blue oyster cult playing at a sea world, totally reminded me of this
I'd really like to hear more about Viv's experiments with rocket fuel.
Most quotable movie in cinema history. If only their appeal was not so selective.
release the UNCUT version! lol
I would listen to the whole thing if it was released.
That's what happens when you put Yoko in charge.
What exactly is Mendocino rocket fuel and where can I get some?
I wish we'd seen the puppet show.
I always wondered what could have been with mark2
I’m pretty sure Janine is now married to Ritchie Blackmore.
“A cozy ten minutes…..”
That might be the line from this movie I quote the most.
Hands down one of my favorite movies ever.
Honestly if your going to do a freeform jazz exploration the crowd to do it in front of is a festival one
a _small_ festival one.
The slightly faster playback speed of this is tripping me out.
King Crimson the beginning.
when someone ad libs something lame my friend or I will sometimes add... "he wrote this"
They were just about to play this tune at the Jazz Blues festival on the Isle of Lucy when drummer Peter James Bond exploded on stage.
Blues Jazz festival in the Isle of.. I Love Lucy!
I often wondered how long the Jazz Oydessy went for before the crowd started leaving and they pulled the gig
I like how he wants to make it clear that it was the bassist who wrote it.
'Heavy Hole' cracks me up every time.😂
God the wire pop on the keys kills me every single time.
Played a gig behind a bar with two picnic tables full of old people and kids. We did a blues jam and one of the old people fell asleep. Paid our dues we did.
It never gets old lol
Some people in the audience thought this was actually the puppet show.
“I’ll tell you what we’re going to have to do”
this is gold
'On the base, Derek Smalls, he wrote this'. Kind of like 'he is responsible for this'.
Part of the gag is how someone gets credited with "writing" a freeform jazz exploration.
i really think they had something w/ "jazz odyssey"
"I've got some of this Mendocino rocket fuel that's supposed to be really nice."
I opened up for a puppet show once. Wasn't a bad gig. Oh, and none of us got dressing rooms.
Festivals like this are when you need foldable wine glasses, innit?
Jazzy Odyssey is a cover of a tune by the Grateful Dead
Sounds more like Santana.
Spinal Tap Mark II
I'm in the Jazz Odyssey phase of my life
one my favorite scenes
"Puppet Show and Spinal Tap"... there's the nightmare in 5 words.
Kurt Cobain's personal journals were published after his death. At one point Cobain writes about his fears that Nirvana will go from megastars to yesterday's news. He writes: "I can see it now, Puppet Show And Nirvana."
It would have been better in Dubly.
In their defense, they turned the puppet show up to 12. How could they have known?
This scene still cracks me up.
To be fair, it sounds better in dubly.
In Dublin???
@@richhoughton7184 She means Dolby alright ?
@@richhoughton7184 -- Ah, someone from another planet who has not seen the movie. Away with you, sir. Cover your nakedness.
😂
@@Just_lift_anyone I said Dubly!
Filmed at Six Flags Magic Mountain Valencia, ca at the showcase theatre.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
"He wrote this" is my favorite line from the whole movie.
You watch the puppet show and if you can handle it, stick around for the Spinal Tap show.
Filmed at Magic Mountain in Southern California at the "Tom McCann Theater". Motley Crue will never admit this, but we saw them there about two years before this was filmed. I'll bet it was one of Motley Crue's first outdoor performances ever (1981 or 2ish..). Vince was still lighting Nikki's boots on fire on stage and there was a huge pentagram behind them. I felt it was a bit too 2112 for my liking. "LIVE WIRE" off the original release is still the only song of theirs that sustains for me. But whatever. They rocked a whole generation of kids and that's pretty damn cool. Also, the album cover for "Too Fast...." is super cool in that it was an homage to the Stones "Sticky Fingers" just like The Clash had previously done with "London Calling and the first Elvis Presley album; for those who don't know...👏👏✌✌😎😎🍻🍻 for the record, i'm an old school Orange County So Cal surf punk dude. Metal was never my scene, but several of my friends were part of the original full-on Southern California metalhead scene (Metallica's first gig at Radio City was just a few blocks away from our high school -CHS'83. I remember the fliers for it and then hearing all about it the following week..).
Anyways, back to Motley Crue. One night at the Troubadour in Hollywood, Nikki Six showed up. This was just a little after their first album started blowing UP. I was not a "longhair". Here in the O.C. we fashioned ourselves more like the Mods in Quadrophenia with the end result being... we fit in everywhere. One of the girls we were with at the club started freaking out when Niki walked in. After a few minutes, I approached him and asked him for his autograph. I don't think the band had really reached "rock star" status yet, but everyone at the Troubadour knew who he was. The guy was SO COOL to me. It was obvious I wasn't part of the 1980's longhair Hollywood heavy metal scene exploding on Sunset at the time. And he could've been a total dick if he wanted to. Instead, he was super polite and respectful to me and signed a cocktail napkin for me; which I gave to one of the young ladies we were with that night. I'm sure she still has it. If you're a fan of Motley Crue, you should know that Nikki Six is a pretty awesome dude. He could of been a total dick in front of all those hipster people at the bar if he wanted to (longhairs and punks didn't get along AT ALL back then in Hollywood..). But Niki was super kind, polite, and friendly to me when I asked him for his autograph that night. Just thought his fans would like to know that ! 👏👏✌✌🍻🍻😎😎
Smalls RULES !
I like the Linda McCartney type pretty blond GF joining the band and playing the tamborine. Ha ha - this was so funny.
this is the reason i stopped going to jazz clubs
This is the reason I started going to jazz clubs.
Funny how The Folksmen had the same issue: a set that was going to end up very brief.
"Ladies and gentlemen Spinal Tap will perform a song for the first time ever...The Skeletons of Quinto."
Why isn’t it not a SAUCY puppet show and spinal tap?🤔
What happens to Viv at 1:27 and thereafter?
On the bass: Derek Smalls. He wrote this.
Love the dude giving the thumbs down 🤣🤣😂😂
The musical highlight of Jazz Odyssee ! Ha!
good old days at magic mountain.
A lot of up and coming acts played that little theater at Magic Mountain. Quiet Riot, Ratt, Stryper, etc.. I grew up not far from there.
Wish this whole scene was longer
You are all witnesses to the rebirth of Spinal Tap....Mark II.....
Thumbs up if this is good or better on average than free jazz you've heard, down otherwise.
Another gem is the 2 guys in audience with their thumbs down.
They should have said, “I’ve never heard of ‘Puppet Show’. Do they play rock?” Then it’s broken to them that it’s not a band’s name, it’s an actual puppet show,
Is there a line in the flick that ISN'T quotable?!
Never noticed the stripes on the bass, ala eddie VH....
The puppet show sabotaged Spinal Tap’s set. They ran over, messed up the sound system, and turned the crowd hostile.
Magic Mountain was so much nicer back then lol
great rif
I played this venue with tracii guns la guns. No joke
Heard a rumor that Derek's working on a sequel to Jazz Odyssey: Odd Jazzedy. And I heard he's going to debut it at a jazz/blues festival... or was it a blues/jazz festival?
I think that was a working title for what he also called "Jazz Iliad."
My cousin was their drummer for 6 months of this tour until he exploded....
Im dying of laughter!
"PUPPET SHOW and spinal tap".
In BOC's new "That Was Me" video, at least the sign reads "Puppet Show and BLUE ÖYSTER CULT"!