“Sex Farm is on the charts in Japan.” “Spinal Tap’s recording of Sex Farm?” I love that. As if there are a ton of Japanese bands covering Sex Farm hitting the charts.
There was actually a reunions special done about 10 years after this as a TV movie. It shows what they were all up to since the making of the film. I loved it because David Saint Hubbins apparently took a job working in my hometown working in the same department as my mother.
One of the best - possibly the best - reaction to this fantastic comedy because a.) You recognized so many of the actors and b.) You recognized many of the rock & roll references. The more arcane rock & roll trivia you know, the more jokes you get. Christopher Guest using the violin on the guitar? That's Jimmy Page in "The Song Remains The Same", doing this interminably long guitar solo, alone on stage, using a violin bow on his guitar at one point. The radio interference on Nigel's guitar happened to Jimi Hendrix. All the drummers who died: some bands are cursed with deaths (The Grateful Dead, for instance, had four of their keyboardists die before their time was due), and there were always drug overdoses, plane crashes, suicides, and other "bizarre" deaths (a couple of elecetrocutions, for instance). And often, in the overdoses, the news reports would always mention "choked on his own vomit". Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon, John Bonham, etc. You always saw that, hence the inclusion of that term in this movie. The only person I didn't see you recognize was Angelica Huston! But maybe that just didn't make the edit. GREAT REACTION!!! So happy I'm subscribed!! They should put this reaction on the DVD! (The DVD actually has an entire commentary track WITH THEM, AS SPINAL TAP!. In fact, they have ALWAYS appeared on talk shows, all throughout the years, if you just do a You Tube search. I also have a four hour rough cut of the movie, with tons more material, all of it hilarious. (Alot of that stuff is now on the DVD and I think many of those scenes are here on You Tube as well). PS: The concert scenes were mostly them actually playing live, not lip synched, which makes all the difference.
4:25 On the Criterion Edition DVD commentary track (apparently it's different from the standard edition where they are doing it in character) Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer are talking all this behind-the-scenes stuff, and during this part they described what they were going for in the songwriting as "true mediocrity". (Incidentally, you might be amazed at the number of local bands who do cover versions of 'Big Bottom'...)
Since you enjoyed this AND Best in Show, you should check out A Mighty Wind. It is a similar style, but it deals with folk music, and it follows three bands. The Spinal Tap trio returns, but as different characters. Catherine O'Hara also returns - along with Eugene Levy. In Spinal Tap, the characters are actually doing the singing, and they are also playing their instruments. This continues in A Mighty Wind. Aside from "Big Bottom", a lot of the songs in Spinal Tap are parody sound bytes, that are mostly there as accents to the story. In a Mighty Wind, a lot of the songs are more complete, (on screen) and some of them are quite good. Of course both films also have sound tracks, with complete songs on them. The DVD also has bonus tracks, that have everyone performing their complete repertoire as bands, in a simulated version of the [complete] final show that they all participated in.
Did you good people recognize the actor playing the director....who was indeed the director....Rob Reiner...who co starred in All in the Family as Meathead.....married to Archie's daughter......Director of Princess Bride and A Few Good Men....inserts continue to get a laugh....and yes Jen is charming....the generational perspectives.
Ozzy released a new album late last year and the Stones have been going for 60 years, so I guess the new Tap film wouldn't stretch plausibility by having the same cast...
Deni Eton Hogg is Patrick MacNee who people of my generation know from the BBC series "The Avengers", where he played dapper, distinguished spy John Steed, most notably opposite Diana Rigg (Lady Olenna from "Game of Thrones"): th-cam.com/video/10QW3Az1FTw/w-d-xo.html
So many of the "bits" from this movie are taken directly from the biographies of bands like The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, KISS, and many more. Funny enough, when I was a teenager, before I had ever seen this movie, I saw Night Ranger at a minor amusement park (I think it was Adventureland near Des Moines, Iowa). They weren't billed after a Puppet Show, and there wasn't any exploratory jazz improvisation, but I definitely remember that it seemed like a desperate venue for an '80s metal / power ballad band. Luckily, I had another opportunity to see Night Ranger a few years later playing at the Iowa Jam (also near Des Moines, Iowa). The open-air concert was held at the Iowa State Fair grounds and included Ozzy Osbourne (Jake E. Lee on guitar), Motley Crue, Ted Nugent, Accept, and Night Ranger. That was my first real concert experience and it set a high standard as far as my expectation for other concerts I would eventually attend throughout my college years and adulthood.
I saw the remains of the band Chicago at an amusement park in the very early '90s. A comedian was their opening act. As for Night Ranger, I worked in a casino for several years (not in Las Vegas or Atlantic City). Maybe 7 or 8 years ago, I was dealing blackjack near the club located inside our casino, which also served as a live concert venue. The cover band playing that night was doing a Night Ranger set, and I remember being impressed at how authentic it sounded...when I got my next break I wandered over and peeked inside, and it was actually Night Ranger playing. 😂
When I watch Metallica’s documentary Some Kind Of Monster I can’t help thinking of Spinal Tap. It’s hilarious watching those guys failing at being decent human beings.
i think i read somewhere that there are literally no other bits of film that were useable as they could barely keep from laughing at every line (which i assume were usually improvised). watching the film with your eyes on whoever is not doing the talking is very telling.
Yes, Harry Shearer (Derrick Smalls) provides voices for many Simpsons characters including Principal Skinner, Kent Brockman, Mr. Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Dr. Hibbert, Lenny, Otto Mann, Rainier Wolfcastle, Scratchy, Kang, Dr. Marvin Monroe, and Judge Snyder.
Love this movie! The part where he's playing his guitar with the violin is in reference to Jimmy Paige from Led Zeppelin playing his guitar with a violin bow.
I saw Spinal Tap on tour in 1992 or so, 2nd row center and I've seen this film maybe 250 times lol Oh, and Sweeney Todd was first, it premiered on Broadway in 1979, so "Saucy Jack" would be an homage to Sondheim, not the other way around! :) Glad you enjoyed!
Metallica meeting Spinal Tap and giggling like schoolboys with sheer joy is a sight to behold. I love how Spinal Tap got on their case for their lack of originality in their album design and sarcastically asked where they got the idea.
Stuff has been said about how most Rock Stars love this film but there's an interesting interview with Joe Lynne Turner (ex Rainbow & Fandango). He said he and a group of other famous musicians went to one of the early showings and after the lights went up JLT looked around and surprisingly there weren't many smiles to be seen 🤔
Not just singing. They’re a real band, writing and performing those scenes. Excellent.
Don't forget their opening band... The Folksmen
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“Sex Farm is on the charts in Japan.”
“Spinal Tap’s recording of Sex Farm?”
I love that. As if there are a ton of Japanese bands covering Sex Farm hitting the charts.
Lol, I’ve seen this movie so many times, and hadn’t picked up on that before!
This Is Spinal Tap… the gift that keeps on giving!
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There was actually a reunions special done about 10 years after this as a TV movie. It shows what they were all up to since the making of the film. I loved it because David Saint Hubbins apparently took a job working in my hometown working in the same department as my mother.
One of the best - possibly the best - reaction to this fantastic comedy because a.) You recognized so many of the actors and b.) You recognized many of the rock & roll references. The more arcane rock & roll trivia you know, the more jokes you get. Christopher Guest using the violin on the guitar? That's Jimmy Page in "The Song Remains The Same", doing this interminably long guitar solo, alone on stage, using a violin bow on his guitar at one point. The radio interference on Nigel's guitar happened to Jimi Hendrix. All the drummers who died: some bands are cursed with deaths (The Grateful Dead, for instance, had four of their keyboardists die before their time was due), and there were always drug overdoses, plane crashes, suicides, and other "bizarre" deaths (a couple of elecetrocutions, for instance). And often, in the overdoses, the news reports would always mention "choked on his own vomit". Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon, John Bonham, etc. You always saw that, hence the inclusion of that term in this movie. The only person I didn't see you recognize was Angelica Huston! But maybe that just didn't make the edit. GREAT REACTION!!! So happy I'm subscribed!! They should put this reaction on the DVD! (The DVD actually has an entire commentary track WITH THEM, AS SPINAL TAP!. In fact, they have ALWAYS appeared on talk shows, all throughout the years, if you just do a You Tube search. I also have a four hour rough cut of the movie, with tons more material, all of it hilarious. (Alot of that stuff is now on the DVD and I think many of those scenes are here on You Tube as well). PS: The concert scenes were mostly them actually playing live, not lip synched, which makes all the difference.
4:25 On the Criterion Edition DVD commentary track (apparently it's different from the standard edition where they are doing it in character) Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer are talking all this behind-the-scenes stuff, and during this part they described what they were going for in the songwriting as "true mediocrity".
(Incidentally, you might be amazed at the number of local bands who do cover versions of 'Big Bottom'...)
If you played in a metal band in the 80's this was waaaay too relevant 🤣😂 we all loved the movie and lived the life🤣😂 classic!
Since you enjoyed this AND Best in Show, you should check out A Mighty Wind. It is a similar style, but it deals with folk music, and it follows three bands. The Spinal Tap trio returns, but as different characters. Catherine O'Hara also returns - along with Eugene Levy. In Spinal Tap, the characters are actually doing the singing, and they are also playing their instruments. This continues in A Mighty Wind.
Aside from "Big Bottom", a lot of the songs in Spinal Tap are parody sound bytes, that are mostly there as accents to the story. In a Mighty Wind, a lot of the songs are more complete, (on screen) and some of them are quite good. Of course both films also have sound tracks, with complete songs on them. The DVD also has bonus tracks, that have everyone performing their complete repertoire as bands, in a simulated version of the [complete] final show that they all participated in.
Agreed. I would add Waiting for Guffman.
Strangely enough the main drummer in the film was the drummer in actual 70s heavy rockers Atomic Rooster
Ric Passed away last year, His dad was the musical director of the Muppet show and a master drummer.
And that was SNL’s/Wayne’s World’s Dana Carvey with Billy Crystal as the other mime.
What a treat to come across. Loved the reaction.
Keep in mind this is all improvisation. They filmed over 3 hours of material and edited it down.
What wasn't used is on the DVD as bonus features.
That doesn't surprise me at all.
There's a deleted scenes cut of the film floating around the interwebz, one scene where they go to the zoo is drop dead funny.
Did you good people recognize the actor playing the director....who was indeed the director....Rob Reiner...who co starred in All in the Family as Meathead.....married to Archie's daughter......Director of Princess Bride and A Few Good Men....inserts continue to get a laugh....and yes Jen is charming....the generational perspectives.
On the BBC iplayer - their on demand/website - the volume goes to 11
Ozzy released a new album late last year and the Stones have been going for 60 years, so I guess the new Tap film wouldn't stretch plausibility by having the same cast...
Deni Eton Hogg is Patrick MacNee who people of my generation know from the BBC series "The Avengers", where he played dapper, distinguished spy John Steed, most notably opposite Diana Rigg (Lady Olenna from "Game of Thrones"): th-cam.com/video/10QW3Az1FTw/w-d-xo.html
So many of the "bits" from this movie are taken directly from the biographies of bands like The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, KISS, and many more. Funny enough, when I was a teenager, before I had ever seen this movie, I saw Night Ranger at a minor amusement park (I think it was Adventureland near Des Moines, Iowa). They weren't billed after a Puppet Show, and there wasn't any exploratory jazz improvisation, but I definitely remember that it seemed like a desperate venue for an '80s metal / power ballad band. Luckily, I had another opportunity to see Night Ranger a few years later playing at the Iowa Jam (also near Des Moines, Iowa). The open-air concert was held at the Iowa State Fair grounds and included Ozzy Osbourne (Jake E. Lee on guitar), Motley Crue, Ted Nugent, Accept, and Night Ranger. That was my first real concert experience and it set a high standard as far as my expectation for other concerts I would eventually attend throughout my college years and adulthood.
I saw the remains of the band Chicago at an amusement park in the very early '90s. A comedian was their opening act.
As for Night Ranger, I worked in a casino for several years (not in Las Vegas or Atlantic City). Maybe 7 or 8 years ago, I was dealing blackjack near the club located inside our casino, which also served as a live concert venue. The cover band playing that night was doing a Night Ranger set, and I remember being impressed at how authentic it sounded...when I got my next break I wandered over and peeked inside, and it was actually Night Ranger playing. 😂
When I watch Metallica’s documentary Some Kind Of Monster I can’t help thinking of Spinal Tap. It’s hilarious watching those guys failing at being decent human beings.
i think i read somewhere that there are literally no other bits of film that were useable as they could barely keep from laughing at every line (which i assume were usually improvised). watching the film with your eyes on whoever is not doing the talking is very telling.
Yes, Harry Shearer (Derrick Smalls) provides voices for many Simpsons characters including Principal Skinner, Kent Brockman, Mr. Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Dr. Hibbert, Lenny, Otto Mann, Rainier Wolfcastle, Scratchy, Kang, Dr. Marvin Monroe, and Judge Snyder.
Having been in several bands throughout the 80s makes this movie even funnier because it is frighteningly accurate.
16:16 "... short notice" 👍
I don’t know why I die laughing over the Puppet show Marquee….over 30 years ago and it still makes me wet my pants 😂
I saw the band Sparks in that very same theater (Magic Mountain) with about the same number of people in the audience.
Nobody seems to notice that their 5th drummer, Joe Besser, was named after the 5th member of the 3 Stooges.
Jeez guys, not even a flicker of a smile for Lick My Love Pump!
stonehenge is based on black sabbath..the lost under the stage is KISS .
Fun fact: piercings do not set off airport metal detectors.
Look up "Smalls Change" by Derek Smalls
And...
Magical Misery Tour from National Lampoon (the singer is the guy who plays the band manager here)
The late Tony Hendra.
Love this movie!
The part where he's playing his guitar with the violin is in reference to Jimmy Paige from Led Zeppelin playing his guitar with a violin bow.
I saw Spinal Tap on tour in 1992 or so, 2nd row center and I've seen this film maybe 250 times lol Oh, and Sweeney Todd was first, it premiered on Broadway in 1979, so "Saucy Jack" would be an homage to Sondheim, not the other way around! :) Glad you enjoyed!
This is where Metallica got the idea for their black album :-)
Metallica meeting Spinal Tap and giggling like schoolboys with sheer joy is a sight to behold. I love how Spinal Tap got on their case for their lack of originality in their album design and sarcastically asked where they got the idea.
They never really had a script and the actors set each other up so the reactions were real.
If you liked This Is Spinal Tap you should watch A Mighty Wind. It is made by Christopher Guest and stars most of the same people
Also “Dog Show”
@@angelavalentino5146 Best in Show. So funny.
And "Waiting for Guffman" which is the same group doing small town community theater.
Still a bit new to your channel, but I am, from one day to the next, catching up on all your videos.
You sitting next to your mom hearing the pharse “pink torpedo“ is hilarious
For me the funniest thing about Spinal Tap is that even if their stagecraft worked, it would still be stupid.
Stuff has been said about how most Rock Stars love this film but there's an interesting interview with Joe Lynne Turner (ex Rainbow & Fandango). He said he and a group of other famous musicians went to one of the early showings and after the lights went up JLT looked around and surprisingly there weren't many smiles to be seen 🤔
have you seen on IMDB its the only film rated out of 11. fun reaction .
I know you have to edit out some scenes, but I'm sad the "harmonizing" at Elvis' grave was omitted. Otherwise a great reaction!😊
OK, tell the truth. How many other viewers also immediately fast forwarded to see their reaction to Stonehenge?
Yoko Onos always destroy bands.
You have to like metal to get the jokes. lol