Spinal Tap Unplugged - "Clam Caravan"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Excerpt from Spinal Tap's "Unwigged & Unplugged," the concert DVD that goes to 11. Christopher Guest, Michael Mckean, and Harry Shearer live in Milwaukee on the final date of their 2009 acoustic tour. "Clam Caravan" was originally from Nigel Tufnel's hard-to-find solo record, and this live version features an exceptional solo from Mr Guest. The 2-hour-plus DVD (available from Courgette Records) is in full color and is a great gift idea. The complete track listing:
1. Celtics Blues, Verse 1
2. Hell Hole
3. Never Did No Wanderin'
4. Clam Caravan
5. Rock N Roll Nightmare
6. Bitch School
7. Loco Man
8. Video: Corky's Funky Dance
9. This Bulging River
10. The Clotworthy Memo
11. All the Way Home
12. Blood on the Coal
13. Video: Back from the Dead
14. (Listen to the) Flower People
15. Corn Wine
16. The Majesty of Rock
17. Video: Cheese Rolling
18. All Backed Up
19. Stonehenge
20. A Penny For Your Thoughts
21. Start Me Up
22. Audience Q&A
23. Cups and Cakes
24. Video: Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
25. A Mighty Wind
26. Saucy Jack
27. Big Bottom
28. The Good Book Song
29. A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow
30. Rainy Day Sun
31. (Funky) Sex Farm
32. Gimme Some Money
33. Old Joe's Place
34. Celtics Blues, Verse 2
35. Heavy Duty
I know that John "Stumpy" Peeps is smiling down from heaven, with 14 other deceased Spinal Tap drummers 🥁
And Joe "Mama" Besser. But he was a bit of a Stooge, wasn't he?
@@tomdellaquila2596 Joe didn't like people playing his drums. He'd say, "HAAAY not so haaaard!"
Lol 😂
Eric "Stampede" Joe/RIP/*
One of their many great drummers, who mysteriously passed away!
🤟😜💥🌟🌀🌐
@@rolfdejonge3915 ❤️❤️🇨🇦❤️❤️
Great acting. Totally nailed those American accents
😂😂😂
They are American
@@andrealovell6510r/whoosh
We are american
@@erichani1I'm spartacusican
Christopher Guest has scary levels of talent.
They all do
@@garethwilliams5809 The only correct response.
@@sgt.thundercok4704 agreeeed
Harry Shearer's bass playing is sublime.
And he's plugged in.
He is good. Nice bass lines on this song.
Not bad eh
You could say it's...
*_Excellent._*
Spinal Tap should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
of course they should be!
How can they be considered a parody when they are better than 90% of the bands/music they are supposed to be parodying?????
I know right!!
They’re a parody not because they’re inept, because everything they do is a cliche-is a cliche now and would have been a cliche in the sixties. In fact, this song is not just parody; it’s also pastiche.
@@jeffryphillipsburns Obviously, you skipped school the day they taught sarcasm…
@@jeffthebracketman Don't be mean. You get the words "parody' and "sarcasm" and he gets "cliche" and "pastiche". This is a big day for the boys and girls that didn't already have those vocabulary words! Let's all just be friends, shall we?!
@@mmcintosh175 And in what universe is it considered mean when you try to correct someone who has criticized you? I wish someone had told me that you were the Hall Monitor…
"That was a Typo", "Don't be so negative". Absolute genius!
It was actually "he was a [blood] Type O." That's why McKean's comeback was so funny.
@@mc76 ummm. I got it
I dutifully kept Spinal Tap alive when I was in radio. Played it straight. Never let on they were parody.
The beauty of being able to do that... I was out of radio by that time and playing in a band... we skipped a practice to see the movie in the front row...it was great!
The idea that they were a "parody" is a laughable conspiracy theory put about by disgruntled an ex- manager known only as Janine. Similar to the online stories about not recording in dobly.
They are actually great musicians, all of them.
Yes, and that's a big part of the magic of Spinal Tap. Comedy on the surface, great music underneath. Reminds me of Frank Zappa somewhat.
Jonah Fuerstenberg. Oh yesh ! Chritopher Guest is married to Jamie Lee Curtis. And, he is a great musician.
@@dougcarson5202 Yeah man, hadn't thought of that - you're right
This was crap, total crap. The magic of acoustic spinal tap is the amplifiers. I got nothing from it.
@@cavejohnson8665 cos they didn't go to eleven, right?
The irony of ironies, is that the tap have always been absolutely, genuinely, bloody brilliant. Clam Caravan is beautiful.
Makes sense it's Unplugged; Chuck can't handle electricity
Nice 👍🏻
highly underrated
NICE
Lol
You , sir are a genius. You can see everything.
A gem. They prompt the rhetorical question - how good can a parody get before it stops being a parody ?
the answer is “Ween”
"He was a typo."
"Don't be so negative."
- Took me a few seconds to catch up.
Humor in that vein takes awhile to circulate.
Apparently my veins are "triangle" shaped because a week later and I still don't get it.
@@donjosephus Type O
That's bloody funny.
And that's why he's a genius. Didn't even miss a beat and it just comes out. I'd kill for that kind of quick wit.
This is such great satire. The fact that these guys are actually good musicians, and that their songs approach the edge of plausibility, takes the humor to a different level. Some would say subterranean.
It's the boundary of: are they geniuses or fools?
Flight of the concords!
Well if you're gonna do comedy music, it stands to reason that you should probably be good at both comedy AND music.
@@dreamingforward There's a fine line between stupid and clever!
@@markvonwisco7369 I haven't always aimed at both, as a musician, but I get there in the end.
in a sense, we were robbed of one of history's great bands once these guys became "comedians." imagine the body of work they'd have if they'd been a band all these years.
They have an amazing body of work just from the films.
They were musically solid and their videos were very well done and could’ve easily rivaled and surpass the music videos of the time. Check out “Bitch School”. The lyrics appeared to be about a girl who was hard to get along with and needed to be set free, but was actually about a pet dog that needed training. BTW “bitch” is not a vulgar word when used to describe a female dog. “Listen to the Flower Children” totally nailed the sound of the times (1967) and the video actually looks like something from 1967.
@@michaelmckenna6464 Absolutely right!
Wow. Now that is an interesting thought.
You're a conrol freak !
Love that this is basically an exact mashup of Crosby Stills Nash's Marrakesh Express and Guinnevere.
Exactly!
With the opening riff from "From the Beginning."
This song just makes me think of Sabbath’s Planet Caravan, especially since it’s a Spinal Tap song.
A touch of King Crimson's Thela Hun Ginjeet, too.
@@NuncNuncNuncNunc Ended on the ELP chord.
Harry Shearer is a very good bass player, just in case you hadn't noticed.
Once released from his pod, that is.
When Harry Shearer talks I can’t get Smithers out of my mind
Dang. I saw Spinal Tap in the theater when it came out. Now I'm an old gray headed dude that still rocks, too.
The suspense before the didgeridoo solo, only for him to make that sound on it! 🤣
Reminds me of Squiggy's clarinet solo on Laverne and Shirley 😅
Considering the triangular breathing and the four beats per measure, his didgeridoo playing defiantly went to twelve.
It's actually a pretty darned good song.
I've heard much, much worse
So glad my headphones to 11.
That guy who plays half the voices of all the Simpsons characters is now even more amazing to me.
Now?
Harry Shearer. Talented funny guy.
Handsome Dan in Wayne’s World 2.
Did a few voice scenes in Star Wars as well. " According to the log, the crew abandoned ship shortly after take off"..... and more.
I thought we were having Clam Caravan?
Oh no no, Ham Caravan!
Rick Beato needs to have these guys on his series, "What Makes This Song Grate."
😂😂😂😂
Beat-o sucks
When they played that final chord in this song it really surprised me. It made me think about something Rick Beato said in a recent review video of the Top 10 music charts. About how the modern songs don’t have any surprise in them. They’re incredibly predictable and boring. I think Rick would really enjoy this song. I know I did.
Harry Shearer is knocking me out with his playing. That was beautiful!
I got to see them in 94 or 95 at The Beacon. One of the greatest shows I've ever seen. Derek getting stuck hanging from the rafters while playing Tonight I'm gonna Rock You.....and swinging back and forth to get to the mic is the funniest thing you'll ever see.
The amazing thing about Spinal Tap is that they’re so funny you actually forget that there are brilliant musicians! They understand the clichés and music theory so well that they are able to find the jokes in musical phrases
It's like listening to Frank Zappa. When you want to laugh, listen to the lyrics. When you want to be impressed, listen to the instrumentation.
I found a Spinal tap VCR in a thrift store in Texas, who da thunk that . I also noticed the host of This Is Spinal Tap, the movie , Rob Reiner wears a hat fellow members of the USS CORAL SEA and I wore back in the day . I will always keep this old VCR for the greatness of the band and the fact that I served on the above mentioned ship.
I was at one of the 5 concerts at Earls Court they did in May 1975, not certain which one. I’d just turned 17. Great memories!
Did they come out of the Earl's Court TARDIS, or did you?
These guys remind me of the Firesign Theatre. Levels of humor (and talent) above and beyond terrestrial bounds . . .
Love the chords that Guest used.
Nigel was lucky to have this guy doing his composing for him.
I especially like that Eleventh chord.
@@AlanCanon2222 Shades of " Lick My Love Pump"
@shpeen8835 I think it sounds like a blend of "Skeletons of Quinto" and "Never Did No Wanderin'" by the Folksmen. :)
@@seansturgill4869 ARE YOU SUGGESTING THAT THEY ARE SOMEHOW SELF DERIVATIVE? What overly self respecting folk trio would do that?!
@AlanCanon2222 Well, Sir, maybe I am. :) And while I'm at it, didn't that Chris Gaines dude look an awful lot like Garth Brooks? 🤔
Whether themselves, Spinal Tap or the Folksmen, they're just great.
Nice to see them all on stage but kind of sad to see and realize how much time has passed since that great movie.
I think it means we're getting old. Do you realize Journey/Perry's heyday was a good 35 years ago?
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Shut up! Shut it _all the way_ up! (I graduated high school 36 years ago.)
Mesmerizing! I followed these guys on their world tour in the seventies. I even joined the Spinal Tap Army. But when they took the makeup off in the eighties they got so much better! 🤟🤟🤟
I like Nigel's pink period best. His song, " Hardly Hard At All" off the studio album Get Ridgid moved me to tears.
Very talented guys! Always loved them. So glad they did this.
Tap is such a legendary band of many eras and genres of rock, and "Clam Caravan" was obviously a huge prog rock influence for bands like Pink Floyd and Yes. LOL
Jon Anderson and Dave Gilmour both suffered hearing loss of the the same third of an octave while seeing the same Spinal Tap concert in Tunbridge Wells in the late 1960s, you may be onto something.
King Crimson took their time listening to "Clam Caravan" before they composed Court of the Crimson King.
Wonderful. Chris Guest is one of the most peculiar individuals in comedy history.
The master of triangular breathing, difficult to master
Don't be so obtuse.
It takes great musicianship to be able to ham it up musically. They are very talented musically and comically.
The tightness of their playing is unbelievably tight.
they are masters at writing these hokey little numbers and it's always perfect lmao. this is very reminiscent of what they did in A Mighty Wind. they could have even used this one for that movie
This is an absurdly good song. Mum's the word!
wait so these guys became the tribute band for spinal tap? hahaha
that's genius!
The most underrated joke in this song: "And I'll take the Zanzibar train"...
Zanzibar is on an island. That train's not going anywhere.
Zanzibar was the first country in East Africa to run steam locomotives.
The track was only 7 miles long, but there was a Zanzibar train.
@@seatonsmithy436excellent
Not to mention Freddy’s homeland…
@@seatonsmithy436Informative!
"By light........ .of dawn" gets me every time.
The legacy of Spinal Tap will be with these guys for a very long time.
I ordered the DVD, but when it arrived, there was no hole in the DVD. Once I punched a hole in it, though, I had a real good time.
Bloody 'ell, they're talented.
I was listening to them in the 1970s when they were half of Linny and the Squidtones. Christopher Guest was the lead guitarist. There's video of them playing on American Bandstand here on TH-cam. Imagine Spinal Tap in the 1950s.
Awesome. Still looking for "All The Way Home." I sing that sucker at work every day.
Love Tap, loved the Break Like the Wind album and I even saw them live twice. Unforgettable.
One of the most influential groups of their day. That they're not yet in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame is an abomination to all music.
love spinal tap, the very best of bad poetry . I hope they kick out one more album
Subtle nods to Steve Howe and Crosby Stills and Nash. 😊
It's so weird hearing them in their American accents. They fooled me to do long with their English accents I thought they were British.
Opiman607 They are British ....live interviews from Glastonbury .....good actors
they are all american....
Andrew Zinner Christoper Guest is Canadian...
MadelineTopper he actually holds dual citizenship, American and British.
They’re English pretending to be American pretending to be English.
These guys are fantastic! Funny and so talented!!
All these guys were accomplished musicians which makes the comedy so perfect
Im going to ask for this to be played at my funeral. Beforehand.
Spinal Tap can make any day awesome.
every day
Man, they're amazing. It sounds great. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
The harmonies are next level. They should have recorded more music as they have gone way beyond parody.
I think its great that these dudes were actors and somehow got this whole thing together over the years. I even turned my kids into Spinal Tap fans. The only other music typ movies I remember Micheal McKeon in was "Light of Day" and Lenny and the Squigtones from Laverne and Shirley
Fab. So thrilled to have seen The Folksmen and Spinal Tap live at Wembley in '09.
Really love how they misquote the chorus every time.
Lovingly crafted - Brilliantly observed. And it gets better and more significant with each passing year. A sweet piece of history pie. ❤ 🥧
Awesome!!! This screams WEEN to me, so incredibly similar! I love these men and their versatility!
That was unbelievably awesome! Great to see them not in character and speaking to each other by real name. The performance was priceless!
Kashmir, Horse with No Name & Clam Caravan. It doesn't get better.
Man that is well done...I suppose it’s a riff on Planet Caravan which is actually a cool song
This is the best Tap Cover Band I've ever heard. These guys are dialed.
I would have loved to see this live.
talented guys and i will listen and watch all that they do
Put them in the Hall of Fame. But only if they get in there the same time as Weird Al Yankovic.
And The Rutles!
i been waiting for their reunión the last 25 years, i see they are now exploring more with instruments and also mantras. ahead the Spines¡¡
I actually enjoyed this, from a purely musical perspective.
I completely lost it when the didgeridoo came in.
Me too!...LMAO!!!
It was as epic as the "18 inch tall Stonehenge monument" & the dwarves dancing around it.
These guys are AweSOME.
Best Sabbath cover ever. Geezer would be proud.
4:28 I really like the way that song resolves! Interesting choice.
ah, the good old Picardy third…
I guess they did not play with a drummer, because they are all dead!!!!! :-P Turn it up to 11 Nigel!!!!!! :-P
They couldn't convince their current drummer to play acoustically.
drummers die- but first they make make everything Confusing....
Too soon.
Actually they just hired me to be their dru
Good to see that Chuck McGill got over his phobia of electronics. 📱
Principal Skinner and Chuck McGill in a band together
Actors, musicians and comedians.
Love the subtle fact that the callbacks are all different than Chris’s lyrics.
This is an amazingly beautiful song ... laughs or not.
I love the superlative comedy of the fake bands they have been and the jokes in all the different genres of music they've portrayed, and yet.... even though there are musical jokes IN the music, I still find that whatever they're playing, I can't help but enjoy it for it's genuine musical qualities that I can still enjoy even when I know the jokes. I bow down to their outstanding songwriting ability and musicianship as well as comedy. They're really off the scale. And to point out, they've been playing music together for way longer than most bands last.
This is Golden and beyond satire.. This is love for the music that inspired the satire..
After watching better call Saul, I had to come here to love Michael McKean again!
Check out the Star Trek:Voyager episode 'The Thaw' he kills in that.
Robert Green I didn’t realise it was Nigel. Without the long blonde hair I was clueless watching Saul then read it on a comments section. Kool
@@woody816 That was David St. Hubbins.
@@canturgan 👍
intravenous De Milo and Shark Sandwich are my two favourite albums of all time. Thanks for the music Tap!
But the "critics" summed up Shark Sandwich in a 2 word review:
"Shit Sandwich"
🤣🤣🤣
I wished they made those fake albums for real. write and record songs in the vein of that eras rock/metal and get that shit out there, would be awesome. At least "Derek Smalls" released a solo album a few years back, never thought that would happen.
Smell the Glove. That was their masterpiece.
Impressive. Most Impressive.
Impeccable tuned instruments.
I was hearing shades of Greg Lake in that, something along the lines of “ in the beginning “
I can't imagine how hard it would have been for Harry and Michael to keep playing that rhythm while Nigel butchers the didgeridoo solo. I would have lost it about half way through.
This blows my mind...that i wasn't there. I was living an hour north of Milwaukee at the time...
beautiful Martin Guitars!
Chris(Nigel's) isn't a Martin. Can't quite make out what it is, but it's not the Martin logo on the headstock. Whatever it is it's nice though.
Wow, that was just fantastic!
SO talented
''.........from Nigel Tufnel's hard-to-find solo record.'' haha!
I love how it's essentially a song about the weather being bad and he's basically gonna stay in
Amazing musicians
...I'm back in England again, once more... they didn't miss a trick.
FranktheDachshund wow, I was reading your comment just as he sang those words! You must be pschic!!