The overhead shot at 2:53 was INCREDIBLY important in the development of Tap. When they were on the floor, oil from the smoke machine kept dripping on them; so as that problem was worked out by the crew, the actors started improvising in character. It was at this moment that the idea for the movie came to be.
This is the rock n roll creation. The terrible big bang. An absolute sensation. Yin was searching for his yang. And I looked and I saw that it was good. Tap fucking rules. Period.
Actually, that IS Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs, played by Russ Kunkel (as in the movie). Just wearing a ridiculous wig. (The mystery keyboardist, by the way, is comedic musician Loudon Wainwright III.)
This was the first appearance of Spinal Tap, on a Rob Reiner late-night sketch show called The TV Show, aired in 1978. I can't remember why, but I *really* wanted to see this show, but it was on too late, so my dad taped it for me. And when I say "taped" I mean AUDIO taped. On a portable cassette recorder. It was 1978, after all. I listened to this tape a million times, and memorized all of the skits. I keep telling people about this show, but nobody except me seems to remember it, and it's still not available in any form, as far as I know.
I find out so much on YT that happened when I was a kid that I never saw. If you weren't awake, or in a major city 40 years ago, you missed so much that today's kids get. /lawn, off it!
I remember watching this live with my brother. We laughed our asses off. We were stoked when we found out the film was coming out years later. Saw it on the first day it was in theaters.
Even though this aired in the late 70's, the song itself sounds more late 60's/early 70's to me. I guess it's possible that, in-story, this performance was years earlier, or they were simply performing one of their older songs.
they didn't yet get into the whole Heavy Metal parody because what they ended up parodying in the movie hadn't really started or hadn't been normal yet, like Maiden, Van Halen (who started the year before), and that kind of stuff, so here they were more doing a parody on that early 1970's album rock stuff
the Rock N Roll Creation album (per se) was all songs religious, and this one isn't, so to me it sounds more like Shark Sandwich, which I always thought looked like one of those latter 1970's albums because it HAD TO be after JAWS made sharks famous, so I think the Shark Sandwich album was like 1976, one of those albums that would have the "Bargain Price" stickers on the top left and would indeed be in bins
@@Kartissa Shark Sandwich came out April 1st 1980. Its first single was Sex Farm. Rock ‘n’ roll Nightmare definitely could’ve been a song they were working on for that album.
Rob Reiner was talking about this today on Sound Opinions radio show. Great insights into the making of. Sadly the guys don't own the rights anymore. Benefit concert?
So...the drummer is Peter "James" Bond? Thats clearly not "Stumpy Joe" and it aint Mick Shrimpton either. SO THTS WHAT PETER BOND LOOKS LIKE!!! RIGHT??? I'm doing a class project on Spinal Tap and I'm trying to get pics of every STap member I can. So I'm assuming that thats right. RIGHT??!!
I remember watching this with my dad. I thought Spinal Tap was awesome, the Wild People Kingdom skit was hilarious, and the Beef Hoof Sticks commercial was gold. I think there was also a skit about two septic tank pumpers who wanted to get a credit card so that they could call a phone sex line, but I might be mistaken.
Are you thinking of the "Naughty Lady" sketch (featuring the Quaids) from Lorne Michaels' short-lived "The New Show" in 1984? th-cam.com/video/XbgWDz5_LJ0/w-d-xo.html
lol "fake band". Listen to a profound song like "Break Like the Wind" and tell me that's fake. Like their classic "Stonehenge", this band is the rock of ages - two visionaries creating timeless classics. They would never even be mentioned alongside Tennyson or Wordsworth or Shakespeare. They are a class apart from those guys. Think of the nicest word ever - and it could still never apply to this band.
@@pillettadoinswartsh4974 the rutles was actually an influence on tap the movie since it aired and was noted and popular before tap, but unlike the rutles the guys in tap wrote and played their music
I find it amusing that Spinal Tap would have been filming around when Bad News Tour would have aired originally. There should have been a show with both bands.
hot take: shark sandwich is wayyy overhated, there were some genuine bangers on that album. they saw the criticism for intravenus de milo and the gospel and went in a unique direction that people just didnt get.
I saw this when it first aired and laughed my ass off. Just the band name seemed absurd. Then about five years later I saw an ad for a sneak preview of a full length movie about this band and I was there
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The overhead shot at 2:53 was INCREDIBLY important in the development of Tap. When they were on the floor, oil from the smoke machine kept dripping on them; so as that problem was worked out by the crew, the actors started improvising in character. It was at this moment that the idea for the movie came to be.
Haha thanks I didn't really understand what they meant when they explained that on the today show interview
This is the rock n roll creation. The terrible big bang. An absolute sensation. Yin was searching for his yang. And I looked and I saw that it was good. Tap fucking rules. Period.
I bet that drummer would go on to have a long illustrious career !
Unfortunately, he exploded. The only thing they found was a little green globule.
Spinal Tap's first appearance!
indeed. it was a terrible ''big bang!''
Nobody gets the Wolfman Jack that Rob Reiner does.
i love the clean guitar breaks... McKean was an underrated player
a landmark moment in rock and roll history! 😅
It was a rock n roll creation ahun
Wow, had no idea this existed, thanks for posting.
Kinda bummed they didn't cover this chapter of Tap doing quasi-prog in the film.
Actually, that IS Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs, played by Russ Kunkel (as in the movie). Just wearing a ridiculous wig. (The mystery keyboardist, by the way, is comedic musician Loudon Wainwright III.)
oh wow
Rob does a good Wolfman Jack
he LOOKS like him a lot
how good is that Spinal Tap logo!
This was the first appearance of Spinal Tap, on a Rob Reiner late-night sketch show called The TV Show, aired in 1978. I can't remember why, but I *really* wanted to see this show, but it was on too late, so my dad taped it for me. And when I say "taped" I mean AUDIO taped. On a portable cassette recorder. It was 1978, after all. I listened to this tape a million times, and memorized all of the skits. I keep telling people about this show, but nobody except me seems to remember it, and it's still not available in any form, as far as I know.
Dude's got my drums...
...And it feels so real you can feel the feeling.
I find out so much on YT that happened when I was a kid that I never saw. If you weren't awake, or in a major city 40 years ago, you missed so much that today's kids get. /lawn, off it!
'The TV Show', in turn, seemed to be meant as an American answer to the Canadian sketch comedy series 'SCTV'.
I recorded The TV Show special from TV Land in the late 90s. I have it on DVD in great condition.
This is hilarious because Judas Priest looked like this before they started wearing leather
That's Rob Reiner playing Wolfman Jack.
Nigel played a Paul McCartney(Hofner) bass. Awesome. Cheers!
Well, Derek... ;-)
Nigel is playing an Ibanez Iceman, like the one Paul Stanley was playing around that time.
3:05 Spinal Tap was on that Ace of Spades shit before Motorhead!
1:49 We all know the guitar in between is just a very convenient excuse, lol.
Never saw this one which is amazing/
I remember watching this live with my brother. We laughed our asses off. We were stoked when we found out the film was coming out years later. Saw it on the first day it was in theaters.
i missed this. i was too young maybe but wow that would have been great.
Even though this aired in the late 70's, the song itself sounds more late 60's/early 70's to me. I guess it's possible that, in-story, this performance was years earlier, or they were simply performing one of their older songs.
It seems like a natural middle point between "Flower People" and "Rock n' Roll Creation."
they didn't yet get into the whole Heavy Metal parody because what they ended up parodying in the movie hadn't really started or hadn't been normal yet, like Maiden, Van Halen (who started the year before), and that kind of stuff, so here they were more doing a parody on that early 1970's album rock stuff
Intravenus de Milo is a very under rated album.
You ever read the review for Shark Sandwich?
2 Words...@@kofd04
@kofd04 where'd they print that? You can't print that.
This must have been just after the Flower People era.
In 1979, it'll be from the Rock 'n' Roll Creation album. ( a.k.a. The Gospel According to Spinal Tap).
Flower People was 1967-68.
nah about 12 years later
the Rock N Roll Creation album (per se) was all songs religious, and this one isn't, so to me it sounds more like Shark Sandwich, which I always thought looked like one of those latter 1970's albums because it HAD TO be after JAWS made sharks famous, so I think the Shark Sandwich album was like 1976, one of those albums that would have the "Bargain Price" stickers on the top left and would indeed be in bins
@@Kartissa Shark Sandwich came out April 1st 1980. Its first single was Sex Farm.
Rock ‘n’ roll Nightmare definitely could’ve been a song they were working on for that album.
Who would have guessed the bassplayer would grow up to be Otto on the Simpsons. LOL
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard saw this and said this is it chief.
Dead Honest truth
RIP drummer
Rob Reiner was talking about this today on Sound Opinions radio show. Great insights into the making of. Sadly the guys don't own the rights anymore. Benefit concert?
1:32 great parody of the eddie van halen smiley styke.
These guys shit on Status Quo
Rock icons!
Spinal Tap wouldn't work if they weren't a bloody good band.
I dont think is either one of them . It must be another forgotten drummer!
Hope Nigel can explain this!
It was, just not on the Special Edition. Almost certain this was on the original Criterion DVD.
lol 2:27 "not guilty"
This is better than most album rock crap.
My god they remind me of Bad News so much here.
Rob Reiner as Wolfman Jack..... hilarious.
So...the drummer is Peter "James" Bond? Thats clearly not "Stumpy Joe" and it aint Mick Shrimpton either. SO THTS WHAT PETER BOND LOOKS LIKE!!! RIGHT??? I'm doing a class project on Spinal Tap and I'm trying to get pics of every STap member I can. So I'm assuming that thats right. RIGHT??!!
David's bangs!! Hahaha
Loudon Wainwright III on the keys!
I remember watching this with my dad. I thought Spinal Tap was awesome, the Wild People Kingdom skit was hilarious, and the Beef Hoof Sticks commercial was gold. I think there was also a skit about two septic tank pumpers who wanted to get a credit card so that they could call a phone sex line, but I might be mistaken.
Are you thinking of the "Naughty Lady" sketch (featuring the Quaids) from Lorne Michaels' short-lived "The New Show" in 1984?
th-cam.com/video/XbgWDz5_LJ0/w-d-xo.html
"The devil's gonna make me eat my drums"
Not my drums
Stumpy Joe on drums (and Fro)?!?
best fake band ever
lol "fake band".
Listen to a profound song like "Break Like the Wind" and tell me that's fake.
Like their classic "Stonehenge", this band is the rock of ages - two visionaries creating timeless classics.
They would never even be mentioned alongside Tennyson or Wordsworth or Shakespeare. They are a class apart from those guys.
Think of the nicest word ever - and it could still never apply to this band.
Followed closely by The Rutles.
Their names and history is fake but I would say that the band is very much real. They write and perform all their own songs, how can that be fake?
they're fake but their real because they play for actual music. two things you cannot fake in movies, playing an instrument and a golf swing
@@pillettadoinswartsh4974 the rutles was actually an influence on tap the movie since it aired and was noted and popular before tap, but unlike the rutles the guys in tap wrote and played their music
I always wondered why Squiggy wasn’t in Spinal Tap with Lenny.
I honestly thought that was Will Sasso as Wolfman jack in the beginning of the video
Interesting. Sounds much more 69 than 79.
Thank you so much where did you find this
2:nd best comedy band ever. The best being Bad News (on tour / Comic Strips).
I find it amusing that Spinal Tap would have been filming around when Bad News Tour would have aired originally. There should have been a show with both bands.
oooff
I didn't know Nigel played an ibenez and David played a les Paul?
Is Nigel playing Paul Stanley's guitar XD
Was this recorded in dobly?
"Dublin?"
i bet people wondered wtf this was in 1979
I heard they fired their hairdressers after this...
You better check...
I hope people thought it was a real band.... ozzy Osbourne also thought this when he first saw the film.
well they do play their instruments and they are good
epic... lol
Sh!t Sandwich.
2:27 the drummer looks like Norm Mcdonald
hot take: shark sandwich is wayyy overhated, there were some genuine bangers on that album. they saw the criticism for intravenus de milo and the gospel and went in a unique direction that people just didnt get.
Was this from the Peter "James" Bond era? Or was that a few drummers back?
I saw this when it first aired and laughed my ass off. Just the band name seemed absurd. Then about five years later I saw an ad for a sneak preview of a full length movie about this band and I was there
2 words.... Drizzling Shits
Honestly reminds me of some red hot chili wankers videos.
Annoying rubbish, each to their own ....