this is spinal tap

Spinal Tap took it to eleven and was none more black than with the heavy duty hilariousness and big bottom balderdash of this monumentally melodramatic mockumentary.  Rob Reiner directed the film and played Marty Di Bergi as he followed the band on a tour for their new album.  The film didn't fare well in theaters, but has become a cult classic over the years, eventually being chosen for inclusion in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.  

The soundtrack to  'This Is Spinal Tap'  was produced by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer who starred in the film as Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins, and Derek Smalls respectively.  The music was recorded, engineered, and mixed by Patrick McDonald and features David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) on lead vocals and guitar;  Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) on lead guitar, mandolin, and vocals;  Viv Savage (David Kaff) on keyboards and vocals;  Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) on bass guitar and vocals;  and Mick Shrimpton (Ric Parnell) on drums and percussion;   with studio musicians Harlan Collins adding synthesizers and Jon Sinclair on keyboards.  

Ostensibly released as a compilation of singles and other selections from their fictitious albums 'We Are All Flower People',  'Matchstick Men', 'Silent But Deadly', 'Brainhammer', 'Nerve Damage', 'Blood to Let', 'Intravenus de Milo', 'The Sun Never Sweats', 'Jap Habit', 'Bent for the Rent', 'Rock and Roll Creation', 'Shark Sandwich', and 'Smell the Glove';  'This Is Spinal Tap' should not be (or should it?) confused with the record sleeve featured for 'Smell the Glove' in the movie.  

Derek Smalls:    "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water."

Nigel Tufnel:    "The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. 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?...Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?...Eleven. Exactly. One louder."


David St. Hubbins:   "Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you."





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"Stonehenge"

'This Is Spinal Tap' - 'Stonehenge' from filmc3ption on Vimeo.




 
'This Is Spinal Tap' 
full album:









01. Hell Hole
02. Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight 3:08
03. Heavy Duty 5:46
04. Rock And Roll Creation 10:16
05. America 14:23
06. Cups And Cakes 17:54
07. Big Bottom 19:29
08. Sex Farm 23:02
09. Stonehenge 26:23
10. Gimme Some Money 31:00
11. (Listen To The) Flower People 33:27

'This Is Spinal Tap' 
trailer:





Spinal Tap - Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare  from "The TV Show" 1979 ABC Special with Loudon Wainwright III on keyboards. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzuxUSab_7c