Spinal Tap reunites for Live Earth, plays new single “Warmer than Hell,” detailing the Devil’s trip to Britain where he remarks how sweltering it is due to global warming.
No one knows who they were, or what they were doing
July 7th, 2007 6:03 pm · 11 comments
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| harv1 7/7/07 6:50 PM | IIRC, their drummers were always dying strange deaths. Did this one keel over in the heat? That would have been the perfect effect. BTW, Gil, do you ever get the chance to hear Harry Shearer's weekly radio show? Probably too subversive for the audience of WITF-FM; you can catch it online streaming on either Sat. or Sun. nights on many public radio stations or on short wave or Armed Forces Radio. Great show, "Le Show." It's been on for 22 years. |
| twinmom 7/7/07 7:10 PM | So they actually were a real band? I wasn't sure if they were, or just a movie band. |
| gsmart 7/7/07 7:44 PM | QUOTE(twinmom @ Jul 7 2007, 07:10 PM) [snapback]302602[/snapback] So they actually were a real band? I wasn't sure if they were, or just a movie band. Just a movie band, though the "band members" are actually all really good musicians, and released a "follow-up" record to the movie soundtrack in 1992, "Break Like the Wind." |
| twinmom 7/7/07 7:59 PM | Did the drummers die in the movie, or in real life? |
| gsmart 7/7/07 8:23 PM | QUOTE(twinmom @ Jul 7 2007, 07:59 PM) [snapback]302612[/snapback] Did the drummers die in the movie, or in real life? Only in the movie. |
| harv1 7/7/07 8:25 PM | The drummers 'died' in the movie. I think it was a homage to Keith Moon, the drummer for The Who who died and maybe John Bonham who played for Led Zeppelin. Some of the forms of death: one of the Spinal Tap drummers died because he inhaled vomit and choked to death (not his own vomit - remember, the movie was a campy send up of all those heavy metal bands), another Spinal Tap drummer spontaneously combusted at the drum set, IIRC, toward the end of the movie. And in my collection, I've got that Break Like The Wind CD somewhere... Harry Shearer as you know is many of the Simpson's voices. He does some great parody songs for his radio show Le Show. Although Spinal Tap was made by a bunch of creative spoofers, they actually did go on tour. Oh those Canadians  |
| gsmart 7/7/07 8:32 PM | From the Wikipedia entry: The film notes early on that Spinal Tap — "One of England's Loudest Bands" — have had a succession of drummers, all of whom have died under odd circumstances, one in a "bizarre gardening accident". (Coincidentally, in 1992, long after this film appeared, Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro died of a heart attack due to an allergic reaction to a gardening pesticide). Another of Spinal Tap's drummers "choked on vomit", specifically someone else's vomit (several musicians have died after choking on their own vomit, notably singer Bon Scott of AC/DC, guitarist Jimi Hendrix and drummer John Bonham of Led Zeppelin); and one drummer seems to have fallen prey to spontaneous human combustion. St. Hubbins reports that "Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported." This run on drummers was a nod towards several bands; both Bonham and Keith Moon had died years before, while Judas Priest were, for a variety of reasons, on their seventh drummer at the time of the film's release. |
| twinmom 7/7/07 9:00 PM | Thanks for the explanation guys! |
| Nick Danger 7/7/07 11:00 PM | I saw the movie when it first was released and bought the tape as soon as was available for home video. It still cracks me up all these years later. "There's a fine between clever and stupid." David St. Hubbins |
| harv1 7/8/07 12:52 AM | And who could EVER FORGET their Stone Henge set!! |
| gsmart 7/8/07 1:51 AM | QUOTE(harv1 @ Jul 8 2007, 12:52 AM) [snapback]302691[/snapback] And who could EVER FORGET their Stone Henge set!! "I think that the problem may have been... that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed... by a dwarf." |
