www.culturevulture.net - : The career of fictional rock group Spinal Tap is a high decibel example of life imitating art imitating life. Since their 1984 debut as England's loudest band, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer have staged more comebacks and reunions than the Who (one of the major targets of their initial satirical assault). At some points along the way, they seem to have lost track of the joke, such as on their largely laugh-free 1992 album, Break Like the Wind. Even the most enthusiastic fans of the movie that started it all, This is Spinal Tap, could be forgiven for feeling the freshness has long since worn off the gag. more...
www.flickfilosopher.com - : I can't tell you how excited I was when I learned that This Is Spinal Tap was not only coming to DVD but also getting a new theatrical release, too. I mean, here I am, the biggest Taphead -- or Tapgirl, as some of us femme fans like to be called -- in the world, and here's this great blast from my junior high school past. I'm sure I'm not the only one who pissed off a priest or a nun by wearing a Rock 'n' Roll Creation tour t-shirt to Confirmation class. I was a little young for that tour, in 1977, of course, but I got the shirt in a 1983 bet with my older cousin -- who was actually there for the Madison Square Garden stop when Derek... well, the story is infamous -- my cousin lost the bet when he didn't know, if you can believe it, why Tap's second keyboardist, Ross MacLochness, left the band. more...
www.culturevulture.net - : The career of fictional rock group Spinal Tap is a high decibel example of life imitating art imitating life. Since their 1984 debut as England's loudest band, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer have staged more comebacks and reunions than the Who (one of the major targets of their initial satirical assault). At some points along the way, they seem to have lost track of the joke, such as on their largely laugh-free 1992 album, Break Like the Wind. Even the most enthusiastic fans of the movie that started it all, This is Spinal Tap, could be forgiven for feeling the freshness has long since worn off the gag. more...
www.flickfilosopher.com - : I can't tell you how excited I was when I learned that This Is Spinal Tap was not only coming to DVD but also getting a new theatrical release, too. I mean, here I am, the biggest Taphead -- or Tapgirl, as some of us femme fans like to be called -- in the world, and here's this great blast from my junior high school past. I'm sure I'm not the only one who pissed off a priest or a nun by wearing a Rock 'n' Roll Creation tour t-shirt to Confirmation class. I was a little young for that tour, in 1977, of course, but I got the shirt in a 1983 bet with my older cousin -- who was actually there for the Madison Square Garden stop when Derek... well, the story is infamous -- my cousin lost the bet when he didn't know, if you can believe it, why Tap's second keyboardist, Ross MacLochness, left the band. more...
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