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| | DVD Verdict Review - This Is Spinal Tap: Special Edition |
 | | This Is Spinal Tap is really the story of all those bands whose albums you see on the back shelves of local music stores that leave you scratching your head wondering "who?" It's a photograph of all those warm up acts you've grumbled through as you wait for the headliner to take the concert stage. | | | For those who don't know them, Spinal Tap are England's loudest band, and for more than two decades they have brought their predominantly white male teenage audience to its collective feet with raunch rock classics like "Hell Hole," "Big Bottom," and "Stonehenge." Like most "metal" bands, critics have found them shrill, crude, and offensive. | | | All musicians seem to have had their Spinal Tap moments, be they tirades over the food in the dressing room or the career numbing embarrassment of props that fail. |
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| | This Is Spinal Tap (1984/2000): Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer - PopMatters Film Review |
| | This Is Spinal Tap is a comedy, but its consideration of the transience of fame and the band members' denial is ineffably and movingly sad. | | | But no single moment in This Is Spinal Tap communicates this sense of sadness like the scene in which the band gathers around a radio in a hotel room to listen to one of their old tunes (which dates back to their pre-Spinal Tap days when they were called "The Thamesmen"). | | | When the song ends, the DJ says: "...the band reformed as Spinal Tap, had a couple of hits, and currently resides in the 'Where are now?' file." This is the only time in the film when the group is confronted with their own failure. |
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| | This is Spinal Tap - Nitrate Online Review |
| | Spinal Tap might be a goofy rock band, but theyre also a parallel to real life, with the messy relationships, misunderstandings, and social politics that go along with the nine to five routine. | | | This Is Spinal Tap in 1984, many a band has been asked the question, | | | This Is Spinal Tap as realistic as possible include showing earlier band lineups that reflect the groups seventeen year history: like a persistent wasp hovering over a picnic site, Spinal Tap have refused to go away. |
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| | Spinal Tap (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This article is about the band; a spinal tap is also an informal name for a lumbar puncture. | | | In 1994, The Return of Spinal Tap was released on video; most of this was live material from a 1992 performance at the Royal Albert Hall, but it also included some interviews and follow-up on the band members. | | | Spinal Tap is a mostly fictional heavy metal band best known from the 1984 rockumentary/mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. |
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| | This Is Spinal Tap: Criterion Collection (1984) |
| | For many years there in the back of mind, Spinal Tap remained a real band. | | | I actually avoided it, even after I discovered Spinal Tap was a mock band, more on the fact that mockumentaries never amused me. I had seen a Canadian film called Hard Core Logo and was not at all amused by it. | | | From that point on for quite a few years I actually believed that Spinal Tap was a real group. |
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| | This Is Spinal Tap Movie Rewind « |
| | (McKean was the guest host that night, and Shearer and Guest were regular SNL cast members.) As the Folksmen, the three became an opening act on the (real) Spinal Tap tour, where they were routinely booed off the stage by hard-rocking audience members who didn't realize the three were also part of the band. | | | Quality non-commercial, spam free links researched by us for This Is Spinal Tap. | | | Spinal Tap, now in great disarray, ends their tour not in an arena or a stadium, but at an amusement park second-billed after a puppet show. |
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| | Jiminy Critic Movie Reviews - Review of This is Spinal Tap (1984) |
| | This is Spinal Tap chronicles the disastrous 1983 American tour of Spinal Tap; famous for being the loudest band in Britain. The bandleaders are Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer). | | | One interesting change that Guffman and Best in Show both made to the Spinal Tap formula is the removal of the filmmaker as a character. | | | There have been several high-profile fictumentaries made since This is Spinal Tap (and many more low-profile) but none of them has managed to overtake it as the undisputed king of fictumentaries. |
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| | Spinal Tap |
| | What makes the new DVD release of Spinal Tap such a pleasure, then, is the opportunity to experience anew one of the funniest films of the 1980's - one that launched the "mockumentary" format as a genre unto itself. | | | The career of fictional rock group Spinal Tap is a high decibel example of life imitating art imitating life. | | | Spinal Tap was Reiner's first directorial effort, and he's never again come close to capturing the playfulness and spontaneity he does here (in fact, he's rarely tried, content instead to churn out fuzzy liberal dramas like |
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| | Combustible Celluloid film review - This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, dvd review |
| | This is Spinal Tap, which opens today for a 2000 re-release in various theaters, is a completely phony documentary directed by Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) about an aging British heavy metal band embarking on a new tour to promote their latest album, "Smell the Glove". | | | I even went to see the band live when they toured in 1992, and pretended to be a real Spinal Tap fan, just as the actors were pretending to be a band. | | | But I still think This is Spinal Tap is a perfect film. |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on This Is Spinal Tap [Remaster] - Spinal Tap at Epinions.com |
| | A "mock-umentary" of the legendary (but fictional) band Spinal Tap, the film is a merciless parody of all aspects of rock stardom. | | | The movie and the CD became so popular that Spinal Tap is now considered a real band...the actors put together a follow-up album (Break Like the Wind, 1992), a tour, and a video collection. | | | Comedians Michael McKeon, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest were so accurate in their portrayals of the clueless rockers that many were fooled into thinking that Spinal Tap was a real band. |
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| | This is Spinal Tap |
| | The scary thing is that Spinal Tap could be a real band. | | | The real beauty of Spinal Tap was that the actors improvised most of the dialogue. | | | Spinal Tap is guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest, Best in Show, Almost Heroes), lead vocalist David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean, Little Nicky, Mystery, Alaska) and bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer, The Simpsons, Dick). |
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| | This is Spinal Tap movie review |
| | If you now rush out to buy Spinal Tap's catalogue, you've been living in a cave the last few years. | | | Spinal Tap can represent any cock-rock band, from bands in the 70s like Deep Purple (featuring Ritchie Blackmore, a talented but temperamental guitarist with a penchant for smashing cameras) and Led Zeppelin, to hair bands in the 80s such as Poison or Cinderella or Warrant. | | | Covering the tour is a documentarian, Marti DeBergi (director Rob Reiner) who wants to portray to the world what Spinal Tap is really all about. |
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| | This Is Spinal Tap |
| | "This Is Spinal Tapa comedy, but its consideration of the transience of fame and the band members' denial is ineffably and movingly sad." | | | A brilliant and hilarious documentary-style satire of a has-been British heavy metal band who never really was on an absurd American comeback tour that never quite gets off the ground, THIS IS SPINAL TAP practically birthed the mockumentary style. | | | Create a fansite for This Is Spinal Tap |
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| | Spinal Tap A to Zed : Stonehenge |
| | (If you listen closely during "This is Spinal Tap," you can hear a fan yell "Do Stonehenge!" during the Chapel Hill concert.) The idea proves to be a disaster-largely because of Nigel's confused state-and is quickly abandoned after just one performance in Austin. | | | (IST) During the filming of "This is Spinal Tap," the band discusses bringing Stonehenge back to revitalize its stage presence. | | | Stonehenge: Classic rock spectacle perfected by Spinal Tap before their 1982 tour brought it down a notch; the Nigel tune first appeared on the disastrous 1975 concept album, "The Sun Never Sweats" and was rereleased on the 1984 soundtrack album. |
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| | Ink 19 :: This Is Spinal Tap |
| | But it's more than just a mockery of a scene and a band; Spinal Tap goes further, to take on the bogus attempts by films to chronicle Heavy Metal at the time. | | | It's an extremely impressive feat, especially when one thinks of all the bands that have covered Spinal Tap songs over the years and all the times the band has been resurrected -- with new drummers. | | | After twenty-odd minutes of relaxed questions from a moderator and the audience, and with applause hitting mark 11, Shearer promised that we still have not heard the last from Spinal Tap. |
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| | MMI Review: This Is Spinal Tap |
| | But the band regains its place in the heavy metal pantheon when Japanese rockers start grooving on the rock video "Sex Farm," and, before you can say decibel overdose, Spinal Tap's deafening the exuberant audiences of Japan. | | | Like Spinal Tap's drummer says: The meaning of life is Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll. | | | "This Is Spinal Tap" put the mockumentary on the map. |
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| | Spinal Tap Books |
| | This is the Spinal Tap Zine: An A to Zed Guide to One of England's Loudest Bands | | | A paper version of the This is Spinal Tap continuity script is available, although it's also included in the CD-ROM and laser disc retrospectives. | | | He wrote me: "I did some reporting on Tap for Entertainment Weekly, and expanded versions of the stories appear in the revised British edition as part of a section about the band in New Orleans. |
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| | Spinal Tap Script Part 1 |
| | Seventeen years and fifteen albums later, Spinal Tap is still going strong, and they've earned a distinguished place in rock history as one of England's loudest bands. | | | Ian: Spinal Tap -- this is Spinal Tap. | | | David: We are Spinal Tap from the UK you must be the USA! |
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Movies: Titles: T: This Is Spinal Tap |
| | Tap into the Internet- Information and pictures about the band and movie, Spinal Tap. | | | The Spinal Tap Fan Page - Includes information and facts about one of England's loudest bands, a trivia quiz, product information, and links to other Tap sites. | | | IMDb: This Is Spinal Tap - Cast/credits plus additional information for the film This Is Spinal Tap |
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| | TURNING IT TO 11 |
| | GD: Derek, it's been said you represent the dark side of Spinal Tap. | | | If you go through a Spinal Tap record, and just change all the references to death to life, let's say; and all the references to Satan to God, you'd really have a pretty damn good Christian rock record. | | | After nearly four decades yielding more than a dozen albums, calamitous tours, and critical ostracization, perhaps straddling that "fine line between clever and stupid" spoken of in Marty DiBergi's legendary 1984 rockumentary, This is Spinal Tap. |
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| | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) |
| | The opportunity to view This Is Spinal Tap should never be missed! | | | Examples of the continued satirical thread which runs through This Is Spinal Tap are easy to come by. | | | A spot-on spoof rockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap casts a shrewd and knowing glance over the rock'n'roll industry. |
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| | Memorable Quotes from This Is Spinal Tap (1984) |
| | David St. Hubbins: We are Spinal Tap from the UK - you must be the USA! | | | Reading a review of Spinal Tap's latest album] | | | David St. Hubbins: I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. |
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| | VH1.com : Spinal Tap : Artist Main |
| | Some people who have grown up in a post-'80s generation fail to recognize the rock group Spinal Tap, and the reason they probably don't is because the band is totally fictitious. | | | Spinal Tap comes from the 1984 satirical movie This Is Spinal Tap, a... | | | Add a link to your "Spinal Tap" fan site on VH1.com! |
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| | This Is Spinal Tap - tvguide.com |
| | Spinal Tap is an aging British heavy metal band who are limping their way across the US while Marty DiBergi (Reiner) makes a "rockumentary" film about them. | | | Hilarious pseudo-documentary spoof of a British rock group that was so on-target in its satire, many viewers took it for the real thing. |
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| | My Story 6 |
| | It was then that I realized these bands seemed very important to my neurologist and that due to the incompetence of the lab, I would most likely have to go through that horrible spinal tap all over again. | | | Finally, the spinal tap, or lumbar puncture, is a test where a needle is inserted into the base of the spine to withdraw spinal fluid, which is then studied by a lab. | | | The bands are found by running a test on the spinal fluid called, electrophoresis. |
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| | National MS Society Sourcebook: Immunoglobulin |
| | For this reason, a lumbar puncture (spinal tap') may be performed to take a sample of CSF as part of a diagnostic evaluation. | | | While increased immunoglobulin in the CSF and oligoclonal bands are seen in many other neurologic conditions as well as MS, their presence is often useful in helping to establish a diagnosis of MS. | | | Nerves whose myelin has been destroyed do not conduct nerve impulses efficiently, and this produces the symptoms of MS. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Official "Spinal Tap" Companion: Books |
| | A true cult classic, Spinal Tap is celluloid satire at its finest, as the imaginary heavy metal band Spinal Tap (the world's loudest band) take on the music business under the watchful eye of a TV documentary crew - with priceless results. | | | Whilst some of the book's contents (such as the song lyrics) will not be news to "old friends" of Spinal Tap, a comprehensive A-Z of the band, and the transcripts of the film's out-takes beautifully complete the story of the band. | | | The artists behind such esteemed recordings as Silent But Deadly, Intravenus de Milo and the classic Bent For The Rent, Spinal Tap have become part of popular consciousness in a way that few ageing heavy rock bands with a penchant for deceased drummers have achieved. |
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| | This Is Spinal Tap - definition of This Is Spinal Tap in Encyclopedia |
| | In medicine, spinal tap is a synonym for lumbar puncture. | | | Spinal Tap began their career as The Thamesmen before renaming themselves; they had an early hit with the flower power anthem "Listen to the Flower People" before turning to heavy metal. | | | Against St. Hubbins' initial reluctance, the group launches "Spinal Tap mark two" with Small's fusion-esque "Jazz Odyssey," which is roundly rejected by their already-diminishing fan base. |
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| | This Is Spinal Tap |
| | Largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast, This is Spinal Tap looks and sounds like a "real" documentary, with Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest as David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, and Nigel Tufnel, the key members of a going-nowhere British heavy metal band called Spinal Tap. | | | After the film's initial release, McKean, Guest, and Shearer did a short club tour as Spinal Tap; the "band" reunited in 1992 for a new album, "Break Like the Wind", followed by a full-fledged tour and TV special, The Return Of Spinal Tap. | | | After going through a psychedelic period with "Listen to the Flower People", the band mutated into Spinal Tap, a hard rock outfit responsible for such albums as "Intravenous DeMilo", "The Sun Never Sweats", and "Bent for the Rent". |
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