spinal tap

[Baron Collins-Hill]

for those of you who have seen that movie:

whats the song they play when the little stonehenge comes down?

[Yellowmandolin]

I think it's called Stonehenge. What a great movie...

[Spruce]

With mandolin now...

1,2,3,4...

Stonehenge, where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well

Stonehenge
Where a man is a man and the children dance to
the pipes of pan

Stonehenge
Tis a magic place where the moon doth rise
With a dragon's face

Stonehenge
Where the virgins lie
And the prayer of devils fill the midnight sky

And you my love, won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time to that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how

[Furnman]

At the exhortation of our bassist, I always play the mandolin interlude from Stonehenge at least once per chruch band rehearsal. Must put him in a worshipful mood.

[luckylarue]

Gotta love the Stonehenge stage prop in danger of being trampled on by a dwarf!!

Too much ....perspective.

[Bret Roberts]

Hope this is not asking to much but,, does any one know where to get the mandolin part in tab edit ? Thanks for your time

[josefhalin]

are we playing stonehedge tomorrow night?

[Keith Erickson]

...Those stonehendge monuments should have been 6' feet high not 6" inches high!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[David M.]

No, we're not gonna f_ do Stonehenge! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[futrconslr]

LOL.....Man I love that Movie! Hairbands Rule! Now if only Mr. Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder would do "Girls, Girls, Girls".....I bet Stryper would be more acceptable! ;-)

[Spruce]

I saw Spinal Tap live a decade or so ago...
What a trip...

The Folksmen were the openers... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Keith Erickson]

Does anyone remember when Spinal Tap showed up on the Simpsons? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

I especially like the interview with KBBL Radio ( K Bable )

The Interviewer: I'm going to share you with a phrase that has dogged you throughout your careers, "Washed Up". What do you say about that?

LOL http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

[Nolan]

Cool! I just learned that little tune the other day!

I don't play it at worship band practice though... what I DO play is the bass intro to Big Bottom!

[futrconslr]

I am going to get an amp for my mando.....of course the knobs will all go up to 11. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[TommyK]

At the exhortation of our bassist, I always play the mandolin interlude from Stonehenge at least once per chruch band rehearsal. #Must put him in a worshipful mood.
Careful! When the faithful figure out what y'r a playin' and hear those lyrics, you might be stoned as a druid heretic.
Note the faithful: Remember it's the player, not the mandolin that is the heretic. Don't stone the mando!
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[futrconslr]

I saw her on monday, twas my lucky bun day.......

My girlfriend is going to hate you guys.....I am going by Blockbuster on my way home. #I wonder if it is available on DVD.

I am serious...someone needs to cut "Pickin on Spinal Tap!"

[Keith Erickson]

I am going to get an amp for my mando.....of course the knobs will all go up to 11.


Joel,

Can you hear my mandolin resonate? Listen "hmmmmmm".... See can you hear that?

No you can't touch my Mandolin. Because I'm the only one who plays it http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Spruce]

Look at the flame on my Gilchrist....
No, don't look at the flame....

It's pronounced "flyme"....

[Ted Eschliman]

(Spinal Tap's) Nigel claims that while 95 percent of his inspiration to write songs comes from dreams, the other 5 percent is the result of indigestion. "You know, you go out and have some Indian food, come back, have a very severe stomach ache, start to sweat a bit, pull out pen and paper, start writing furiously, and who knows? Before I wrote ‘Stonehenge,’ we’d gone to a place called Star of India, and I was—I mean, I was crawling about on the floor, you know. That curry really went right to the old you-know-what. So I was sittin’ on the porcelain bus, and the song just flashed into my mind."

[futrconslr]

Spruce,
Don't even point at the Flyme...

The Gospel According to Spinal Tap: This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough
to prompt the question: What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap and couldn't he have rested on that day too?

and my all time favorite....I mean, you know when you've loved and lost the way Frank has, then you know what life's about.

Funny movie.... awful music.:laugh:

[luckylarue]

"Listen to that sustain...You can go out get a bite, come back and still hear it... aaahhh.
"I don't hear anything."
"Well, you would if it were playing."

[Spruce]

One of the funniest things I've ever seen was Spinal Tap hitting the stage on wires suspended over the audience...

"Ladies and gentlemen, Spinal Tap!!"

And here they came, flying over the audience, with David and Nigel, guitars blazing away as they hit the stage and unhook themselves, and the Go-Go's drummer flailing away onstage (is she dead yet??), except when Derek (remember the pod??) gets to within 10 feet of the stage, his cable snags, and he's left dangling oh-so-close to where he wants to be...

He attempts to sing his part into the mic that is a few feet below him, and then, as the song ends, is uncerimoniously cut down by a stagehand to fall into a heap onstage...

What an entrance...

I still have the setlist here somewhere....
I do remember "Break Like the Wind", their power-ballad of the day...

[luckylarue]

Who could forget...Artie Fufkin, Polymer Records - at the ill-fated in-store appearance. #
# #
"Nig, I love your stuff." #
# #
"I thought we had a relationship?"

"Go ahead, kick my ...!"

[Gail Hester]

Now Showing: #
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# # # # # # # PUPPET SHOW

# # # # # # # # spinal tap #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[jefflester]

...Those stonehendge monuments should have been 6' feet high not 6" inches high!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif # http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif

Ian: # # # # This looks absolutely perfect. I mean it's, uh, the right proportions. #It'll be this color right?
Artist: # # #Yeah. Yeah.
Ian: # # # # Yeah. That's...that's...that's just terrific. It almost looks like the real thing.
Artist: # # #You got it.
Ian: # # # # When we get the actual, uh, set, when we get the piece, it'll...it'll follow exactly these specifications. I mean even these contours and everything?
Artist: # # #Um, I'm not understanding it. What do you mean "the actual piece?"
Ian: # # # # Well I mean...I mean when you build the actual piece.
Artist: # # #But this is what you asked for, isn't it?
Ian: # # # # What?
Artist: # # #Well this is the piece.
Ian: # # # # This is the piece?
Artist: # # #Yes.
Ian: # # # # Are you telling me that this is it? #This is scenery? Have you ever been to Stonehenge?
Artist: # # #No, I haven't been to Stonehenge.
Ian: # # # # The triptychs are...the triptychs are twenty feet high. You can stand four men up them!
Artist: # # #Ian, I was...I was...I was supposed to build it eighteen inches high.
Ian: # # # # This is insane. #This isn't a piece of scenery.
Artist: # # #Look, look. Look, this is what I was asked to build. Eighteen inches. Right here, it specifies eighteen inches. I was given this napkin, I mean...
Ian: # # # # Forget this! ##### the napkin!!!

[Michael H Geimer]

None. None more black.

[Baron Collins-Hill]

well, if i werent in the music buisness, i always though i could be a seller... of some sort of product i think, perhaps a habadachery. and i could say "whats your size"

...

and you would answer
"oh, uh... 7.5"
"oh good i think we have that."

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whats the matter nigel?

well look... it all wrong
what is?
everything, the whole back stage is a mess
like what?
well, where to start, well look at this bread, its so small, and the meat is so big
yes

and look at this, no ones home over here, ah, but whats this, ah helllo there.... i mean really who do they think we are?

[newbreedbrian]

"the review for shark sandwich just says s.hit sandwich"

"now we have time for all those side projects, like the musical about jack the ripper. your a naughty one...saucy jack"

"would you say the popularity of the band is waning? no, i think the audience is getting more selective"

one of my favorite movies for sure. i wouldnt mind learning that mandolin part for a laugh as well.

[mandroid]

there was the bit where every one was on Bass, Harry Shearer, 'Derick Smalls' had a double neck one with 2; 4 string necks, maybe an instrument, maybe a prop.
http://www.harryshearer.com/ the pithy weekly 'Le Show' is on many radio stations, or archived there. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[Professor PT]

Remember that they were "barely treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality." And don't forget that St.Hubbins was the Patron Saint of Quality Footwear.

[Michael H Geimer]

It's fine line between clever and stupid.

[John Craton]

Anyone thought of starting an all-mando group and calling it SPINAL TAB? (Yeah, dumb idea. But then....)

[Don Grieser]

"D minor, it's the saddest of keys."

[glauber]

http://img198.exs.cx/img198/687/taponsimpsons0xl.gif

[Professor PT]

"D minor, it's the saddest of keys."
"That's very pretty. What's it called?"
"Oh, 'Lick My Love Pump.'"

[Michael H Geimer]

"Derek Smalls on Bass! ... He wrote this!"
- David St. Hubbin's on performing a free form jazz odyssey in front of a festival crowd.

[futrconslr]

I rented this last nite. My girlfriend hates you guys now but I was laughing so hard I had tears rolling off my cheeks. This is probably the 20th time I have seen it but it still gets me started everytime.

[Ted Eschliman]

"During Tap's 1992 tour, Nigel took 50 guitar stands and 150 guitars on the road, including 28 acoustics and 35 Strats. #As viewers of "This is Spinal Tap" know, some of the guitars are so delicate they cannot even be pointed at."

More hilarity can be found here:
Spinal Tap Fan Website (http://www.spinaltapfan.com/).

[luckylarue]

Was that the Blues-Jazz Festival or the Jazz-Blues Festival at the Isle of Lucy?

[Yellowmandolin]

"During Tap's 1992 tour, Nigel took 50 guitar stands and 150 guitars on the road, including 28 acoustics and 35 Strats. #As viewers of "This is Spinal Tap" know, some of the guitars are so delicate they cannot even be pointed at."

More hilarity can be found here:
Spinal Tap Fan Website (http://www.spinaltapfan.com/).
Or even looked at!! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[ira]

you know dozens of people spontaneously combust every year...its just not widely reported!
love it!http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[Mastersound]

DiMarzio do knobs that go to 11... but I've only ever seen them in red or pink, neither of which really do it for me! :-)

[Keith Erickson]

We salute you a half inflated dark lord

Spinal Tap Live from Springfield.

[Michael H Geimer]

You can't really dust for vomit.

[justwrite]

Guess what my 13-year-old son wanted for Christmas? The Spinal Tap soundtrack.

[futrconslr]

I am assuming like all good 13 year olds he knows what bumcakes are? lol

[futrconslr]

I am assuming like all good 13 year olds he knows what bumcakes are? lol

[GVD]

Nigel and the boys are always a hit in the Pecan Grove at Winfield!


GVD

[GVD]

A bit closer perhaps.

GVD