Holy crap, I forgot how damn funny “Spinal Tap” is. Spousal unit and I watched it tonight after the kiddies went to bed. The little Stonehenge with the dwarves dancing around it, the malfunctioning pods, and the songs…“Big Bottoms”! ROTFLMAO…
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“I’m not about to do a free-form jazz exploration in front of a festival sized crowd.”
“Are you reading ‘Yes I Can’ by Sammy Davis Jr.?”
“Before Genine came along, I was using bits and pieces of whatever eastern philosophy happen to pass through my transum.”
“I’m somewhere in the middle. I’m like lukewarm water.”
“‘Have a good time all the time’ that’s my philosophy Marty.”
“You take a greased down naked woman on all fours, wearing a dog collar, with a hand shoving a black leather glove in her face and telling her to sniff it… you don’t find that offensive?” “You should have seen the cover they wanted! It wasn’t a glove, believe me.”
“Let me see the dead bird, let me see the dead bird. C’Mon! Let’s go. Mime is money!”
“I’m very influenced by Mozart and Bach and this is sort of a combination. It’s a ‘Mach’.”
“I keep folding and folding… and I end up… with this. And I don’t want this… I wan’t normal bread on… would you eat this?! It’s ok, it’s ok Ian. It won’t effect my performance. I’m a professional and I’ll rise above it.”
“You hear that?” “No, I don’t hear anything.” “You would, though, if it were plugged in.”
“If anything, we say ‘love your brother’. Well, we don’t literally say it… we don’t literally mean it.”
“Yeeaaah, that was the Temsmen with ‘Cups and Cakes’. The Temsmen later went on to become Spinal Tap and are now headed under the ‘where are they now’ file.”
“Forget personal, I though we had a relationship.”
“It’s like ‘How much more black can you get?’ and the answer is… ‘None.’ It’s none more black.”
“I don’t think the problem was that the band was off. I think the problem may have been that there was a stonehenge monument on stage in fear of being crushed by a dwarf!”
“F*#k the napkin!!”
I could go on and on… funniest movie ever made IMHO.
Spinal Tap?
Don’t even get me started…
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and…
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: 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?
Marty DiBergi: I don’t know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: These go to eleven.
Marty DiBergi: “This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.”
Nigel Tufnel: That’s just nitpicking, isn’t it?
Marty DiBergi: Do you feel that playing rock ‘n’ roll music keeps you a child? That is, keeps you in a state of arrested development?
Derek Smalls: No. No. No. I feel it’s like, it’s more like going, going to a, a national park or something. And there’s, you know, they preserve the moose. And that’s, that’s my childhood up there on stage. That moose, you know.
Marty DiBergi: So when you’re playing you feel like a preserved moose on stage?
Derek Smalls: Yeah.
Ian Faith: The Boston gig has been cancelled…
David St. Hubbins: What?
Ian Faith: Yeah. I wouldn’t worry about it though, it’s not a big college town.
Marty DiBergi: It’s very pretty.
Nigel Tufnel: Yeah, I’ve been fooling around with it for a few months.
Marty DiBergi: It’s a bit of a departure from what you normally play.
Nigel Tufnel: It’s part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I’m working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don’t know why.
Marty DiBergi: It’s very nice.
Nigel Tufnel: You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I’m really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it’s sort of in between those, really. It’s like a Mach piece, really. It’s sort of…
Marty DiBergi: What do you call this?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, this piece is called “Lick My Love Pump”.
Jeff