Spinal Tap Turn 25 In Hilarious Fashion
Clockwise from top left: Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), and Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest). Photograph by Art Streiber.
Everyone’s favourite ‘Mock Band’ Spinal Tap celebrate their 25th anniversary this year. To celebrate, the three band members – Nigel, David, Derek – re-unite with original mock-umentary director, Marty DiBergi for an hilarious interview with Vanity Fair Magazine. While almost every line is comedy gold, here is a quick snippet to give you an idea:
What about the look? Have you thought about updating your look-maybe getting a makeover for the new tour?
St. Hubbins: I actually grew this beard. I’ve authored a self-help book. And they won’t let you appear on the cover of a self-help book unless you have facial hair…. It’s called BYOM: Be Your Own Me. Don’t be my you. Be your own me. And also, don’t be so sad. That’s the main message: Don’t be sad. Take your sadness and shove it up your ass.
What would you say are the influences on the Spinal Tap sound?
Smalls: I would say that a great and unrecognized influence on our sound has been sonar. A lot of our records, if you have the right system, you can hear messages to marine creatures.
Tufnel: And there were some tapes we heard early on-this was probably in the late 60s-of Royal Naval sonar tapes, we heard. Fascinating.
DiBergi: You had a big whale following, didn’t you there for awhile?
Smalls: No, that was just the groupies.
Full interview here.
Ed
