For instance, Black Sabbath claims that the Stonehenge bit was based off of their actual stage prop, but the movie was filmed a whole year before Sabbath's tour that featured a Stonehenge prop. Many bands have come forward to accuse the fictional band of ripping them off. This is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner has said that a lot of the mockumentary was based off of concert films of the day like the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter and the Bands' Last Waltz with a sprinkle of Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains the Same. It is pretty cool, after all of these years, to hear the real story that sparked the fictional Spinal Tap. Guest does not reveal who the band was, but he does a hilarious impression of the exchange between the manager of the band and the bass player.
Guest says that the exchange went on for about 15 minutes and that it was the best moment of his life next to meeting his wife. And the manager says to one of them "where's your bass?" "what?" "Where's your bass?" "I dunno, I think I left it at the airport"
The manager and I think there were four of them, they went up to the desk and he started to the thing, I was just waiting for my friend. "An English band was checking in, this was 1974. Christopher Guest sets up the story by saying that he was at a hotel lobby in Los Angeles in 1974, waiting for a friend when he overheard a conversation at the front desk. Guest then brought up This is Spinal Tap and told the real-life story that inspired This is Spinal Tap.
After making a joke, Guest said that none of his characters over the yeas have been autobiographical, but rather all from his personal inspiration. One audience member stood up and asked Guest if any of the characters that he has portrayed over the yeas were autobiographical. Club's comedy festival, Guest took questions from the audience. Many bands have spoken up to claim that they were the inspiration for This is Spinal Tap and there have been a few confirmed stories that made it into the movie, but the original inspiration for the cult-favorite mockumentary has never been revealed.Īfter taking part in the School of Film live event for A.V. Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap is the legendary mockumentary on the fictional hard rock band Spinal Tap that has spawned countless imitators and has even been turned into a descriptive term to poke fun at musicians and the entire music business as a whole. And the band Spinal Tap itself lived on through various projects, including a pair of actual albums, a two-hour made-for-TV special called The Return of Spinal Tap and perhaps most famously a 1992 appearance on The Simpsons.Christopher Guest revealed the initial inspiration for This is Spinal Tap at the A.V. Spinal Tap star Chrisopher Guest meanwhile would pick up on the movie’s fake-documentary premise with his own later directorial efforts, making the form his own through movies like Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show and A Mighty Wind. Reiner of course would go on to have a huge career as a Hollywood director with non-mockumentary films like Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally…, Misery and A Few Good Men. Besides being a hilarious look behind-the-scenes at the rock star life, the movie's form also proved highly influential, setting the template for the whole mockumentary sub-genre. Rob Reiner was the mastermind behind the camera of 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap, a mockumentary about a truly pretentious fake English rock band. Spinal Tap 2 is finally happening, with the original movie's stars and director all returning.
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