Which bands were Spinal Tap mocking?

marktheshark wrote: I think there was a bit of Beatles play in there to. You had that Yoko Ono type girl friend sticking her nose in their business pissing off the other members. Great flick. I remember watching it with a friend who was seeing it for the 1st time. And he said "Yeah, I think I remember these guys but I never got around to buying any of their albums." I about choked on my beer laughing!

well Spinal Tap (post movie) has released a few albums

funny affairs

I think it's a good film! It's funny and the director shows a great talent and taste (or distaste).

NutterAlert wrote: Oh, and the epic stonehenge moment is supposed to be based on an idea by Black Sabbath, who had a replica built of stonehenge 3 times larger than the original, they took it to their first show but couldn't even get it through the doors....

But they did use it at the Reading Festival in 1983 when they played fronted by Ian Gillan.... and encored with 'smoke on the water'

Lemmy has to be one of them, i mean Derrek Small's tash...

I thought of Spinal Tap as more of an 80's "cock rock" hair band more then anything from the movie.

There’s an awful lot of Uriah Heep in there. I detected some Moody Blues, and there’s definitely some Jethro Tull in the “Stonehenge” scene (specifically the bit about finding mandolin strings). The pod scene is taken pretty much directly from the Monkees’ little-seen TV special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee.

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Dick Heath wrote: St Hubbins wrote: On Friday, Channel 5 showed the Brit film Still Crazy, superior to the Bad News film, not as funny as Tap, more of a story of a 70s band (Strange Fruit) reforming for a tour.  Great performances from Tim Spall & Bill Nighy. Auf Wiedersein Spinal Tap......

It's "Auf Wiedersehen".

As you've all spotted it was indeed more than one band that influenced the film;

Black Sabbath, Saxon, Purple, Van Halen, Aerosmith,The Who, Quo and many others.  A collection of stories and anecdotes that loosely translated into a script, as per most Christopher Guest films there's an a lot of adlib kept in.  Guest was a gutarist in National Lampoon in the 70s so probably picked up a lot from their tours.  The new DVD has 45 mins of unreleased material including Tufnell's replacement, St Hubbin's son & a trip to the zoo.  Well worth a watch.

On Friday, Channel 5 showed the Brit film Still Crazy, superior to the Bad News film, not as funny as Tap, more of a story of a 70s band (Strange Fruit) reforming for a tour.  Great performances from Tim Spall & Bill Nighy.

Coincidentally watched the Rutles last night on DVD, one of the great pastiches. Also Peter Richardson's Comedy Strip's one hour films, first shown on Channel  4 about 20 years ago, have been just been issued on DVD, with the mockumentary The Bad News Tour included - I note a couple of  critics stating this was the influence for Spinal Tap.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007LPLRY/qid=1121 690116/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_11_2/202-0064998-4346254

Sean Trane wrote: The 60's psych debut of Spinal Tap and the lenght of their carreer reminds me of Status Quo! The drummer situation reminds me of Judas Priest. The Smell The Glove album Metallica's Black album.

I agree with the Status Quo reference... in those old clips, The Thamesmen could have been playing 'Like Ice In The Sun'...

Metallica obviously parodied themselves, as the film was 1984 and the Black album 1991!