Spinal Tap

[Outbackmanyep]

One of my favourite bits from Spinal Tap...:rofl:
See these 3 links in order!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-fjPl75FsY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3PTVQ6UJ8U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfvWxlUjYn0

[dugnsuz]

One of my all time favourite movies there!!
Quotes from this classic are too numerous to mention!
But I will try to reference!!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qomBWvdu_lo
Doug

ps..check out Spinal Tap on YouTube for lots of cross references especially Spinal Tap on Jonathan Ross! http://youtube.com/watch?v=GFr7ooGzlfI
and this http://youtube.com/watch?v=8UOYKgXk4yE

[fringe_dweller]

still got the original vhs version :thumbsup: go nigel!!

but i liked the 'bad news' band in UK comedy cafe presents ep with the dodgy ford transit van - btw geddit geddit bad news travels fast :lol:

these same guys recently did a spoof of the US folk scene as well, that was ok, not as good as ST

theres another rock band spoof from the late 90's? where there all aging famous rockers, i wanna see that still

[dugnsuz]

Yes, Bad News - from the Comic Strip crew (Young ones etc etc).
"jimmy page played Stairway to heaven in his thirties, I could play it when I was 15" paraphrasing of-course!!!!
The other spoof might be ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_Crazy
Another great movie
Billy Connolly as the roadie - excellent.
Star is the much underated Bill Nighy as the lead singer - he also played the ageing rock star in "Love Actually".
Doug

[Outbackmanyep]

My favourite #1 guitarist David Gilmour plays on "Big bottom"!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8UOYKgXk4yE

[Outbackmanyep]

Cant believe they got 2 of my favs in one!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wFHL5b7dIpE

[Outbackmanyep]

Hey Fringe-dweller,
Play this one up loud!
I always do!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CmVNIWD8Qus

:cheers:

[CoombellKid]

The Bad News Tour, now I haven't seen that for years, absolutely hillirious
along with good old Spinal Tap.

regards,CS

[jjjnettie]

Echoes
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y1SnVrb0VVU

[Omaroo]

Gotta love Spinal Tap:)

LOL!! "..hundreds of years before the dawn of history there lived an ancient race of people..."

11 out of 10 :thumbsup:

[dmizen]

A) showm me 15yr old with suffiecient attention span to play the song the whole way through ... (7.5 minuets?)

B) will the 15yr old be able to retire at 40 (as per page) and maintain 5 current/ex wives 7 children 1 grand child a manor house in country england and house in brazil, los angles, a private plane a million dollar antique collection and still do enough charity work with street kids in brazil to be awareded an OBE?

david

[dugnsuz]

Actual quote from "Bad News Tour" is...

" I could play Stairway to Heaven when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn't actually write it till he was 22. I think that says quite a lot..."

Sorry memory's stuffed!!

As for part A) - it's not stairway to heaven but he is 15!!!!:P
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=AWisv6XG3rw

Doug

[fringe_dweller]

LOL at quotes! yep turn it up to 11 :thumbsup:

the youngsters today have some advanced learning advantages that werent around so long ago, but they are also advantageous to aging rockers such as myself :) especially dvds/youtube ect. but i wonder, will they develop as good as ears as we did? they seem heavily visually orientated? thats cool, but it shouldnt be the only way.
one thing they have i am envious of, is the embarresment of riches in one on one hip and groovy/cool music teachers, guitar teachers were a different breed in my day :rolleyes: studious serious types with white socks and sandals.
Mostly classical teachers who despised modern music, now they all cool hip very knowledgable ex rockers for dads and teachers ;)
not to mention nice gear/software available these days

[CoombellKid]

LOL, I remeber my russian piano teacher used to rap me across the knuckles
with her ruler whenever one my fingers raised more than a finger width
above the key's. My guitar teacher was my country and western play'n uncle
who must of dispised every sunday when I would come along with my
Black Sabbeth, Deep Purple and Van Halen records wanting him to teach
particular songs. Poor old uncle Murray has Parkinson now :whistle:


regards,CS

[fringe_dweller]

Rings true Rob, in my day they couldnt of made music anymore boring to learn if they had tried, i think it was quite deliberate :P i mean those plastic recorders!! those cheap and mean *******s - i'll never forgive them! as if anyone is going to be inspired by one of them, why not tin whistles!!!????? - HEAPS better cheap instrument - cant have the proletariat playing their folk/common music, send 'em to technical schools to learn something useful, so they can tile my floors or be my butler!
I know your uncle's circumstances are different with parkinsons.
but Funny thing is playing music, or more specifically constantly LEARNING new material and instruments, in old age is probably the best way to delay/avoid onset senility/dementia ect. possible, better than crosswords ect. keep those synapses firing, opening new areas of grey matter. They say learning a new song/piece is one of the only ways known you can create transform/convert previously unused grey matter to new used grey matter. Music therapy is huge of course.
not to mention how good it is for the soul.
I am inspired by people like Segovia, who just got better with age! theres heaps of examples, specially in blues /jazz/classical who get better with age, for example they say the male voice doesnt hit its peak till age 40! and i cant understand when ppl dont improve with age!? musnt be trying hard enough?
main issue really in old age playin git wise is arthritis setting in, but thats usually only if you stop playing! a la 'use it or lose it'. and seems more to do with heavy handed piano playing.
and im becoming an experienced slide player now, just to deal with such issues in future, hopefully! could lose a finger(s) or stiffen and still play slide - what about django and finger situ?

[dmizen]

i assume reference to django is a reference to django rhinehart [spelling]
lost partial use of fingers in a burns accident there are parallels to Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) who lost the tips of fingers on one hand in an industrial accident just prior to becoming a "proffessional" musician and ultimatley led to him adopting lower tunings on his guitar (less string tension) and using "thimbles" on the tips of fingers on his right? hand to stop the strings cutting into the damaged ends of the fingers. Rhinehart was the model for Iommi

[CoombellKid]

jeeez.... there's a name you dont hear to much about django rhinehart.
I believe it was a fire in a caravan he was sleeping in.

regards,CS

[fringe_dweller]

yes dmizen, thats who i meant!
where there's a will there's a way! eh
your right about tommy/tony, but many famous git players tune their gits down a semitone - Jim Hendrix/jeff beck/ SRV just to name a few - sometimes its for a distinctive sound, other times so they can use heavier gauge strings and still bend, its just easier to play with lower tension, bluesy sound, and for slide playin with heavier gauge string in standard tuning.
lots of these modern sliders use low down open c tuning a lot! ie Ben Harper/john butler
here's two fingered django!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6nkHJQnEPs