spinal tap at live earth

willow13 · Post by **willow13** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:22 pm

here is the guitar that nigel is going to be using at the london concert..... man i hope they shoe the mighty tap on c4

http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-m ... -here.html

JamesW · Post by **JamesW** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:25 pm

Does anybody know what time they'll be on? I don't want to have to sit through all the crap to see them.

willow13 · Post by **willow13** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:37 pm

no, C4 don't list the act/times....i'm recording the whole thing, so if they play anything that you guys miss I can do a dvd of what ever you want, depending on what they show

darkness · Post by **darkness** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:39 am

is that not a Donnie he's holding?

DarcyPerry · Post by **DarcyPerry** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:50 am

Is it just me, or is Spinal Tap a copy of Bad News for an American audience?

Pakehendrix · Post by **Pakehendrix** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:48 am

The singer looks like James Hetfield...and Nigel looks like Tim from The Office...

C^8 · Post by **C^8** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:23 pm

DarcyPerry wrote:Is it just me, or is Spinal Tap a copy of Bad News for an American audience?

Both Bad News and Spinal Tap films were in production at the same time apparently - but yes, This is Spinal Tap was directed more towards the mainstream American audience. Bad News was a little more obscure and true to the Comic Strip brand of British alternative comedy.

I love both films

Post by Bg » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:50 pm

yeah and I saw Bad News at their debut performance at Donnington... all good fun

willow13 · Post by **willow13** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:58 pm

C^8 wrote:
DarcyPerry wrote:Is it just me, or is Spinal Tap a copy of Bad News for an American audience?
Both Bad News and Spinal Tap films were in production at the same time apparently - but yes, This is Spinal Tap was directed more towards the mainstream American audience. Bad News was a little more obscure and true to the Comic Strip brand of British alternative comedy.

I love both films

for a bit of rough history of the tap...they released sinlges/ep /Lp as far back as 1967!!!!!!!(http://www.spinaltapfan.com/articles/albums.html) not totally sure how "serious" of a band they were back then, but bad news only released a couple of albums in the early 80's(?).....I think the bad news movie came out a few months before "this is spinal tap" ...its funny, as a teenager I remember seeing the bad news movie and a mate saying oh thats like this is spinal tap and I always thought the tap movie was heaps older......

I read that james kirk and robert joined the tap on stage at live earth so i will have to try and find it on the coverage that c4 did...it may take a while though 22hrs of recording to plow through

TRYED&FAILED · Post by **TRYED&FAILED** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:51 pm

I saw the end of Metallica around 10pm and spinal tap a bit later, Ricky Gervais off the office introduced them

"In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history"

JamesW · Post by **JamesW** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:19 pm

If anyone's interested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixx1w3LS08M&NR=1

willow13 · Post by **willow13** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:34 pm

bluesgeek wrote:yeah and I saw Bad News at their debut performance at Donnington... all good fun

wasn't there debut performance dubbed there reformation

was this the line at that gig BG ?......Bon jovi, Dio, Metallica, Anthrax, W.A.S.P., Cinderella......holy shit what an awesome line up to see

Post by Bg » Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:14 pm

yep that was the one

I went every year for about 12 or 13 years, a bit like the Big Day Out over here only with proper bands and music

WASP were great, saw them a couple of times. I'm not the worlds biggest Metallica fan so I have the feeling I was in the beer tent. Anthrax were cool, Dio was fantastic and despite my reservations I really enjoyed Bon Jovi, Sambora's playing was great live. I don't think they should have been headlining though

rocklander · Post by **rocklander** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:02 pm

willow13 wrote:...its funny, as a teenager I remember seeing the bad news movie and a mate saying oh thats like this is spinal tap and I always thought the tap movie was heaps older......

+1

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:08 am

So, since I've nevr got off off on TIST (I have the DVD), I might enjoy Bad News, 'cos its British?