{"id":29710,"date":"2015-01-18T02:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29710"},"modified":"2015-01-16T21:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T02:10:14","slug":"the-origins-of-spinal-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/18\/the-origins-of-spinal-tap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of Spinal Tap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/01\/the-origins-of-spinal-tap.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Open Culture<\/em><\/a>, the original clip that got the Spinal Tap movie greenlighted:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"640\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UGfZOpzfxFM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When <em>This is Spinal Tap<\/em> came out over 30 years ago, it went over a lot of people\u2019s heads. \u201cEverybody thought it was a real band,\u201d recalled director Rob Reiner. \u201cEveryone said, \u2018Why would you make a movie about a band that no one has heard of?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to believe that lines like \u201cYou can\u2019t dust for vomit\u201d failed to come off as anything but a joke. But, to be fair, Hollywood comedies were generally straight-forward affairs in the \u201880s. Think <em>Blues Brothers<\/em> or <em>Fletch<\/em>. Fake documentaries weren\u2019t a thing. And <em>This is Spinal Tap<\/em> looks and feels exactly like a rock documentary \u2013 the hagiographic voiceover, the shaky camera, the awkward interviews. The movie was just as unscripted as rock docs like <em>Don\u2019t Look Back<\/em>, <em>The Song Remains the Same<\/em> and <em>The Kids Are All Right<\/em>. The film is not only a parody of the generally overblown silliness of rock and roll, it is also, as <em>Newsweek<\/em>\u2019s David Ansen notes, \u201ca satire of the documentary form itself, complete with perfectly faded clips from old TV shows of the band in its mod and flower-child incarnations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"640\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MHdVhEN_pBQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Open Culture, the original clip that got the Spinal Tap movie greenlighted: When This is Spinal Tap came out over 30 years ago, it went over a lot of people\u2019s heads. \u201cEverybody thought it was a real band,\u201d recalled director Rob Reiner. \u201cEveryone said, \u2018Why would you make a movie about a band that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[122,200,463],"class_list":["post-29710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Jc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29711,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29710\/revisions\/29711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}