Subj : Spinal Tap
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Sep 23 2025 08:51:01

  Re: Re: Good to be back
  By: Digital Man to MRO on Mon Sep 22 2025 09:00 pm

 DM> I was 14 years old when I saw the original; I was a "serious" long-haired
 DM> musician, so I didn't think it was funny... at all. Older friends kept
 DM> referring to it and re-watching it and over time, I started to "get it"
 DM> and now it's one of my all time favorite movies. So I think you have to
 DM> either:

 DM> 1) think musicians take themselves too seriously and so think it's funny
 DM> to see them taken down a notch like that (even if only fictionally), or:

 DM> 2) be a musican that does not take themselves too seriously and basically
 DM> laugh at the absurdity of your past-time/profession

I finally watched Spinal Tap around 2005 or something, and I thought it was pretty funny. I only ever played music for fun though, never really as a serious musician.

When I visited the UK in 2013, Stonehenge was one of the places I visited, and I remembered the Stonehenge bit in Spinal Tap..  Funny stuff.

Nightfox

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