Subj : Re: Good to be back
To   : Digital Man
From : The Lizard Master
Date : Wed Sep 24 2025 05:03:10

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

 >  >  > The new Spinal Tap film is AMAZING.
 >
 >  > well maybe i wasnt in the right mood for it.  i'll give it another try.
 >  > the original was just a weird type of special.
 >
 > I was 14 years old when I saw the original; I was a "serious" long-haired
 > musician, so I didn't think it was funny... at all. Older friends kept
 > referring to it and re-watching it and over time, I started to "get it" and
 > now it's one of my all time favorite movies. So I think you have to either:
 >
 > 1) think musicians take themselves too seriously and so think it's funny to
 > see them taken down a notch like that (even if only fictionally), or:
 >
 > 2) be a musican that does not take themselves too seriously and basically
 > laugh at the absurdity of your past-time/profession

I saw it when I was a kid too. I didn't realize it was a comedy going in so I was blown away haha, I checked it out of the library thinking it was a real documentary about a band. My daughter is a drummer too and really got a kick out of it, I've been playing music with people my whole life too so could be that too.

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