This Is Spinal Tap Page #4

"Where Are They Now?" file.

Johnny Q with you on Golden 106,

and right after we...

I'm not sure this was a good idea.

I don't feel any better.

GRACELAND:

Memphis, Tennessee

He was gonna do a TV special

from here before he died.

Yeah, a musical version

of Somebody Up There Likes Me.

Well, since my baby left me

I found a new place to dwell

Well, it's down at the end

of Lonely Street

At Heartbreak Hotel

- Do it with the harmony parts.

- All right.

Well, since my baby

The same key, though, I think.

Well, since my baby left me

If I'm going:

Since my baby left me

- Me

- No, you can't hit that note.

Since my baby left me

Well, I found a new place to dwell

- That's all right.

- Not really.

- It sounds raga. You don't wanna go raga.

- Not with this, it don't.

- Since my baby left me

- It sounds f***in' barbershop.

- Barbershop raga.

- Watch the language.

- You're in the presence of the King.

- Oh. Sorry.

This is thoroughly depressing.

Really puts a perspective on things,

doesn't it?

Too much. There's too much f***in'

perspective now.

In 1967, that was the first time

Spinal Tap came into existence.

The whole world was changing

in those days.

We had the world's ear because we had

just released an enormous-selling single.

- Listen To The Flower People.

- Flower People.

We toured the world.

We toured the States.

- Toured the world and elsewhere.

- A dream come true.

Listen to what the flower people say

"JAMBOREEPOP"

(American TV - 1967)

Listen, it's getting louder every day

Listen, it's like a bolt out of the blue

Listen, it could be calling out for you

In the Flower People period,

who was your drummer?

Stumpy's replacement,

Peter "James" Bond.

He also died in mysterious

circumstances.

We were playing a jazz blues festival.

Where was that?

- Blues jazz, really.

- Blues jazz festival.

That was in the Isle...

The Isle of Lucy jazz and blues festival.

And it was tragic, really.

He exploded onstage.

- Just like that.

- He just went up.

He just was like a flash of green light...

- And that was it. Nothing was left.

- It's true. This really did happen.

There was a little green globule

on his drum seat.

- Like a stain, really.

- More of a stain than a globule.

You know, several... dozens of people

spontaneously combust each year.

It's just not really widely reported.

SHANK HALL:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Testing!

Test, test, test.

This is mike number one.

This is mike number one.

Isn't this a lot of fun?

OK, he's got the mikes.

Let's do GSM, all right? GSM.

Stop wastin' my time

You know what I want

Heavy up!

You know what I n-n-n-need

Or maybe you don't

Or do I have to come right

smack-dab out and tell you everythin'

Gimme some money!

Gimme some money!

Oh, yeah

Hello, darling!

Hello! I've got a surprise for you!

- Where'd you come from?

- Where do you think I came from?

The bloody aeroplane, didn't I? Right?

David?

David? David?

David?

Oh, that feels good!

Oh, I've been wanting to do that

for a long time!

- Want me to carry it about with me?

- What's all this?

That's the film crew. I told you about this.

- Martin, this is Jeanine.

- Hello.

Here it is! Here it is, lads!

Smell The Glove, me old beauties!

Gather round. Where's David?

David! David, get up here!

David, Smell The Glove is here.

Hello, Jeanine.

The moment we've all been waiting for!

- I never thought I'd see the day.

- Plenty for everybody!

- What do you think?

- Is this the test pressing?

No, this is it.

- This is Smell The Glove by Spinal Tap?

- That's the jacket cover

- That's going out across the country.

- This is the compromise you made?

- Is it going to say anything here?

- Nope, it's not gonna say anything.

- So it's just gonna be all black?

- Simple, beautiful, classic.

It does look like black leather.

You can see yourself in both sides.

It's like a black mirror.

I think it looks like death.

It looks like mourning.

Every movie in every cinema

is about death. Death sells.

I think he's right. There's something

about this that is so black,

it's, like, how much more black could

this be? And the answer is... none. None...

You're rationalising this whole thing

like it's something you did on purpose.

I think we're stuck with a very stupid

and dismal-looking album.

It's something you wear around your arm.

You don't put it on your f***in' turntable!

This is the turning point, OK?

I think this is... We're on our way now.

It's time... It's time to kick arse.

When there was darkness

and the void was king

And ruled the elements

When there was silence, and the hush

Was almost deafening

- Out of the emptiness

- Salvation

Salvation

Rhythm and light and sound

'Twas a rock'n'roll creation

'Twas a terrible big bang

It was the ultimate mutation

Yin was searching for his Yang

And he looked

and he saw that it was good

I look to the stars

and the answer is clear

I look in the mirror and see what I fear

'Tis the rock'n'roll creation

'Tis the absolute rebirth

It is the rolling of the ocean

And the rocking of the earth

And I looked and I saw that it was good

Given the history of Spinal Tap

drummers in the past,

do you have any fears, uh... for your life?

When I did join, they did tell me.

They took me aside and said,

"Mick, you know, it's like this."

And it did kind of freak me out a bit,

but it can't always happen to every...

Can it?

The law of averages says you will survive.

Yeah.

Whoa, quite exciting.

Quite exciting, this computer magic.

- How many planets have you destroyed?

- About four for a fifth time round, I think.

We're doing really fine.

A few galaxies gone, you know.

- This is Cindy's first moustache.

- Is it?

- Can I take it off now?

- Why, are you too hot in it?

No, it's... I thought I might go back

and see what they were up to.

I don't think they need to see this

until you're finished with it, you know?

You were reading. You can read here.

Yeah, but they got

the new game back there.

I thought I could maybe

have a look at the new game.

- It's like a submarine thing.

- You've got stuff over you again.

Before I met Jeanine,

my life was a shambles.

I was using whatever Eastern philosophy

happened to drift through my transom.

And she sort of sorted it out for me.

Gave me a path, you know, to follow.

Do you have as much influence

over his musical expression?

Oh, yeah. I mean, I listen to him

when he's experimenting-don't I?

He plays things to me sometimes

when he's worked out...

He's got a new bit

he wants to tell me about.

And I say that's good or that's bad

or that's sh*t or whatever.

She's very honest. She's brutally frank.

How does that go over

with the other band members?

She gives me the brutally frank version,

and I sort of tart it up for them.

It's so strange because Nigel

and Jeanine are so similar

in so many ways, but they just can't...

They don't dislike each other.

- There's great love between them.

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