The Untold Truth Of Spinal Tap

April 2024 ยท 2 minute read

As part of their bumbling and oblivious fictional personas, the band finds ways to parody themselves over and over again. During their concerts, they often have mishaps involving their Stonehenge set, in homage to the movie. In one of the most memorable storylines from the film, the band tries to incorporate a Stonehenge-themed set into their live performances, but it ends in disaster when the pieces are comically undersized. Parodying this in their 1992 movie "The Return of Spinal Tap," instead of the equipment being too small as in the film, the set pieces were now too big to fit through the doors of the amphitheater, leaving the band onstage looking bewildered and signaling for nonexistent equipment to be lowered down.

In 2009, at the Glastonbury Festival, their performance featured an inflatable Stonehenge monument that was constantly blown around by the wind. That same year, the band released a recording of "Saucy Jack," a reference to a scene from the original movie about a proposed rock musical based on the life of Jack the Ripper (via Westword).

Over the years Spinal Tap has continued to surprise audiences with their impromptu reunions and releases. They still occupy a warm place in the heart of American music history, and are regularly quoted by rock stars and musicians in their interviews. No one knows what the future will hold for Spinal Tap, but fans can only hope England's loudest band will be back again.

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