X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,67d61884f26b967e X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-04 17:53:19 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!HSNX.atgi.net!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sjc1.nntp.concentric.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!global-news-master From: Joe Blevins Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: REQ: Spinal Tap Date: 05 Oct 2000 00:53:18 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 28 Message-ID: <39DB987A.6E0BB8BB@concentric.net> References: <39D6548E.BB05223C@concentric.net> <39D8FB77.9241B745@concentric.net> <39d9e72a.2132426@news.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.155.210.183 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:1613 MJP wrote: > > > You Do of course know there is no band called Spinal Tap, And you do, of course, know that Michael McKean (David St. Hubbins), Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel), and Harry Shearer (Derek Smalls) wrote and played their own music and actually toured as Spinal Tap and recorded two full-length albums of songs. They *are* very much a band, thank you very much, just one that happened to use fictional names and characters in a movie. McKean, Guest, and Shearer are actually in another band as well -- a folk act called The Folksmen. Fans of Spinal Tap (Tapheads) are active participants in the band's ever-growing mythology and treat the group as if it were absolutely real. We know that it's all a joke, but it's much more fun to play along with the gag. And before you lecture me any further on Spinal Tap, I suggest you actually take a look at the FAQ I mantain: http://www.chiprowe.com/tap/articles/tapfuq.txt --Joe--