Spinal Tap - Favourite quotes!
Ben Dessau
OK, its all our favourite film, but what is *Your* favourite
quote from "This is Spinal Tap"?
To get the ball rolling, mine is the drummer who died in:
"... a bizzarre gardening accident ... "
- Ben
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Tony Wesley
>Hi Folks,
> OK, its all our favourite film, but what is *Your* favourite
>quote from "This is Spinal Tap"?
"This one goes to eleven."
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Jeff Boerio
"but this one goes to 11."
- Jeff
Jerry Shekhel
rock 'n roll." (Mick Shrimpton in the bathtub [or was it Joe 'Mama' Besser?]).
Cheers!
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Danny K. Jain
>Hi Folks,
> OK, its all our favourite film, but what is *Your* favourite
>quote from "This is Spinal Tap"?
>To get the ball rolling, mine is the drummer who died in:
>"... a bizzarre gardening accident ... "
> - Ben
I have oh-so-many quotes that I love from "This is Spinal Tap", but
I guess my favorite quote is when Nigel is describing why his amplifier
is so great:
"But this goes to eleven."
Danny Jain
(dan...@simpson.sps.mot.com)
Filipanits, Frank J.
>b...@cs.warwick.ac.uk (Ben Dessau) writes:
>I have oh-so-many quotes that I love from "This is Spinal Tap", but
>I guess my favorite quote is when Nigel is describing why his amplifier
>is so great:
>
>"But this goes to eleven."
>
>Danny Jain
>(dan...@simpson.sps.mot.com)
"You ask yourself just how more black could it be? and the answer is none -
none more black..."
BTW, I built my own bass preamp and the gain DOES go to eleven...
Stephen Legate
> OK, its all our favourite film, but what is *Your* favourite
>quote from "This is Spinal Tap"?
Marty: "...so...when you're up on stage you feel like a preserved moose?"
Derek: "Yeah."
The BEST ROCK'N'ROLL MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!!
BTW, I found the soundtrack on CD and I was SO PSYCHED!
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And his Spontaneously Combustible Dog, Gunthor.
Phil Hildenbrand
I love the deeply thought out revelations:
"It's such a fine line between creative and stupid"
or
"What's wrong with being sexy?" [that's sexIST]
Phil
p.s. "When you've lived and lost as much has Frank has..."
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me".
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kathy
David Lim
"you can't really dust for vomit."
or "Mime is money!"
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Ian Stephenson
Spinal Tap : Put Rock'n'Roll in prespective - Too Much fuckin' perspective !
(Sums it up realy !)
Ian
shane p faulkner
Scene near the end of the movie. Nigel has left, and David and Derek are chat-
ting, poolside.
Paraphrased or course.
Derek: I'm so so sick of pounding out the same old heavy metal bullsh*t.
David: Now that we've got the time,... you remember that musical we were always
planning on doing.
Derek: Yeah, based on the life of Jack the Ripper...
David: Yeah!....
Singing together: 'You're a naughty one, Saucey Jack!'
Sorry for butchering the scene... I had to post something!
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> Hi Folks,
> OK, its all our favourite film, but what is *Your* favourite
> quote from "This is Spinal Tap"?
>
> To get the ball rolling, mine is the drummer who died in:
> "... a bizzarre gardening accident ... "
> - Ben
Mine is during the credits...
"Have... a good time.... all the time... That's my philosophy, Marty!"
The keyboard player just looks so creepy and ludicrous at this point...
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Chris Strom
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-Nigel, commenting on his Seafoam Green Fender 6-string bass guitar.
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and, of course:
"This one goes to eleven..........."
Dean Engelhardt
In article <1991Sep3.1...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>,
b...@cs.warwick.ac.uk (Ben Dessau) writes:
> Hi Folks,
> OK, its all our favourite film, but what is *Your* favourite
> quote from "This is Spinal Tap"?
>
> To get the ball rolling, mine is the drummer who died in:
> "... a bizzarre gardening accident ... "
> - Ben
Apart from the obvious "This one goes to eleven", my favourite Tap
quotes would be:
- "It's not that the band's becoming less popular, just that it's
audience is becoming
more selective" - the band's manager explaining why they were
playing smaller and
smaller venues.
- "Obviously I'd feel a lot worse if I wasn't under such heavy sedation"
- Guitarist David St.Hubbins on his apparent ambivalence to the
split with Nigel.
- "Though neither a critic's or popular favourite, Spinal Tap
continues to occupy a
much needed void" - from the Rocklopedia Britannicus entry on Tap
(reproduced in
the liner notes of the Soundtrack disc).
- "My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo // I'd like to sink her with my
pink torpedo"
- example of typically sensitive lyrics (from Big Bottom).
PS these are all from memory, so may'nt be word perfect.
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> -Nigel, commenting on his Seafoam Green Fender 6-string bass guitar.
Nigel-"Listen To the Sustain"
Marty-"I don't hear anthing"
Nigel-"Well, you would...If I was actually playing it.."
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our trousers."
- David St. Hubbins
"In the topsy-turvy world of rock-n-roll, it's good to have a sturdy piece of
wood in your hand."
- Ian (whatsislastname)
"There was a Stonehenge monolith that was in danger of being trampled by a
dwarf."
- David St. Hubbins
"You have a partially nude woman, on all fours, with a chain around her neck,
and a man's hand holding a leather glove in her face forcing her to
smell it, and you don't think that's offensive?"
- Bobbie Fleckner
"I specifically told them to put 'Spinal Tap' first and 'Puppet Show' second."
- David's girlfriend and band manager (Sheila?)
"Spinal Pap"
- on a sign held by the limo driver in the airport
"...who are currently residing in the 'where are they now' file."
- DJ on local radio station
"Hello Cleveland!!!"
- Nigel Tufnel (with tongue hanging out lasciviously)
"Will you do me a favor? Please? Just kick my ass."
- Paul Schaeffer
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"Look! It's still got the tagger on it!"
"Who's in here? It's a little guy! And who's in _here_? NO-ONE!"
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Bill McEachern
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"Well, don't they go up to ten, and make "ten" louder?"
long pause due to great thought
"But these go to eleven..."
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As for hilarious moments-- how about when Marty was talking to David about
Janine and Nigel, and David says how much alike they are. At this
point, Janine just GLARES at David (she's got the looks that kill....)
"The White Album--what was that? There was nothing on that goddam cover"
--Bobbi Fleckman
Andrew Ireland (Stagiaire avec Roger)
"Are we going to record it with dobly?"
Andrew
Peggy Bertsch
the two Spinal Tap-related laughs I've gotten while not watching the movie:
I recently went on a vacation with a group of friends/bandmates. As a matter
of fact, at the pre-vacation party we had, we had rented "Spinal Tap". When
we were going through the security check at the airport, one of the guys had
a tough time with the metal detector -- must've set the thing off 3 or 4 times.
The rest of us who had already passed through finally yelled back at him:
"What the hell are you doing? We TOLD you to get rid of that foil-covered
cucumber!!!" ;-)
A couple years ago I got some free tickets to go see Night Ranger play in
a fairly small venue. A brought along a friend of mine who was a
pretty big Night Ranger fan, especially from their relative heyday a few
years back. The turnout was really dismal...my friend said "God, this is
so depressing...I feel like the sign out front should read 'PUPPET SHOW and
Night Ranger'..." ;-)
Bruce Shepherd
"...you're not as confused as he is." - David St. Hubbins reffering to Nigel
broose
Geoff Benton
Gentle classical piece being played at the piano......
Interviewer: "What's this one called"
Spinal Tap guy: "I call this one 'Lick My Lovepump'"
Regards,
Geoff Benton
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accuracy's sake:
"I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band
was down. I think that the problem may have been that there was
a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being
crushed by a dwarf!" -- David St. Hubbins
"It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel!" -- D.St.H.
"They're two totally distinct types of visionaries -- like
fire and ice, basically you see... I feel my role in the band
is to be kind of in the middle of that, kind of like
lukewarm water, in a sense...." -- Derek Smalls
"I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such
heavy sedation; but still and all... you've got to be
realistic about this sort of thing." -- D.St.H.
"It *IS* green." -- Nigel Tufnel
"He was the patron saint of quality footwear."
-- David St. Hubbins, on Saint Hubbins
And as for the Spinal Tap / Metallica connection -- I agree
that Metallica's album "goes to 11" and I think it shows that
they do have a sense of humor about themselves....
() In all my life, I have prayed but one prayer: `O Lord,
() make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
() --Voltaire
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"Kind of puts perspective on things."
"Too much fucking perspective..."
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Andrew Holyer
>
>And as for the Spinal Tap / Metallica connection -- I agree
>that Metallica's album "goes to 11" and I think it shows that
>they do have a sense of humor about themselves....
>
Just after the film came out, I read that Eddie Van Halen commisioned
Marshall to make him a stack that went up to 11....
And *why* hasn't anyone mentioned
".. it's kinda difficult to dust for vomit"
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Mark Jager
>And *why* hasn't anyone mentioned
>
>".. it's kinda difficult to dust for vomit"
>
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I did... it seems that we're now repeating the quotes over
and over.
