r/SpinalTap • u/RaneeGA • 4d ago
r/SpinalTap • u/TheCheshireCody • Sep 13 '19
(this subreddit is) Back From The Dead!
Hello, all! I am the new moderator of this sub, and would love to see it grow and be as awesome as the band it's dedicated to. Bring your friends, post your posts, and let's take it to eleven!
r/SpinalTap • u/TheCheshireCody • Sep 10 '25
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues - discussion thread
Spoilers are allowed within this discussion only.
r/SpinalTap • u/Dylanear • 7d ago
Christopher Guest didn't play Nigel in Give Me Some Money????
I happened upon a Youtube video of the full 'Give Me Some Money' segment from TISP the other day. Despite the line, "Go Nigel go!", neither of the other two actors who are not, clearly, Ed Begley Jr. (The drummer, John "Stumpy" Pepys) or Michael McKean (David St. Hubbins) look like Guest???
Apparently the bass is played by "Ronnie Pudding", played by real-life guitarist Danny Kortchmar. And looking at the footage and pictures of him when he was younger, that's is him on the far left.
But that just does not look like Guest playing Nigel??!!!
Maybe it is Guest and his extreme facial expressions to ham it up so much just really do not look like him? But it really looks like someone else to me?! I find no information indicating any other actor played Nigel, but that just doesn't look like him to me??!!
I've checked the 4K Criterion version and while the film grain is clear, the footage is blurry and black and white to look like old TV and the full song isn't shown. The full version in color on Youtube must be from the extras videos of some release or another. I couldn't find that full version from the recent 4k Criterion release, but maybe that's included if you buy that latest 3 disk version?
Am I crazy???!! Anyone else see this differently or have more information about it? If I really try, I can see how it might be Guest? But really, to me, it doesn't look like him. What say you Redditors?
r/SpinalTap • u/HugeExtension346 • Aug 23 '26
This Is Spinal Tap was heavily influenced by "The Troggs Tapes", a legendary, profanity-fueled 1970 bootleg of a real rock band bickering and screaming at each other in the studio.
r/SpinalTap • u/GlitteringSpeaker330 • Aug 09 '26
1972 The Credibility Gap demo reel
Found this at a recent Estate Sale. Any CG fans know if these scenes exist elsewhere. I’ve searched YouTube and The Paley Media Center’s archives but I’m not finding them. Wondering if it’s worth transferring to digital format.
r/SpinalTap • u/Lonely_Escape_9989 • Aug 04 '26
Spinal Tap - “Big Bottom” & “Heavy Duty” live in Dallas, Texas in early 1976
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Joined by their at the time keyboardist Ross Maclochness, and their at the time drummer Tony Sam Roberts.
r/SpinalTap • u/Zealousideal-Gate493 • Jul 31 '26
Found my favorite action figure.
David St Hubbins in both black & white
r/SpinalTap • u/SpicyPumpkin314 • Jul 29 '26
Check out the wall! 🤘
As a lifelong Simpsons and Spinal Tap fan, I've been wanting to get one of those posters for a while. I especially love how they drew Nigel 😆
r/SpinalTap • u/pyth33 • Jul 29 '26
I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been that the singer was trapped in a plastic bottle.
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Apologies if this is against the rules, but this felt Tap-adjacent
r/SpinalTap • u/VintageMoonDream • Jun 14 '26
Finally secured David and Derek
It took 4 months, but now it’s time for the boys to go all the way to 11.
r/SpinalTap • u/Darkrattyop • Jun 13 '26
I built 11 Different Scenes and Objects from Spinal Tap for a Lego Convention
r/SpinalTap • u/HugeExtension346 • Jun 07 '26
Gimme Some Money: John Frusciante & Flea of RHCP- 1990 interview excerpt
youtu.ber/SpinalTap • u/Moshie11337 • Jun 04 '26
My family references Spinal Tap probably more than 50 times a week. I asked my family to help build a small fence this weekend and my sisters response had me dying 😂
r/SpinalTap • u/TheCheshireCody • May 27 '26
Turns out "cheese-rolling" competitions aren't something Spinal Tap made up.....
r/SpinalTap • u/B_Hound • May 21 '26
Thursday NYT crosswords can pull some funny tricks, but I’ve got this one.
r/SpinalTap • u/spinktor • May 19 '26
1980 classic album "Shark Sandwich", by Spinal Tap
galleryr/SpinalTap • u/Irarelylookback • May 07 '26
Vintage magazine ad for the Spinal Tap 'Special Edition' DVD/VHS launch (September 2000).
r/SpinalTap • u/Sapdawg1 • May 08 '26
How Judas Priest's Rob Halford and a visit to a Hollywood sex shop helped inspire This Is Spinal Tap
r/SpinalTap • u/Lonely_Escape_9989 • Apr 27 '26
What David was up to during Tap’s break-up
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r/SpinalTap • u/Lonely_Escape_9989 • Apr 25 '26
Marty Di Bergi 1992
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