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This is Spinal Tap

 

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Marty:  Hello.  My name is Marty DeBergi.  I'm a film maker.  I make a lot of commercials.  That little dog that chases the covered wagon underneath the sink?  That was mine.

        In 1966, I went down to Greenwich Village, New York City to a  rock club called the Electric Banana.  Don't look for it, it's not there anymore.  But that night I heard a band that for me redefined the word "rock and roll".  I remember being knocked out by their, their exuberance, their raw power -- and their punctuality.

        That band was Britain's now-legendary Spinal Tap.  Seventeen years and fifteen albums later, Spinal Tap is still going strong, and they've earned a distinguished place in rock history as one of England's loudest bands.

        So in the late fall of 1982 when I heard that Tap was releasing a new album called 'Smell the Glove,' and was planning their first tour of the United States in almost 6 years to promote that album, well needless to say I jumped at the chance to make the documentary, the, if you will, rockumentary that you're about to see.  I wanted to capture the, the sights, the sounds, the smells, of a hard-working rock band on the road.

        And I got that.  But I got more, a lot more.  But hey --enough of my yakkin'.  Whaddaya say, let's boogie!