24 Responses to “Live Earth – I Can’t Believe I Missed This”

1. Kat Coble Says:
   July 8th, 2007 at 5:08 pm

   Fake band plays for fake theory.

   I like it.

2. Preston Taylor Holmes Says:
   July 8th, 2007 at 6:16 pm

   Cranky, find the footage on youtube now or you’re fired.

   Or at least suspended.

3. Nigel Says:
   July 8th, 2007 at 6:22 pm

   Kat…

   Let me assure you, Spinal Tap is very much a real band.

   I will say however that I was very disappointed with the green room accomodations.

   Cranky, first one to find it gets to post it…the other has to link it. Ready…GO!

4. Nigel Says:
   July 8th, 2007 at 6:35 pm

   I win.

   But to show you I am a good sport, I just emailed y’all the embed code. Tap must be shared…

5. Smantix Says:
   July 8th, 2007 at 7:40 pm

   And to think, I have never seen Spinal Tap.

6. Sharon Cobb Says:
   July 8th, 2007 at 7:51 pm

   Smantix–
   Of ALL people, you should see Spinal Tap.

   Cranky–How about all those bass players who came on with them? I was falling out of my chair watching them.

7. Yiddish Steel Says:
   July 8th, 2007 at 7:52 pm

   I don’t want to come off as the bactine-soaked sponge on a knicked up ass wound, but, Spinal Tap was once funny… Like 25 years ago. Let’s be honest here, “Tap Fans”. The band has really sucked ass since Mick Shrimpton and Joe “Mama” Besser were both dismissed and parrished from the band some 20 years ago.

8. Sharon Cobb Says:
   July 8th, 2007 at 7:53 pm

   Nigel–
   That’s a great clip from ST. The entire film is wonderful.

   Smantix–
   I assume you’re attending Prick Fest in August, yes? Maybe someone with a laptop will let us use it and we’ll watch ST.

9. Cranky Says:
   July 8th, 2007 at 8:23 pm

   Well OF COURSE Nigel would have the lowdown on this. He lives for this!!

   OK, pres, you will have my resignation by 9am EST Monday.

   BTW, Tap was and is good stuff. And it takes stadium sized cojones to fake a British accent to a real British audience. Credit where credit is due.

10. Kat Coble Says:
    July 8th, 2007 at 9:18 pm

    Smantix–
    Spinal Tap was MADE for you. I’m with Sharon.

11. Nigel Says:
    July 8th, 2007 at 10:57 pm

    I have the DVD. Let’s schedule a symposium on it…

    Smantix, you will SO love this movie.

    Yiddish…you are correct about the decline of the once great Spinal Tap. I didn’t actually find their Live Earth performance to be inspiring…however I will say that the mere fact that they were playing Live Earth kind of lent to my lack of enthusiasm for their perfomance. Instead of Stonehenge , I think Big Bottom would have been a better choice…perhaps they could have had a slide of Hillary Clinton behind them as they played.

    I wonder how Joe “Mama” met his demise. Perhaps another spontaneous combustion brought about by global warming?

12. Smantix Says:
    July 8th, 2007 at 11:38 pm

    So who’s going to be holding?

13. Sharon Cobb Says:
    July 8th, 2007 at 11:40 pm

    Nigel,
    Check out YouTube for their performance of ‘Big Bottom.’ They have some very interesting guest musicians come out and play with them.

    Anyhow, tomorrow is Monday, which should make it your bun day!

14. Nigel Says:
    July 8th, 2007 at 11:50 pm

    Uh…not me. Probably Sharon? That’s my best guess…

    Or perhaps we can swing by El Dos de Oros so you can get your fix…I’d like to check out the scene for the hell of it if anyone can guarantee my safety…

15. Joules Says:
    July 8th, 2007 at 11:55 pm

    Those guys have put out some really funny movies in recent years and some have pretty good music. They just haven’t been performing as Spinal Tap. It doesn’t seem like the audience appreciates how lucky they are to have them reunite as S.T. for this event.

16. Smantix Says:
    July 9th, 2007 at 12:38 am

    That sounds right. Sharon, you did say you called Ophelia Ford’s peeps, right? I’ll have whatever she’s having.

    And have the Dwight Yoakam queued to play “It Won’t Hurt when I fall down from this bar stool”. Just in case.

    I can’t guarantee anything with the Cocktails bar. I’d heard they had a stabbing there the weekend following the Scene’s little story.

    Imagine that. A stabbing at a ….ah, forget it.

17. Sharon Cobb Says:
    July 9th, 2007 at 12:40 am

    Smantix,
    Rhetorical question?

    Nigel,
    I’ll guarantee your safety. (mawaaahaahaa):evil:

18. The Unabrewer Says:
    July 9th, 2007 at 2:19 am

    Was that Mrs. St. Hubbins on background vocals? The face, hair, and knockers looked about right.

19. Nigel Says:
    July 9th, 2007 at 12:05 pm

    Check out YouTube for their performance of ‘Big Bottom.’ They have some very interesting guest musicians come out and play with them.

    I was wondering what you were talking about earlier about the bass players. I saw it late last night on Hot Air…I’m going to steal that too…

    It’s not like any of my stuff is original anyway…

20. Nigel Says:
    July 9th, 2007 at 12:16 pm

    BTW…did anyone else notice that there were an TON of concert goers who dressed up as empty seats?

    Big Bottom is now up at my site…

21. Cindi Says:
    July 9th, 2007 at 10:55 pm

    the bleached blonde was my high school homecoming Queen! How cool is that?

22. Cranky Says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 9:53 am

    Michael McKean was a homecoming queen?

23. # 9 Says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 11:53 am

    Did anyone notice it looked like some air guitar was happening? Lenny Kravitz missed a few bars on a lead and the camera had to change to cover it up.

    Now Madonna has been accused of more air guitar.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/10/nmadonna110.xml

    What a ripoff. Fake music for a fake cause.

24. Felonius Junk Says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    #9…global warming is a REAL threat to Planet Earth…a concept that neither you nor Kat seem to grasp.

    Haven’t you heard? The debate is over! The science is infallible!

    What Mother Earth and Algore (PBUH) needs from all of us is a little sacrifice…and many, many more concerts like this so Algore (PBUH) can stay relevant.