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Fake Band Slated to Perform to Raise Awareness for Fake Crisis
05.31.07 (7:28 am)   [edit]
 I find this quite ironic, but I'm a "denier."

Spinal Tap/AP



Spinal Tap is back, and this time the band wants to help save the world from global warming.

The mock heavy metal group immortalized in the 1984 mockumentary, "This Is Spinal Tap," will reunite for a performance at Wembley Stadium in London as part of the Live Earth concerts scheduled worldwide for July 7.

The original members of Spinal Tap will be there: guitarist Nigel Tufnel (played by Christopher Guest), singer David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) and bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer). Rob Reiner, who both directed "This Is Spinal Tap" and played the fake documentarian Marty DeBergi in the film, will also be in attendance.

Reiner created a new 15-minute film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

The festival is to open with a showing of several global warming-themed short films produced by the SOS (Save Our Selves) campaign. SOS is also putting on the Live Earth concerts, to be held across seven continents.

Reiner spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday to explain the reunion of Spinal Tap -- a band always known more as a parody of rock 'n' roll excess than environmental awareness.

"They're not that environmentally conscious, but they've heard of global warming," said Reiner, whose other films include "When Harry Met Sally" and "Stand By Me." "Nigel thought it was just because he was wearing too much clothing -- that if he just took his jacket off it would be cooler."

Spinal Tap has reunited several times since the film but hasn't for a number of years. For the band -- whose last album was 1992's "Break Like the Wind" -- the occasion warranted a new single: "Warmer Than Hell."

Reiner provided a sneak peek at the lyrics: "The devil went to Devon, it felt like the fourth degree/He said, 'Is it hot in here, or is it only me?'


What I wish someone could do is calculate the amount of waste in the form of litter and other detritus combined with the jet fuel used by all performers and attendees and add the total Carbon Footprint together and fine Gore appropriately.
 


posted by: heavyarms (reply)
post date: 05.31.07 (8:13 am)

Don't you realize that people who crusade to make our world a better place to live are absolved of their "larger carbon footprint."

Honestly, that stuff only applies to the little guys like you and me. Turn off the damn lightbulb when you're not in the room, set your thermostat 2 degrees higher, drive a car with a 4-cylinder engine, you ingrate. When you are rich enough to purchase carbon offsets, THEN you can keep the thermostat set on 70 degrees and fly on your very own private jet.

I'm so disappointed in Spinal Tap. I've always considered them to be a sort of poke in the eye of rock star excess, the music industry, the ills of fame, etc. Now they're no better than U2.



posted by: ottomanprang (reply)
post date: 05.31.07 (10:00 am)

Who knows, maybe they'll go there and be a poke in the eye to rock star pretentiousness. I doubt it, but who knows. I saw Harry Shearer interviewing Gore on C-Span and it was pretty suck up in it's tone...they'll tow the line I'm sure...

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