Literally every scene in that movie has lines that are gold. What Caddyshack is to golfers, is what This is Spinal Tap is to musicians and avid music fans.
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Best Line from Spinal Tap?
- Thread starter Killing Floor
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"AAHHHaaahhhAAAHHHAaahhh." (Nigel trying to verbally convey the sustain of one of his guitars to Marty DiBergi) 
"AAHHHaaahhhAAAHHHAaahhh." (Nigel trying to verbally convey the sustain of one of his guitars to Marty DiBergi)
"You could go have a bite and you'd still be hearing that."
"Making a big thing of it would have been a good idea."
No no no no no. Their appeal has become more selective
"They were still booing him when we went on!"
"Look we'd love to stay and chat but we've got to go sit in the lobby and wait for the limo."
I love Bruno Kirby's scene too.
I love Bruno Kirby's scene too.
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We used to make up our own in my old band. I loved to say "This is a song we no longer perform" before starting a song.
If I had a mock rock band I would want to call it "Liquid Fire".
If I had a mock rock band I would want to call it "Liquid Fire".
I saw them in concert back in the... early 90’s as I recall. They’d released their second album by then. Pretty good show. Glad I went.
"I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human, than someone who doesn't believe anything."
One day I'm going to get a shirt made with this:
Marty DiBergi : Do you feel that playing rock ‘n’ roll music keeps you a child? That is, keeps you in a state of arrested development?
Derek Smalls : No. No. No. I feel it’s like, it’s more like going, going to a, a national park or something. And there’s, you know, they preserve the moose. And that’s, that’s my childhood up there on stage. That moose, you know.
Marty DiBergi : So when you’re playing you feel like a preserved moose on stage?
Derek Smalls : Yeah.
Marty DiBergi : Do you feel that playing rock ‘n’ roll music keeps you a child? That is, keeps you in a state of arrested development?
Derek Smalls : No. No. No. I feel it’s like, it’s more like going, going to a, a national park or something. And there’s, you know, they preserve the moose. And that’s, that’s my childhood up there on stage. That moose, you know.
Marty DiBergi : So when you’re playing you feel like a preserved moose on stage?
Derek Smalls : Yeah.
“This is actually a real photo of my skeleton.”
“Sounds like Raga” My band mates use this all of the time when we are trying to work out harmonies and they sound horrible.
Dibergi-“What would you do if you weren’t doing music”
Nigel- “I think I would be a haberdasher. I’d say ‘what size are you? Oh sorry, we don’t have that size’”
The above are not exact but just from memory. The DVD commentary is almost more funny than the movie.
Fun Fact: The hat Rob Reiner wears in “Spinal Tap” is hanging on Fred Savage’s bed in “Princess Bride.”
“Sounds like Raga” My band mates use this all of the time when we are trying to work out harmonies and they sound horrible.
Dibergi-“What would you do if you weren’t doing music”
Nigel- “I think I would be a haberdasher. I’d say ‘what size are you? Oh sorry, we don’t have that size’”
The above are not exact but just from memory. The DVD commentary is almost more funny than the movie.
Fun Fact: The hat Rob Reiner wears in “Spinal Tap” is hanging on Fred Savage’s bed in “Princess Bride.”
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"This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question: "What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap and couldn't he have rested on that day too?"
