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* [[This Is Spinal Tap
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Not only are some of the songs (Stonehenge particularly) fairly awesome, but when you remember that they were written ''as parodies'' of real rock songs, they become all the more so.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: Many prominent rock musicians of the time saw the film and were not amused, many because they thought that it was an actual documentary.
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** Averted with Lemmy Kilminster of [[
** Similarly averted with [[
** The Prince of Darkness himself - [[
*** The fact that the only people who don't find it funny seem to be rock stars themselves indicates that this may be more a case of [[Misaimed Fandom]].
** Mike Mills of [[REM]] said that their early tours were "very Spinal Tap", even including playing a gig at an Air Force base.<ref>Though, presumably, not being second-billed to a puppet show.</ref>
** This movie has iconic status among musicians who ''don't'' think that it's their biography.
** Regardless of some artists' egocentrism, some incidents ''are'' based on specific events:
*** The miniature "Stonehenge" fiasco was a parody of a gigantic Stonehenge set used on [[
*** The "lost backstage" incident was based on something that happened to Saxon, although performers of all performing media and genres can attest to similar incidents. It even happened to the ''Tampa Bay Buccaneers'' before a ''[[American Football|football game]]''!
*** Some of the bandmembers were recognizably modeled after real people, notably Nigel Tufnel ([[Jeff Beck]]) and Derek Smalls (Steve Dawson of Saxon).
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* [[Squick]]: One drummer died choking on vomit. ''Someone else's'' vomit.
** Or so the police officially concluded. As the band correctly observed when relating the incident, they don't really know whose vomit it was, since "you can't really dust for vomit".
** Probably, that was a rather off-color [[Shout
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