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* [[This Is Spinal Tap (Film)/Funny|Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Enough to merit its own page, really.
* [[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.
** [[Iron Maiden (Music)|Iron Maiden]] thought the movie was directly parodying them.
** [[Aerosmith (Music)|Aerosmith]] frontman Steven Tyler is reported by his fellow band members to have completely failed to see any humour in the movie the first time he saw it. Likewise, Eddie [[Van Halen]] also found the movie too close to home to be funny -- "Everything in that movie had happened to me".
** Averted with Lemmy Kilminster of [[Motorhead (Music)|Motorhead]] who admits enjoying the film for being so close to reality. Then again, Lemmy would be the last man on Earth to take anything too seriously...
** Similarly averted with [[Metallica (Music)|Metallica]], who chose the cover of ''The Black Album'' as a [[Shout -Out]] to the movie, and described their joint tour with [[Guns N' Roses (Music)|Guns N' Roses]] as similar to the movie.
** The Prince of Darkness himself - [[Ozzy Osbourne (Music)|Ozzy Osbourne]] - has claimed that he 'doesn't get' the comedy element of the film -- because he thought it was so realistic, and so much of it had happened to him and his band over the years, that it was a GENUINE documentary!
*** 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 [[Black Sabbath (Music)|Black Sabbath]]'s ''Born Again'' tour.
*** 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 -Out]] to [[Led Zeppelin]]'s John Bonham.. or Jimi Hendrix.. or Bon Scott.. or any of the other rockstars who have died in this manner.
 
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