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PODCAST: Episode 808 - "Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues" - Just Home from The Theater Review · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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  None. One of these things turns it on.
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  What's up everybody? It's your boy Heefy coming into
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  you from the ghost cult. West Coast HQ got a little
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  different view today because I came in for my weekend travels
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  and I hit the city and I saw the brand new Spinal Tap movie.
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  Spinal Tap to the end continues and I wanted to bring you a
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  quick fresh review while I had just seen it.
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  I'm going to be out of the house in a little bit, going to host
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  karaoke like I normally do on a Sunday.
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  If you're in San Francisco, come hang out.
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  My record shells behind me. I'm in the other room, not the
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  usual studio room, but here I is.
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  Hang out. I'm going to do a non spoilery
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  review as much as I can for you all.
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  I think it's a good idea. I want people to be able to go
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  in and see it fresh, whether that is later on on streaming or
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  if you get to catch it in the movies, which I think will be
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  for the next few weeks. Hilariously funny by the way,
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  right off the bat. And we're going to talk all
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  about it. We're going to do the thing.
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  Oops. Hang on one second.
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  So silly. All right, doing the damn thing.
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  Let's bring in the deck that I set up for this.
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  passing by. Just here to jump on and talk
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  really quick and briefly about Final 10/2.
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  I just came from the movie theater and it was great.
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  In a word, to sum it up. But let's talk for a second,
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  just for some housekeeping. Normally I don't go live on a
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  Sunday so I'm just hanging out doing this before my evening
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  Tasha thanks for passing by. And some people are watching
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  here on the tube of you and a few friends.
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  Oh yeah, that's. Yeah.
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  I mean, there's a bit of it still back east in storage.
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  But this is the majority of my stuff now.
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  I got it finally all in one centralized place.
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  I had a flood about 5 weeks ago here that really could have
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  fucked things up royally from you.
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  Had some records on the floor. I had some books on the floor
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  stacked up in a pile. Not great, but hopefully we're
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  doing better now. I got to get a more catalogued
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  and organized a little bit better for a guy with a vinyl
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  podcast. But let's talk.
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  Let's talk about Spinal Tap too. So it just came from movies.
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  It was pretty amazing. Obviously this is the sequel to
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  Spinal Tap. This is Spinal Tap, the
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  mockumentary by Rob Reiner 50 years ago, playing the character
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  of Marty Duberge, who is doing APOV documentary about the
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  biggest metal band in the world's final tap.
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  Obviously a fictional band, but also they can play and sing and
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  you know that the comedy of these characters is played into
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  other things. 1st in show a mighty wind, you know, great.
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  We we don't really have, you know, there are some American
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  comedy legends for movies, but you know, real old school
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  throwback comedy is a rarity honestly and truly in these days
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  day and ages. So we, you know, interestingly
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  enough, just for a really quick little back story, I don't know
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  if most people know about this. Most of the people who made
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  Spinal Tap didn't make any money off of it for a long time.
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  They got a total for many years. The total revenue from the
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  soundtrack was $91.00 and something like $84 for Birch.
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  Like absolutely insane, insane. But they've turned that around.
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  It is one of the most, it is a cult classic.
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  It is one of the most watched things.
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  It was rented like crazy on VHS and later DVD in the 80s and 90s
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  as San Francisco, San Francisco's behind me.
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  So Spinal Tap, you know, was always like a beloved movie And
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  what you know, a lot of popular artists, your Black Sabbath's,
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  your deep purples, your kisses, your Black Sabbath's.
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  They would tell you, I said Black Sabbath twice.
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  They would tell you that that that it hit home for them
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  because a lot of the things that happened to the band mirrored
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  real life. And I think, like, if you love
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  music, especially rock music, you're loyal to the soil, to the
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  grave. And, you know, I think it's
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  pretty funny when life imitates art, but it's also funny when
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  art imitates real life. And, you know, Black Sabbath
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  talked about having a Stonehenge that in their case was too tall
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  and, you know, pretty damn comical, I got to be honest.
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  So yeah, OK, I went. I was hyped for this.
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  I went to see This is Spinal Tap over the summer and it held up.
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  I went to the AMC Metreon in downtown San Francisco near
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  where I live. I can literally 3020 minutes
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  from my house. I go to the movies there a lot
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  if I'm not going to the little indie theaters that I like here
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  in San Francisco that you've seen me post about and talk
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  about and share about. So I went to the Metreon again,
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  This is Spinal Tap was playing. I went away for the weekend to
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  my girlfriends. I took the bus back.
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  I went right to the movies and and sat down and enjoyed the
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  film and right off the bat, you know, they're not trying to top
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  the first one. They're just trying to continue
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  the story, which is the number one thing that I really
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  appreciate. Again, I'm going to try to make
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  this as non spoilery as possible, only sharing stuff
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  that has been out in the public about the film.
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  But you know, just a, a recap once again, we are not a
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  corporate entity. So if you want to drop us a tip,
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  Joey Morquez is here. We also first passed by What's
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  up? What's up for a ghost cultist
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  edit and fudge show? You're talking about Spinal Tap.
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  And once again, if you want to drop us a tip in the tip menu or
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  buy a super thanks or super chat on YouTube, I just shared all
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  the links. You know, one thing that is
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  interesting is the that Rob Reiner came back.
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  Most of the people who are still alive came back to do the movie,
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  which is really amazing. Not just the actual members of
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  Spinal Tap, but you know, the Badgers here.
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  What's up, buddy? I hope your Sunday is good.
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  My football Sunday is terrible, but I just came from CNN Spinal
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  Tap and Spinal Tap 2 and I'm super stoked.
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  So I'm here to talk about it a little.
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  Give me one second. Let me just share the link here
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  in the tick tock for everybody in case you want to know Let's
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  see always a thing to do, got to do all the things, but if you
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  want to drop us a tip, drop us a tip.
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  My birthday's this week. I got a concert to go to this
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  week. I could use some money for
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  merch. Any who so Spinal Tap two man
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  really great and funny, but I like that they basically
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  continued the story from the first movie.
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  Like in the in the new movie, they were last together 15 years
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  ago. They walked off stage at a final
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  show and hadn't spoken since. So they were given the
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  opportunity to do one final show to close the band's career.
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  This is obviously filmed before the Black Sabbath, back to the
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  beginning. There are a lot of parallels to
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  be honest. All Star people joining them, a
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  lot of interest about them, a lot of curiosity about the shape
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  they're in and again done mockumentary style.
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  One of the funniest people in the movie.
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  There were two band managers. 1 is the daughter of they were
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  original manager and then the other is actor Chris Addison and
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  his character is Simon Howler. And so he's like the bad cop to
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  the good cop of the other manager.
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  And you know, you know, super interesting in the in the
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  impending years, some of the other artists that came back,
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  obviously everybody came back that is alive.
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  You know, Viv Caffanetti, who was their original keyboard play
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  in this is keyboard player in this is final type and was an
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  actual composer and and musical artist died earlier this year.
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  So he passed away, but they got back White guy Jeff or whatever
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  his nickname is in the movie, but he's actually been on tour
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  with the band CJ Bandsten, who caught Jeff.
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  Caucasian Jeff is his name. Sorry, Caucasian Jeff.
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  Sorry, white guys and white people everywhere.
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  Not a good week for white people.
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  But Valerie Franco plays Dee Dee Crockett.
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  You know, one of the running gags of Spinal Tap is that their
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  drummers always get killed or die or quit unexpectedly.
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  So Valerie Franco is a a drummer and a podcaster and an art
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  historian actually. And she's really fun and
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  brilliant. She's actually a kick ass
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  drummer. She comes into the film and is
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  like a breath of fresh air against all these old dudes.
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  And there's a lot of comedy, obviously things that are played
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  for laughs, but not cheap laughs, to be honest with you.
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  So I like that there is a return.
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  Here's a picture of them, sort of obviously much older.
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  If you're watching on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook or Instagram,
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  they're interviewed throughout the movie.
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  Rob Reiner is doing interviews with individual members as well
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  as the call band themselves and the fly on the wall.
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  Kind of like every mockumentary you've ever seen.
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  I mean, music documentaries are not a new thing, but really, we
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  are in the prime time of music documentaries where a lot of
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  them have been pretty great from in theater.
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  I have some reviews of some of those coming soon.
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  Maybe I'll do a written review of this is final tab to the end.
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  Continues with some other recent documentaries I've seen.
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  And yeah, Rob Reiner just knocked it out of the park with
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  the film. It's very funny.
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  Obviously they're a lot older. There's a lot of jokes made
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  about their age and whether they can do this or not.
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  And yeah, the chant, I'm not sure what you're getting at, but
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  I'm talking about this is Final Tap 2 for review.
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  I just came from the movies I'm sharing with everybody and you
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  can rewatch later. But yeah, so pretty funny and
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  and great and used for a lot of great effect.
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  Fran Dredgard pops back up in again as their old publicist and
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  she who is not working with them, but they interviewed her
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  anyway and she is fantastic and funny and gorgeous.
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  I know she had like a lot of health problems the last few
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  years, but she is stunning and really hilarious and and great.
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  Let's see, Paul Schaefer pops up.
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  Obviously you've already seen pictures because there's a music
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  video of spinal tapping Elton John doing their famous classics
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  on Stonehenge. Elton John shows up and he looks
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  really surprisingly good. I know he's had some terrible
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  health problems recently that have, you know, caused a lot of
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  people for concern. We're losing a lot of our
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  legends. Obviously we just lost Ozzy and
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  some others. So, you know, we don't want to
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  lose them. But John looked pretty good.
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  His husband showed up. David Furnish.
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  They're both in it. Also.
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  Also they're in it. They have drummer auditions
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  before they settle on Dee Dee, and they get a bunch of of
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  famous drummers to inquire if they can do the audition or not.
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  A few other people came in in person.
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  So that's a really great segment of the movie and and then the
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  whole build up is to this farewell show, which is actually
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  I believe at the Lakeshore Arena in New Orleans, which is where
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  Acid Bath is going to have a headline arena show in about two
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  months with Mastodon and Power Strip and a bunch of other
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  bands. So that's really killer and fun.
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  And you know, the movie is, you know, you catches up on all the
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  characters where they've been the last 15 years, what's
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  happened to them, They come back together.
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  It's very awkward. Kind of reminded me of a little
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  bit of some kind of monster that I've seen and a bunch of other
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  documentaries that have some awkwardness of bands reuniting
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  and and then they get ready to play a show.
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  So they find, if they find a drummer, Caucasian Jeff is back
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  on keyboards and they're trying to figure out sort of what's the
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  path forward to get to the show, but also to fix their bullshit.
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  Which again, if you've ever been in a band, you know, sometimes
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  the bullshit ruins the band and ruins the band, you know,
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  groove, if you will. This is this is what happens
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  sometimes, you know, the flow of the band gets interrupted
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  because, you know, personalities clash.
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  We've seen it over and over. So it's really funny and
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  obviously there's a big arena show that they do, which is, you
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  know, epic and kick ass. And we've here's Elton John from
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  the clip of the music video of them doing Stonehenge and you
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  can kind of make out the Stonehenge behind them.
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  You know, it's obviously funny and ridiculous.
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  There's a little bit if you're obviously a lot of people know
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  these go to 11. They all everybody knows that
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  gag and that that bit. So there's a similar thing to
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  these go to 11 in this movie. I'm not going to spoil it for
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  you, but it's really great, especially if you love guitars
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  and play guitar. You are going to just burst with
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  at the scenes with laughter when the scene happens.
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  So and Rob Reiner continues to play just dry.
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  He's never he knows he's not the star of the thing.
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  He's just the straight man. So he just sets it up and they
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  all fall like dominoes. That's the comedy of this movie.
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  I'm really glad they made this one.
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  They should not make another one.
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  I think 1 is enough. You know, 2 is enough one and
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  the sequel. Is it better than the original?
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  No, but I think it's pretty great and I'm glad they did
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  this. I had a great time watching the
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  film. There's a soundtrack.
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  Be interesting if they tour. They used to tour Gludge Metal
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  Serial is here. You know, they used to tour and
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  and do Spinal Tap concerts and things where they would play the
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  music. So, you know, I always was a fan
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  of that and I thought it was quite fun.
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  And see if they bring it back because we need comedy right
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  now. There was a big movie premiere.
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  So this is from Bleecker St. Films as well as Sony Pictures.
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  So Sony apparently Vivendi had the original rights, which is
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  why again, the band never saw a lot of money from the original.
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  The band or Rob Reiner never saw money and profits from the
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  original film, but now the collaborative, you know, works
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  of all these movie studios and Sony have put this together.
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  They did a big premiere in the UK that where band people came
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  out and actors and actresses from the movie came in and
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  comedians and things. There are some unbelievable
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  cameos in this that I think you will lose your shit in.
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  And there's a couple of obvious ones.
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  So yeah, some they have the VIP screaming hashtags.
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  Final 10-2 if you're a social media person.
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  And yeah, it was pretty fantastic.
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  It was pretty fantastic. I have to say I really enjoyed
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  it. We I needed a good laugh right
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  now in the world, the way the world is, we all need to laugh.
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  So get out there and go see this thing or go watch it when it
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  comes on demand. And that's my early right out of
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  the theater review of Spinal Tap to the end continues.
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  I personally thought it was hilarious.
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  I would definitely give this. I mean, this is Spinal Tap.
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  It's like the 9:50 classic of comedy and especially related to
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  music I believe. My co-owner there, Omar Cordy, a
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  couple of months ago we had a feature, I'll link it in the
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  description of the 20 most metal movies, shows and video games of
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  all time part one. That means he'll be a Part 2.
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  Final Tap was on that list. You should go check that list
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  out in our description and I had a great time.
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  I think I would probably give this about an 8 of 10 for me
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  personally. Really hilarious and really fun.
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  And again, no cheap laughs. Everything was played just so
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  right, which I really appreciate.
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  So that's my review TuneIn tonight, especially to our
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  That's what I say. Go these go to 11.