The Aquarian Weekly » spinal tap http://www.theaquarian.com New Jersey's Oldest Music Alt-Weekly Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:23:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Spinal Tap: Unwigged, Unplugged, And Unimpaired: Spinal Tap Return With A New Album, New Tour (sort of), And Less Hair http://www.theaquarian.com/2009/05/22/spinal-tap-unwigged-unplugged-and-unimpaired-spinal-tap-return-with-a-new-album-new-tour-sort-of-and-less-hair/ http://www.theaquarian.com/2009/05/22/spinal-tap-unwigged-unplugged-and-unimpaired-spinal-tap-return-with-a-new-album-new-tour-sort-of-and-less-hair/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 09:30:54 +0000 Bryan Reesman http://www.theaquarian.com/aq/?p=10799 Eight years ago, while interviewing Harry Shearer in character as Derek Smalls, the (un)esteemed bassist from legendary mock rockers Spinal Tap, I asked if he could address the rumors about them being a fictional band. He cleverly retorted, “Well, what’s a rumor except fiction? So it’s fiction about fiction, in’it? Which means it’s true.” I felt stupid about trying to do a clever interview while he was so clever about sounding stupid.

This month I’m in the midst of interviewing co-star Michael McKean (aka front man David St. Hubbins) and asking him what have been his personal greatest Spinal Tap…

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