Spinal Tap to Reunite for Live Earth 213
Maximum Prophet noted that one of the most influential and loud rock bands in the history of music is coming back together to perform at Live Earth this summer. Yes, that's right
Tap is Back. The article has some good news (a new single is coming) and some bad news... apparently Derek is in rehab for addiction to the Internet. Best wishes to him on his recovery- I'm sure it won't impact the performance... if Spinal Tap is anything, they are a band.
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Marty DiBergi: Yeah...
Nigel Tufnel: [pointing to the moderation] ...the numbers all go to six. Look, right across the board: six, six, six, six,..
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most scoring systems go up to five?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's funnier? Is that any more funny?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one funnier, isn't it? It's not five. You see, most... most blokes, you know, will be joking at five. You're on five here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up... you're on five on slashdot. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know...
Nigel Tufnel: ...nowhere! Exactly! What we do is if we need that extra... push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Mod it up to six.
Nigel Tufnel: ...six. Exactly. One higher.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make five funnier, and make five be the top... number, and make that a little funnier?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause, blank look and snapping chewing gum] This goes to six.
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No doubt!!
Funny...I'd not even heard of this Live Earth concert till this article. I went to the website to look at the bands, wow...not much to see except the Police really. I guess Madonna and the Peppers still put on a good show, but, really, the music industry has really killed music.
Look at the HUGE names for the original Live Aid, heck, look at the bands that were fairly newcommers that became huge (U2 for instanc
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Just sayin'.
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Same with animators. Max and Dave Fleischer created a very unique system at their studio where the animators had to know how to read music to time out cartoons. At the very least, they had to know how to read rhythms. The Fleischers had a radically different system than any other studio, and only Tezuka Osamu really copied their methods. However, because Tezuka Osamu copied the Fleischer system, a lot of animation made for domestic consumption in Japan has the seiyuu laying on their voice performances after everything else is done, and x-sheets containing rhythmic notation of some sort or another. The American/Canadian/European system that started at Disney had the soundtrack recording go first and everything else being animated to that "track." When the Japanese did overseas services for studios like Hanna-Barbera in the '60s and '70s they used the "track goes first" system. From what I understand, in modern Japan, whether they animate to the track or not is a personal decision of the production company. Some studios do, some don't.
Anyway what I was getting at is that there are a lot of animators who are also musicians. Some are just people who play music for fun, some are really, really good at it, for example Jim Smith who helped create Ren & Stimpy and whose guitar playing can be heard at the beginning and end of every episode. Being funny and being musical seems to be connected somehow.
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Spinal Tap did not exist before the movie.
I beg to differ. When I was a wee lad (and allowed to stay up late), I remember watching a special (read: pilot) that Rob Reiner put together called "The TV Show" in the late 1970s (on ABC-TV I think). It was basically skits that parodied TV (much like "Robot Chicken", though horribly dated of course).
The skits included a telethon ("Stop Death During Our Lifetime!"), a commercial for the chemical company Proto-Chem (with CEO Tom Proto-Chem no less), a send-up of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (the prey of the intrepid crew that week was "the white collar worker"), and.. Spinal Tap.
I was too young to do any drugs, so I know I wasn't hallucinating. Anyone else see this too?
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No but you're correct - that's where they started.
Did I mention I've got a Spinal Tap glow-in-the-dark plectrum?
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Monkees, Partridge Family, Milli Vanilli (Score:2)
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Spinal Tap - no big deal (Score:3, Interesting)
You're kidding. Right? Right? (Score:2)
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Yes, Blues Brothers is a good analogy.
Very very very funny movie. Go rent it now. Learn, grasshopper.
Tonight Spinal Tap is Gonna Rock You Tonight (Score:2, Interesting)
bkd
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Actually, if you mean Metallica is a parody of what a band should be, you may be on to something... Ever since Cliff died they have seriously sucked IMNSHO.
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Question: sound vs. chip technology (Score:2)
Question: if sound amplification technology had progressed at the same rate as chip speeds have since 1984 (when ST last played) what volume number would be required on their *new* amps to get the same sound level as 11 did back in 1984 ?
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They've played quite a few times since then. Did the Albert Hall in London a few years back. Missd out on the tickets - they sold out real fast.
There's a second ST movie which most people seem to miss. Got it on laserdisc.
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Silly, they'll just make eleven louder, and keep eleven as the top number. Sheesh.
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These go to twelve.
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I thought the Live Earth line-up would feature the Energy-Saving Electric Light Orchestra and Joan Carbontrading...
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Wrong again.
The incident involving the stage setting for "Stonehenge" demonstrates the importance of making sure everyone involved with a project is using the same units of measure. This is an invaluable lesson that all programmers should absorb.
So there, it's nerdy.
Plus it's just about the funniest movie in history, and (most) nerds like funny stuff.
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Nothing. But, this can be categorized under either 'humor' and 'movies'. Take your pick (and stop throwing a Tantrum).
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Ugh. Well, I hope the grammar police don't read THAT post.
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Obviously you have never heard of their imfamous "Amp Hack" that allowed them to go to 11. Duh. Pioneer overclockers and you wonder what is has to do with technology??
I hope the drummer doesn't combust (Score:5, Funny)
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Vomit (Score:4, Funny)
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You can't really dust for CO2 emissions.
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It's a urine test.
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A Masterpiece (Score:3, Funny)
What this really has to do with Slashdot is t-shirt color. How much more black can our t-shirts be? And the answer is none. None more black.
Lick My Love Pump was hack work (Score:2)
I do mean that literally.
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Wanted: Drummer - Life expectancy ONE Tour (Score:5, Funny)
Best line (Score:2, Funny)
And I'm too well hung
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And you still got your baby teeth
Speaking of loud (Score:3, Funny)
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You sick bastards. (Score:5, Funny)
Derek, if you are reading this, step away from the computer you weak-willed fool.
Sick, sick, sick.
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Great stuff.
Ultimate Battle of the Bands (Score:2)
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Extra Long Box! (Score:2, Informative)
"Environmental concerns of unnecessary cardboard waste from artists and consumers alike created controversy over continued use of longboxes. Musicians like David Byrne would incude a sticker over the packaging of his albums reading ""THIS IS GARBAGE", referring to the excessive material use of the longbox form. The satirical band Spinal Tap's 1992 studio album Break Like the Wind was sold in an "extra-long box" (an 18-inch longbox) -- a deliberate parody of the prevailing longbo
But will the Folksmen also perform? (Score:2)
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This is Spinal Tap is an utterly hilarious "mockumentary" about a hard rock band in the eighties, brought to you by the same folks as Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind. It's news for nerds because, like everybody else in this world, nerds like Spinal Tap. Why don't you?
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I DID like Spinal Tap, until they started spewing all this environmental garbage. If I wanted that kind of crap, I would just listen to Mitch & Mickey [wikipedia.org]!
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It's an unusual band, not a very well known band. Although they've earned their place in history as one of England's loudest bands.
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They also wrote one of the very first version of the Unix kernels, and developed TCP/IP in between gigs. Linus Torvalds was once quoted as saying "If it weren't for Spinal Tap's work in the field, I would have never been inspired to develop Linux." The entire concept for broadband internet access - Spinal Tap. Cisco Corporation was started by the proceeds of an early Spinal Tap show. Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap doodled the first design for the Cray Supercomputer on the back of a napkin at a diner while on tour. David St. Hubbins is also credited for inventing SATA drives because "I just didn't like the sound of the IDE drives".
There, that enough for you, or shall I continue?
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Unfortunately, back then nobody could figure out how to cram all those components into an six-and-a-half inch tall case.
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I don't know, you'd have to ask Sheryl Crow [bbc.co.uk]. But this article is about Spinal Tap, whose amps go up to 11, not Sheryl Crow, who sometimes doesn't even use amps.
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erhm... I mean, yes. It's that easy. Anyone who pretends differently is just weak. I could stop any moment. Really. If I just wanted, I could. Honestly. And moment, if I wanted. But I don't want. Well, n
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Cold turkey works for some people, but not for many. Saying it louder doesn't make it more effective.
However, we must never lose site of the fact that Derek Smalls doesn't actually exist! Wheeeeeee!
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"In an American Lung Association survey this September, seven smokers in 10 said they hoped to quit and had tried repeatedly to give up tobacco. But the high recidivism rate has to do with the tactics employed, according to Alfred Munzer, an ALA physician. "Most people quit through the least effective way," he says: They go "cold turkey," a method that yiel
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Dunno - the copy I have is Break like the Wind.
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