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Spinal Tap to Reunite for Live Earth
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.
That's because their music goes all the way to eleven!
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
I'm hoping their amps can now go up to 12 instead of 11, due to advances in sound and rock technology since their last tour.
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As much as I look forward to the new single, nothing will ever take the place in my heart reserved for the song "Lick My Love Pump." Hopefully it will get more than just a two word review.
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Most Live Earth performances only go to 10pm, but I hear this one is going to 11. Wakka Wakka Wakka.
I don't know, you'd have to ask Sheryl Crow. 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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When is "Disaster Area" going to be touring this end of the galaxy again?
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I for one would like to distance myself from the original poster's comments regarding Derek's current stint in rehab. Wishing him well on a website is tantamount to buying a round of drinks and saying "cheers" to congratulate a recovering alcoholic.
Derek, if you are reading this, step away from the computer you weak-willed fool.
Sick, sick, sick.
No way - they're still on their first drummer.
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"But this one goes to 11!"
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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I love it when stuff gets all folked up.
Sometimes, when performing as Spinal Tap, they also performed as their own supporting band: "The Folksmen", which was OK if the fans "got it", but they also had the experience of being booed off the stage as The Folksmen, only to be cheered back on as Spinal Tap.
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Actually, I think the rock and roll lifestyle is a less well done parody of Spinal Tap.
"But this one goes to 11!"
Actually I still use three. One up, one down and one to polish.
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Spinal Tap are the pioneers of overclocking. Their infamous "Amp Hack" allowed them to go to 11.
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?
"But this one goes to 11!"
So let me get this straight, are they playing before or after Puppet Show?
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