“I don’t like auditions. Let those boys like Beck and Clapton fight it out with each other. Let me watch and laugh”: Spinal Tap discuss all-star guitar duels, (maybe) influencing the Beatles, and persevering through multiple sudden tragedies
(Image credit: Bonnie Schiffman/Getty Images) At the conclusion of This Is Spinal Tap, director Marty DiBergi’s warts-and-all (or, as David St. Hubbins puts it, “all warts”) documentary of the metal pioneers’ 1982 American tour, the band’s future couldn’t have looked brighter. But true to the up-and-down nature of Spinal Tap’s legendary career, the band proceeded