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    From Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue Sep 23 08:51:01 2025
    Re: Re: Good to be back
    By: Digital Man to MRO on Mon Sep 22 2025 09:00 pm

    I was 14 years old when I saw the original; I was a "serious" long-haired musician, so I didn't think it was funny... at all. Older friends kept referring to it and re-watching it and over time, I started to "get it" and now it's one of my all time favorite movies. So I think you have to either:

    1) think musicians take themselves too seriously and so think it's funny to see them taken down a notch like that (even if only fictionally), or:

    2) be a musican that does not take themselves too seriously and basically laugh at the absurdity of your past-time/profession

    I finally watched Spinal Tap around 2005 or something, and I thought it was pretty funny. I only ever played music for fun though, never really as a serious musician.

    When I visited the UK in 2013, Stonehenge was one of the places I visited, and I remembered the Stonehenge bit in Spinal Tap.. Funny stuff.

    Nightfox
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Wed Sep 24 06:43:22 2025
    Nightfox wrote to Digital Man <=-

    I finally watched Spinal Tap around 2005 or something, and I thought it was pretty funny. I only ever played music for fun though, never really
    as a serious musician.

    I watched it with my dad on cable, I had to explain about 15 minutes
    out that it was a mockumentary. :)



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