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Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 24
by Skip Heller
The plethora of available live Grateful Dead material might be a completist's delight, but it can make for a nightmare for the consumer who just wants a few really good discs. This was a truly multifaceted band, with every facet documented to the point of exhaustion (or even tedium, depending who you ask). At their rootsy ...
Spinal Tap Break out Classics on Unwigged & Unplugged Tour
The men of Spinal Tap went costume-free last night at Southern Californias Grove of Anaheim, but Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer had no trouble getting into character. Singing Tap classics as well as material from A Mighty Wind and Waiting for Guffman, the trio offered pitch-perfect parodies of arena-rock excess and folk-revival earnestness on ...
'Spinal Tap' Made Mockumentaries the Art Form of Our Time. It Also Made Life Hell for Every Struggling Hair-Metal Bandjust Ask Anvil.
True story: when This Is Spinal Tap premiered in 1984, audiences thought it was a straightforward rock documentary about a real band. Mind you, that would be a band that customizes the volume knob on an amp to go to 11, on the logic that 11 must be louder than 10. A band that copies Stonehenge ...