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Re: Tap into this...was the list

Below is my favorite scene in Spinal Tap. It is frickin' hilarious and it cracks my ass up everytime I watch it.
Nigel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and.... 

Marty DiBergi (The Documentarian): Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?

Nigel: Exactly.

Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where? 

Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? 

Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.

Nigel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? 

Nigel: [Pause] These go to eleven.


Sincerely,
Mike




From: "mike r." <mikey1957@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: one_zep_hed1970@xxxxxxxxx
CC: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Tap into this...was the list
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:18:27 +0000
'Tap definately did a good job lampooning all the excess in Rock and Roll and when a band becomes focused on anything, but the music. To me, it is meathead's best film, and that says a lot. And it is legendary. My wife doesn't get it like I do because she viewed it as a fictional documentary, which it's not. It's a satire!
Mick Shrimpton: "As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll!" 

Sincerely,
Mike



From: Kelly Penley <one_zep_hed1970@xxxxxxxxx>
To: For Badgeholders Only <zeppelin@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Tap into this...was the list
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:40:35 -0800 (PST)

I'm all smiles. Thanks guys for the acknowledgement. :-)

    Ramble On,
            Kelly

--- Nech <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are you kidding?!?!? Spinal Tap is one of my favorite
> films of all
> times!! I think at one point in time we had a thread
> going here listing
> the oh so many Zep references ( zingers ) than run
> throughout this dare
> I say, legendary, movie.
>
> My fav of course being Nigel's famous guitar solos. I
> mean, tuning the
> violin being used as a bow, is just gut splitting funny
> IMO. I often sit
> and wonder just what Jimmy and the gang thought of some
> the ways they
> were satarized in this movie. I mean, even Jimmy must
> listen to one of
> his '77 solos and go...'ummmmm yeah, but check out the
> ALS coming up...'
>
> Now what I would love to see is Jonesy cover Big Bottoms!
> And Nigel's
> Lick my Love Pump Mach ( Mozart and Bach )masterpiece
> would suit Robert
> current voicings perfectly, You know lines
> intertwining...
>
> Nech
>
> tangerineman@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Kelly writes:
> >
> >
> >> What a shame. It seems as though no one picked up on
> my
> >>Spinal Tap reference! Oh well, I guess I'll keep my day
> >>job.
> >>
> >>    Just a Ripple in the Ocean,
> >>                             Kelly
> >
> >
> > On the contrary; I'm sure many did but just didn't
> respond.
> >
> > Nigel rules.
> >
> > Don't be put off, keep posting!
> >
>
> --
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> http://www.buckeye-web.com/badgeholders.html
> http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/nechnoise/
>



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