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I have it on CD...have to dig it out though...just moved and am a little unorganized at the moment.

local theatre had spinal tap playing last night. it was finally nice to see this on the big screen.

Was Stonehenge any bigger?

Bad News bootleg DVDs sometimes pop up on ebay - to my knowledge is was never "officially" released on DVD. My VHS copy of Bad News/More Bad News is one of my prized possessions - NEVER gets loaned to anybody.
Don't have the CD - that'd be a nice grab...

If I can find it, I'll work out something with you, Chris...

Yeah, I've got that VHS too...love it! I have the Bad News "album", but only a cassette copy. Also love that. Prefer it to Spinal Tap.

WAIT! I already wrote (typed) that in this thread. The past, it's...it's kinda foggy, but I think I've been here before. Gotta...get...the strength...to...get out...while I can...

Right on Steve, that'd be cool.

Mick, it borders on sacrilege, but you're right - Bad News IS funnier than Spinal Tap.

"Look Vim, it's a Marshall!"

Bad News with Rickenfaker content!

"No...I'm his twin brother Trevor, Colin's in his pad around back. He's frightfully groovy!"

Hi all- the most amazing thing about spinal tap is that everyone in that film is american- now i come from south london myself and Nigel and Ian have that accent so good that i couldnt even tell- now no offence at our american cousins but yanks are notouriously bad at our accent- so to get it this good is genius when id seen it for the 60th time the only part where they slip-up is when they say the word 'zipper' in the airport scene- we of course say zip-and when they call eddie van halen a ****** they pronounce it wrong- thats IT!!! fantastically done film.

"he was so bad the crowd were still booing him when we were on stage"

Neil:

I'm afraid us "Yanks" shouldn't get too much credit for the two spot-on accents in "This is Spinal Tap."

Nigel was played by Christopher Guest, born Christopher Haden-Guest in NYC. Guest's mother was American, but his father was English: Peter Haden-Guest, the fourth Baron of Saling in Essex. (Christopher is the fifth Baron.) His half-brother is Anthony Haden-Guest, some English dude. Christopher is doing an accent in the movie, but he apparently comes by it a bit more naturally than most.

Manager Ian Faith was played by Tony Hendra, a founder of the National Lampoon magazine. Tony was born in Hertfordshire. How far is that from London?

Its true about the father_being_english thing. I grew up in a similar household, hearing my fathers accent (he was born in Bradford and grew up in London).

I grew up in NYC and often people would ask me where I was from. I always figured that my fathers English accent cancelled out any New Yawka accent I might have picked up.

When I went to England a few years ago I just found myself falling into a bit of an English accent at times.... I felt like I was putting MYSELF on, but I couldn't help it.

As far as a Liverpool accent.... am I right that "Sousce" (as in George Harrison) is a strong sub-Liverpool accent in the same way that a Brooklyn accent is sub-NYC.

My mom is British by birth -- her dad was in the British army -- and came to America in her 20s. Even though my dad was American, I had an English accent until I started going to school. I can still easily "do" all sorts of British accents at will, but my mom is completely unable to sound American even though she's lived here for over 40 years.

I easily take on accents of the people I'm speaking to. It's not a concious thing, either, it just happens.

That would be a Scouse Kent. Usually portrayed today as blokes on the social with 80's afro type hair and a 'tasche. If anyone has seen Guy Ritchie's film "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" the two idiots "who rob post offices" and kill Hachet Harry are Scousers...
Ay, ay, calm down now, calm down..,

Speaking of Guy Ritchie, I never thought his wife from Detroit would ever sound more English than me....