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SPINAL TAP Breaks Out Classics On 'Unwigged & Unplugged' Tour

April 24, 2009

Mikael Wood of RollingStone.com reports: The men of SPINAL TAP went costume-free last night at Southern California's 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 the fifth date of its "Unwigged & Unplugged" tour, which wraps up May 31 in Milwaukee (shortly before the release this summer of a new SPINAL TAP album, "Back From The Dead").

The two-hour set alternated songs with brief multimedia bits, such as a clip from "s first television appearance (on 1979's "The T.V. Show") and a run-down of the edits that NBC's Standards & Practices department required before the network would air "This Is Spinal Tap".

Read the entire report from RollingStone.com.

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