SPINAL TAP Takes Off The Wigs

April 17, 2009

CNN.com reports that Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, who played heavy-metal musicians in the 1984 film "This Is Spinal Tap", are hitting the road again, but not as SPINAL TAP or the FOLKSMEN. They're playing ... themselves.

"We're trying very hard to get across the idea that this is us, and only us," says Shearer in a phone interview discussing the trio's "Unwigged & Unplugged" 30-date acoustic tour, which kicks off Friday in Vancouver, British Columbia. "And because we don't often appear as ourselves -- because we most often appear as characters — we're trying to dress it up as a treat, a rare treat, to see us as ourselves."

The group will be performing both SPINAL TAP and FOLKSMEN songs, though, Shearer adds, "[we'll be] doing these songs kind of in a different way because we're approaching them as ourselves and not as these characters."

Read the entire report from CNN.com.

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