SPINAL TAP 'Unwigged' Tour Coming To DVD

August 5, 2009

Gary Graff of Billboard.com reports that the trio behind SPINAL TAP and the FOLKSMEN has set a Sept. 1 release date for a DVD of their recent concert tour.

"Unwigged & Unplugged: An Evening with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer" features an entire 35-track performance filmed at their May 31 show at the Riverside Theatre in Milwaukee. The show features SPINAL TAP material from the film "This is Spinal Tap" and the albums "Break Like the Wind" and this year's "Back From the Dead", as well as some of the FOLKSMEN tracks from the Guest-written and -directed "A Mighty Wind". Guest, McKean and Shearer were joined on the tour by "Back From the Dead" producer CJ Vanston as well as McKean's wife Annette O'Toole, who co-wrote "A Mighty Wind"'s Academy Award-nominated duet "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow".

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