Stop wasting my time.

You know what I want.
You know what I need.
Or maybe you don't.
Do I have to come right flat out and tell you everything?
GIMME SOME MONEY!

I love Spinal Tap! I've been singing along with "Gimme Some Money" on the commercials (for what? American Express Small Business? I don't pay any attention to what's being hawked; I'm too busy singing along with Tap) for the past several months. Their soundtrack is a regular in my car CD player, and I've got it on my iTunes as well. And today I got to see them perform again!

I hadn't paid much attention to the ads for Live Earth, so I didn't know until I saw it in TV Guide today that Spinal Tap was reuniting to play this concert. I quickly told Young'un, who found a schedule on the web and learned that they'd be playing this afternoon sometime. We're Tivo-less, but improvise quite well with the VCR: we started rolling tape when Metallica was on, and this assured that we wouldn't miss Tap even if we were outside working when they played. As it turned out, we had just come in from a couple of hours worth of lawn mowing when Ricky Gervais announced their set.

What can I say? They were fantastic! I don't know who they had playing drums -- I was hoping they'd come up with "John 'Stumpy' Peeps' twin brother" and have Ed Begley Jr., but that didn't happen. (And he didn't explode onstage, either.) They greeted the crowd at "Wembledon" (actually Wembley) in their typical confused fashion, then launched into "Stonehenge". ("Where the demons dwell! Where the banshees live, and they do live well!") The miniature Stonehenge didn't drop from above, but they did have a small person dressed as a Druid who hefted some large stone columns onto the stage. The other song they did was "Big Bottom", and for this one they were joined onstage by every single bass player who was there! They kept announcing all their names, preceded by "... and on the bass...". They then played a bang-up version of the song, complete with an extended bass solo by, well, everybody.

When the band was first announced, applause was light; I think a lot of people in the audience weren't in on the joke. They'd sure as hell gotten it by the end! And who knows, maybe this will inspire Tap to tour again. They've reconciled with Marty di Bergi (Rob Reiner, in that same hat), so maybe he'd even do another documentary. That's a sequel I'd definitely go see.