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Nigel:[On asked what he thinks of Marty "DiButcher" DiBergi's movie]
	..That happens to every band, you know. [?YoYo Mar?] trips and falls into
	the orchestra pit..or he's cought with some woman backstage, somwhere.
	It happens to everyone, but they don't show that.
David: No.
Nigel: They chose us, to make us look foolish, because that's what people
	like to see.
David: It was also very devisive..because he really chose to show the
	elements of the relationship between Nigel and myself and Jeanine..
	my wife...she wasn't my wife at the time...
Interviewer: You married?
David: Yeah. He chose to show that relationship as a very devisive one, 
	and I thoght that was devisive of him to show it as devisive..
	It's a paradox.
 
["Diva Fever"]
 
[Interviewer claims that rumor has it that the late Brian Jones
[Rolling Stones] played zither on one of Spinal Tap's earliest records.]
Nigel: No.
David: No.
Derek: Only a rumour!
David: It's all Nidge, always Nidge, yes..
Nigel: Well, I've heard a rumor that *I* played zither on "Paint It Black",
	and things like that, you know...
David: I've never heard those rumors.
Nigel: Well, it's *my* rumor.
Derek: There is no zither on "Paint It Black"...
Nigel: Well, that's the other rumor...
	First of all, it's an electric zither, so it's a shape of guitar.
David: And it plays excactly like one...
Nigel: And it plays like a zither, but you don't have to do the stupid things
	like sitting down on a cushion, with all the raisins and the puff balls
	of cheese that they eat.
	All you do is put a strap on, and plug it in. An' it twangs, y'know it
	makes a twangy sound. But most poeple don't know it's much more difficult 
	to play than a zither. You have to have an amp...
	Now, a zither player just can carry his zither anywhere...on some stupid
	rug and say "lo-lo-lo-lo" and then he plays it.
	But you've got to go: " Do we know the outlet?", 
	"Have we got AC?...is there AC?", 
	"Do we have enough strings?", 
	"Do we have an...er..amplifier?"
	There is so many things to think about...
Derek: Pick!
Nigel: A pick..a strap.."Did you bring the bloody strap?"
David: No!
Nigel: No, I'm not asking you literally...
	And so, when you add these up.....
	You know, Ravi Shankar, he can say "nye-nye" and then he plays.
	But he doesn't have to go through a laundry-list of things.
Derek: Well, only when he does his laundry.
Nigel: *That's* the only time, so that's my point. 
	Lot of people have chucked it away as being disrespectful.
	It is *more* respectful!
	Some point in his career Ravi will go; "Now I play this well enough
	to do the electric zither".
Interviewer: So you don't trust your road-crew to remember all these 
	details for you then?
Nigel: No, one of them is here now...John, he's our tech, and he
	does it great!
Derek: He *never* makes a mistake.
Nigel: He *makes* our mistakes..you see. [*?Is this part mixed wrong?*]
	He can't, you see, cause he'd be fired if he does, you see.
	The guitars have to be in tune, gotta be set up..
	I worry anyway...I'm a worrier..
David: You're a road worrier.
 
["The Sun Never Sweats"] 
 
[Interviewer talks about the quarrel between Ian Faith and the 
band, in the film, and jeanine's work as a manager, and asks
if Jeanine is going to be the tour manager on the upcoming tour.]
[Moans from Nigel and Derek]
David: No.....Jeanine is very happy in her new trade, don't listen
	to them, she didn't do that bad a job managing the crew, I know...
	But, given what she was given to work with I think she did rather
	well......no..no...I mean the odds against that was..that the tour 
	making out..you know, [...] It was really
	one of those happenstance things, she happened to be in the right 
	place at the right time, and I happened to be able to talk the other
	two into it. But I don't think it's going to happen again...
	she's busy...she's got her own store with clothing and candles...
	in Pomona, California...it's a long way away, it really is....
       
["Break Like the Wind"]
 
[Interviewer talks about "All the way home", the first recording made
by Spinal Tap.]
Nigel: That's the original demo. 1961.
	It was done in a two track studio, much like this...even less
	sophisticated than this...[...]
David: One knob, one knob to play and record..all that..and then 'rewind'.
	Just one knob.
Nigel: It was 3 and 3/4.
David: Yeah, big fat thick tape......oh, you mean the speed? 
	yeah, 3 and 3/4. So it was quite an experince, really.
	It was the first time we've ever been in a studio.
	'cos we discovered it....Nigel discovered it among his old
	souvenirs, you know...he was cleaning up his flat..
Nigel: There was a box there...that said: "ladies knickers"...
Derek: Assorted!
Nigel: Assorted, yeah..'cause I used to collect them in the old days, 
	when I was young, "woman's panites" as you call them...and it said
	"assorted" I opned it up an it was a little reel, 
	just like that one you've got there, and I put it on and
	I couldn't believe it, I hadn't heard it for years.
	It sounds great!
	It's mono! Mono is great. See, mono...the reason mono works better than
	stereo for most people..they don't know this [...] that in stereo,
	because it's split, you think that people are gonna sneak up on you...
	'Cause you hear something over there, while you are looking here, 
	then you hear something here...it makes you paranoid..
	Mono, it just come straight into your face, it's more honest, really.
 
["All the Way Home"]
 
[Interviewer talks about how Spinal Tap has influenced every HM band
for the last 20+ years, and asks how they feel about the newer bands
which are more popular and make more money than Spinal Tap. 
Do they fell bitter?]
David: First of all, the ones that are our contemporaries...
	Sabbath and....
Derek: Status!
David: Status, of course.. I mean they've been around for just
	about as long as we have, and I would say that, you know...
	basically, we are all just part of the same.....we're facets of 
	the	same brilliant gem...It's like we're all part of the same thing, 
	and yet, we're different, we've all have something to say.
	Status Quo were lucky in finding one of three drummers, English
	drummers in the world who could play a shuffle, which they've done
	so, for the last thirty years, and darn good as well, I might say.
	As far as the younger groups are concerned, that sort of ape us
	from time to time, again; it's just flattering, it's fine with us.
 
["Stinkin' up the Great Outdoors"]
	
							End of interview	
 
 
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