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Big Bottoms Abound at Live Earth

by lickyourheart | July 9, 2007 at 08:29 am

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At this weekend's Live Earth concert in London, the hallowed rock outfit that is Spinal Tap reunited for the first time since (I think) they were on The Simpsons. They played a huge version of "Big Bottom" with the bassists from...well, pretty much every other London Live Earth band. This came after Rob Reiner's recently released Spinal Tap sequel, which you can watch in a short form here.

As a lead up to the concert, Rob Reiner has created a Spinal Tap sequel, which recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, showing what Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) have been up to since the original 1984 mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap”. Rob Reiner reprises his role as documentary filmmaker Marty DeBergi, who in the film claims to have coined the term “global warming”.

“Big Bottom” as it was meant to be played — by every bass player they
could find. “On bass drums: Skippy Scuffleton - pray for him!”

And most awesomely, Spinal Tap and every bass player in the known
universe doing sentimental and tearjerking eco-ballad "Big Bottom."

On the way to work I heard that London’s “Live Earth” concert that
focuses on raising awareness of global warming didn’t have the usual
heavyweights this year: There was no U2, no REM, no Pearl Jam, they all
declined . . . instead they got a Spinal Tap reunion as the headlining act. But wait, it gets worse (or better depending on your sense of humor),
These events are not really like concerts, they consist of 2-3 songs
intermittent with PSA type videos of kids in 3rd world countries
staring directly into the camera and saying things like: “Please help
save me from global warming.”