The return of Behind The Music reminds me that it’s only a few weeks now before the arrival of Anvil! The Story of Anvil which comes out April 10 and, for my money, is the funniest rock doc of all-time. You’ll be hearing a lot more about this movie—which tells the funny, heartbreaking tale of a long-forgotten Canadian metal band named, yes, Anvil—and, indeed, my colleague Karen Valby recently blogged about it’s screening at SXSW. I just wanted to whet your appetite further by pointing out that the film really is a true life This Is Spinal Tap. In fact, Anvil director Sacha Gervasi deliberately modeled his debut movie on Rob Reiner’s classic comedy. “The plan was to actually encourage the similarities” he told me a couple of weeks back during a visit to New York. “So, I filmed a scene where they talk about their first song in a café deliberately so people would go, ‘Okay, this is Spinal Tap‘. The whole thing is ridicuous, dude. The drummer is called Robb Reiner, okay? And they wrote a song about The Spanish Inquisition called Thumb Hang whose lyrics are ‘Thumbs will twist/Can you resist/Beware the name’s on the Inquistor’s List.’ I mean, what the f—k? Rather than avoiding comparisons with Spinal Tap we just decided to embrace it. But, remember, Spinal Tap is the photocopy. This is the real thing. This is the real story of rock’n’roll.”
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For reasons that need not detain us here I once found myself watching country star John Rich pet a rhinoceros at San Antonio zoo. To help you fully appreciate the scene I should probably point out that he was dressed as a chicken (Rich, not the rhino—I mean, that would be just silly). Anyhoo, if nothing else, the experience taught me that the singer is comfortable around large, unpredictable, leather-faced beasts. So, it didn’t surprise me one jot to learn today that the video for Rich’s new single “Shuttin’ Detroit Down” features an appearance by Mickey Rourke. The clip for the song—which is the first track to be released from Rich’s new album Son of a Preacher Man, out March 24— was shot in Nashville last Monday and Tuesday and also features the mighty Kris Kristofferson. No word as yet about what the Rourkester does in the video but rare is the Mickey sighting that is not memorable for one reason or another.
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