Spinal Tap

So last night we went and saw the "Spinal Tap Unwigged and Unplugged Tour."  For those of you who have been living under a rock for the last 25 years, Spinal Tap was a fake documentary about a fake band made in 1984.  It featured Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer.  They went on to do more mocumentaries like "Waiting for Guffman," "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind."  

This tour the guys were not in character or in costume, but performed all of the hits and performed a lot of stuff from "A Mighty Wind" and one song from "Waiting for Guffman."  A Derr family favorite was "Stonehenge" and they even had a miniature stone henge and plastic trolls dancing on the video screen (In the film they mess up in the stage set plans and have an 18 inch stone henge replica instead of one that's 18 feet tall). 

It was a lot of fun.  We were amazed at what great musicians they are, they actually played their music live and did not lip sync into a headset.  The concert was in this great old theater in Washington called the Warner Theater.  It made us think we are going to miss Washington DC, but we hope that when we move back to Utah we can still crank it up to 11.