Surprising Facts About This Is Spinal Tap— The OG Mockumentary

A Bad Way To Go

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When Spinal Tap talks about their drummer suffocating on vomit, it’s a reference to a number of musicians who have died, or who are rumored to have died, the same way. Jimmi Hendrix, Led Zepplin drummer John Bonham, AC/DC lead singer Bon Scott, and Big Band leader Tommy Dorsey have all met an untimely end because of their dangerous lifestyle.

Fictional Spinal Tap drummer Eric “Stumpy Joe” Childs chokes on vomit which is not his own. Exactly whose vomit was never determined by the police. As Nigel so aptly put it, “You can’t dust for vomit.”