Surprising Facts About This Is Spinal Tap— The OG Mockumentary

Tyler Can’t Take A Joke

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Joe Perry of Aerosmith connected with This Is Spinal Tap right away, but his bandmate Steven Tyler had a different reaction. Perry says. “It was like he took the band’s side on everything. It was like he did not – he didn’t get it. He got indignant.”

In a rare Library of Congress interview, Steven Tyler said, That movie [This Is Spinal Tap!] bummed me out, because I thought, ‘How dare they? That’s all real, and they’re mocking it.'” Things far more sacred than rock and roll have been mocked on film, Steven, and rightly so as far as I’m concerned.