What if I told you all three original Spinal Tap members were getting back together for a U.S. tour?

Naturally fans of the cult-classic film would be seriously jacked. Seeing Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer don the tight leather and large wigs while belting out such ‘Stonehenge’ would be worth the ticket price.

Well, the men have aged a bit since their Heavy Metal days and are doing this tour ‘Unwigged and Unplugged.’

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Yes, they will be stripping down their jokey metal classics and showing off their receding hairlines.

All of these guys are incredibly funny, but hearing the Spinal Tap catalogue sans big electric guitar solos and pummeling drums seems a bit redundant. I mean I don’t want to hear Van Halen or Judas Priest acoustic (well I don’t want to hear Judas Priest any way I guess) and the same goes for Spinal Tap.

This acoustic tour might work if they did a ‘Storytellers’ type thing with some funny anecdotes about their career as a band. But, the whole shtick is built on sarcasm and mocking ’80s metal.

People just want to hear their favorite jokes from the film, not so much a tale about McKean not getting the right pastries delivered on set one day.

Hopefully the tour works out, but it is just a bad idea from the outset.

These three would be better served getting another Christopher Guest film made instead of touring their aged selves across the country.

Luke McCormick can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 275 or [email protected]

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