{"id":3236,"date":"2012-02-04T08:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T15:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coverville.com\/?page_id=3236"},"modified":"2017-05-12T08:59:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T15:59:34","slug":"spinaltap-tribut","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.coverville.com\/openstage\/spinaltap-tribut\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhenged: A Coverville Tribute to Spinal Tap"},"content":{"rendered":"
On March 2, 1984, Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest released what would become one of the most popular mockumentaries of all time, starring a believable \u2013 albeit fictional \u2013 heavy metal band called Spinal Tap. But what makes a band real vs. fictional? The (core) members of Spinal Tap, David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls, played all their own instruments, wrote their own songs, released two albums, and even toured.<\/p>\n
Maybe to be considered a real band, you need a tribute album. For two-and-a-half years<\/a>, I worked on assembling a tribute to the band. Performers came and went, a couple had to cancel due to other obligations, but in the end I feel like I managed to put together a stellar line-up of performers and songs – and with just a couple weeks to spare before the end of the 25th Anniversary year of the landmark film.<\/p>\n Originally, I was hoping for 11 tracks, but I’m happy to have exceeded that, with almost all of the songs from the soundtrack covered, as well as a couple from their follow-up album, Break Like The Wind.<\/p>\n Below, you’ll find the submissions for this project, along with information about the performers. If you prefer, you can download them as individual downloads or as a complete zip archive<\/a> (66MB) along with brilliant cover art as always designed by Shelby Miller.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And because so many people wanted to contribute for the Breakfast In Coverville project, I’m accepting donations for this project. Money received by clicking the button below will go towards the BMI licencing fees for the downloads of these songs (which get sent as royalties to the songwirters), as well as divided evenly between each of the performers, the designer Shelby, and myself.<\/p>\n