{"id":2650,"date":"2009-03-04T12:22:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T12:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2009\/03\/spinal-tap-tour-announced-taki.html"},"modified":"2009-03-04T12:22:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T12:22:11","slug":"spinal-tap-tour-announced-taki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/03\/spinal-tap-tour-announced-taki.html","title":{"rendered":"Spinal Tap Tour Announced: ‘Taking it to 11’ in 30 Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twenty-five years later, and the “Spinal Tap” gang is getting the band back together. The trio at the core of Spinal Tap, a fake heavy metal band profiled in the mockumentary “This is Spinal Tap,” Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, are “taking it to eleven<\/a>” again, but unplugged and “unwigged,” if the title of their new tour<\/a> is to be believed. The tour will feature the three performing for the first time as themselves, combining music from both Spinal Tap and the folk-music comedy “A Mighty Wind,” which they also co-starred in.”We’re doing the trio tour because it’s so easy,” McKean says from stage. “We just have these wooden instruments and we don’t have to wear these things [the wigs they wore in Spinal Tap] on our heads, unless we’re playing a temple –\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3Adds Shearer, “Or a mosque.”Spinal Tap and the Mighty Winders, coming to a city near you soon. For more of the interview in Rolling Stone, check out “Behind the Wigs<\/a>.”<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>\"Christopher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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