McKeon had stated from an earlier answer that Spinal Tap hadn't really given the love to him and Christopher Guest as he thought it would...and how most of the movie had been improvised (I'm ashamed that I didn't know this). McKeon pointed at me and I did the typical look from side-to-side, "Who, me?"
I leaned up from my auditorium chair and listened as my first words stumbled out like a rookie horse at the races. "Um, you mentioned that Spinal Tap didn't give you the love that you had wanted (read: royalties). So I wanted you to know that that's okay. One of my fondest memories from college was sitting on a couch, on hallucinogens, with my good guy friend and a girlfriend, trading Spinal Tap lines, word-for-word." McKean threw his head back laughing after I said the word "hallucinogens" while the rest of the crowd laughed. "I love the Bay Area," he said into his microphone.
If he had taken our little exchange a step further, and had asked me what one of my favorite Spinal Tap lines was, I would have happily told him. The scene on my mind was when their manager, Ian Faith, talks about the their new album, which is "none more black".
Ian Faith: They're not gonna release the album... because they have decided that the cover is sexist.
Nigel Tufnel: Well, so what? What's wrong with bein' sexy? I mean there's no...
Ian Faith: Sex-IST!
David St. Hubbins: IST!
And then Bobbi Flekman reiterates their stance.
Bobbi Flekman: You put a *greased naked woman* on all fours with a dog collar around her neck, and a leash, and a man's arm extended out up to here, holding onto the leash, and pushing a black glove in her face to sniff it. You don't find that offensive? You don't find that sexist?
Ian Faith: This is *1982*, Bobbi, c'mon!
Bobbi Flekman: That's *right*, it's 1982! Get out of the '60s. We don't have this mentality anymore.
Ian Faith: Well, you should have seen the cover they *wanted* to do! It wasn't a glove, believe me.
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