Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel & David St. Hubbins Reflect on Reunion, Working with Paul McCartney, Favorite Ozzy Osbourne Song

After much than 15 years, Spinal Tap has reunited to play 1 much gig and manager Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner), who captured the set successful each its fading glory for 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap, has erstwhile again chronicled the reunion and the intervening years successful Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. The mockumentary opens successful theaters nationwide connected Friday (Sept. 12).

Prior to the film’s opening, Billboard interviewed the British band’s Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) and David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) — bass subordinate Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) was unavailable — successful Los Angeles astir the long-awaited reunion, arsenic good arsenic moving with Sir Paul McCartney. Suffice to accidental St. Hubbins is not a fan, but concedes that the erstwhile Beatle is, astatine best, a “decent songwriter.” The brace besides stock their memories of the precocious Ozzy Osbourne and what they thought of the archetypal film.

“It felt similar it was conscionable yesterday,” Tufnel says of the reunion, “because you look and everyone’s successful the aforesaid place.”

“Looking the same. More tattoos,” St. Hubbins interjects. “Except old. You think, ‘That’s weird. There’s an aged antheral singing and you go, ‘Oh, that’s me!’”

The duo, who claimed to person not seen the caller movie, besides took objection with the archetypal film, feeling DiBergi had portrayed them astatine their worst, including the legendary footage of them getting mislaid connected their mode to the stage. “We felt ridiculed, and it wasn’t a bully feeling,” St. Hubbins says. “Us being lost. Everyone gets mislaid each erstwhile successful a while,” added Tufnel, earlier St. Hubbins jumped backmost in: “It’s lone happened to america 10 oregon 12 times.”

Watch the video supra to spot their absorption to being denied induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, arsenic good arsenic their thoughts connected Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood’s screen of “Big Bottom” that went viral and helped spur the reunion.