Spinal Tap Tribute Album With Members of Foo Fighters, Tool & More Benefits Teen Cancer America

Spinal Tap whitethorn beryllium a fake band, but its euphony is precise real, and it is being utilized to rise wealth for Teen Cancer America, a non-profit founded by The Who’s Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend that runs crab programs for teens and young adults ages 15-39.

Members of specified legendary groups arsenic Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s and Tool, among others, look connected The Majesty of Rock, a 32-song postulation from the Spinal Tap catalog, including specified Tap classics as” Sex Farm,” “(Listen to the) Flower People,” “Hell Hole” and “Big Bottom.” The postulation besides features a publication from the Play it Back Players, a set comprised of crab patients and nonrecreational musicians, who donate their time.

In the tone of Spinal Tap, galore of the musicians created fake bands for the project. For example, Vixen’s Britt Lightning formed The Lightning Rods for her contribution. Guns N’ Roses’ Dizzy Reed plays with a radical dubbed Jason Achilles, portion System of a Down’s John Dolmayan plays with Antenna the End. “Big Bottom” is attributed to the set S.S.R.J.C.T., which is comprised of Mastadon’s Troy Sanders, Failure’s Kellii Scott, Kyuss’s Scott Reeder, Foo Fighters’ Rami Jaffee, Tool’s Justin Chancellor and The Go-Go’s Abby Travis. (The set takes its sanction from the archetypal first of each musician’s past name)

Only 5,000 integer copies of the compilation volition beryllium disposable and tin beryllium purchased here for a minimum donation of $19.84, a notation to the twelvemonth This is Spinal Tap was released successful 1984.

Journalist and podcaster Marc Shea produced the set, which came astir pursuing a speech connected his Performance Anxiety. “Three and a fractional years later, we person a treble medium to grant the philharmonic and comedic bequest of Spinal Tap, the set that gave america ‘going to 11’ arsenic good arsenic raising consciousness for spontaneous combustion,” helium said successful a statement. “I can’t convey the contributors oregon TCA capable for their support.”

 “This tribute medium is simply a fun, almighty mode to rise important funds and consciousness for the unsocial challenges facing this property group,” Shannon Sullivan, enforcement manager of Teen Cancer America, said successful a statement. We are incredibly grateful to the superb artists who person lent their talents to this task and to the creators of Spinal Tap for allowing america to observe their genius for a origin that is truthful important.”