Rob Reiner, the director of This Is Spinal Faucet, known as the members of Black Sabbath “dumb” for pondering the movie’s well-known Stonehenge scene was primarily based on them. He identified that the scene was really written and filmed lengthy earlier than Sabbath’s personal Stonehenge stage setup.
The cult-classic mockumentary is stuffed with over-the-top moments that poke enjoyable on the extravagance and absurdity of ‘70s and ‘80s rock, lots of which have been so correct that actual bands later admitted they’d lived by comparable issues. Black Sabbath’s large Stonehenge set throughout the Ian Gillan period turned a legendary story, main many to consider it impressed Spinal Faucet.
Nevertheless, whereas followers typically say the Stonehenge joke got here from Sabbath’s 1983 “Born Once more” tour, the Spinal Faucet scene was really shot in 1982 for Spinal Faucet – The Closing Tour, which got here out earlier than the total film was launched in March 1984.
In a current interview with Display Rant, Reiner mentioned Black Sabbath members have been upset, pondering he’d stolen their thought.
Black Sabbath did have an instrumental known as “Stonehenge,” and bassist Geezer Butler wrote in his memoir that the filmmakers informed him it was only a coincidence — although he discovered that tough to consider.
“Black Sabbath was doing a tour, they usually got here out about two or three weeks earlier than our movie got here out, [and they had Stonehenge]. They noticed our movie they usually have been livid that we had stolen the Stonehenge theme from them.”
“To me, it was the perfect factor, as a result of what morons. What did they assume? They [thought] that we shot the movie, we edited it, [and] we received it into the theaters in two weeks? I imply, it’s ludicrous. However to me, that was the good, excellent heavy steel second: that they have been so dumb that they thought that we stole it from them.”
Nonetheless, in 2022, Butler admitted he beloved the movie, saying: “It was pretty, it’s sensible. I used to play it on daily basis on the bus on tour.”
