This Goes To 11: Spinal Tap Movie Trivia

Sorry, Not A Fan

Don’t count Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler as a fan of This is Spinal Tap – in fact, he’s been one of the film’s most vocal detractors. The problem, according to Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, is that the rockumentary hit very close to home for Tyler, who could intimately relate with many of the scenarios spoofed in the movie. In an interview about watching Spinal Tap with Tyler, Perry (who loved the movie) said “[Steven] was squirming and squirming, and he did not laugh the whole time. It was like he took the band’s side on everything. It was like he did not – he didn’t get it. He got indignant. And it was like, I couldn’t believe it. So, my wife and I were cracking up – and we’re watching Steven.”

Tyler even admitted in a Library of Congress recording how he feels about the film: “That movie… bummed me out, because I thought, ‘How dare they? That’s all real, and they’re mocking it.'”