This Goes To 11: Spinal Tap Movie Trivia

Lost Backstage

In another iconic Spinal Tap scene, the band is getting ready to perform in a Cleveland arena when they get lost in the maze of corridors backstage. The band makes one wrong turn after another as their eager audience chants and claps, expecting to see Nigel, Derek, and David appear any minute.

The scenario has apparently happened to lots of famous musicians in real life, but the particular one that inspired Christopher Guest to write the scene was none other than Tom Petty. In an interview, Guest said, “We saw a tape of Tom Petty playing somewhere in Germany, where he’s walking backstage and a door’s opened and he ends up on an indoor tennis court and there’s just this moment of stunned, you know, ‘Where am I?'”