MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Spinal Tap Though they’ve been maligned since their early days, the group known as Spinal Tap (guitarist/vocalist David St. Hubbins, guitarist Nigel Tufnel, bassist Derek Smalls, and a revolving cast of self-destructing drummers) have, over time, become the most respected of all heavy metal bands -- if not for their music alone, for their refusal to go away. Tap began in the early ‘60s as a skiffle group called The Originals (later, The New Originals), eventually evolving into a more Merseybeat sound as The Beatles took off -- their early classics, “Cups and Cakes” and “Listen To The Flower People” are now staples of both AM radio and the bar-mitzvah band circuit. As the ‘60s wound down, the band, newly christened Spinal Tap, began to investigate the heavy metal-meets-prog rock sound that has become their trademark. Though they weren’t the only group exploring this direction, Tap classics like Intravenous DeMilo (1970) and Shark Sandwich (1972), far outshone those of contemporaries like Deep Purple and Hawkwind; heavy metal anthems like “Big Bottom” and “Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight” kept the punters coming through most of the next decade. Though Tap remained a huge draw in Japan, they slowly fell out of favor in Europe and the States by 1980 -- changing musical tastes weren’t their only problems. The involvement of St. Hubbins’ girlfriend, Jeanine, in the band’s business had begun to create a rift in the Tufnel-St. Hubbins songwriting partnership. Still, they soldiered on, releasing the now classic (but again, critically-reviled) Smell The Glove in 1983, while simultaneously opening their lives (and airing their dirty laundry) to filmmaker Marty DiBergi, whose 1984 documentary, This Is Spinal Tap, would eventually revive the band’s career. After a disastrous tour of American theme parks, Tap split temporarily, only to reunite for another smash tour of Japan. Since then, the group’s legend has only grown, though their output has been sporadic -- 1992’s Break Like The Wind was Tap’s last studio effort, though rumors that their legendary lost rock opera, Saucy Jack (about the life of Jack The Ripper), will finally see the light of day in the year 2001.     Spinal Tap Back From The Dead MP3 Metal Come out of your hell hole and tap into this fresh cut from the greatest heavy metal band that ever was or will be. Hallelujah! Spinal Tap is “Back From The Dead!”
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