Rob Reiner, the director of This Is Spinal Faucet, known as the members of Black Sabbath “dumb” for considering the movie’s well-known Stonehenge scene was primarily based on them. He identified that the scene was truly written and filmed lengthy earlier than Sabbath’s personal Stonehenge stage setup.
The cult-classic mockumentary is filled with over-the-top moments that poke enjoyable on the extravagance and absurdity of ‘70s and ‘80s rock, a lot of which have been so correct that actual bands later admitted they’d lived by related issues. Black Sabbath’s large Stonehenge set throughout the Ian Gillan period turned a legendary story, main many to imagine it impressed Spinal Faucet.
Nevertheless, whereas followers usually say the Stonehenge joke got here from Sabbath’s 1983 “Born Once more” tour, the Spinal Faucet scene was truly shot in 1982 for Spinal Faucet – The Remaining Tour, which got here out earlier than the complete film was launched in March 1984.
In a current interview with Display Rant, Reiner stated Black Sabbath members have been upset, considering he’d stolen their concept.
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 onerous to imagine.
“Black Sabbath was doing a tour, and so they got here out about two or three weeks earlier than our movie got here out, [and they had Stonehenge]. They noticed our movie and so they have been livid that we had stolen the Stonehenge theme from them.”
“To me, it was the most effective factor, as a result of what morons. What did they suppose? They [thought] that we shot the movie, we edited it, [and] we acquired it into the theaters in two weeks? I imply, it’s ludicrous. However to me, that was the good, good 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 every single day on the bus on tour.”
