NPR: Spinal Tap https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126925921 Spinal Tap en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Sun, 22 Jun 2025 11:36:42 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: Spinal Tap https://www.npr.org/tags/126925921/spinal-tap Derek Smalls On World Cafe Spinal Tap's legendary bassist drops by with a few songs from his new reflective solo record, <em>Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing)</em>. Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:06:34 -0400 https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2018/06/21/622214218/derek-smalls-on-world-cafe https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2018/06/21/622214218/derek-smalls-on-world-cafe

Spinal Tap's legendary bassist drops by with a few songs from his new reflective solo record, Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing).

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]]> Stephen Kallao This Is A Spinal Tap In the popular imagination, spinal taps get top symbolic billing when it comes to medically induced pain and foreboding. But a Mayo Clinic neurologist explains they are no big deal when performed properly. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:36:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/11/11/142240907/this-is-a-spinal-tap https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/11/11/142240907/this-is-a-spinal-tap This Is Spinal Tap performs live at CBGB's in New York in 1984. Nigel Tufnel, the guitarist played by Christopher Guest, favored amplifiers whose volume could be cranked up to 11.'/>

In the popular imagination, spinal taps get top symbolic billing when it comes to medically induced pain and foreboding. But a Mayo Clinic neurologist explains they are no big deal when performed properly.

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]]> 'Sex Farm' And TOTN Spinal Tap genius Harry Shearer tells tales of Talk of the Nation onstage on the Unwigged & Unplugged tour. Thu, 14 May 2009 10:01:00 -0400 https://www.npr.org/sections/talk/2009/05/sex_farm_and_totn_1.html https://www.npr.org/sections/talk/2009/05/sex_farm_and_totn_1.html Spinal Tap genius Harry Shearer tells tales of Talk of the Nation onstage on the Unwigged & Unplugged tour.

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