Rob Reiner, the director of This Is Spinal Faucet, referred to as the members of Black Sabbath “dumb” for considering the movie’s well-known Stonehenge scene was based mostly on them. He identified that the scene was really 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, lots of which had been so correct that actual bands later admitted they’d lived by way of related issues. Black Sabbath’s large Stonehenge set in the course of the Ian Gillan period turned a legendary story, main many to imagine it impressed Spinal Faucet.
Nonetheless, whereas followers usually say the Stonehenge joke got here from Sabbath’s 1983 “Born Once more” tour, the Spinal Faucet scene was really 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 latest interview with Display Rant, Reiner mentioned Black Sabbath members had been upset, considering he’d stolen their concept.
Black Sabbath did have an instrumental referred to as “Stonehenge,” and bassist Geezer Butler wrote in his memoir that the filmmakers instructed him it was only a coincidence — although he discovered that tough 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 had been livid that we had stolen the Stonehenge theme from them.”
“To me, it was the very best factor, as a result of what morons. What did they assume? 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 nice, excellent heavy steel second: that they had been so dumb that they thought that we stole it from them.”
Nonetheless, in 2022, Butler admitted he cherished the movie, saying: “It was pretty, it’s sensible. I used to play it day-after-day on the bus on tour.”
