{"id":683,"date":"2009-02-16T11:23:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T18:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=683"},"modified":"2009-02-16T11:23:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T18:23:38","slug":"spinal-tap-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Spinal Tap is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My old pal Greg Mann sent me a news story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/spinal-tap\/42500\" target=\"_blank\">Spinal Tap getting back into the studio<\/a> to record a new album. Seeing Tap live in 1992 is still one of my greatest thrills; I have one of Nigel&#8217;s picks. The world has been woefully without Tap, and this album will surely be one of the highlights of my year. With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/NR\/rdonlyres\/C4DB90F5-6408-4FCD-AF76-B8F3E776C3E3\/0\/vid20080727oxmghosbusterslo.asx\" target=\"_blank\">the Ghostbusters game<\/a> shaping up so nicely and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vhnd.com\/2009\/02\/07\/eddie-wolfgang-is-permanent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Van Halen also threatening to get back into the studio<\/a> this fall, it&#8217;s a good year for 80s comebacks.<\/p>\n<p>The NME story in turn linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/natgeochannel.co.uk\/Programmes\/videos.aspx?Id=819&amp;VideoId=94\" target=\"_blank\">a recent interview Nigel did with National Geographic<\/a>, wherein he reveals that Stonehenge was not built by aliens, but by a very strong man named Duncan. He also uses an Ernie Ball Albert Lee model to transmute objects and speaks to a potato. Naturally, you must watch this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old pal Greg Mann sent me a news story about Spinal Tap getting back into the studio to record a new album. Seeing Tap live in 1992 is still one of my greatest thrills; I have one of Nigel&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=683\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}