Quote Originally Posted by ZMAN View Post
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That was a great interview to see just how good he was back in 1968. If you think about the questions, back then nobody had any clue how these guys were getting these sounds out of an electric guitar. Now the questions seem dumb but back then they were not common knowledge.
Zman, that is a good point. Spud's 'Spinal Tap ' comment set me off, and I was thinking in that vein.... It does seem that Christopher Guest was taking off just that kind of an interview in the film. Also, I suppose that the accent and the way the questions were delivered adds to a stuffy kind of feel, but even that could be an artifact of the 60's that sounds stilted now. But think of some of those early British interviews of the Beatles by old-guy BBC interviewers...!