Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Love ‘Spinal Tap’

“When we were writing Portlandia, I once had this idea of doing something with a whole bunch of bass players together, but it was like, ‘Oh, well, I guess Spinal Tap already did that with their all-bass band.’ And I was like, ‘I can’t believe that in 2012 we still have to measure ourselves against Spinal Tap.’ But we still do. There are still things that you can’t do because they did it.”

- Fred Armisen in an interview he and Portlandia cohort Carrie Brownstein did for The Dissolve, entirely focused on their love of This Is Spinal Tap.