Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last two months, you know that English heavy metal band Spinal Tap is coming to Ledo’s Tavern on Halloween night (Friday, Oct. 31st). Having been a huge Tap fan since their psychedelic period in the late 1960’s, I was absolutely thrilled to sit down with singer David St. Hubbins and lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel to discuss the upcoming show.
FREE PRESS: So to begin with, Spinal Tap hasn’t toured in at least a decade. Why did you choose to kick this tour off in Columbus?
ST. HUBBINS: Well, we used to have a tendency to confuse Columbus with Cleveland and Springfield, which saddened our Columbus fans tremendously.
TUFNEL: We felt we had a karmic debt, so to speak.
ST. HUBBINS: Exactly. So to square things with the universe, we decided to start the tour in Cleveland.
FP: How did you settle on Ledo’s Tavern as a venue?
ST. HUBBINS: Well, there is a great deal of mystical symbolism in the letter L
TUFNEL: And they had the best insurance.