So we arrived home to NYC around 12:30am Tuesday morning (having left San Francisco around 3:30pm on Monday). By the time we got home and got to bed, it was about 2am and poor Kevin had to get up for work at 6. We didn't even get to rest much Tuesday evening because we had tickets to see the Unwigged and Unplugged Tour.

The show was at the Beacon Theater and we were in the second row of the balcony. Most of my pictures are blurry because flash photography was prohibited, so I did the best I could.



I got some ok close-ups of each of the guys.


Michael McKean.


Christopher Guest.


Harry Shearer.

The show was amazing (even if the crowd was full of hipsters and the lady behind me at the most annoying laugh on earth). They sang songs from This is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind. They even did a few songs from Waiting for Guffman. Michael McKean's wife sang a few songs with the guys. And Elvis Costello did a guest song too (I thought the woman sitting behind me was having a heart attack when Costello came on stage). They covered Mick Jagger and Keith Richard's "Start Me Up" which was hilarious.

Between songs, they joked and laughed with the crowd. They read out loud the censor's comments about what needed to be bleeped and edited out of This is Spinal Tap before it could be aired on television. They even opened up the evening to audience questions, so long as there were none about "11." And of course the best announcement was that there is going to be a new Spinal Tap CD in a few more weeks!

Here's a clip from the YouTubes from the show we saw...