Spinal Tap, Our 100th Post!

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from the movie Spinal Tap

When you say Stonehenge replica, people say Spinal Tap. And something about dwarfs. This rock spoof movie has etched the idea of Stonehenge replicas into the public consciousness, for better or worse. We run into it everywhere in our searches, often from folks who think they are brilliantly original to think of it. *wink*

spinaltapAt least one real band did use a Stonehenge replica as a set back in the heyday of boomer rock, one so large that it didn’t fit into some venues. Which band? We’ve seen two or three mentioned but we’re told it was really Black Sabbath and that Ozzy Osborne is still paying for its storage in a New York warehouse. If we could get a picture, it could be a post of its own!  The story of the Spinal Tap replica is shown in the video below.

Many thanks to our readers and contributors for making our first 100 posts possible! Score for the Spinal Tap relica: 5 druids. It’s just a trilithon, after all!

[Note: after the next couple posts, we hope to slow down to just a few posts per week. Surely the number of replicas is not infinite! Right? Right!?]

If you need a kit . . .

Think Geek, a sales site full of goodies that appeal to the computer (ahem) enthusiast, shall we say?, offers this Build Your Own Stonehenge Kit.

Love it!

Love it!

Not a bad price, either.

Good-looking as it is, however, we can only score it seven druids out of ten, because, hey, it’s manufactured. Still, I simply must have one. Hear that, Santa?

[We did receive one as a belated Christmas gift. Thank you, Santa–you are listening after all!]