Disastrous gigs, deli-tray tantrums and that notorious zucchini in the pants: Real-life rock stars that inspired ‘This Is Spinal Tap’
Peter Smokler was a camera operator on the famed rock documentary “Gimme Shelter,” about a 1969 Rolling Stones concert where a man was stabbed to death. Despite his experience in the genre, Smokler was baffled when director Rob Reiner recruited him to shoot “This is Spinal Tap,” the 1984 mockumentary that takes a satiric swipe … Read more
