." >> chris and mike and i were all involved with rob reiner in a television pilot in 1979 called "the pieces on it included this made-up band. michael still has the piece of paper with all the possible names for the band. the one we ended up with was spinal tap. we did a song. and if you remember in those days, they had midnight special and wolfman jack and we did a little proto video in that. then after they did that, we thought maybe there's more to this. chris rat. >> pipe down now. don't need you now. tavis: walk away. >> i'm used to that. tavis: how did it get to be spinal tap? >> i think michael knows the answer to that. i'm going to cut to the chase. it sounded like the most painful possible experience imaginable and we thought that sums up this band's approach to music. tavis: that's all i wanted was an answer. i started with you and ended with up. could have just stayed with you. now, christopher, i'm going to ask you a question and you are going to give me a -- an answer, sir. >> i'll 2r50eu789 tavis: when this came out, there were a lot of people who didn't think this was f