All You Need Is A Rutles Poll

Gonna be hard to pick just one.

http://www.rutles.org/images/leather_s.jpg

Musically, it's Ron, who did most of the music for them. Dirk (Eric Idel) was always among my favourites in Monty Pyton, but wasn't quite as funny in The Rutles.

Idle even

Stig all the way.

Barry because "BARRY IS GEAR"

I think I'm going to vote for Stig because he married a lady who got a song written about her by Martin from Felt.

Punk Floyd

I'll go with the guitarist of no fixed hairstyle.

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I think I gotta vote for Leppo, for his whole crazy history of learning how to play the vibes with little pieces of paper before he had actually vibes, then switching to guitar and then becoming one of the fastest men alive on that instrument. Also for his McCartneyesque vocals on "Between Us," among others.

Barrington Womble!

Yep, Barry it is

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We'd like to dedicate this poll to a very special lady in the audience tonight, Barry's mum!

So what's this rutlemania, rutles reunion stuff about?

LATEST: ERIC IDLE's THE RUTLES 30th anniversary revue is set for a limited run in New York, coinciding with former Monty Python star's 65th birthday. Idle devised the Rutlemania show to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the spoof Beatles band's All You Need Is Cash mockumentary, which first aired in 1978. A one-week season of tribute concerts, featuring Beatles covers act The Fab Four as The Rutles, interacting with clips from the original film and dancing girls is currently playing in Hollywood. And Rutlemania will continue at the Blender Theater in the Big Apple from 24 March (08) and run until 29 March - Idle's 65th birthday. The anniversary celebrations in Los Angeles also include the first time the original Rutles - Dirk MCQuickly, Barry Wom, Stig O'Hara and Ron Nasty - have appeared in public together; the quartet made no personal appearances at the time of the film's 1978 premiere. Rock stars like Dave Stewart, Jeff Lynne and The Police's Andy Summers are expected to be among the fans in attendance to see a special screening of the 1978 All You Need Is Cash film, followed by a question-and-answer session with the four Rutles, Ron Nasty, Dirk MCQuickly, Stig O'Hara and Barry Wom (aka Idle, Neil Innes, John Halsey and Ricky Fataar). Reunion organiser Martin Lewis says, "This will be a magical evening where real rock stars show up to salute a reunion of mock rock stars."

So, I guess Neil and Eric have kissed/made up then.

Watching the Rutles film with Eric's commentry is classic.

For the first hour, he praises everyone and never even alludes to Neil Innes at all. And then suddenly, just when you think he's really got it in for him, he's praising Neils songs and performance generously.

Also, mentions he's got loads of off-cuts and is thinking about doing a sequel, at which point you really feel like turning to him and saying "is that really a good idea, Eric?"

But he did, and it was bad, apparently. Although I would like one, if I saw one cheap some place.

Actually, I just read the IMDB review. Make that "if I see one for £1 in SuRidr"

RIP, Ollie Halsall.

Actually, I just read the IMDB review. Make that "if I see one for £1 in SuRidr"

even then, don't. its awful.

Amongst the extras, one interesting full length interview with Mick Jagger, who (as Eric Idle says in his commentary) tells wayy more about his real feelings about the Beatles and some of the 'tales' by dint of covering it up via the 'rutles' device.

Whereas Paul Simon gives the dullest interview ever, and keeps forgetting to say Rutles, e.g. "and Paul made me a cup of tea himself... ay? Oh yeah, Dirk... um, and I went to the Candlestick park gig.. ay? oh.. right.."

"Keith was the one that liked them. He went for that La-de-da stuff." Or Something like that.

Or can somebody tell me which episodes are particularly good and which can be safely skipped?

Episodes? It's not that long!

You'll cry! You'll laugh! You'll go "Hang on, is that Catherine Zeta Jones?" during the rooftop gig.

Ha! Sorry, wrong thread. I was trying to start this thread Tony Palmer's "All You Need Is Love": Do I Really Want To Watch All 14 Hours Of It?

Fair enough.

You haven't by chance seen that other one have you?

I vaguely remember it from the original transmission.

I think it was on too late for a young'un.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=Nv4xCuJyq_I&NR=1
You'll have to wait a bit

Yeah, I remember that one.

Funny, I dug the LP out for Sunday lunch listening for the kids, it went down pretty well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O55koDOrjE0&feature=related

I just found that "Can't Buy Me Lunch" (i.e. "Rutles 2") is on Youtube, so have grabbed it.

Wish me luck!

oh, mark, iirc it's dreadful...

It's amazingly crap.

Never looked at that. The Rutles Archeology album is pretty good though. But of course they are by driven by different members of the Rutles comp.

camp not comp

Right, I have now watched "Rutles 2: Can't buy me lunch"

Um, it's not terrible exactly. It's massively pointless for sure, apart from:

1) There's a lot of "original rutles" footage that they didn't use in the original film which would be good to see uninterrupted. Various concerts, Neil doing "Cheese and onions" on SatNightLive, etc.

2) There were not many 'talking heads' in the original, maybe they didn't get the names they wanted. But, Mick Jagger's presence was all it needed, and his interview is excellent (see above for comments). This time round, everyone said yes and everyone is here. Most are 'professional comedians from the US' and are mostly dull. A few actual musicians that are hit/miss. And two interviews that work: Billy Connolly and David Bowie.

3) Most of Eric Idle's jokes are repeats or variations from the original. The ones that aren't (e.g. triangular record) are rub.

4) Actually, the best bit is the final minute, the outtakes. Where none of the incidents are shown, only the guests cracking up. By now, you'll laugh at anything!

Basically, it's the same story again, which is mmmm.... all right. But, you know, pointless really.

If the DVD had good extras, it'd be worth a quid. But as far as putting this on the device for the kids to watch next time we're driving far, might just stick to Rutles 1.