Bass trio

We were watching This is Spinal Tap this weekend after hanging out with the cousins.  My cousin's husband, who, like me, has seen this flick umpteen times, noticed something that I had never noticed.

Everyone knows the "This one goes to eleven" line--it's entered our consciousness and is a part of pop culture.  And the umlaut over the "n" in Spinal Tap is also obviously funny.  But the thing that slayed me when we saw this again was during "Big Bottom" we noticed that Derek Smalls had a double bass.  A four stringer and a...four stringer.  When the camera panned over to Nigel Tufnel, he had a bass guitar too.  And David St. Hubbins rounded out the trio with another bass.

Guess you had to be there.